The protagonist on stage is Marie and she is plural. It is played by different performers, men and women. While the presenter announces the coming of each Mary as if it were a symptom of a contemporary discourse, the new Mary unfolds. Sometimes Marie is a control freak, sometimes she’s a melancholic or simply not…
ANAP, Medicalisation and Rituals, Théâtre du Loup
In the world of psychosomatic and biologico-political disorders in between the “mother’s syndrome” and “the doctor’s syndrome”, there is the body of the sick woman (= La Femmelade). La Femmelade is the subject of studies by doctors, midwives, psychiatrists and neurologists. The public is confronted with rituals in the delivery room, before and after the…
Women Telling the Future, Palais de Rumine
A project on greek exoticism, on women emancipation and on the contradictions of the western gaze on the «woman of the east». Women read the futur in coffee grains, an audio of a while performing rituals of crawling on their knees and reflecting on their lives, smashing dishes at the end of their “trip” and listening…
Women Telling The Future, Espace Sold’Out
Drown from the traditional practices of greek and eastern women, when « reading the coffee » was a feminine activity of reclaiming power, WTF performance reverses the old Kafenio, the Coffee-Shop of the village that was due only to men. A four hour performance with the participation of : Antonia Diakantoni, Elena Evangelidou, Evgenia Daskalou, Xristina…
Dreams in Times of Social D(ist)ancing
A Covid-archive of dreams, starting from march 2020. Contributions of dreams and drawings that reflect upon the pandemic. How external social reality becomes “internal” thoughts and feelings. drawing of Antonia Pafiliari
Conferences of Neo-Citizens
We vote on human enhancement, transhumanism and emerging technologies. Democracy Week, at Hôtel de Ville, Geneva The performance was followed by the conference of the philosopher Jean-Michel Besnier at Flux Laboratory. With Adrian Filip, Jérôme Sire, Evgenia Daskalou, Kostis Stafylakis and Ludovic Vial ____________________________________________________________________ Sur la confèrence: L’identité de l’homme à l’ère des NBICs La…
Onirolipsia
A dialogue between a psychoanalyst and his analysant. In collaboration to the Laboratoire du Sommeil au Psychiatric Hospital of Geneva, (HUG), 2014 Performers: Jérôme Sire and Jérémie Baud The project was realized with the scientific collaboration of Perrig Stephen, neurologists and Lampros Perogamvros, psychiatrist and with the help of Michèle Lechevalier, Stéphane Raymond and Ludovic Vial….
Klassenfahrt
A collective intention to experiment with the model of the “educational trip” as an integral part and mechanism of contemporary artistic experience. It was initiated by the Austrian-based Memphis, project and exhibition space of the culture initiative nomadenetappe – Kunst & Theorie and it was organised by Nikos Arvanitis, Jakob Dietrich and Kai Maier-Rothe. 9…
Rematerialising Aesthetics
The conference/performance was a deranged repetition (re-enactment) of an actual conference on neuroscience and art that took place at the same space a few months before. The conference lecturers offered consequential analyses of the relation between neuroscience and art, with references to phenomenology, cognitive psychology, the function of the brain’s neurons etc. Some of the…
Vana Kostayola 