SPATIAL ATARAXIA – Sacrosanct ’s Performative Interventions

Written by Yiannis Pappas 

The title of the master thesis “Spatial Ataraxia” purpose to a metaphor (gr: transport, transmission or allegory) for the ascetics (gr: discipline, education or practice) and the epiphanies (gr: knowledge, revelation, surface). The aim of this artistic research is to highlight the characteristics of the physically and the spiritual connectivity of the body and its environmental coexistence in order to achieve self-healing and its transcendental divinity.       

The analysis of the place identity which seeks to present the case of the sacred space of the Great Lavra Monastery (founded 972 A.D) through participatory observation, discourse analysis and mapping a range of physical and mental elements, suggests the empirical and effective emotional spaces that focus on the individual and collective ataraxia. Throughout participant observation, discourse analysis, mapping a range of physical cartographies and performative juxtapositions, is attempted the virtual rationalization of sacred spaces and lament practices.

Poster by Eva Temponera © Yiannis Pappas
An auto-correlation of byzantine substances and western normative rules of austere calculations are given by Neufert Ernst’s sketches and a body mapping research in the monastery of Great Lavra (founded in 963 A.D) Greece. © Yiannis Pappas
An auto-correlation of byzantine substances and western normative rules of austere calculations are given by Neufert Ernst’s sketches and a body mapping research in the monastery of Great Lavra (founded in 963 A.D) Greece. © Yiannis Pappas
An auto-correlation of byzantine substances and western normative rules of austere calculations are given by Neufert Ernst’s sketches and a body mapping research in the monastery of Great Lavra (founded in 963 A.D) Greece. © Yiannis Pappas