Homeless
Bodies-Naked Life is a multi discipline installation performance, which
combines Video Documentation, Live Music and Contemporary Dance, focused on the
idea of the migration of the bodies and more specifically the precarious female
body.
Naked
bodies, fragmented countries. Pulverisation of self and of a social system
dominated by alienation and social rejection.Homeless bodies, homeless lives,
entrenched countries. Bodies don’t exist unless related to the notions of
nation, security, dignity and social evolution. The vulnerability of the body,
the state of en-dangerment, the fluidity, all characteristics of contemporary
civilization, an era of post-modernity, according to Zygmunt Bauman, defined by
globalization, imperialistic/military violence, affluent society, consumerism,
xenophobia and homophobia.
According
to AiwhaOng and Michael Peletz (1995) women’s bodies have been stereotypical
symbols for the (threatening) excess of social borders and limitations. What
happens to bodies when they lose their land, their territorial boundaries, the
status of legal citizenship? A constantly changing geographical landscape puts
the placement and de -placement of bodies into question. The concepts of
home and belonging are disrupted and modified.
Concept: Chrysanthi Siembou/Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Choreography: Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Video and Visual Art: Chrysanthi Siembou
Music Composition: Konstantina Polychronopoulou
Performed by : Sahar Damoni, Natalie Salsa, Maria Daly, Eydis Rose Vilmundardottir
Perfmormed at Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, 2017
