Conference
“Body in public space as experience and praxis”
Center for Mediterranean Architecture
– Free entrance
10:00 – 10:30 Registrations
10:30 – 11:00 Opening/ Welcome notes
11:00 – 11:30 [20’+10′ Questions]
*Angeliki Avgitidou – How to be public in space
Performance artist, architect and academic, Associate Professor at the School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia
Co-ordinator: Dimitra Chatzisavva
11:30 – 12:30 [45’+15’ Questions]
Dimitra Chatzisavva – Corporeal mappings of public places
Architect, Associate Professor, School of Architecture TUC
Stella Mastorosteriou – Choreographic Approaches to Urban Space – Two Examples
Choreographer
Vicky Angelidou – Community engagement as part of the artistic work in the public space through three examples
Artistic researcher, choreographer, psychologist-Gestalt psychotherapist
Break 15’
12:45 – 13:15 [20’+10 Questions]
*Carol Brown – Resisting Cruel Histories – Dance on a Democratic Ground Plane
Professor In Dance, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA)
Co-ordinator: Ariadne Mikou
13:15 – 14:00 [30’+15’ Questions]
Antonis Bertos – The body and the city that we inhabit through two videodance works: when digital media promote the performative body in public space
Interdisciplinary Artist – Researcher
Maria Nefeli Siozou – The sexuality of dance and the sexualization of public space. Bodies as limits and claims in space
Architect Engineer
Lunch break
17:00 – 17:30 [20’+10 Questions]
*Anna Tzakou – To Perform Public Space: an Event of Dreaming within the Realm of the Ordinary
Performer, theatre director and practice-based research, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Peloponnese
Co-ordinator: Alexandros Vazakas
17:30 – 18:30 [45’+15’ Questions]
Dimitris Psychogyios, Nikos Platsas, Rena Stolidou, Archnonti Ioannou – Somatics and Architectural Technology
Dimitris Psychogyios (Assistant Professor Arch. UTH), Nikos Platsas (Researcher Arch. UTH), Rena Stolidou (Researcher Arch. UTH), Archnonti Ioannou (Researcher Arch. UTH)
Ioanna Stouri – The moving body as a tool for re-reading and re-interpreting space
Architect, Performer, Researcher
Sarah Möller – Towers, decks and urban waste – filmdance in new york’s 70s and 80s
PhD Candidate, Freie Universität Berlin
Break 15’
18:45 – 19:30 [30’+15’ Questions]
Co-ordinator: Steriani Tsintziloni
Ioannis Sidiropoulos – Exploring the Transformative Potential of Virtual Performances and Screendance in Public Spaces: Responding to the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Doctoral Researcher Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
Polena Kolia Petersen – Dances for present and future worlds: attentions for becoming with the other through dance improvisation as somaesthetic and political practice
Dancer, maker, practitioner & researcher of sustainable, participatory movement practices
19:30 – 20:00 [20’+10 Questions]
*Michael Klien & Vitoria Kotsalou – Governance of sensibility
Michael Klien (Artist, Choreographer, Professor at Duke University) & Vitoria Kotsalou (Dancer, Choreographer)
20:00 – 20:30
Final Remarks / Discussion
23 July
Center for Mediterranean Architecture
Scientific committee:
Alexandros Vazakas (Architect, Associate Professor TUC)
Dr. Ariadne Mikou (Architect, Dance Researcher)
Dr. Steriani Tsintziloni (Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre Studies National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dimitra Chatzisavva (Architect, Associate Professor TUC)
Sofia Falierou (Choreographer, Artistic Director of Dance Days Chania)
