About Fotini
Fotini Kalle was born in Athens in 1978. She studied painting in the Athens School of Fine Arts and Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London with a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. She holds a PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Visual and Applied Arts with a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation. Her PhD research negotiates “live art” and its affiliation with political and pedagogical theories and practices.
She has presented her work at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2019, Athens Biennale 2015-2017, Diverse Universe Performance Festival, Estonia 2015, Month of Performance Art, Berlin 2014, 2cd International Visual Arts Festival of Patras, 2013, and other. She also participated in workshops in Europe and the USA reflecting on the idea of the body as a cultural vehicle, the concept of utopia, and the importance of the space and the object in live art (La Pocha Nostra performance art laboratory, PAI, San Fransisco 2011, Nezaket Ekici long duration performances, University of the Arts, Berlin 2013 and others).
She is a founding member of the performance group The Girls and the ASFA BBQ performance festival. She is currently teaching at the School of Visual and Applied Arts of AUTH as an assistant professor.
In her work, performance, video, and installation often coexist and create a dialogue with each other. The question of shrinking and expanding time, physical and emotional endurance, gender issues, and the mutations of the self under the pressure of the established order are some of the themes that concern her. Space and object play a crucial role in the final shaping of each of her works which is why her installations and performances are usually site-specific and cannot be repeated.
About The Girls
The Girls is a group of young artists founded in Greece in April 2014.
The group’s work includes mainly site-specific performances but also guerrilla public interventions. Their interest is focused on the body-space-object dependence with emphasis on the sound created for work or produced on the spot. They create large scale or minimal experimental performances using found materials or other transitory props and objects.
They have presented their work in Frown Tails in Athens, in Diverse Universe Performance Festival in Estonia, in ASFA BBQ performance festival in Athens, in Urban Art ventures in Thessaloniki and other venues.
