MUTE/gallery view

The recent intensification of digital media in work, education, communication & the arts, is still resonating in the anthropological experience of personal space. As space becomes hybrid in all possible ways (analog/digital, public/private, physical/imaginary, visible/invisible, fragmental/continuous), the shrinking of public spaces, the dominance of the workplace over our homes, and the simultaneous increase in rents, intensify the feeling of being trapped within a monitored zone, where one feels more and more exposed. Meanwhile, however, and mainly through the current inclusive and interdisciplinary feminist discourse, the claiming of another type of visibility is generating anew spatial experiences, as well as perhaps a healing concept of boundary, both as a meeting surface, but also as a line of defence.

MUTE is the third work of COCHLEA res & Georgia Paizi that explores the synaethesiac play between visual and auditory experience, within a series of works on gesture, oral broadcasting, distraction, literiality and metaphor. What is the trace of dance when it is not dance? Reversing the main question of the Auditory Dances (AUX studio, Greek Ministry of Culture funding 2020-21), where the audience followed the real-time oral broadcasting of 6 solos taking place in a recording studio with no image shared, MUTE investigates the traces of music when the music is missing, in the empty space’s transient shifts, when the very recent past and the very immediate future overlap, and the body is everywhere.

INSTRUCTIONS
Four dancers on wireless headphones, on four platforms of 9sqm each, tune into four different soundscapes for four hours. Groups of 12 members of audience enter the space for 40min slots. Visitors can browse or sit, watching the four solos either in silence wearing earplugs provided at the entrance, or plugging their own ear-pods on to one of the four audio cables that can be found around the space. A fifth platform and an audio channel remain available to the public. To watch one solo at a time, close one eye and watch it through this hole.

Haus N Athen
Kairi 6, Athens 10551
2nd floor

Wednesday January 26
Friday January 28
Sunday January 30
Tuesday February 1

dancers Lina Vergopoulou, Katerina Delakoura, Elton Petri, Augustinos Potsios
choreographer Georgia Paizi
music curating & performance Jeph Vanger
video Iasonas Arvanitakis
production management Delta Pi

booking link 
www.cochleares.com/mute
Admission free

MUTE is supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

Special thanks to ARTWORKS

*Georgia Paizi, Elton Petri and Jeph Vanger are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows