speaking with/speaking through
lecture performance, 30 min.A collaboration 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, 2022.
Antigone is played by six performers and musicians, yet no one plays Antigone. Antigone stands for anti-drasi: a reaction to the forces of power and identity, moving towards inter-subjectivity. Through play, the performers constitute a public body-space, exercising freedom individually and collectively, where 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
The two performers entered the space through unconventional warm-up exercises for acting, following and imitating one another in repetitive patterns. Their physical similarity and repeated gestures produced a shared space of multiplied sameness, suggesting selfhood beyond singularity. Conceived as a free action the performance welcomed unexpected images and sounds through playing together and making their own (and shared) rules.
Sleeping Beauty
performance, 30 min.sculptural installation, wooden frame, fabric, transparent plastic screen, 100x150x150cm
performing: Gaïa Debuchy, Evangelia Danadaki
Central Saint Martins, London, 2021.
Sleeping Beauties is a live action that questions the boundaries between theatre and reality exploring the theatricality of the subject-woman through joint singing, wandering and playing dead. The two women-friends do not appear as two differentiated figures, performing an almost sculptural relationship of transconnectedness.