De-Fences

The demonstration’s vehicle will be the multimedia performance «DE-FENCES», the outcome of the international «CUT Project», dealing with Europe’s new geography and questioning current «walls» and «separating lines» after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, developed through Research and Residencies in former and present “cut” territories [Berlin, Palestine, Nicosia, Kosovo]. It was first time presented live in Athens [May 2010], after the final Residency there, while parallel broadcasted in real time via live-streaming on the Internet to Berlin, where the audience was able to «react» to it through the interactive installations that New Technologies offer. These visual «responses» were displayed on a separate screen at both locations, thus contributing to the spectacle. After a further elaboration, DE-FENCES is currently touring internationally, conceptually focusing also on separations by «non-material walls» that segregate our contemporary urban environment, creating new versions of the original application