Date and Time: 31/05/2024 (20:00-23:00)
Location: Politechno
Markella Panteli
I cant breathe. The space, the world, my own body do not fit me. How do I get to the point where I don't want to exist in it anymore? How do we get guilt, discomfort, loathing of our own ego? Do we create this (op)pression in ourselves? Or others to us? Such feelings and questions invaded my life during this time and became an experience and reflection. More specifically, the feeling of nakedness is created daily for many by the imposed behavior they are forced to adopt and which makes them feel vulnerable. Gender is something fluid and indeterminate, socially determined, and it is wrong to define who we are. I often feel my body as an object that is reflected multiple times in wrong ways. Then it feels foreign. My purpose through the performance is to capture the suffocating feeling of (co)existing with vulgar comments, glances, rough and trivial separations of your body from your soul, having myself and the viewer as witnesses of this intense emotional charge. . My goal is to present the insecurity and breathlessness of the moment, which the viewer may have caused without knowing it. Many times we ourselves give birth, unwittingly, to what you conceive from our contact with others.
Markella Panteli
Markella Panteli is a student at the Department of Sound and Visual Arts of the Ionian University and is in her second year of studies. She has a feel for performing arts, sound and video. From a young age she was interested in exposing herself and creating new boundaries. Through her artworks, she constantly tries to identify and overcome her limits, building new ones each time. The arts, specifically the performing arts, are the most direct way of expressing the issues that concern her.