Antigone again: ἡ αὐτόνομος
Direction : Evangelia Danadaki
Performance:
Gaïa Debuchy, Christopher Faulkner, Ben Finlay, Ken Nakajima, Konstantina Tsagianni
Styling: Brando Prizzon
Photography:
Jimin Lee, Miguel Martim, Elisabeth Wörndl, Linyi Zhang
Antigone (the heroine from the Sophoclean tragedy) is played by many players. No one plays the role of Antigone. Through this performative action, the players constitute a political body exercising their autonomy, both individually and collectively confirming possibilities of reformations: simple actions become art and art becomes an embodiment of democracy.
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.
Antigone is the antithesis,
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 essence of this work is the emergence of a performing collectivity, approached as a being-together,
an ephemeral public sphere.
This experimental plurality encourages full participation and communication with moments of consensus AND dissensus: the performers create new images by having as a ground a semi-structured direction open to difference and the unexpected.
