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THIS IS NOT YOUR TERRITORY

Fenia Kotsopoulou

THIS IS NOT YOUR TERRITORY

DURATION:
24’ 32'’
DESCRIPTION

A performance for camera taking as a starting point the killings of women by their partners, during 2021 in Greece. Domestic (and other forms of) violence, inflicted predominantly on female-identified subjects around the globe, remains under-reported, stigmatised, and kept as taboo behind doors: devastatingly pervasive in capitalistic, patriarchal, hegemonic, and (hetero)normative societies. The performance whilst using specific signifiers and (symbolic) references focuses on skin self-writing and dancing as acts of resilience and (self)empowerment "THIS IS NOT YOUR TERRITORY" is not only a performance for the dead but mainly for the still alive ones, the daily survivors, including the children behind the closed doors, and their joint screams. There is not enough space for the names of all of them, but definitely, they are not forgotten.

CREDITS

performance/sound/filming/editing: Fenia Kotsopoulou

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Fenia Kotsopoulou

Fenia is a Greek award-winning, cross-disciplinary artist, currently based in UK, creatively experimenting and exploring the intersection of dance, performance(art), video, photography and alternative image making, documentation and archiving.

Fenia Kotsopoulou