Having our starting point in the broad notion of ‘new shapes’ of a community, we are committed to explore creatively the repercussions of such concept. Interested in developing further this ‘community’, we ground our research upon the redefinition of body. How can we create a new body, a new shape, merging 5 legs, 29 fingers, 25 toes, 3 heads, 3 cocks, 6 testicles...?

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Can we create this collective body and what are the repercussions to the community that surrounds us?

We intend, in a process-based research, to explore among other aspects, the possibilities in creating a new architectural body, exploring a new shape, opening to a new and posthuman community of freaks. We aim to stimulate the sexual brain of the spectator with subliminal social critiques, using sarcasm, humor and illusion, bending sexuality as trigger to rethink the position of the self, concerning the current human and social relations.

In a theoretical level, literary references such as ‘The Unnameable’, (Samuel Beckett), ‘Social works, performing art, supporting publics’ (Shannon Jackson); philosophical concepts as ‘Body without organs’ (Gilles Deleuze) or scientific researches on posthumanism and cliodynamics are important inspirations to us. We intend to reflect upon these afflatus to, afterwards, apply them to the visual and artistic realms.

As part of our process we aim to create objects, exploring its expanded functions and performativity, beyond performance props. We aim to build objects and costumes that are facilitators of visual compositions. As inspiration for this particular aspect, we should mention the body architect Lucy McRae and the designer Bart Hess.

You can find in the following links, some documentations from our previous pieces:

The project will take place in Athens for a month period from August to September. It will be a social project made with the greek population.

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