La Torture

In 1976 Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki direct with the Collectif 010 in La Cartoucherie in Vincennes a 48hour action Torture which is recorded on tape by Jean Roualdès In 2012 after the digitization of the original video tapes by the Bibliothèque Nationale of France for the KlonarisThomadaki Archive the two artists proceed to a reinterpretation of this document highlighting the characteristics of the 12inch video format This video is a trace of a public performance where bodies even under constraint blinded and gagged manifest their protest power against coercion This performance against torture is one of the first examples of the art of the body theorized by the two artists