MARIOS STAMATIS
INSTAR
VIDEO STILLS, 2021
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INSTAR is a performance in which the audience is witnessing a real-time transformational process. The performers explore the mechanics of their own bodies while they are being renegotiated and reconstructed similarly to how a neural network (machine learning) is learning how to move. The performers refer to miniscule arthropods and insectile movement but also appropriate animalian expressions. The work is a structured improvisation. This crystallisation of such transition keeps together the character of a continuous changing process and in parallel of the stability of this discontinuous remaining crust, the trace of a provisory death that crystallised already to this monumental tomb of the old life that is this descriptive crust.
Performed with Fotini Stamatelopoulou and Despina Sanida Crezia.
Originally presented at Tactile Ghost.
Curated by Elina Axioti.
Castle, Antiparos, 2021.
