Title

Antigone, Reimagined as a Riot grrrl

Creator

Tsigani, Eirini

Abstract

This project reimagines Antigone as a contemporary riot grrrl, as an answer to the question “what would happen to Antigone if she was a contemporary woman who openly resisted authoritarian rule?”. Through the making of an ancient Greek peplos but in punk fashion, the project places Antigone in today’s world where defiance of the state leads to imprisonment, instead of public torture. Michel Foucault’s work “Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison” allowed me to display an Antigone that rioted against the state and was imprisoned for her defiance but, like the Sophoclean Antigone, still retained her agency.

Keywords

justice

authenticity

resistance

Subject

interdisciplinary

Date Available

May 28, 2026

Type

PowerPoint Presentation

Course

HHU 2230 Antigone's Dilemma

Course Offering Term

Summer Session 2025

Instructor

Remoundou, Natasha

Session

Honors Creative Projects

Location

Student Lounge

Event

Year 2026 | 10th Annual Student Research and Creative Arts Symposium