Yorgos Sapountzis – Urban Longing
Dates: 27.06–04.07.2024
● Artist: Yorgos Sapountzis is known for his interdisciplinary approach to art. He creates works in which video, sound, sculpture, installation, and performance come together to form complex spaces that explore how we interact with our environment. His artistic vocabulary includes coloured textiles, aluminium tubes, newspaper, and plaster sculpture casts combined to produce temporary structures.
● Description: Yorgos Sapountzis’s course, which focuses on stage design and performance in the city, is directed at creative artists, performers, designers, video artists, light artists, sound artists, poets, dancers, and/or actors. The central point is the stage – a place for possibilities and experiments, a place for wishes, a place of longing – which becomes real through scenic design. Known for his performative installations, Sapountzis is fascinated by the self-abandonment of an actor or performer at the moment when they enter the stage before an audience and embody a role. This is the essence: the ability to feel through and with others. Starting from this, the production, design, and material will be constructed in order to convey the story and the experience entailed in it. The workshop offers the opportunity to find – irrespective of any genre limitations – a personal performance and installation language, leading in group discussions to a joint performance. *The workshop’s outcome will be presented to the public.
● Language: Greek and/or English
● Target Group: Performance, theatre, dance, visual arts, installation, sound art, cooking art (culinary) practitioners
● Number of participants: 8–12