speaking with/speaking through
lecture performance, 30 min.with Konstantina Tsagianni
Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway, March 2026.
speaking with / speaking through is a lecture-performance on feminine subjectivity and the subject-woman infiltrated by real-time technological mediation. Voice becomes delayed and re-voiced, while speaking remains composed. The live action stages co-presence under distortion exploring the undoing of the speaking subject and the inclination that emerges when our voices become shared and partially out of our control.
ANTIGONE AGAIN
performance, 25 min.participating: Gaïa Debuchy, Konstantina Tsagianni, Christopher Faulkner, Ben Finlay, Ken Nakajima
Central Saint Martins, London, UK, June 2022.
Antigone is played by six players (performers and musicians). No one plays the role of Antigone. Antigone stands for anti-drasi, a form of reaction to the dynamics of power relations and identity forces towards a paradigm of inter-subjectivity. The performers appear to play as to constitute a public body-space exercising freedom, individually-and-collectively while confirming possibilities of reformations: simple actions become art and art becomes an embodiment of
democracy. Antigone stands for anti-thesis, the moment the common logic is gone,
when performers and spectators escape the social reality by entering a somewhere else: a zone of polyphony and desire. The artists appear in a state of plurality and transform the space into a reality where the rhythm of being-in-the-world differentiates: a time to slow down and run.exercise of free action
performance, 20 min.with Konstantina Tsagianni
Exercise of free action is a half-designed live action that follows the open structure of 2 acts: (1). non-conventional warm-up and (2). playing the piano (free improvisation). A co-designed live action that affirms collective identity while testing the relational and experimental dimensions of artworking as friendship and as free play. The two friends-performers, dressed in identical attire, follow a non-linear warm-up thats leads to a four-hand impovisation as a practice of difference, where movements and sounds awaken the space and the bodies.
Sleeping Beauty
performance, 30 min.sculptural installation, wooden frame, fabric, transparent plastic screen, 100x150x150cm
performing: Gaïa Debuchy, Evangelia Danadaki
public performance, London, 2021.
Sleeping Beauty is a live action that questions the boundaries between theatre and reality, performing subject and becoming object exploring levels of theatricality of the subject-woman. The two women-friends appear not as two isolated figures but are being deeply connected through their physical and emotional relations performing a sculptural relationship. The work is public to underline that everything is theatre; pedestrians become part of the performance showing how we all participate in the ongoing theatre of the everyday.