The project “[a] border of dying” is a collaborative work of the performative duo VIGIL that I am a part of with my colleague Despina Sanida Crezia. We’ve completed a residency at Flux Laboratory during the fall of 2023 combining visual arts and performance aspects through the notions of skin, time, transformation and corrosion, effort and coexistence. In the first part of the residency, we’ve experimented on the chemical laboratory on discoloration techniques and exhibited a few of our tests at the end of the residency. On the parallel, we’ve proposed a performative aspect of this work that was shared through an open studio.

VIGIL’s fragment: “In November 2022, VIGIL started working on site as artists-in-residence, taking over an old chemical factory to conduct their artistic and choreographic research. The project title “[a] border of dying”, challenging the boundaries of the words ‘dying’ and ‘dyeing’, refers both to the subject and process of the performative piece and the installation.

“[a] border of dying” is an interdisciplinary collaborative research project that focuses on visual arts through the prism of textile use and discoloration, as well as movement through which the human body is approached as a tool and the concepts of corrosion and change are explored.VIGIL’S movement research is structured around the notions of skin, time, transformation and corrosion, effort and coexistence. The project investigates the dipole of existence / non-existence and body’s resistance in it, but also the dipole of vigor / passivity that permeates this resistance. The process of discoloration of textiles is approached through the terms of territoriality, border, and the fragmented “death”, but also through a process of effort and patience.” VIGIL’s description

DATES

November to February 2023 | Flux Laboratory, Athens. Greece