Lena Kitsopoulou
LALKA
May 15, 2020–May 31, 2020ENTER, Onassis Foundation
AGE GUIDANCE: 18+
A short film depicting the everyday life of Lalka mountainous settlement, where humans and animals’ instincts live freely and in harmony with their nature.
With this project I would like to speak of the human’s right to let the time flow without the arrogance of doing good deeds and great works all the time. Life is not fear and panic, nor even a monthly income that you die unless you have it. Life is the air that you ought to let it guide you, not underestimate it. This project suggests loving our instincts, celebrating them, not suppressing them anymore for the sake of a supposedly civilized but nevertheless unfree living.
At Lalka mountainous settlement, 1,400 m. high, I come to realize how much human strength for survive has failed inside this global, fascist, economic system called capitalism to which we all have been enslaved, supposing that our quality of life is progressing along with science and technology, while in fact we are dying, not due to Covid-19, but from cancers, strokes, autoimmune diseases, depressions, and hypertensions. Attacking and killing for food is not evil; it’s just a natural violence that we must come in terms with. Someone that eats the finest meat to feed his body is no worse than the ecologist that keeps a dog at the balcony of their Athenian apartment. With this project I would like to talk about the human’s right to let the time flow without the arrogance of doing good deeds and great works all the time. Life is not fear and panic, nor even a monthly income that you die unless you have it. Life is the air that you ought to let it guide you, not underestimate it. This project suggests loving our instincts, celebrating them, not suppressing them anymore for the sake of a supposedly civilized but nevertheless unfree living.
Artist(s): Lena Kitsopoulou
Title of the work: LALKA
Year: 2020
Medium: Video
Duration of the work: 13΄21΄΄
People appearing: Lena Kitsopoulou, Indian
Music/songs used: “This is the time” by Coyote’s Arrow, and “Save me” by Nikos Kipourgos
Credits: Special thanks to Nikos Kipourgos for letting us use his song “Save me” from the performance “Fever.”
Video editing by MLL Productions (Lena Kitsopoulou & Marilena Moschou).
This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality.
