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Title
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“Notes on Recovery: Reorganization, Restoration, Cicatrization”
Site-specific Durational Performance at the Abandoned Aloula Quarry, Mt. Penteli
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Creator
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Vogiatzis, Christoforos
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Abstract
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Environmentalists regard quarries as open wounds, calling for their restoration. However, to close a wound of this scale is totally unachievable. The site-specific durational performance “Notes on Recovery: Reorganization, Restoration, Cicatrization” connects human dwelling with exploitive catastrophe. Performed in one of Mt. Penteli’s abandoned quarries, it invited the audience to attend a ritual that spanned across gigantic hills of rubble, intertwining body and landscape. The body and the site, both in a state of aporia, reflect on each other’s unhealable wounds, merging their respective grief into a singular lament. For any kind of violent enormity, for any huge and impactful event, there will never be any ready means of adequately addressing it. Insufficiency is perpetual and fatal in the face of atrocity.
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Keywords
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Performance
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Site-specific
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Ritual
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Subject
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Theatre Arts
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Date Available
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May 22-23, 2025
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Type
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Performance Portfolio
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Course
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DR4570 L6 New Spatialities: Contemporary Performance and Public / Outdoor Space.
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Instructor
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Vovolis, Thanos
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Session
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Visual Arts Exhibition
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Location
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Arts Center Gallery
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Event
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Year 2025 | 9th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium
