Action: Audience members are invited to drive to an empty municipal parking area in the center of Old Town Nicosia, encountering the artist buried up to the middle of his calves into the ground, positioned in between palm-trees. The car-viewers can freely move, park and drive around him. The artist reaches towards his back pockets in order to reveal a gas grenade, lighting it up and raising it towards the sky with his stretched right arm. A cloud of green smoke grows out of his hand, moving towards the palm-trees or the vehicles’ location according to the wind’s direction, whilst he looks straight or engages in direct eye contact with viewers sited in their cars. Once the green smoke fades, the artist lowers his arm, remains still and repeats this process in time intervals, for an hour and a half. The vehicles drive around him and exit the parking space one by one, leaving behind the artist still buried into the ground.

DAME

Drive-in performance / Part of festival "Buffer Fringe 2021" organised by Home for Cooperation / Pentadaktylou Municipal Parking / Nicosia - CY / October - 2021 / Duration: 90'

Text Curation: Iosif Hadjikyriakos

Material: artist’s body, palm-trees, automobiles, green smoke grenades

Photo: Sergio Vaccaro, Sabri Selden