14th Audiovisual Arts Festival

AUDIO VISUAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2021

Αlienation

Event Title: OPEN ART

Date and Time: 22/05/2021 (20:00-23:30)

Giota Kotika

The main element of the project is based on language The work is divided into three sections that focus on the discussion of "strangeness," which many writers, poets, as well as philosophers, psychoanalysts - starting with Freud - have spoken about and analyzed in its various forms. In a more specific situation, which Julia Kristeva calls Strangers to Ourselves, alienation towards the "other" seems to expand, loneliness grows, hostility swells. He is the stranger we see as the Other, different from our narcissistic idol, and whom we reject as all that is outside of us and respond with his destruction. into a violent world that refuses to see the face in the mirror. But the common language, the words with power, are the ones that sound in the dark, they can even awaken the hidden consciences that seek the sense of intimacy between the Ego and the Other.

Video - Installation: Duration 3 ́46 ́ ́
Sheet metal 110X60
Water
Projector
Sound

Giota Kotika

Yiota Kotica was born in Athens. She is a graduate of the Department of Sound and Image in the Digital Age at the Ionian University, she studied Humanities Studies at the Hellenic Open University as well as Visual Arts at Akto College, School of Fine Arts and Design, a validated body of the University of Middlesex (BA Fine Arts & Technology), earning a scholarship. Her work focuses on the research of the unfamiliar, under which she processes issues of memory, time and identity by presenting works using a variety of expressive mediums. Her work has featured at solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions of painting, video art and performance. She has also worked in designing and building scenery for theatrical performances. Her pieces belong to public institutions and private collections in Greece and abroad.