Description
Performance for camera/drone, 520m paper, stones
Technical: HD video, colour, stereo sound, English subtitles
Duration: 25:42
Year: 2019
Concept
Territorial Poetics (II: unfolding) forms a site-specific walking performance for camera, where the artist walks, pushes and gradually unfolds a big piece of old paper-roll upon the railroad tracks of the old abandoned railway network of Peloponnese, during the morning twilight. The unfolding action of the artist re-inscribes an ongoing dialogue between the everyday mundane and the spiritual. The artist acts like a seed, an object, a ritualistic intention which unfolds and spreads out the potential. Based on Sisyphean semiotics and an auto-ethnographical approach of the personal and the collective, Territorial Poetics forms an ephemeral situation between site, body and repetition, making a spatial statement about the universal processes of effort, communication and journeying. The work has been commissioned by Primarolia International Festival and Into My Garden Come group exhibition (2019, Greece).
Credits
Concept - Performance - Creation: Bill Psarras
Action camera: John Tsanis
Drone camera: Christos Spanos
Performance photography: Nansy Charitonidou
Available
Artwork: https://vimeo.com/372891846 // Teaser: https://vimeo.com/352446214
Selected exhibitions
The work has been also exhibited at International Video Poetry Festival (Athens, 2019) and group exhibition Circle at CICA Museum of Art (South Korea, 2020). Other exhibitions here (link)
