Artistic Research
in collaboration with Elena Novakovits
 

Bread Jobs

A Movement to Hold” Festival 2024 (Uppsala)
SITE/SPECIFIC FESTIVAL 2025 (Stockholm)

 Elena Novakovits and Nefeli Gioti initiated this research project during their one-month artistic residency at Köttinspektionen (Uppsala) in 2024. Since then, they have continued to develop their research through public presentations, residencies, and workshops. 

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This project invites professionals from the field of dance

of divergent generations, positions, and geopolitical contexts to contribute to a short questionnaire about the side jobs they have undertaken to sustain themselves at different stages of their career in the performing arts field. It proposes a curatorial framework to map the urgencies and to pose questions on the project-based economy and the precarious working and living conditions that are prevalent in the projectariat figure.

 

By collecting individual narrations as a second stage, Elena and Nefeli intend to capture in the format of a publication the collected material, boost the discourse, and enact a collective, free-access, public archive as a tactic of a sufficient record of a multiplicity of voices, situated knowledge, embodied and subjective experiences.

 

In addition, Elena and Nefeli are developing a workshop format where local practitioners are invited to discuss,
participate in the research and think together on the issue of working conditions within the field of dance and choreography.