ROSINA IVANOVA OUTLANDIA
Outlandia is the idea of going to a place you don’t know anything about. It implies spontaneity, movement, childish curiosity and relationship to space. Outlandia is the ephemeral state I carry within my body somewhere between land and the Rafti island in the Aegean sea- it combines performative elements that create imagined geographies of visited places as situations. It tests the human body’ limits of writing, walking and canoeing and combines short stories of wanderings, encounters with strangers and physical explorations, together with photography and video, to forge the space of Outlandia. Outlandia consists of a journey to The Elephant Rock to the Lovers’ Cave
beach, to The Garden and to the Rafti island. My entanglement with Outlandia was such that provides questions of its linkages to spaces that is comprised of and its leaks to other places. It creates, without a destination, text geographies of bodily experimentations of these places- to experiment with how we make sense of the experiences of the body in these physical spaces -as chance circumstances of places? Walking to nowhere and endlessly rowing with my paddle is the idea to depart from the initial site- to have found permanence in the immediate impermanence. Outlandia re- tells the same story over and over again from my journey to the real place, but the entire story can never be fully told
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