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THE TROJANS | ANIMA CAPTUS
03/05/2018 - 06/05/2018
Benaki Museum | Pireos 138
PERFORMANCE
Thursday 3 May | 12pm – 6pm
Friday 4 May | 2pm – 10pm
Saturday 5 May | 2pm – 10pm
Sunday 6 May | 10am – 6pm
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Long Durational Performance inside an installation (96 hours)
Rafika Chawishe- Mihalis Argyrou
Forty naked human bodies packed in a sterilized space resembling a crematorium, a morgue, a place for storing meat∙ bodies exposed to risk. A room full of mouths reproducing excerpts from political speeches and prophecies confirmed or disproved by History. Ten performers –souls trapped in an arid place, using every means possible, even silence, to bring forth wounds acquired from their personal or ancestral involuntary translocations, discussing the concepts of citizenship, nationality and “belonging”.
It is a fleeing picture of the universe of a multidimensional performance/ installation, conceived by actress and director Rafika Chawishe and artist Mihalis Argyrou, titled The Trojans-Anima Captus. The 96-hour performance is taking place inside a labyrinthine structure people can visit in the New Benaki Museum, where it will be housed.
Reference to Euripides’ drama Trojan Women is inevitable, since the unsurpassed work of ancient Greek Literature is about war and persecuted people.
In a lengthy performance focused on the notion of the “geographic scar”, the artists use their bodies to participate in a stasimon of Trojan women.
In this work the spectator is following a four day-long interactive route. The ten main performers, originating from Greece, Afganistan, Syria and Iran will be living inside the museum, in total silence, for four days. However, people can visit the installation only during the museum’s opening hours. With the support of NEON.
The Trojans - Anima Captus | Mahdie Hossaini | Photography © Michalis Argyrou
The Trojans - Anima Captus | Majd Sayed | Photography © Michalis Argyrou
The Trojans - Anima Captus | Martha Pasakopoulou | Photography © Michalis Argyrou
The Trojans - Anima Captus | Giannis Karounis | Photography © Michalis Argyrou
Benaki Museum
Pireos 138, Athens
118 54
Μουσείο Μπενάκη, Πειραιώς, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα
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