Finem

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The performance Finem deals with app[ause ας a transformative act. The aim of the action is to deconstruct applause ας a social expression of admiration and recognition. Βγ creating a collective rhythm of imperative through the body, an experiential interaction with the participants is sought.



The failure of rationalization
Agatha Mingou
The failure of rationalization
Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker
Spyros Christoforatos
Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker
memory
Evgenia Pouli
memory
Excitatio Corcyrae : Player’s Guide
Despoina-Sofia Kyrgiafini
Excitatio Corcyrae : Player’s Guide
The Deep Field
The Deep Field
become
become
ATHENDS
Giorgos Polymeropoulos
ATHENDS
Where do I exist?
Sousana Romanidou
Where do I exist?
Inside the body
Eleni Mitrouska
Inside the body
Metamorphosis
Charis Myrsilidi
Metamorphosis
The failure of rationalization
Views: 1073

This art piece is trying to express the struggle between letting go ας one would use nature for meditative reasons and the over controlling mind fixating on patterns deriving from sea foam lines.

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Yorgos Psailas - A portrait of the British Cemetery caretaker
Views: 1864

A short documentary, based on the theory of Observational Cinema. It is the portrait of the caretaker of the British Cemetery in the island of Corfu, Greece, Mr. Yorgos Psailas. The documentary deals with his daily life in the cemetery. Mr. Psailas also recounts the most important moments of his life as well as his thoughts about life and death.

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memory
Views: 1147

A person is called to carry out and experience a routine in the limited space of a house, in conditions of total isolation from the outside world. So what does that daily routine look like under these conditions? How much awareness of her actions she has? How does she act and react to her own actions? In such a condition, is there a possibility of damaging or upgrading the person's relationship with herself? The performance "memory" is an attempt to visualize all these questions

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The Deep Field
Views: 1080

The female body carries a history of wounds throughout the centuries. Murders and rapes of women around the world, clitoridectomy in African countries, women covered with Chadors in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, women covered with Burkas in the Persian Gulf, death by stoning in India, family homicides in Pakistan, baby girls thrown in the trash upon birth in China, excision still happens today in some countries in Africa.

The female body that brings life into the world has the right to expression, sexuality, to wearing whatever it wants, to creating, falling in love, to growing old, leaving, to be free. This performance concerns the female body but also the redefinition of the position of the women today. The sound is a key part of the performance it is an original composition by Nikos Kanellakis especially for the specific action. The performance will be videotaped and the material will be displayed on a screen at the same time.

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become
Views: 1315

In this video art work 39 persons of different ages are invited to sit in front of the same black door, talk about their favourite object and in what, by using this object, they could be transformed. In the final cut only the silent expressions are kept.

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ATHENDS
Views: 797

The ATHENDS project is an interactive installation whose purpose is to comment on the Greek media and how it fulfills its purpose based on the violent and unfiltered transmission of information.

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Where do I exist?
Views: 2102

The title of this artwork is "Where Do I Exist?". This is a virtual space that explores the relationship between reality and virtual reality. Moreover, it the result of a pandemic society that tends to communicate through social media. It is the impression of our lifes into a virtual world, free from our body and the stereotypes it might follows it. Could we be free from our body and ideas such as gender identity and death? What is the meaning of touch into an immaterial world? Anyone can be part of this artwork with a twitter hashtag of the word #immaterial.

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Inside the body
Views: 967

Every expression of the subject is inherent in the body image, indicating the lack of being, which desire tries to cover.

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Metamorphosis
Views: 1731

The subject of Charis Myrsilidi’s thesis concerns the transfer of literary text to image. The excerpts of the selected texts are stories from the Grimm brothers' fairy tales and the connecting link is the pattern of transformation (metamorphosis). The presentation of the practical part of the thesis concerns an installation with clay sculptures, sound track and lighting. The sculptural space is formed by Charis Myrsilidi, a student of the Department of Audio Visual Arts and the sound by the composer Ioannis Konsolakis.

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