Off-season Activities by Eirini Sourgiadaki

Off-Season is a female collective active since 2023. Its members come from diverse disciplines, areas of research and geographic backgrounds. We all share the view that in today’s neoliberal economies of increased privatization of public spaces and natural resources it is urgent to rethink bathing culture as a medium -or perhaps antidote- to a culture of exhaustion and extraction. Baths have served as vital sources of healing, connection, collectivity, and cultural heritage for countless generations, embodying the enduring relationship between human and non-human worlds.

What is an act of attention?

Is it pointing the finger at something?
Is it showing something?

Is it looking at something?

Is it looking at something together?
Is it seeing something?

Is it re-seeing something?
Is it seeing something through someone else's eyes?

During the week in Methana, I spent a lot of time observing my peers taking pictures of stones, and honestly… it was thrilling!

Left: Test for “Theion” with Thermographic camera (Marcel Rickli) / Right: Test for “Theion” with Thermochromic Ink (Micol Favini)

Florian and Marcel working on “Theion”,Methana, November 2024

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