Title: Stillness
Performence Artist: Kyriakos Apostolidis
Sound Installation: Juan Eduardo Flores
Video Installation: Yezhou Zheng
Year: 2024
presented at the Impact Performance Art Festival
School of Art Institude of Chicago, 2024


             
 
           The performance “Stillness” was structured in three phases. In the first phase, the performer performed a continuously ongoing endurance action, holding their arms horizontally elevated for 7 hours and 45 minutes before the audience arrived in the space. In the second phase, the audience witnessed the performance. With the performer wearing a brainwave sensor, a self-feedback loop is created in which the bio-data are converted into vibrations, directed through a resonant platform and returned back-through the performer’s body to develop their movement-based action. At the same time, a real-time video projection presented the performer's body from different angles. In the third phase, the performer left from the platform, becoming part of the audience. The video documentation of the performer stepping on the platform at the beginning of the first phase projected, transforming the performance space into a video installation.