Performing Between Terra and Aqua : Reflections on Edge, Boundaries and Drifting

Περίληψη

An array of artists with multimedia and ambulatory methodologies (flanerie, psychogeography, critical art practices) have approached space, place, location, boundaries and edges in various ways at the core of their practices, not to omit an ongoing interdisciplinary scholarship of geohumanities who has also explored emerging geo-poetics and politics in the fluid and often augmented spatial realities of 21^st century. The current paper explores the ideas of boundary and edge as creative spatial conditions/situations that often constitute the primal matter of contemporary art practices; ones which combine walking, drifting, site-intervention, technology. Walking and drifting in the city often have metaphorical implications of the urban space as sea, ocean with current and vortexes. Inspired by a shift in wider spatial/geo humanities towards considerations of the sea as an embodied and dynamic space – and also the author’s shift in art practice from the terra to the aqua, the paper speaks both on territorial and liquid levels, identifying edge/boundary also in sea as a space of creative and immersive potential. Drifting entails a performative and spatial potential across streets and waves. There is an interesting site of creativity between city/sea, shifting the meaning of coastline into a liminal place. Reflections will be based on the author's selected series of artworks between site and sea which combine walking and sea-oriented performance, poetry and technologies; shifting the meaning of boundary and edge towards expanded spatial (media) poetries.