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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Vibrant Lands
It is a participatory performance, where contemporary dance, theatre, music and digital technology interact with the works of the visual artist Stergios Stamos, in the beautiful neoclassical building of Stegi of Art and Culture of the Leonidas K. Makris Foundation.
The project is a collaboration between different fields of arts (visual arts, choreography, theatre, digital technology ) with a purpose to share both the contemporary aspect of art, while layering it up with the active participation of different teenage audiences within the frame of the concept of the refugee phenomena and the infringement of human rights.
The "Vibrant Lands" experiment and place the works of art - installations, sculptures, paintings - in an experience, inviting the young audience but also the wider public, to reflect on one of the phenomena of modern reality: the compromise of human rights.
Moving bodies, matter, digital technology and sounds interact and shape a mobile architectural vibration of 'becoming'.
Production:
Research Center of Music-Museum Vassilis Tsitsanis
Installations - Sculptures - Paintings:: Stergios Stamos
Direction: Antonella Hira
Choreography: Sonia Ntova
Performers: Christina Krithari, Sonia Ntova
Design of theater educational material: Christina Krithari
Narration: Vassilis Nanakis
Video art: Thanasis Sountas, Sonia Ntova
Costumes: George Kallas
Photography: Vaggelis Karaliolios
Catalogue Photography : Odisseas Dragatoyannis
Video: Thanasis Sountas
Recording Studio: Research Center of Music-Museum Vassilis Tsitsanis
Guest contribution:
Vaso Gougara, Foteini Spanou, Anastasia Papaioannou
And the teens: Marilia Zampoura, Danai Louda, Konstantina Siasou-Papamichail
Supporters
E-trikala
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)!
With the financially support of Greek Ministry of Culture