::in the middle:: / acte vide x prokne

Screening of the film “Itys, Praxithea and Me” by performer and poet prokne, live set by the duo acte vide, and collaboration between the two in short interludes of sound and speech.

🔷 acte vide is the duo project of Ioannis Kotsonis and Danae Stefanou. Active since 2006 as an experimental & improvisatory unit, they have created performances and installations in international festivals as well as in DIY contexts, most of which no longer exist. As acte vide they have also composed live soundtracks and original sound design for films, and have designed and realised original lecture-performances, workshops, educational programmes and residencies focusing on sound and listening. In the middle of everything, 2026 is acte vide’s 20th birthday.

🔷 Prokne is a housewife in despair. To communicate she uses houseware, she holds ironing spray instead of a revolver and generally she has many problems. She lives through Anna Apostolelli. She has published two poetry collections: The Same Poem, Queer Ink, 2019, and Ship Repairs, Mpataria, 2023.

www.instagram.com/prokne_/reel/Cbkr-dUgzG-/

🔷 “Itys, Praxithea and Me” (2022, 26’) is a video performance piece by prokne. It consists of three parts exploring a journey through pain to a healing space of self-worth. In the video Prokne is inhabiting three realms of reality and is contemplating on the questions: how can we deal with being socially marginalized? how can we build something new? how can we imagine new possibilities of being and feeling? “Itys, Praxithea and Me” is a dreamy queer performance, a poetic narrative deeply rooted in the body as it interacts with the landscape. Nature and demolished buildings are the stage for the performances with words being constantly present and absent..

Diretion: Vasiliki Lazaridou
Writer: prokne
Cinematography: Ilia Diakatou
Editing: prokne
Performer: prokne
Sound design: acte vide
Camera assistance: Lila Efremidou
Color correction: Areti Papaioannou
Producer: Anna Apostolelli

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiYnG8FOOr8