(T)u(r)topia
Performance-installation by The Girls, 2016
4th ASFA BBQ performance festival, Celebrating 500 years of radical thinking curated by Vassilis Vlastaras, Georgios Papadopoulos and Eva Vaslamatzi
Athens School of Fine Arts
Duration: 1 hr
Music: Yannis Anastasakis and Nikos Giousef
Photos: Vassilis Vlastara
In this performance the artists created a human-sized cake. As they hand out pieces of the cake to the viewers and as they themselves consume the “flesh” of the cake more and more greedily, the truth is revealed: the existence of a female body appear under the crust of the cake.
It is the society of enforced enjoyment that creates (t)u(r)topia, this surrealistic, colourful, delicious and human-sized performance which aspires to touch human imagination for the upcoming future although overconsumption and self-eating seems to abolish any hope of a possible utopia.