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Installation

words are (not) letters put one next to another

S10
Stockholm, Sweden
May 2021

 
 

 

 

The work “words are (not) letters put one next to another” is a choreographic installation that was produced in 2021. It derives from an urgency to be in a dialogue and contribute to the  outburst of Me Too movement in Greece happening during autumn 2021. It is in relation to stories of sexual violence, abuse and harassement. The work arrived from spending a lot of time with personal memories and experience of rape and sexual harassement and working deliberately with mediums that are not exactly choreography (tissues, tent, sound, drawing, water, sewing)  but are operating through a choreographic practice. Through this practice I intent to create a choreographic environment that allows me to place my stories in public, to let them unite with the spoken and the unspoken stories of sexual violence. I wanted to create a space where people can stay with the stories, their own stories, other stories through my stories. An inclusive space where healing and recuperation can take place hopefully for those who are in pain.

Accompanied with and by the music of queer music band Elastic  and the poems of  "this second voice" collection of song lyrics or poems written in Thessaloniki in the period 2017-2019. The collection "this second voice" arose out of a need to say a few - still - words against the horrors that circled and circle our bodies, our bodies and our desires, as well as a need to communicate some disturbed inner calm. More info and download at  https://iomadapiravlos.net/archive/zines/

Video Documentation

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