The thief, 2017

HIAP, Augusta gallery, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland.
A collaboration with Vassilis Vlastaras as part of his project Condensation Cube,
video-sound performance.


Using a video from youtube as a visual platform that shows the arrest of a thief in a local market in a small Greek town while the passers-by are prosecuting him we experimented with sounds and words from selected comments that appeared underneath it. Emphasising on the brutality of these words from a discussion that was formed between racists, homophobic, fanatics, different religious and political parties, vv transferred their texts on the floor with a black charcoal. I performed the words verbally by singing or repeatedly forming a “rhythm of brutality” while vv was gradually erasing the written text with his body till it was completely smeared.