Athens School of Fine Arts / Theatre of ASFA / MOKEasfa
La Pocha Nostra Live Art Laboratory: ATHENS, GREECE
International Performance Intensive: June 10th - 24th, 2013
Vassilis Vlastaras, visual artist and professor of ASFA in collaboration with visual artist and performer Foteini Kalle invited Gómez-Peña, the members of La Pocha Nostra and the legendary summer performance workshop in the city of Athens from June 10 - 24, 2013. Athens has become an increasingly important cultural capital and a highly politicized site perfect for those year’s popular international performance intensive. In addition to the 12 day intensive workshop (culminating with a jam session open to the public) the full schedule included a two-day excursion to the spiritually charged city of Delphi where participants had the opportunity to create site specific installations in the ancient home of the temple of Apollo and Athena.
The workshop invited performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists and students from all over the world.
The Pocha/Greek committee ellected 22 participants from throughout Greece, Europe, the Balkans as well as the Americas.
The workshop invited performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists and students from all over the world.
The Pocha/Greek committee ellected 22 participants from throughout Greece, Europe, the Balkans as well as the Americas.
About the Pocha workshop:
This summer intensive leded by troupe members Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Erica Mott, Saul Garcia Lopez & Dani d’Emilia. The focus was on new performance art strategies and the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. We also placed particular emphasis in the relationship between the human body and architecture by intervening different indoor and outdoor spaces. At the end of the workshop we had an epic jam session open to the local arts community.
The infamous ‘Pocha workshop’ is internationally recognized as “an amazing artistic and anthropological experiment in which carefully selected artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic sub-cultural background and gender persuasion, begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.”
This summer intensive leded by troupe members Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Erica Mott, Saul Garcia Lopez & Dani d’Emilia. The focus was on new performance art strategies and the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. We also placed particular emphasis in the relationship between the human body and architecture by intervening different indoor and outdoor spaces. At the end of the workshop we had an epic jam session open to the local arts community.
The infamous ‘Pocha workshop’ is internationally recognized as “an amazing artistic and anthropological experiment in which carefully selected artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic sub-cultural background and gender persuasion, begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.”
participants:
Guillermo Gomez Pena, Mexico
Erica Mott, USA Saul Garcia Lopez, Canada Dani D’Emilia, USA Brittany Chavez, USA Paloma Matinez-Cruz, Mexico, USA Ivan Sikic, Australia Sean Estelle, USA Khi Armand, USA |
Predrag Pajdic, UK
Deirdre McPhillips, Ireland Julio Orta, Mexico Pamela Pantoja, Chile Eugene Williams, USA Jordan Chaney, USA Anna Prus, Brazil Aggeliki Avgitidou, GR Kleoni Manousaki, GR |
Thalia Zachariadou, GR
Marios Chatziprokopiou, GR Yiota Georgakopoulou, GR Mairy Zigouri, GR Dimitris Babilis, GR Eleni Oikonomou, GR Persephoni Nikolakopoulou, GR Foteini Kalle, GR |