Video-performance by Fotini Kalle

Performers: Eleni Oikonomou, Giota Georgopoulou

Part of the project Performance now v.3: practices of involvement, curated by Angeliki Avgitidou.

Parallel program of the exhibition It's the political economy stupid, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art

Video duration 29.42΄΄, Bar restaurant .ES, Thessaloniki, September 2012

 

Description:Two women are entering a famous restaurant in the center of the city in order to have dinner. They order their meal and chat as usual. As the time is passing by the atmosphere is slowly changing. One of the two women with small gestures and excuses is constantly preventing the other to taste any of the dishes while the other remains silent and submissive. The performance reach to an end when all the food is consumed and one of them has being systematically excluded from enjoying any part of the it. 

 

The performance is trying to reveal the paradox of having power and control over the others as it appears in all kind of relationships; personal, social and economic relations characterized as egalitarian and democratic.