Women in Red
After Breakfast in London Bridge that went viral (!) on Twitter we are delighted to announce our new Site-responsive project in Oxford Circus starring Women in Red.
Women in Red is a cross artistic collaboration between Eliza Soroga (Performance Artist) & Elisa Fonta (Videographer). Through this project we aim to create a strong visual imagery of a unanimous female crowd on a busy Saturday afternoon in Oxford circus. 26 female performers dressed in exactly the same red dresses, brown hair wigs holding loads of shopping bags will gather in a pavement between two roads, form a circle and scream.
This performance makes a comment on how fashion industries makes people feel the need to be unique and special but they end up looking exactly the same. But it is also about screaming out the anger that evolves out of the hectic rhythms of living in central London. Aaaaaaaaa!
Re-Inventing Public spaces
Women in Red is part of the artistic initiative Re-inventing Public spaces -performance art series which look at the city landscapes as scenographic references to make Site Specific/Responsive work that works both as live and film.
We observe London’s busy public locations as visionary theatre stages to make site work by incorporating the reality of the chosen sites. We aim to re-invent the city’s outdoor spaces and as artists to provide ‘imaginary windows’ to its citizens for escapism and daydream where fiction and reality interact and merge.
The concept derives from ‘Expanding Theater’, the idea that the whole world can be seen as a stage – Theatrum Mundi. This idea was mentioned by Honoré de Balzac in reference to his book La Comédie Humaine and can be traced back at least as far as back as Shakespeare’s line, “All the world’s a stage’’.
By supporting our project on Indiegogo’s campaign www.indiegogo.com not only you give us the opportunity to realise our dreams and make public spaces become alive but also to broaden up our artistic network and be able to embrace artworks from various art forms that share the same principals. We hope that Re-Inventing Public spaces will inspire emerging artists to make work in public and create an umbrella of public actions. We want to transfer the message that artists don’t have to wait institutions, theatres and galleries to accept their work, but inspired by Grotowski’s idea of ‘Poor Theatre’ and the movement of ‘Arte Povera’, props and stages aren’t essential to make work simply because the city landscape is our scenography and our concepts are our props!
About Eliza & Elisa
Eliza Soroga is a 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, Battersea Arts Centre, Camden People’s Theatre and diverse non-theatre sites in London, Athens and Paris. Eliza is part of Young Vic Theatre Directors Program. www.elizasoroga.com
Elisa Fonta is a UK based videographer originally from Spain. For over 13 years she has been developing her career in Media and Film Industries as a freelance photographer, camera operator, video editor and content producer. Since 2007, she has been a Digital Technician and Camera Assistant for Cinema and commercials, shooting with HD and Red One Digital Cinema Cameras. Always capturing daily life, she sometimes works as a freelance photographer for newspapers. She is the founder of www.yogurtmusic.com a platform for emerging music artists to spread independent music. She is also part of POPklik, a creative collective of visual communications www.popklik.com
