Nico Angiuli & Katerina El Raheb (Italy)
Nico Angiuli is a visual artist and film director; professor of Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, since 2006 has realized trans-border projects between Albania, Spain, and Greece.
Angiuli, from a labor-related perspective, investigates many questions as with The Tools' Dance (video archive of agricultural gestures, 2009/2017); or as with The Human Tools (360° movie, 2019) in which from the meaning of the word robota -forced labor- in Czech language, relates ancient and modern forms of slavery to contemporary androids and geminoids. He has just been granted by the Italian Ministry of Culture to realize Part-Time Resistance, a performative archive on the private forms of sabotage and resistance in different contexts of oppression. Lives and works between Berlin and Bari.
http://www.nicoangiuli.com/
Katerina El Raheb (dance artist/computer science researcher) was born in Alexandria Egypt and lives in Athens Greece. She studied dance at the professional dance school Niki Kontaxaki, holds an Engineering diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, a master’s degree, and PhD from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is an academic researcher at NKUA since 2009 and “Athena” Research Center and is an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, at the University of Peloponnese. Her research domain is Human Computer Interaction and the multidisciplinary domains that combine culture and artistic creation, computer science, performing arts and dance.
