An exhibition and long durational performance focusing on dialogical practices around the solo performance WET, which premiered in February 2013 and was presented at Dance Throughout the Year in March of the same year. WET was Petros Konnaris’s ‘official’ first work after completing his studies and, as the exhibition title suggests, it was a game with water. It was also the first work performed by a naked dancer from Cyprus in full exposure without lighting overlays and theatrical facades, and a work of expanded choreography.
The exhibition resurfaces the set and video of the project, along with five process-based artefacts featuring Petros’s email discussions/written exchanges with collaborators, theorists, and artists over the past few weeks. The conversations examine elements of the original work such as nudity, the queer body, issues of exposure and safe space as well as the context of the work in 2013 and the creator’s contemporary practice. At the same time, Petros will be available for a written conversation about the work and the mentioned themes.
The project aims, through a critical, poetic, and reflective process, to activate an open dialogue and transform the original work into a living archive, a dynamic field of memory, discussion, and reconceptualization.
Artistic Direction and Performance: Petros Konnaris
Exhibition curation: Evagoras Vanezis
Conversations with: Rodia Vomvolou, Natasa Georgiou, Gabriel Koureas, Christos Polymenakos, Erman Dolmaci
Conceptualization of process-based artefacts: Petros Konnaris and Evagoras Vanezis
Graphic Design: Marios Paschalidis