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This paper will attempt to understand how a performance art can introduce the concept of space through the analysis of three performances with a social impact that were presented in the public space of Athens. In particular, first through a theorical part the concepts of space, the body in the city and representationalism will be introduced. Secondly, The paper intends to relate theory with three case studies. The first concerns the performance "Topography of death or Let's not forget' by Brikena Gisto. The walkable performance proposed an alternative mapping, through areas of murder in the city of Athens. The second is Marys Zygouri's "History Hour" at documenta 14 which is the result of a performance and workshop with the participation of students from Nikaia's high schools, after the end of the lessons. A point of reference was the participatory action that the visual artist Maria Karavela had carried out in 1979 with residents of the area, telling the story of the National Resistance and the Red Block with the mothers of the executed youths of 1944 as protagonists. The third performance is "Day Out of Time", a dance theater by Vitoria Kotsalou, in the context of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. The performance was a twenty one dancers group who from sunrise to sunset, each in a separate and selected spot in the public space in the center of Athens, performed an individual dance. These three different kinds of performances will try to introduce the re-appropriation of space in late time, which creates a new ritual process of initiation and narration, highlighting visible and invisible threads, with the aim of creating a performance of the social and political body in the city.
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Eleni Linaki
Eleni Linaki is an Urban and Regional Planner, with MSc in Architecture («Protection Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments», AUTH). while from July 2021 she is also a MSc in Theater Studies Department, NKUA («Dramaturgy and Performance»). In 2021 she completed her Ph.D. in NTUA, School of Architecture (Section II. Urban and Spatial Planning), with thesis topic «Recording and evaluating the tangible and intangible cultural assets of a place through a multicriteria decision-making system, as a new approach to managing cultural heritage: the case of Ano Syros», while from 2022 she is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Architecture, NTUA, with thesis topic «Evaluating and valuing the cultural resilience of cities, through an innovative multicriteria system». She has taught as a Graduate teaching assistantship at the National Technical University of Athens in the Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering and in Harokopeio University. In 2022 she won the second prize in HackS+T+Arts: Circular Futures. From 2014 until now he has participated in more than 20 conferences/workshops in Greece and abroad, in 10 scientific publications in national and international scientific journals and books and research programs.
