PERFORMANCE ARTIST
About
Elias Klark (b.1999, Nicosia) is a performance and movement artist originally from Cyprus. He graduated from SNDO- School for New Dance Development and ECD- Expanded Contemporary Dance in Amsterdam.His works have been presented in festivals across Europe including Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Cyprus.
Elia’s artworks reflect themes of borders, divided landscapes, memories, and militarised states. Oscillating between a self-existent agency and the paradox of its failure, his research traverses the absurd geopolitical reality of his homeland and his experience of compulsory service in the Cypriot National Guard.
His performances are sensed through transformation and liminal spaces, notions associated with the transcendence of imaginary buffer zones that help us visualise different types of revolution. The landscape plays a crucial role in Klark’s work, and it is approached in a conceptual way, where dramaturgy, technology and body meet to disclose a hybrid practice, stressing the beauty that can be found in slowness and transmitting the sense of blurriness that embodiment brings.