In this artist talk PartSuspended artist collective will share their work, which follows an interdisciplinary approach and includes live performance, movement, movement, sound, video-work, writing, participatory workshops, exhibitions and installations. Their work connects individual and collective creativities and helps us imagine new possibilities for feminist action.  At the core of the collective’s recent work is the ongoing project SPIRALS. The image of the spiral shapes both the form and content of their creative practice. As part of the artist talk, PartSuspended will show extracts of their audiovisual work, including ‘Spirals: Turning Points’ (London, Dorset, Agost, Athens, 2020), ‘Spirals: Breath’ (London, Dorset, Agost, Athens, 2021), and material from Spirals Open Archive (2022) will be presented alongside a live performance. In addition, PartSuspended will discuss the processes and outcomes of the Workshops run by the collective within AVSchool, May 2022.

SPIRALS (2013-ongoing) is an ongoing collaborative and interdisciplinary project created by PartSuspended artist collective. SPIRALS is a poetic journey that crosses geographical borders and unites women’s voices in an exchange of languages, cultures, personal narratives and modes of expression. The spiral acts as a sign of becoming, transforming and awareness. SPIRALS interventions have taken place in a variety of countries, such as UK (London, Broadstairs, Coventry, Devon) Spain (Barcelona, Agost), Serbia (Belgrade), Greece (Athens), India (Pune). http://www.partsuspended.com/productions/current/spirals/

PartSuspended artist collective works in a variety of art forms and disciplines. In 2006, Hari Marini co-founded PartSuspended as a dynamic platform on which to foster performances, live art, installations, writing and collaborations with artists from a variety of disciplines. The collective - Dr Barbara Bridger, Dr Noelia Díaz-Vicedo, Dr Sarahleigh Castelyn, Georgia Kalogeropoulou and Dr Hari Marini - creates artistic work starting from personal experiences, everyday life, social space and architecture. They draw on contemporary life for their material: questions, pleasure, anger, fractures, contradictions; they explore these with the audience. PartSuspended has presented their work to a variety of venues such as DAN24, Spatial Culture Festival, BAZA (Novi Sad); Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (Prague); BIOS Tesla; National Theatre of Greece – Experimental Stage; Camden People’s Theatre (London); Peopling the Palace(s) Festival QMUL (London); Arcola Theatre (London); Southwark Playhouse (London); Emergency 2013 (Manchester); Siobhan Davies Dance Studio; ]performance space[; ZealousX (Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf); Railway Carriage Theatre (Athens); DVM Theatre (London); NoGrayInMyDay Gallery (London); You & Your Work (Bristol). www.partsuspended.com

Language of presentation: English (translation from English to Greek)

Organized by: Dr Hari Marini