The piece would like to reflect upon the lack of physical embodiment and sense of isolation experienced during Covid-19 lockdown encouraging the audience to embody their domestic space through a richer psychophysical awareness.

It consists of a script of a series of actions to be performed individually in one’s domestic space.

The audio is a vocal improvisation of the artist with HIVE, experimental choir based in Belfast, Queens University.

Please play the audio during the action either on an external audio source or via headphones.

You may pick one or all those actions and perform them while you listen to the audio piece. You may pause the actions if so desired.

Action 1: Kitchen. Stay in front of your sink and let the water run. Sense its flow with your hands.

Action 2: Bedroom. Sit on the floor having your back on the bed’s sides. Close your eyes.

Action 3: Corridor-Standing. Stay upright facing one of the corridor’s walls. Lean gently towards the wall.

Eleni Kolliopoulou (1980, Athens) is a media artist (performance, video, installations) particularly interested in the intersection between performance and philosophy. She studied at the University Kapodistriaka of Athens in the Department of Methodology, History and Theory of Science (1998 -2003, BA). She moved to Turin (Italy) in September 2007 where she frequented Philip Radice school of Physical Theatre for one year while studying contemporary dance, dance theatre and butoh dance and taking part in several public group performances. Between 2008 and 2013 she accomplished her BA and MA degree by the Academy of Fine Arts of Turin; during the first year of her MA she was in Germany (Hochscuele Burg Gibiechestein Halle an der Saale) as an Erasmus student for the academic year 2011/2012. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for her interdisciplinary practice-based PhD (2016-2019) at Ulster University across the Departments of Drama (Magee) and Arts and Design (Belfast). Her research project concerns the modalities in which the Butoh body notion could be used to enrich immersive Installation art practice.