What are the links between performance and the everyday human flows ? Gomenes is a project set up by Netting the Work's Eva Giannakopoulou and Rilène Markopoulou that took place last April 2016 in the framework of the Athen Biennale. Let's discover another attempt to examine gender stereotypes.
Netting the work ?
NETTING THE WORK is a platform aiming to explore the links between performance, the everyday and the human flows under the prism of transition and displacement. It is a project that focuses on challenging social and artistic topics by exploring their connotations in different countries, platforms and Performance Festivals around Europe. Considering that performance has become a central lens for understanding a multiplicity of cultural phenomena, the platform attempts to critically observe diverse contemporary circumstances through artistic representations, as well as regulating dominant and hierarchical cultural schemes in different spaces and social realities.
Through the practice of displacement, Netting the Work initiates connections and discourses in the field of Performance art, seeking to capture a crucial turning point: That of the constant movement in a constantly ever-changing society.
Gomenes ?
The Netting the Work project “GOMENES” arises from the examination of gender stereotypes in the form of performative and alternative fe-male narrative methods. Scrutinising and being inspired by the multifaceted European crisis, the purpose of the project is to critically analyse the links and interwoven relations of gender and stereotypes in Greece and Austria, while artistically examining the contemporary impact on wo-men as “embodied, intellectual subjects” through politics, sexuality and dominant social structures.
A wide range of performances and two symposia constituted the core of this experimental event in April 2016, in an attempt to challenge the borders between theoretical speech and artistic representation, lecturer and performer. The project “GOMENES” delved into Omonoia square, trying to be part and trans-form the urban environment of the surrounding area.
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NETTING THE WORK is a platform aiming to explore the links between performance, the everyday and the human flows under the prism of transition and displacement. It is a project that focuses on challenging social and artistic topics by exploring their connotations in different countries, platforms and Performance Festivals around Europe. Considering that performance has become a central lens for understanding a multiplicity of cultural phenomena, the platform attempts to critically observe diverse contemporary circumstances through artistic representations, as well as regulating dominant and hierarchical cultural schemes in different spaces and social realities.
Through the practice of displacement, Netting the Work initiates connections and discourses in the field of Performance art, seeking to capture a crucial turning point: That of the constant movement in a constantly ever-changing society.
Gomenes ?
The Netting the Work project “GOMENES” arises from the examination of gender stereotypes in the form of performative and alternative fe-male narrative methods. Scrutinising and being inspired by the multifaceted European crisis, the purpose of the project is to critically analyse the links and interwoven relations of gender and stereotypes in Greece and Austria, while artistically examining the contemporary impact on wo-men as “embodied, intellectual subjects” through politics, sexuality and dominant social structures.
A wide range of performances and two symposia constituted the core of this experimental event in April 2016, in an attempt to challenge the borders between theoretical speech and artistic representation, lecturer and performer. The project “GOMENES” delved into Omonoia square, trying to be part and trans-form the urban environment of the surrounding area.
more HERE