Spyros Kouvaras
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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
What I do mostly is choreographic installations , « performances which dance » than dance performances . I use to approach the body as an exhibited object and the object as a choreographed subject . I think there is a clear metaphor on this process , in a way that I like to change the stereotypes , the roles of the things , to give them an allegorical dimension . When I perform in a theatrical context , I want the viewer to have a sense of being a visitor in an exhibition room and when I perform in a gallery or in a museum , I want the visitor to have a sense of a theatrical viewer .
3 mountains not to climb inquiries into the interstitial space between personal and public spheres , providing the spectatorship with an immersive experience that forces such a contamination the inner and the outside : how do you see the relationship between public sphere and the role of art in public space ?
« 3 Mountains not to Climb », is a performance which examines the inner and the outside , the presence and the absence and is asking us to see what exists behind the phenomenon . Producing an art work in public space , already changes the way that we see this space and urges us to have a different , shared , cultural