‘It was gently captivating.’

Creative producer, The Battersea Arts Centre, London (June 2013)

‘It was very, very uncomfortable to watch.’

‘You kind of performatively raped us.’

Audience members, The Maltings Arts Theatre, St. Albans (May 2014)

 

Taking its cue from Artaud’s statement, ‘theatre should be a mirror of life’, this performance challenges the role of the individual and its relation to the role of the crowd, creating an emotional dissonance between subject and object. Borrowing elements from the controlled and composed language of cinema, when fed back to an audience makes them both voyeur and object, depending on the gaze.

 

Music: ‘In a Landscape’, John Cage

Photo credit: Alisa Oleva

 

Eliza Soroga is London based performance artist from Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Performance Making (Goldsmiths University of London) and in Cultural Theory (National University of Athens). She has trained in Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre technique and Butoh dance. Her work is considered mainly as site-specific and explores the dynamic method of shaping everyday life into a performance. Her work has been shown in galleries, museums and theatres including the V&A Museum (London), Battersea Arts Centre (London), Camden People’s Theatre (London), The Yard Theatre (London), Chisenhale Dance Space (London), St Pancras Old Church (London),  4 bid gallery (Amsterdam), Bios (Athens) and diverse non-theatre sites in London, Athens, Paris & Amsterdam. Eliza is the Artistic Director of Re-Inventing Public Spaces, a Site-Specific Performance Art movement which observes the cities as visionary theatre stages- ‘Theatrum Mundi’. Eliza is part of Young Vic Theatre Directors Program.

 

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