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Sessions will open the doors of the State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL for the last time on Saturday, January 27, at 12:00-20:00. A film and a book/catalogue of the Sessions will be presented to close the activities, and an open discussion will be held at 18:00 to take stock of the activities.
The book/catalogue attempts to document with photographs and texts everything that happened at the SESS from June to December 2023, day by day. With an introductory note by Peter Eramian, accompanying texts, descriptions, information and photographs of all the actions from backstage to stage, it will be, in a limited special edition, available for sale.
The film was created last December with footage captured by the audience during the Sessions x SPEL and with music recorded in open improvisation. It will be played once starting at 12:00 and ending at 20:00.
On 18:00 Stavros Karagiannis (performer and academic), Greece Evangelou (Performance Studies), Ioulita Toumazi (curator), Marina Assioti (writer/interdisciplinary artist) and Gabriel Kureas (art historian/curator) will take stock of what has been achieved, possibilities for future events, and will discuss some of the criticisms of the events and the concept in an open discussion.
"Taking Stock" - Taking Stock
In the last six months the SPEL space, still part of a process of institutional transition, has been transformed and has acquired a different spatial identity. The Sessions, through multiple performances and interventions, have opened our consciousness to the queerness of time and space, to the power of bodies that do not belong and the excitement of the intimacy of these bodies that openly activate our gender/gender identities in the visual arts space. They provided a queer commons, a critique of liberal values, establishing as political the very terms through which identity is articulated, thus challenging the highly entrenched heteronormativity of Cypriot society.
Some of the questions that will be asked are:
- How do the Sessions function within the history of performance in art?
- What does the queering of space and time contribute in the context of Cypriot society?
- How has embodied participation in performances challenged the perceived relationship between performers and audience?
- What kind of relational exchanges have there been?
- How important is a queer commons in the Cypriot context of ethnic conflicts and nationalisms?
- Drawing on José Esteban Muñoz's positioning of the "commons as a horizon that is not yet here" - which in fact was never here in a stable way - the conceptual force of the notion of commons is oriented towards the possibility of a future in which more could be had by the many than by the few. What are these possibilities?
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