Marina Miliou-Theocharaki
Marina Miliou-Theocharaki is a performer, choreographer and curator based in Αthens, Greece. Using her voice, as well as sounds and movements, she creates events that address the politics of hosting and how these can be put into question, crafted and shared with the public. She challenges exposure, notions of distance and closeness and how these can be performed in response to presupposed desires. While playing with the receiver’s expectations she confronts her limits in a process of personal exposure. She writes, choreographs and stretches the limits of voice while crafting sensory choreographic tools.
Miliou-Theocharaki was a 2016 HATC Resident at Chicago Artists Coalition in Chicago. Between 2016-17 she was ASFA liaison and curatorial assistant for documenta 14, in Αthens (Greece) and Kassel (Germany). In 2018, she participated in the Breaking Art workshop at Megaron–The Αthens Concert Hall. In 2019 she was a danceWEB scholar for ImPulsTanz–Vienna International Dance Festival.
She currently invites curators and produces the contemporary art series THF Raw at the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music.
Marina Miliou-Theocharaki is a participant of The Critical Practices Program of Onassis AiR 2019-20 and of the Tailor-made Fellowships program 2022-23.
During my participation at The Critical Practices Program of Onassis AiR, I have been researching the voice’s relations to gender and the ever-changing role-play between subject and object. What is a fact and how do we narrate it? How do we choreograph our voice as an extra limb? What exchanges take place and how do these manifest when a performance is tailored for one audience member at a time? I am currently expanding the concept of hosting a dance for one person. The performers are the hosts, and the audience the receivers. What are the politics of hosting? How is intimacy addressed? Can the roles of the subject and object be reversed, manipulated, taken from the polarized objectification of a lap dance into an active session of conscious embodiment of the object’s role?
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Reading at her studio at Onassis AiR space.
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Notes on studio wall.
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Visual Research Reference on her Lap Dance Buffet Series, The Throat Lap Dance.
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Details from: “A Taste of Lapping in the Lounge Room”, Lap Dance Buffet Series, Open Salon #2 at Onassis AiR.
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Details from: “A Taste of Lapping in the Lounge Room”. Lap Dance Buffet Series, Open Salon #2 at Onassis AiR.
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Working at her studio at Onassis AiR space.
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Meeting at her studio at Onassis AiR space with the curator Panos Giannikopoulos.
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Photo: Elpida Fragkeskidou
Details from: “A Taste of Lapping in the Lounge Room”, Lap Dance Buffet Series, at Open Salon #2, Onassis AiR.
