Date and Time: 14/05/2023-16/05/2023 (15:00-20:00)
Location: Department of Audio & Visual Arts - Gkousis Building: Studio Video (Patio-Old Asylum)
Joanna Poupaki
Occasioned by a self-portrait aiming to be a presentation of myself, I created the work titled “I for the time being”, a video art negotiating the expression of the self and the mind-body relationship. Combining animation with improvisational corporal performance, I project a hybrid head, half illustration, half videotaped presence, that represents the self trying to come out. The illustration represents the ideas, thoughts, feelings, while the performance is the spontaneity, need, female presence. Upon this, I experiment with the use of religious iconographic elements as tools for symbolization, socio-political framing, creation of paradox and redefinition. The image, the icon, is not a projection of the human facade but a notion, a sense with a human form.
Credits
Joanna Poupaki-Concept, Performance, Recording, Animation & Editing
Joanna Poupaki
Joanna Poupaki (b. 1995, Crete, Greece) is a creative hybrid specializing in illustration,
video and moving.
An Architecture graduate (University of Thessaly, Volos) with a postgraduate in Digital
Illustration applied to brands, media and videogames (EINA, Barcelona), she works within
the creative realm of graphic and audiovisual design and cultural content. She experiments
with video art in dance, and in 2022, focusing on her anthropocentric, socio-political
concerns, she initiated the illustrated project titled "Waiting".
Since 2016, fusing art forms and pursuing interdisciplinarity and intermediality, she has
collaborated with various creatives on artistic, experimental and critical projects.
