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VIDEO ZINE #6 錄像雜誌第六期 / The Provisional Imaginary 暫擬設證 - p.4

Feature (2) Evi PSALTOU & team ANOMIA: the dancer’s body, the choreographic everyday
專題二：舞者的身體，穿透日常的舞動：簡介希臘實驗舞蹈藝術群體「無規範」

ANOMIA was created in 2017 as an open platform for collaboration between artists based in Athens, with the aim of developing short films, video dance films and performances.
Nowadays, the multidimensional work of ANOMIA (short films, performances, dance workshops, theoretical research, conferences etc)  explores embodied experience as an expanded practice which pushes the boundaries between different forms of expression, while seeking and developing social and cultural identity.

Constantly moving in the osmosis of theory and practice, ANOMIA investigates the social character of the art of dance, brings attention to otherness and the unknown, by composing heterogeneous groups in terms of their socio-cultural background and puts the materiality of the human body at the center of interest. 


ANOMIA’s moving image works have been awarded at the Loikka Dance Film Festival (2017, 2018) and nominated and presented at festivals in Athens, Syros, Lincolnshire and Helsinki, and more.


ANOMIA 是個以希臘雅典為基地的跨界的創作平台，不斷在理論和實踐的互相滲透中前進，透過根據社會文化背景組成異質群體，研究舞蹈藝術的社會特徵，關注差異性和未知性，並將人體的物質性置於探索的核心。這個以「失範」為名的實驗性跨界舞者的群體，在歐洲多次演出並獲獎而得到肯定。經常性活動包括當代藝術的表演、舞蹈工作坊、理論研究計劃、講座會議等，突破不同表達形式之間的界限的同時，堅持經驗是具體的，從身體和空間出發。


Keyword: dance video | body in urban space | social character of the art of dance | overcoming the question of otherness | materiality of the human body | Athens | short film | outside the frame | beyond conventions

Orgasp
Evi Psaltou & team ANOMIA
13:45 | 16:9 | 2020 | HD
Location : Athens, Greece 希臘雅典

Orgasp, short film, produced by ANOMIA and Balkans Beyond Borders, explores the boundaries of the body as well as the relationship between the human and the urban element under social distancing conditions.

The work brings to the screen the mechanical sounds and the fragmentary images of a familiar place, the city where we have used to wander, but in an unfamiliar condition.
Through a period of extreme social deprivation, experienced during the pandemic, the body developed survival strategies through fragments of pleasure and mediated communication. While a falsified perception of reality remains as embodied memory to simulate the future, what new ways could we adopt to resist this altered reality?

CREDITS

Producer: ANOMIA & Balkans Beyond Borders
Writer: ANOMIA
Cinematography/Editing: Antigone Davaki
Choreography/Performing: Evi Psaltou
Choreography/Performing: Vassia Zorbali
Music composition/Sound design: Panina Karydi
Additional music composition/Sound design : Anna-Maria Rammou
Sound mix: Stelios Koupetoris

BIOGRAPHY
創作者簡介

ANOMIA was created in 2017 as an open platform for collaboration between artists based in Athens, with the aim of developing short films, video dance films and performances.
Nowadays, the multidimensional work of ANOMIA (short films, performances, dance workshops, theoretical research, conferences etc)  explores embodied experience as an expanded practice which pushes the boundaries between different forms of expression, while seeking and developing social and cultural identity.

Constantly moving in the osmosis of theory and practice, ANOMIA investigates the social character of the art of dance, brings attention to otherness and the unknown, by composing heterogeneous groups in terms of their socio-cultural background and puts the materiality of the human body at the center of interest. 

ANOMIA’s moving image works have been awarded at the Loikka Dance Film Festival (2017, 2018) and nominated and presented at festivals in Athens, Syros, Lincolnshire and Helsinki, and more.

ANOMIA 是個以希臘雅典為基地的跨界的創作平台，不斷在理論和實踐的互相滲透中前進，透過根據社會文化背景組成異質群體，研究舞蹈藝術的社會特徵，關注差異性和未知性，並將人體的物質性置於探索的核心。這個以「失範」為名的實驗性跨界舞者的群體，在歐洲多次演出並獲獎而得到肯定。經常性活動包括當代藝術的表演、舞蹈工作坊、理論研究計劃、講座會議等，突破不同表達形式之間的界限的同時，堅持經驗是具體的，從身體和空間出發。

unID
Evi Psaltou & team ANOMIA
03:52 | 16:9 | 2020
Location : Athens, Greece 希臘雅典

In this video-dance trilogy (Coated, In my I, Erosion), ANOMIA focuses on the subject of consciousness, identity and self/other relations, pondering upon their boundaries, their mutual reliance, their differences and upon the numerous possibilities of recognition. Two beings, move, transfer and shift by and in front of a sharp cinematic gaze and, as they walk the continuum between the real and the surreal, they try to construct themselves, their identities and their desires. As the boundaries between the Self and the non-Self are fluid and perforated, the art of coexistence becomes the most critical factor of existence. A coexistence that is fragile, however, as its discovery leads back to the discovery of the Self and of the Other, that is, to an endless relationship of repetition and redefinition.

“Coated” 
1. To provide or cover with a coat 
2. To cover with a layer


“In my I” 
What happens when the space between the One, the Self and the Other seize to exist? When the only thing left is the gaze?

“Erosion” 
If to coexist means to balance off axis, slightly moved from yourself, then actuality depends on all the possible variations of being. Unlocking this state of potential reality might leave you even more vulnerable when faced with the predominant perception of little or no deviation.

CREDITS

Producer: ANOMIA
Writer: ANOMIA
Cinematography/Editing: Antigone Davaki
Choreography/Performing: Evi Psaltou
Choreography/Performing: Vassia Zorbali
Music composition/Sound design : Panina Karydi

BIOGRAPHY
創作者簡介

ANOMIA was created in 2017 as an open platform for collaboration between artists based in Athens, with the aim of developing short films, video dance films and performances.
Nowadays, the multidimensional work of ANOMIA (short films, performances, dance workshops, theoretical research, conferences etc)  explores the embodied experience as an expanded practice which pushes the boundaries between different forms of expression, while seeking and developing social and cultural identity.
Constantly moving in the osmosis of theory and practice, ANOMIA investigates the social character of the art of dance, brings attention to otherness and the unknown, by composing heterogeneous groups in terms of their socio-cultural background and puts the materiality of the human body at the center of interest. 
ANOMIA’s films have been awarded at the Loikka Dance Film Festival (2017,2018) and has been nominated and presented, among others, at festivals in Athens, Syros, Lincolnshire and Helsinki. 

ANOMIA 是個以希臘雅典為基地的跨界的創作平台，不斷在理論和實踐的互相滲透中前進，透過根據社會文化背景組成異質群體，研究舞蹈藝術的社會特徵，關注差異性和未知性，並將人體的物質性置於探索的核心。這個以「失範」為名的實驗性跨界舞者的群體，在歐洲多次演出並獲獎而得到肯定。經常性活動包括當代藝術的表演、舞蹈工作坊、理論研究計劃、講座會議等，突破不同表達形式之間的界限的同時，堅持經驗是具體的，從身體和空間出發。