DENTATA PEARLS

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou – aka Bunny – has created DENTATA PEARLS, a video work that emerged during the time of isolation, out of a desire for intimacy and a need for escape. It is a sci-fi, queer feminist, universally accessible fairytale that envisions a non-heteropatriarchal world of self-determination, emancipation, and mutual care.

Dentatas are friends, lovers, and intergalactic fighters on the attack against human history for excluding them, revealing their DIY survival mechanisms in the process. Dentata is their very own supernatural world – a collective source of energy travelling through space-time in order to heal their wounds, setting them free from whatever oppresses them, and connecting them to their deepest desires.

DENTATA PEARLS is a macrocosmic protective shell of resistance, a friendship manifesto and love confessional. Narration and performance, sculptural costumes and visual effects together concoct a hybrid work filled with tenderness and spikiness, sensuality, hotness and magic.

Artist Name: Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou

Artist credited as: Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny

Title of the work: Dentata Pearls

Year: 2021

Medium: Video

Main theme of the work: A queer feminist, sci-fi fairytale

Copyright owner: Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny

Language: Greek and English

People appearing: Cyber Daddi, Mochi Georgiou, Er Libido, Lia Smaragda, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny, Eleni Tsagkaropoulou

Credits

Created and Written by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny

Directed by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny, Clitus Clitoris

Director of Photography, Video Editing, Visual FX: Clitus Clitoris

Music and Sound Design: Clitus Clitoris

Performers: Cyber Daddi, Mochi Georgiou, Er Libido, Lia Smaragda, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny, Eleni Tsagkaropoulou

Costume Design: Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny

Costume Design Assistant: Irina Probeygolova

2nd Costume Design Assistant and Styling: Lilly Zografaki

Storytelling in Greek: Danae Michalaki

Storytelling in English: Zina Sarris

Text Translation: Konstantinos Matsoukas

Lighting Design: Vangelis Mountrichas

3D Modeling & Printing: Christos Fousekis

“Fluffy Dentatas” Masks: Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny, courtesy The Breeder Athens

Production Management: Delta Pi

Accessibility Services: Liminal Access

Audio Description

Script: Kerasia Michalopoulou

Script adapted in English: Patra Marousi

Greek narration: Christos Thanos

English narration: Ian Robertson

Sound studio: Basement productions

Subtitles for the Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (SDH)

Greek: Kerasia Michalopoulou

English: Patra Marousi

International Sign: Andreas Plemmenos

Special thanks to Lydia Miligkou, Lykourgos Porfyris, Margarita Athanasiou, Ourania Anastasiadou, Georgios Stefanos Athanasiou, Louisa Doloksa, Luna

Commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi

Part of Borderline Festival 2021

Curated by Michalis Moschoutis

Production Management: Christina Pitouli

The development of the access tools of the production is supported by Onassis Stegi within the framework of the European network Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.