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portfolio Sofia Kaloterakis
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"Actively creating new ways to think of the synthesis between technologies, nature and human society is what aspires to my fictional imagination. Exploring the plasticity of human language is what characterizes my poetic art."
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Words as Bodies Poem inspired by covid-19 published in the 6th issue of streekcake magazine (August 2020) Death shakes our living bodies Is there, in its Ab s e n c e in the hours of pages left [
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as a wave of collective lament rises organic essence is encapsulated in a newspaper frontline
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Bird Patterns Showed at Goethe Instituut during Sofia Art Week(2020) in Sofia, Bulgaria An audio poem spoken on top of my recordings during BlackLivesMatter protests. Listen.
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Lost Seeds of Knowledge Climate fiction short story exhibited online for “After Progress” (2022): Storytelling exhibition directed by Dr. Martin Savransky, a digital exhibition of collaborative and multimedia storytelling to probe, through different genres and media, imaginative social practices, artefacts, environments, arts of living and dying, forms of political action, kinship, subjectivity, and more-than-human worlds in a possible future no longer governed by modern coordinates of progress. This project is generously funded by The Sociological Review Foundation.
Extract from page 26-27: Some days later, the Two-Spirit tribe gradually became familiar with Olij and Aayana. They allowed them to participate in their everyday activities, and they also taught them the Waggle dance. The dance imitated the waggle-moving performance 6
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that the bees do when they communicate to other bees the location of a new source of nectar. With this dance, the Two-Spirit people follow the same logic as the bees; the dancer has to communicate the distance and the direction of the flower. The dancer in the middle shapes the direction by forming an angle with her body on the left or right of the sun and then the distance by the length of the dance. Olij and Aayana asked the Queen the logic behind the Waggle dance. She explained that the community believed that the navigation technique is the reason that bees have survived the changing weather conditions. She explained how the dance allowed the bees to think as a group and find faster and more efficient food sources, and that their community established rituals to help the communication methods of the bees. The Two-Spirit people were mimicking the rhythm of the bees to strengthen their bodily navigation and orientation in the wild. At the same time, it was a way to tune into the bees’ rhythm of pollination that they were following to collect honey.
Olij asked them why their tribe decided to honor and produce honey, and the Queen showed him their storage where she explained how every flower resulted in a different color shade of honey. She was talking with grace and faith as she asserted “We believe that these different colors symbolize the elixir of life,” and continued: “The earth has passed through several stages of global warming and mass extinctions before, but life has always re-emerged. It would be a fault to believe that nature always keeps the same form because nature thrives in diversity. This is why we have decided to honor our bond with plants and bees and resist the Empire’s food system. Bees are the gatekeepers of the flowers; we want to be like them, we want to be builders of a mutual network that helps each other to survive. Just as our tribe believes that the earth will gradually build natural ecosystems again with or without humans.”
Read the whole story.
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ETHERIA Showed during Every Woman Biennial NFT exhibition (2021)
This Genesis piece presents the science-fictional character ETHERIA. She is an Ambient Network that comes from a future of Sustainable Tele-animism. She is fused with all earthly life opening new paths for intercommunication. Her goal is to augment telepathic intelligence and generate a relation of chemio-energetic data exchange between all organic beings. Inspired by ads of technology, I try to give an impression of an ad from the future sounding untouchable and unrealizable
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Autopoiesis Streamed during SATELLITES LAB (2021), Germany This short video-animation was ideated the explorations of the lab “laboratory of sound and soul”, an online artistic research about language. The work aims to imitate the generative process embedded in the creation of language. The viewer is immersed in a primordial atmosphere where abstract gestures, movements and sounds gradually are shaped into descriptive concepts…
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2173: Deindi dut a Gaia
Experimental Documentary -in progressAccess the teaser below.
Narration is in a fictional language created by me for the purpose of the scenario. Narrated by me.
Teaser Password:2173
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Selected poems from my debut collection Drift in lyrics (2021)
Ever After When constellations die, an inner star collapses but it doesn’t fall apart its ruins sway into dust as travelling atoms that pray for when you are stuck, they shine for when in the advent of a life’s book page after page after page and another page, a face gets frozen and the lights turn opaque
Poetic Magma In an internal crystallized space we collect the rays that make poetry everyday an uncrossed intimate path non-porous like the magmatic glass
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Unpublished Work rotation atma asthma atmo memory atmo circ sync at atmo field
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petra genetrix
In the corners of darkness there is a whole that opens up the earth’s womb for life to evolve outside her craters we reach the edge of the cave and come alive to initiate a body of discovery until the returning moment of time to a woman’s womb wet, dark and soft where all of our lives is plasma flowing in a protective mesh of flesh and bones 13
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