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  BY DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU

  A performance for the camera exploring the theme of ‘Body and Citizenship’ and how the maternal body might operate as a site for this passage from Nature’s world of violence and wilderness to the world of the polis and its language brought by theatrical and philosophical discourse. The video has as its starting point the passage to citizenship concerning the birth and use of language. Accordingly, the performance’s title stems from one of the roles of Artemis in Ancient Greece: Kourotrophos (Greek: Κουροτρόφος, “child nurturer”) and Lochia (Greek: Λοχία, “belonging to childbirth”). Artemis was responsible for the delivery and upbringing of children from childhood to adulthood and civil life.
• I’M NOT YOUR BABE 1, PART 1

  BY Franko B

  In a provocative and stark portrait of the existential self, Franko B uses his own drawn blood as a symbol of carnal reality and suggests the natural destitution of the body as a fundamental of existence. Standing before us a mute body-object, achromatic and cadaverous, his performance is an act of cleansing, stripping the flesh of identity.
• OLTRE IL CORPO (BEYOND THE BODY)

  BY Kyrahm and Julia Pietrangeli

  The creation of a machine able to paint without the artist being present triggered the envy and admiration of Andy Warhol. “It’s the artwork that should speak and not the artist”, says a contemporary art mantra. But what happens when we investigate the role of performance art by interviewing artists whose physical presence is the fulcrum of their work? Is being an artist an innate condition, like the shamans - that you can either accept or dismiss - or is it the result of experience and valuable encounters? Beyond the Body is an intimate dialogue delving into the motivations that drive some protagonists of performance art to reveal their identity; and unveil their body; at times using their own (real) blood on stage through forms of expression uncompromising between life and death.