‘The soup‘ is an experimental mixed-media contemporary ritual reflecting on current geopolitics via the lens of Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics. Shifting between trivial/ everyday needs to philosophical and political contemplation of human rights’ history.

Performed and directed by Eleni Kolliopoulou
Co-performer: Stratos Papadoudis
Editing assistantship: Angeliki Pantazi
Technical support: Apostolis Tsatsakos

Audio visual documentation: Serafeim Arkomanis

‘The soup’ was partially funded by PSi Constellate 2025 and hosted by Fournos lab/ Manthos Santorineos
Onsite performance: 3rd June at 9pm, Fournos lab, Athens/

Online presentation 3rd July at 2pm, PSi Constellate 2025

Inhabiting time: Story of a pop corn was performed at Polytechno, Corfu in December 2023. It was a poetic exploration of the time flow through transformation/ metamorphosis of materials, sounds and light.

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/898058868

Duration: 20 mins approx.

Concept, solo performance, video: Eleni Kolliopoulou

Group performance/ sound-scape: Elektra Gatou, Akis Diamantis, Nassi Hatzimoisiadou, Stratos Papadoudis, Marcella Panteli, Zografenia Peclari, Zaira Delli.

Video Editor/ Technician: Thanassis Epitidios

Sound technician: Nikos Moustakas

Music: Pythoprakta (1955) by Iannis Xenakis The mixed-media performance is funded by H.F.R.I.. It is part of my post doctoral research hosted by Ionian University, AVARTS.

‘Handle with care/ Soup’ was performed during Sounding out festival of performance art organized by Northern Lights Project in Derry, Northern Ireland.  During the performance, the audience assisted the performer in her preparation of a soup. Microphones and amplifiers offered a deeper sensation of the sounds emerging from the cooking process.

‘Handle with care’ (2) was performed during BIFPA 2020 (curated by Brian Connolly) in Ulster University , Belfast. ‘Handle with care’ is a performative experiment upon the cooking process of pan cakes. I am interested to the creation of sound and its experimental and ontological aspects. The work aims to challenge the politics of our everyday life, our handling of objects and tools, the process-based nature of food and cooking as creative event. The aim is to create a synergistic performative experience among participants that will activate their interactivity, sensitivity and multi-sensory com-presence.

Participants were blindfolded prior entering the performance space so that their sense of hearing and touch was heightened. Participants were asked to be part of a chain of cooking process. At the end pancakes are served and shared among each other. Handle with care (2) would like to be understood in reference to Relational Aesthetics Theory (N. Bourriaud) as a means of reinventing socially constructed boundaries.