Killing Time
By Eleni Ploumi
Killing Time
We see two bodies. A wooden body and a fleshy body. The wooden body is rigid, solid, stubborn. Has straight defined lines and angles. The fleshy body is pliable and soft, yet strong, always changing shape. It can also be stubborn. The wooden body is there, always - as a condition. The fleshy must find its way into it, under it, on it and around it. Should the two become one body?
Using a heavy wooden bench as a physical form of a construction, Eleni explores her relationship to it in what becomes a duet between a fleshy and a wooden body. How can she move the bench, move herself around it and into it, what are the conflicts, the vulnerability, the power relations that emerge from their interaction?
