Korallia Stergides: with pek pek

A participatory performance, sculpture and moving image work created in response to the physical limitations during Covid-19. The work aimed to circulate performance and sustain a sense of intimacy and contact. Audiences playfully explore our relationship to the dawn chorus through a recited poem, song, meditative mouth exercises with a bird soap at hand. The audience embodies their own birdsong creating an abstract rendition of the dawn chorus through the sound of human kisses; charting a circadian rhythm and highlighting the alternative economies of care in our shared homes and ecosystems.

This sculptural pek pek soap is a First Edition artefact of the performance distributed through mail. 

 

Product Information

2021

Soap, Performance for Video 

8cm diameter

 

About the Artist

Stergides (b.1993, Cyprus) is an Interdisciplinary Artist, Graduated in BA Performance Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins (2016,UK) and MFA in Fine Art Media at The Slade School Of Art in (2022,UK) whereby she showcased Myam Mwam Meow Miaow Mam Ma (2022) a recipient of The Sarahbande Graduate Award and The New Contemporaries 2023 showcased at The Camden Arts Center and Grundy Gallery (2023-24,UK). 

Korallia explores the vital politics of care in an interdependent world, emphasizing nonhuman agencies. She works through various characters to “remythologize” autobiographical narratives; reimagining the intimacy of our interspecies relationships and home. Choreographic inquiries are framed through an interweaving of multiple mediums to construct an autofiction. The ways of participation in her work relate to the embodiment of care; by activating the body, the potential for a deeper understanding of care is opened.

Recent Performances include Bud (2023) presented as part of The New Contemporaries Live Programme (2024) at Camden Arts Center and new rendition of Low Roaming Cloud (2019) as part of A Tragical Romance, Wonnerth Dejaco as part of Curated By, VIE (2024) whereby she also exhibited her first etching series Yellow Liquid Time (2019) following their presentation in Closer To A Sustained Caress, The Municipal Museum Of Printmaking Hambis (2023-24,CY)

Other recent projects include Environmental Campaign and Residency Coastlines Waning: All For A Few Extra Sunbeds, CY (2023-24,CY) Produced by NGO Visual Voices and Supported by The Allianz Foundation, Online Commission and Research Presentation Atlas Of Mediterranean Liquidity Commissioned by The Goethe-Institut Zypern (2023,CY) and a series of her satirical ecofeminist characters Deep Love Tours and Korallida at The UCL Octagon Gallery,,  Season Gallery (2023,UK) Xarkis Festival and The State Gallery Of Contemporary Art Cyprus (2023,CY)  

Korallia has presented internationally, further selected institutional collaborations include Les Urbaines Festival (CH) Goldsmiths CCA Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery, ICA, Siobhan Davies Dance, Saatchi Gallery, Arts Catalyst, The Natural History Museum, TATE (UK) and VCAM Haverford (USA). 

She most recently participated in the Engaged Scenography platform Staging Air by Artist Doris Dziersk, Hosted by The Goethe-Institut Athen and The French Institute of Greece (2024,GR)

 

Shipping

This work is part of our 2024 Winter Fundraiser and will be available for collection or shipping from 14th - 20th December. Please note all items will be shipped via Royal Mail Tracked 24 unless stated otherwise.