City of desire - FEDORA - invisible cities

Invisible cities

Title: "City of desire - Fedora", Time based media project

In a collaboration project:

• Natasha Iliopoulou – Narration - Art Historian and Curator
• Eva Felouka – Dancer - Performer
• Christiana Felouka - Dancer - Performer
• Pavlina Georgitsis – Video and Installation - Visual Artist
• Eleni Chamou – Video and Installation - Visual Artist - Art Director for this project
• credits to Shooting Lights Cinematography and Photography (Steve & Dimitris ) for the video shots and the photo documentation of the project

for the video presentation click here : https://vimeo.com/153317562

Another Calvino’s short story is about city of Fedora in which, everybody can have a look in the globe and can see a different Fedora. Calvino writes that it is ‘...the fun of sliding down the spiral, twisting minaret. In this story about Fedora, Marco Polo tells to Khan that there must be a place for both Fedoras - big and small ones, as they are both real cities, where both possible and necessary is represent! With both degrees in art and movement, this work is a process in order to explore
expression of spiritually through symbols and archetypes, according to Calvino’s city ‘Fedora’. The surrealists used Greek mythology and theories of Freud to develop techniques in order to illustrate their ideas around, love, desire and the idea of a new woman. Since the 4th century B.C.E and over the ages Medusa has been an artists and poets muse, a feminist symbol of all that is powerful in women, and an expression of all that men fear in woman. Other possible links of our project are the articles with title: “Violation and veiling in Surrealist Photography: woman as fetish, as shattered object, as phallus.” by
Hal Foster and “The omnipotence of desire: surrealism, psychoanalysis and Hysteria” by David Lomas.

For this project Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, with title ‘Fedora- city of desire’, we worked with the psychological aspect of glass for the installation.

According to Calvino’s narrative, we installed many glass globes, which were painted with archetypes. The viewers could interact with these globes and see the performance and the video projection through them.

The looking-glass self is a social psychological concept, created by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902 (McIntyre 2006), stating that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others. The term refers to people shaping their self-concepts based on their understanding of how others perceive them. Cooley clarified that society is an interweaving and inter-working of mental selves.