Moving the Nomadic Body
How do I structure the map of my ephemeral physical space-time?
Movement and language create space. They create time.
The entanglement of imagination and language in our bodies creates kinetic representations.
‘Moving the nomadic body’ applies movement and choreography as tools of critical thinking, awareness, and political action.
It it a workshop of kinetic composition in which the body moves in the real and the imaginary, while choosing to influence and get influenced.
The body is characterized as a complex entity. The body creates spaces and this is expressed by its performativity in space.
Following the feminist geographer Massey, the workshop activates the three notions of space: discursive - imaginary - corporeal and aims to build new maps.
The workshop offers a different way of interacting with the written words and the reasoning space. How our body, by choosing to reject the hierarchy of the mind in understanding language, can perceive and move language differently?
The more sensitive the body is in its ‘ relational representations’, the more power has to act and inform space as a practice of possibilities, shaped by continuous representations and effects of self and other material relations.
The term ‘nomadic body’ has been influenced by the theory of nomadic subjectivity (Deleuze, Guattari, 1985) by stating free thought that travels away from domination and categorization. A nomadic body that perceives the ‘worn standard notions of hegemony’ and moves away from passivity and stagnation.
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Sensorial Ecotopias
The project “Sensorial Ecotopias" is an artistic-educational project. A multi-thematic/ interdisciplinary project where theatre, movement, visual arts, and photography, explore the themes of climate change and sustainability.
Teenagers with a team of artists work together, aiming to develop a common experience, by applying care on different scales - staff, collective, nature, and urban, artistically researching the most important question that raises questions on our planet: Sustainability.
The project aims to develop sustainability experiences so that we can envision alternative future contracts for a sustainable society.
The multi-thematic actions require the active participation of adolescents in the process: of research-creation-execution while applying tools of the arts. They focus on different dimensions of the space and the body within different social engagements. Participants learn to recognize the structures and functions of the networks that they compose and learn to develop reciprocal relationships with the embodied life phenomena around them.
Spaces function as the "thought" of society. People, the city, and nature act as components, which co-create the values of living diversity. Humans become "neurons" in a living multiplicity. We learn to practice "caring" by jointly revealing the multifaceted concept of Sustainability, and mutually shaping the imaginary dimensions of active biopolitics.
This program run for the Regional Theatre of Trikala.
It has been co-designed, organised and co- facilitated by:
Sonia Ntona (Dance)
Antonella Hira (Theatre)
Christina Krithari (Theatre)
Collaborator:
Thanasis Babanis(Visual arts)
Scientific Collaborators:
Spyros Theodoridis- Researcher climate change and biodiversity
George Moschos- Facilitator of Democratic Dialogue
Soundscapes:
Spyros Theodoridis
Nikos Mechanezidis
Video- Editing:
Thanasis Sountas
Fotos:
Eleni Mandraveli
The Hellenic Network for Theater in Education has existed as a collaborating body with a supporting role in this project since it has formed part of our scientific, pedagogical and research methodology.
The Municipality of Trikala, which provided the permission and protection of the actions and the sharing of the artistic impressions with the rest of the community of the city.
It has been financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.