The dialectic relationship between the human body and the urban landscape after the pandemic: performance arts, narrative speech, cinematographic images
Conference and Movement Workshop
11&12/12/2021
TRIANON Cinema
as part of the 12th BBB Short Film Festival, ATHENS EDITION
Skin to (Screen to) Skin
How is the trauma of isolation and deprivation of the senses registered in the individual, in the social but also in the body of the city? What happened to the body when it was forced to distance itself and change habits? How does the concept of space affect our expressive capacity and what is the socio-cultural role that space plays in arts? How are experiences and artistic creation shaped when stagnation and the absence of public events prevails?
Focusing on the multiple issues raised during the pandemic in the dialectic relationship between the human body and body of the city, the ANOMIA artistic group in collaboration with Balkans Beyond Borders (BBB), organizes a series of activities, as part of the 12th BBB Short Film Festival, ATHENS EDITION: Skin to (Screen to) Skin, at the Trianon cinema on December 10-12.
Academics, researchers and creators from different fields meet in order to exchange thoughts, experiences and questions, in the context of the Conference on “The dialectic relationship between the human body and the cityscape after the pandemic: performing arts – narrative speech – cinematic images”. At the same time, a two-day movement workshop is held.
Conference
Saturday, December 11, 11:30 – 16:00, Trianon Cinema
The Conference seeks to approach the two-way flows, relationships and concepts between body and city, focusing on the period of multiple constraints due to the Covid pandemic19.
The Conference is attended by:
- Chara Kotsali, Choreographer, Dancer
- Vasiliki Lazaridou, Queer visual artist – Director
- Anna Lascari, Visual artist
- Pavlina Marvin, Author
- Maria Moira, Associate Professor, University of West Attica
- Pepi Rigopoulou, Art Historian – Emeritus Professor, NKUA – Author
- Eva Stefani, Director – Professor, NKUA
- Anna Tzakou, Performer – Director – Practice-based researcher
Register for the Conference
Movement Workshop
Saturday 11 December 17:00 – 19:00 & Sunday 12 December 15:00 – 17:00, Trianon Cinema
How is our body affected by its structure, morphology, images and finally by its wandering in the city but also how does the city breathe from the bodies that inhabit it? What is recorded through this interaction and interdependent communication? How does embodiment come from the fragmented images of the city we live in by using kinetic tools?
Putting this two-way relationship under the microscope and studying it, we bring to consciousness the connections that exist both at the micro / macro-structure level and at the micro / macro-functioning level, using the tools of contemporary movement and improvisation.
Workshop Coordinators: Vassia Zorbali, Evi Psaltou
Registration form*
* No previous experience in dance and movement is required to participate in the workshop. The number of participants is limited (20 people) due to health regulations and the selection will be made in order of priority of registration. Participation in both days of the workshop is essential.
ANOMIA (Antigone Davaki, Vassia Zorbali, Panina Karydi, Evi Psaltou) was created in 2017 as an open platform for collaboration between artists based in Athens, with the aim of developing short films, video dance works and live performances. It offers the ground for exploring and pushing the boundaries between different forms of expression, while seeking and developing social and cultural identity. ANOMIA’s work has been awarded at the Loikka Dance Film Festival (2017, 2018) and has been presented, among others, at festivals in Athens, Syros, Lincolnshire and Helsinki.