Anastilossis

The term Anastilossis refers to a technique for reconstructing a collapsed building. The term Anastilossis refers to a technique for reconstructing a collapsed building. This technique juxtaposes found fragments and modern materials so that the two can always be distinguished. This architectural process turns the fracture into the protagonist. A major metaphor of our time, the fracture carries the promise of a new beginning. It is a place of reinvention, a field of forces where new possibilities are explored through the past. From this fissure, the body—a place of vulnerability as much as lucidity—becomes both sentinel and means of action, an interface between the intimate and the collective… Body-memory. Body-territory. Manifesto body. Exquisite-corpse body. Harris Gkekas transforms the disappearance of his mother into a creation that asserts the fracture as a dynamic and restorative terrain, elevating it into a writing principle. His solo explores the magma of pre-existing choreographic materials and other writings created in real time. The beauty of the dance—detailed, deliberate and precise—traces a complicit dialogue with the departed being, in search of an exceptionally luminous moment of grace, where, humbly, head bowed, space is offered for the beloved hand to rest once more… perhaps… Conception, performance, dance and music & costume creation: Harris Gkekas.