Touching Faultlines

The two-day Τouching Faultlines event is a conversation between modern artistic practices and the Roman Odeon of Gortyna. It explores geological time and movement, with a special focus on ruptures and tensions as points of contact. The relationship between geological and historical past emerges in the present through performance acts, dancing, sculptural and  audiovisual installations, texts, and sound interventions. Performers react to the converging and diverging movements of tectonic plates, volcanic eruptions, and seismic vibrations, along with their political and cultural connotations.

Τouching Faultlines aims to provide space for narratives that explore the concepts of perpetual movement, release, rupture, freedom, and reconstruction. Whether regarding language, gender, or their geopolitical implications, friction and confrontation require the existence of a performative zone of contact. Within this zone, tensions are expressed where there is movement. If the points of conflict are seen as surfaces that come into contact with each other, then what can we learn by studying the geological formations and their movements in the Mediterranean Basin?

Programme

23 August 2024 | Opening 17.30 – 21.00

Performances:
18.00 Anna Papathanasiou & Inga Galinytė, Empathetic Bodies
19.00 Ermira Goro, Faultlines
Screening:
20.30 Huniti Goldox, The Dido Problem

24 August 2024 | 08.00 – 20.30

Performances:
19.00 Ermira Goro, Faultlines
Screening:
20.30 Huniti Goldox, The Dido Problem