In their cross-media project, Kotsopoulou & Walsh demonstrate how today’s photographic & performance practices can challenge patriarchy by referring to the history of documenting ‘deviance’ in women.
Fenia Kotsopoulou
Fenia Kotsopoulou is an award-winning Greek cross-disciplinary artist based in Lincoln (UK). She navigates, investigates, and explores the fields of performance (art), dance, video, photography and their intersections. She holds an MFA in Choreographing Live Art from the University of Lincoln (UK), a BA(Hons) in Dance from the National Dance Academy of Rome (Italy), and a BA in Italian Language and Literature from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (Greece).
In the past few years, as a (dance) performer, producer and visual practitioner, Fenia’s solo works, as well as those prepared in close-collaboration digital artist, Daz Disley, were shown at many festivals and art platforms and received several prizes and awards.
Alongside her practice, Fenia teaches at the Master of Theatre Practices in the University of ArtEZ (Arnhem, The Netherlands) and since 2016, she has been an artist-in-residence at x-church in Gainsborough (UK).
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey