21-11-18

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This performance is the product of a two year seminar that was held at ASFA (Athens School of Fine Arts). the seminar focused on introspection as well as the significance of physicality and spaces the way we interact with the world. I ended up dealing with a need to turn inside out and cry Dionysian tears, tears that are meant to be seen and dealt intense sorrow that losses it borders with happiness and becomes one. In this first public exposition of in  October 2018, the performance took place in a refurnished dressing room in the basement of the school. two armchairs were placed facing each other as well as a turkish rug which is so characteristic in greek living rooms.

 

The performance lasted for 4 hours and saw 13 participants. The space was altered and lit dimly, emulating a late night greek living room. The performance is tet-a-tet: one by one each participant was allowed to enter and sit in the armchair opposite to the performer. they each shared a moment  the rage sadnes and exstacy, allong with a whole other host of emotions that came forth between us. Each and everyone of us has the need to accept the emotions we neglect, this performance was a way of both confronting my own long unattended emotional needs as well as creating an environment for others to speculate on their own familiar and unfamiliar emotions.