An interdisciplinary collective working with performance and embodiment in physical space through the feminist gaze.

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P_A_R_C was founded by Georgia Nikolaou, Vassiliki Nomidou, Maria Konstantí, and Erato Tzavara.

Georgia, Vassiliki, Maria and Erato met, apprenticed and co-created alongside other fem artists from 2017 to 2022, under the guidance of Anna Tzakou (Geopoetics).

Since September 2022, the group has been working as a space of inclusion, weaving together diverse individual themes and practices.

At its core lies the body as:

  • archive

  • myth

  • a tool for alternative storytelling and imaginative visioning;

  • an agent

  • a rhizomatic field of action and transformation, holding multiple potentialities.

  • At P_A_R_C, we draw from a wide range of tools across somatic artistic practices, social sciences, and activism — including Viewpoints, Contemplative Dance Practice, Moment Work, Improvisation/Instant Composition, Scores, Personal Ethnography, Psychology, Non-Violent Communication, and Eco-activism. These approaches allow us to explore questions that emerge both in artistic co-creation and in collective self-organization.

Open Doors

The Open Door is a methodological tool of the collective that concerns co-creation, development, and expansion within a framework of group sharing and the practice of a synthetic gaze, starting from the body and the senses. Its aim is to share our practices and research questions and to engage in dialogue with the community.

Street Harmony project

An international artistic project under the Creative Europe programme, in collaboration with partners from Italy and Tunisia, commissioned by AMAKA ART THERAPY GREECE. Through the power of theatre, the project aims to: foster intercultural dialogue / strengthen artistic skills across the Euro-Mediterranean region / raise awareness on gender-based discrimination.

PARC co-led a 5days residency program in Athens with participants from other partners countries.

Sourdough

For Sourdough, the collective P_A_R_C curates three solo performances and one video screening that touch upon different manifestations of temporality: the tension between forgetting and remembering, between material decay and mnemonic trace, between subjective time and the timeless.

Applying a multidimensional shared methodology of auto-ethnography and performance research, four women share the performance space, bringing to the surface faint connections and associations.