Songs From Our Homeland

Performance, 2022
Duration: 20 min
Creation, video, text, performed by: VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis)

Songs From Our Homeland is a performance presented in relation to Jonas Staal’s work “Other-Than-Statecraft #2: New Unions”. The performance comments in a campy way the construction of national identities, conflicts and tensions. It uses dialogues full of contradicting literary references, choreographic poses referring to a constructivist aesthetic, DIY props, like masks and flags. The flags are a hybrid alteration of national existing flags. A compilation of songs based on a very personal choice accompanied the performance. The performance proposes a homeland made of these songs.

Presented at “Symposium: Other-Than-Statecraft”, Public Program. Closing symposium of the exhibition “Statecraft (and Beyond)”, organized by: Jonas Staal, Katerina Gregos, Theophilos Tramboulis, 18 November 2022, EMST, Athens, Greece.