HieRoToPy
HieRoToPY/ΙεΡοΤοΠίΑ 2018
Εγκατάσταση με ήχο, βίντεο και περφόρμανς,
How and Where is the "Sacred" defined today?
HieRoToPY/ΙεΡοΤοΠίΑ ένα πολυαισθητηριακής αφήγησης έργο. Μια αλληγορία ενός υποθετικού ιερού τόπου. Ο επισκέπτης καλείται να “συνομιλήσει” με μία οργανική φόρμα, σαν ένα νευρωνικό δίκτυο, η οποία, εγκατεστημένη σε αιώρηση αναπτύσσεται στο χώρο και με μία ιδιότυπη συμβολική γέφυρα.
A web, a nebula of mental and emotional processes surrounds and connects us. Information, circulating and creating "threads" and paths of a cosmic invisible lace that we weave together, indicates the "invisible" space of interconnection and daily, yet ritualistic, prayer. "Synapses as spaces of an unholy sanctity of our everyday life through an "invisible" writing, notes Dorothea Konteltetzidou, which attempt to define and also to retrieve the sanctity of a Place that bears the traces of the past but also indicates the accidental and non-random interconnections of millions of neurons in order to suggest the way of development of intelligence. The permanence of the object, in this case the installation of Cynthia Gerothanasiou, functions as the basis of reality, as a sensorimotor stage that attempts to sort and reflect on ideas, assumptions and logics that shape cognitive development" and define the quality of our coexistence.
Τόπος: Hierotopia
The cloud is one of the most intangible material objects that surround us. While it is visible and gives the impression of being solid, no one can feel it. At the same time the cloud
is connected with the history of painted images and especially with the religious Christian
paintings. In hundreds of religious paintings, figures emerge from the clouds
in a distant universe of fixed absolutes. It took the realistic notes of
Constable to make the clouds feel realØ they remained however
intangible.
Nebula, cloud, constellation or smoke the entity that develops as a construction in the
central space of the Alaja Imaret transforms the sacred Muslim space into a space of a
modern Hierotopia, as Cynthia Gerothanasiou calls her establishment.
Gerothanasiou reintroduces the image of the cloud, updating it with a contemporary
way: it disconnects it from the Christian tradition, incorporates references from the modern
technology and releases it from the distant by starting it from the viewer. The projections and
performances that develop in the space move the interpretation of the work away from any
formalistic reading incorporating memory and reality cues.
Hierotopia identifies a place where the viewer is invited to wander with his gaze and body in experiences that will revise the sacred: the sanctuary with the installation of Gerothanasi becomes present and contemporary and, in contrast to the clouds, forms a tangible area
experiences. Hierotopia creates a landscape that leads the viewer to reflect on concepts concerning his existence, the poetry of space, the energy of the body's movement.
Giannis Ziogas Visual Artist,
Professor at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts,
University of West. University of Western Macedonia, Florina.
Επιτέλεση
Η καθημερινότητα ως τελετουργία μιας επισφαλούς μετάβασης, εν είδει προσευχής και οντολογικής μεταβολής. H περφόρμερ ως ένας σύγχρονος φορέας νοητικών και συναισθηματικών διεργασιών και μέρος του συνόλου στο πολυσύνθετο και αβέβαιο πεδίο της επιβίωσης, φορά ένα μεταλικό νάρθηκα στήριξης σπονδυλικής στήλης και ξεκινά το “ταξίδι” προς την καρδιά της εγκατάστασης. Η διάσχιση του χώρου εκτελείται με τελετουργική κίνηση χρησιμοποιώντας μια ιδιότυπη φορητή γέφυρα που δανείζεται από τεχνικές διάσχισης ναρκοπεδίων. Η περφόρμανς επιτελείται σε ζωντανό και αυτοσχεδιαστικό ηχοτοπίο. Ο μουσικός Δημήτρης Παπαδόπουλος, σαν ένας μύστης χρησιμοποιεί
crystal sound stages and creates eerie sounds.
