This is a combined experience workshop with multiple scores of movement-based improvisations by Eleni Kolliopoulou.
The participants of the workshop are invited to arrive dressed in comfortable clothing and bring with them 1-3 objects with personal meaning to them. The participants, together with Bbeyond members, will go through introductory exercises that will activate them psychophysically and invite a performative presence. The workshop is open to everyone, no experience is needed. The participants can be of any age group and gender orientation as the Bbeyond approach is about embracing diversity and empowering human/ non-human interaction and establishing creative codes of practice.
After the workshop, a short lunch break will follow.
Right after lunch break, Bbeyond will initiate their regular monthly meetings’ practice which consists of solo/group improvisation aiming to embrace the time and the space. Workshop participants are invited to either attend or join Bbeyond performance which is scheduled to happen at Ulster Museum Gallery A from 1pm till 3pm, however this is optional.
Following the afternoon performance, a reflection/Q&A session will be held where participants will be encouraged to express their own experiences and share their feelings and opinions on the workshop and the performance itself.
Eleni Kolliopoulou is a visual artist interested mainly in the intersection between Performativity and Philosophy. Initially trained as a painter at the Fine arts Academy of Turin (Italy) her research was concentrated in the abstract relation between elements as colour, lines, and shapes. She never treated painting as a 2D picture but always as a ‘living area’.
Since 2005 she has been attending several classes and workshops of performance art, contemporary dance (release technique), physical theatre (Leqoc), Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Aikido, Taichi and Butoh. In parallel, she experimented with the medium of video; as a natural process of union between the image and the movement, Eleni has created numerous video-performances and mixed-media performances.
The topics of her works are poetic and philosophical, and they tackle indirectly social issues. Performance-based art is a medium that she uses because she perceives the body as a container and conveyor of body-mind intelligence where different strata of experience take place and unfold. Eleni’s work pays much attention to the site-specific dimension of the performance/ installation which I perceive as a live organism in constant modification: a togetherness.
Eleni was awarded her PhD by Ulster University for her practice-based research upon the relationship of the body with its environment informed by the Butoh-body notion. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at the Performing and digital arts department, University of Peloponnese (Greece).
Age 18+.
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