Exploration of how sound, image, and body can be used to reinterpret archival material, creating new, dynamic narratives. It addresses the difficulty of making archival footage feel fresh and relevant in a contemporary performance context, while also experimenting with the interaction between live sound production and pre-existing visual content.
By using the Foley technique and manipulating materials to generate sound in real-time, the performance challenges traditional film-viewing experiences, encouraging the audience to think about the fluid relationship between sound, image, and meaning. It questions how different timelines, parallel actions, and sensory stimuli can impact perception and create new layers of interpretation.
The screen is divided in two. On one half, a sequence of archive film images plays: three girls fishing in a lake, zombies in pursuit, a woman in a bathtub. On the other half, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou “converses” with them: she invents, creates, and re-produces sound using different materials and/or her body, to accompany and thereby orchestrate and animate them acoustically
