An anthropological introduction to the island of Lesvos in historical and ethnographic perspective. Special issues in the ethnography of Lesvos. The transformation of Lesvos from a “peripheral” island of modern Greece to a “cosmopolitan” hotspot of Global South. Do...
Eleni’s walking proposition: Walk on Soft and Hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzPd6g1384&ab_channel=EleniGkrilla What is on the ground and all Nature and human created environments can be seen and felt as something soft or something hard. Follow a path...
I frequently find myself looking up at the golden sky, staring at all the colors and the way they are interlaced with each other. Eventually they vanish as darkness consumes them. I like walking during this time of the day, "the golden hour". It provokes thoughts....
First, I made this walking proposition: Go outside to a place you find being a peaceful environment. Look up to the sky. Try connecting with it by giving it a name and pronoun. Imagine that instead of having a body, you are your body. As you breathe in the air,...
"Freedom in Restraint" Proposition - Zhiyu (Gabby) Wen Take a walk somewhere other than your home that you are familiar with. It can be a work building, a street you walk down every day, a park you frequently go to, or a route you take to get to work or school. You...
During my time in practice teaching, I did a research project where I wanted my class to do a gender swap of characters taken from the very popular Japanese based anime called Naruto. They were given four different characters that they could choose from swap the...
One of the latest projects I have dedicated myself to is a series of portraits of people from my hometown. This photographic project is still ongoing: I started it in December 2021, the moment I was able to return after two years of covid in which I was unable to...
The point of this project was to see how I could make a motive with finger crochet balls on a veneer plate and focus on the color purple. I was determined to glue the yarn to the plate, but further into the crocheting I realized the beauty in each ball and how the...
Covid-19 was the first time I had time to take a step back from the trajectory that I was on, focusing strictly on performance. The pandemic gave me space to think about where I was going and what I wanted to do. I had arts that I enjoyed doing but viewed them more as...
I attended a class called Creativity in Music while pursuing my master's degree in Hong Kong. In this lesson, I learned how to use sound, video, voice, speech, instrument creation, and body movement to generate musical creativity. The first project was to make a...