Artist Collaboration and Unity in Times of Crisis: The Spirals Project

Noèlia Díaz Vicedo; Hari Marini

doi:10.18778/2083-2931.13.17

Authors

Noèlia Díaz Vicedo University of the Balearic Islands https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8332-7396
Hari Marini Ionian University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3633-3686

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.13.17

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Keywords:

nomadic subject, female subject, performance, embodiment, desire, COVID-19

Abstract

The pandemic crisis of COVID-19 that we have recently endured, and that to some extent we are still experiencing, abruptly changed the way in which we conceive of the interaction between inner and outer space. Specifically, during the most difficult times caused by the two severe lockdowns, this limitation came complete with a total lack of spatial mobility. This article will explore the impact that this had upon the creative process of writing and making performance work for the female subject and how the return to the domestic space as the only possibility, affected their writing and creativity. Using the concept of the “nomadic subject” developed by Rosi Braidotti in 1996 and revised in 2011 in her book Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, this article aims to explore these questions from the intersection of body and language through the symbol of the spiral as a source of creation.

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Author Biographies

Noèlia Díaz Vicedo, University of the Balearic Islands

Dr Noèlia Díaz Vicedo is Lecturer of Contemporary Catalan and Comparative Literature at the Department of Catalan Language and Culture at the University of Balearic Islands, Spain. She completed her thesis at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) on the poetry of Maria-Mercè Marçal published by MHRA (2014). She combines teaching with research on contemporary women’s poetry and gender studies at UIB. She is a Fellow at the CCWW (Institute of Modern Languages, University of London), a Fellow at the Centre for Catalan Studies and the Centre for Poetry at QMUL. She is also a poet and translator. She has published her poetry in various magazines and anthologies in Spain and USA. Her collection of poems Bloody Roots/ArrelsSagnants (bilingual edition, Catalan-English) was published by Francis Boutle Publishers in 2017. She has performed her poetry around the UK and Spain.

Hari Marini, Ionian University

Dr Hari Marini is Associate Professor of Performance and Intermediality within the Department of Audio & Visual Arts at Ionian University, and Artistic Director of PartSuspended artist collective (https://www.partsuspended.com/). Her research focuses on social and material contexts and conditions of performance and their social and political effects. Hari’s research outputs have been published in leading academic journals, such as European Journal of Women’s Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and in the edited book Dramatic Architectures: Theatre and Performing Arts in Motion (CEAA/ESAP). Hari’s artistic practice and writing focus on poetics of spaces, performative architecture and women’s writing. She has presented her performance work in the UK, Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Serbia. Her bilingual book (Greek-English) entitled 28 Διαδρομές της/28 Paths of Her was published by AΚΑΚΙΑ Publications (2019). Hari has previously worked as Associate Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.

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