Performing Your Identity: Representations of the body through social media
Performing Your Identity: Representations of the body through social media
asfaBBQ, Athens, Peiraius 256, Athens school of Fine Arts
The ASFA BBQ presents:
Elena Poughia/ Georges Jacotey/ Natasha Papadopoulou in
Performing Your Identity: Representations of the body through social media
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st.
(αίθουσα γυμνού νυκτός)
20:00, Saturday, June 6, 2015
Elena Poughia/ Georges Jacotey/ Natasha Papadopoulou/ Marios Athanasiou
With works by Amalia Ulman, Erica Scourti and Laturbo Avedon
A panel discussion about the fluid potentiality of the virtual in the digital era. We will talk about performing ones identity online, the adaptation of social identities, the expression of the personal in the online sphere, and the re appropriation of normativity in embodying and performing stereotypes and archetypes. The panel will examine artistic practices that have been exploring embodiment prospectivity either through the creation of multiple, imaginary, virtual identities or through the expression of the personal/political and individual/communal experience using social media.
Artists such as Erica Scourti and Amalia Ulman expose themselves through social media and make a commentary on surveillance, female and body stereotypes. Erica Scourti performs herself with a dose of self-satire and an attitude of ‘serious play’ (Haraway, 1985) whereas Amalia Ulman assumes different identities to perform popular female stereotypes in order to uncover dynamics and power structures. LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar and her practice explores the architectural and social possibility of existing solely virtually.
The artists, Georges Jacotey and Natasha Papadopoulou will relate to the subject: Georges' through a talk about his work: his online performances and his facebook online gallery and Natasha through a performance. When one can see the possibility of pixelated self, what happens to the flesh?
Elena Poughia
http://www.soundacts.com/team.html
Georges Jacotey
http://www.georgesjacotey.info/
Natasha Papadopoulou
http://natashapapadopoulou.blogspot.gr/
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