2024
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
A deconstructed past world is submerged in the present to welcome a post-apocalyptic future. Rising waters generate a cycle of planetary transformation as an ongoing, embodied process of resistance, reclamation, and rebirth. As Octavia Butler said: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Welcome to a world where the downfall of the monumental fosters a fragmented stage for queer survival and ecological transformation that dismantles Western and colonial mythologies, forcing a re-evaluation of hegemonic narratives.
New Suns is an immersive, multichannel film that imagines how, by trusting the elemental wisdom of turbulent waters, new suns may rise—offering hope on the horizon of a dystopian world. 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 transforms the relationship between body and monument into something personal—challenging ideals of beauty, queer representation, and the ways antiquity is weaponized to uphold nationalism and colonial power.
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