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(Nasia Karatsiraki/ performance for camera)

During the global pandemic, the relationship between people and city, physical space was affected and reshaped, as well as the notion of boundary/border and the waiting.
By the end of the curfew, we strongly faced the expropriation? of the cities.
human presence redefined by the new data and spaces where we used to live the
everyday experience gave new meanings to our actions. Although cities and spaces
might seem unchanged during the global pandemic, Isolation and containment
irreparably affected the image of the public and private spheres. Safety measures
for public health, turned contact in public space into an impersonal gesture and any
experience in it was inhospitable.
The city of Florina has a deep history that holds pain and grievance, typical
example of which being the refugee issue. Florina for many centuries, constituted a
home for different people, traditions, ideologies and languages, who were forced to leave it due to the political regime. They were chased, hunted, murdered, families
were forcibly separated while others stayed. It has been described by many as a
'waiting room', a passage, a stop. A non-place, an intermediate space, a
heterotopia. Place of the 'other', the another.
The performance for camera 'Inaction', proposes the city of Florina as a space that has always been unfamiliar. A city which, due to its historical and social context,could not manage to get familiarized by its inhabitants. The project oscillates between the visible and the invisible. It has a semiotic reference/creates a link between its geographical location and the
'Siniaki' effect , like a white veil that covers and hoods the city - but also refers to
the political history of the city. The white wet cloth is a symbol of purity, combined
with the reveal of the naked body. Simultaneously, the white cloth dragged on the wall in the second frame, resembles the white flag of a surrender city.

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FLORINA…IN WAITING
Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia (UΟWM).

Participation @Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ), Student section, national exhibition (Greece).
This is a series of site-specific performances based on scores that emerged from the field research and mapping of the city of Florina, a “waiting room” city, according to Theo Angelopoulos. The binaries of private/public space, familiar/uncanny, foreigner/“local”, but also the notions of transition, wandering, identity, visible and invisible borders between us and the “others” are explored in live and non-live performances. The city regresses between the visible and the invisible, a semantic analogy of the meteorological phenomenon of “siniaki”, like a white veil covering and engulfing the city, but also, in a way, its history. Public space and the natural environment become the locus of the search for connection with the “other” beyond linguistic and cultural constraints. And the everyday life of the city, through iterative acts of care and arranging, projects the city as a living archive of the everyday and social performance of a diverse and complex whole.

WORKS
1. Inaction, performance on camera, Nasia Karatsiraki
2. Waiting Room, performance, Paschalis Vouzios, Kirki Iosifidou, Nasia Karatsiraki, Kleanthis Kommatas, Fevronia Saroukou
3. Housework, performance, Fevronia Saroukou
4. Personal Public Space, performance on camera, Konstantina Stefanidou
5. Hey!, performance on camera, Paschalis Vouzios, Kirki Iosifidou, Nasia Karatsiraki, Kleanthis Kommatas

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‘Personal Public Space’ (Konstantina Stefanidou) is a video art / performance project based on the "privatization" of public space. Taking place in a collection of non-places in Florina, it aims to evoke various conceptual and emotional states experienced by the artist during their existence in this city, specifying these unspecific locations by using them according to their morphological elements, in an attempt to symbolize psychological phenomena and situations. In other words, it is an effort to portray a psychogeographic map.
The first scene takes place on a bridge in order to introduce the idea of transition from one state of mind / state of being to another, while making an attempt to reveal the pain behind it. The next shots aim to reveal mental states such as panic and suffocation - conditions that trigger the need for this transition. They are followed by the projection of nudity, as a symbolization of the return to one’s basic material, defying this element as essential to the success of this metamorphosis.

Although the places used are considered public spaces, the video aims to bring into view something as private as personal needs and emotions. In this way, an attempt is made to touch upon the idea that each public space is a composition of the identities of the individuals who enter it, based on how they feel in that moment, or how they interact with it. Thus, it acquires a somewhat private hypostasis for each individual separately.

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The project "Housework" by Fevronia Saroukou takes place in the city of Florina and recasts a non-place with the idea of appropriating the space. The everyday, the natural environment and the values of the local society reconstitute the idea of performance by performing a domestic action, sweeping, aiming at the desired result of organizing and conquering the order of the subject of non-place. The organization is one of the key elements of the people who build the heritage of the region. At the same time, the reminiscence of visual impressions of the daily conditions in the province, as well as the characteristics of the structure of the local society permeate the element of the appropriation of the public space through the performance.

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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA
School of Fine Arts
Department of Fine and Applied Arts

Curator
Angeliki Avgitidou, Associate Professor

Students

Kirki Iosifidou, Nasia Karatsiraki, Kleanthis Kommatas, Fevronia Saroukou, Konstantina Stefanidou, Paschalis Vouzios