visual artist and filmmaker
Three Channel, 2024
CREDITS:
Performers: Alvina Chamberland, Huntrezz Janos, Mochi Georgiou, Antigoni Bunny
Music: Composition by Lykourgos Porfyris, originally composed for the performance BUD by Rosa Moshtaghi commissioned by Carte Blanche
Ta Troktika - Εντερικό Καλοκαιράκι, 2014
Alvina Champerland is reciting from her newly released novel "Love the World or Get Killed Trying" (Noemi Press, March 2024)
For Mochi’s film shooting: special thanks to John Nikolopoulos for helping with the cinematography and Katerina Spyrou for assistance with production 024
New Suns is a three-channel film that imagines how, by trusting the elemental wisdom of turbulent waters, new suns may rise. Taking its title from Octavia Butler’s words, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” the work approaches planetary transformation as an embodied process of resistance, reclamation, and rebirth.
Blending live-action performance with 3D animation, the project emerged through a collaborative process, with each performance artist shaping its vision. At its core is a question: Which monument would you inhabit, survive drowning, and dance? This inquiry makes the relationship between body and monument personal, bringing queer embodiment into friction with ideals of beauty and the ways antiquity is weaponized to uphold nationalism and colonial power. Through dance, dissolution, and metamorphosis, the work moves towards a plural cosmos, where distinct bodies become sources of light and the conditions of a shared world remain open to transformation.
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