Homeless Bodies – Naked Life is a multidisciplinary installation performance that combines video documentation, live music, and contemporary dance. It focuses on the migration of bodies, particularly the precarious state of the female body.
Naked bodies, fragmented nations. A pulverization of self and society in a system dominated by alienation and rejection. Homeless bodies, homeless lives, entrenched in nations devoid of security, dignity, and social evolution. The work interrogates the vulnerability, fluidity, and precariousness of the body—hallmarks of contemporary civilization, as described by Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of postmodernity, characterized by globalization, imperialist violence, affluence, consumerism, xenophobia, and homophobia.
According to Aihwa Ong and Michael Peletz (1995), women’s bodies are stereotypically seen as symbols of the perceived excess of societal borders and limitations. But what happens when these bodies lose their land, their boundaries, and even their legal citizenship? In an ever-changing geographical landscape, the displacement of bodies challenges the notions of home and belonging, leaving these concepts disrupted and redefined.
Credits
Concept: Chrysanthi Siembou, Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Choreography: Athanasia Kanellopoulou
Video and Visual Art: Chrysanthi Siembou
Music Composition: Konstantina Polychronopoulou
Performed by: Sahar Damoni, Natalie Salsa, Maria Daly, Eydis Rose Vilmundardottir
Performance: Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival, 2017