Collage & Video
TABLE 2026 © PartSuspended
TABLE by PartSuspended — Mixed media Acrylics, markers and ink on paper and digital collage
TABLE 2026 © PartSuspended
TABLE — Video work by PartSuspended
A few thoughts about TABLE
by Barbara Bridger, Noelia Diaz-Vicedo, Georgia Kalogeropoulou, Hari Marini – PartSuspended Artist Collective
TABLE by PartSuspended Artist Collective, presented in Compoetics inaugural issue, consists of a jointly authored paper, a collage and a video piece. It invites the reader/viewer to be part of a collective experience in which poetry, images, sound, video, performance and discussion combine to further our understanding of unity and collaboration. Every member of our collective contributed to its development, through proposals, discussion and original artwork.
TABLE is part of our the current project ]sym.posion[ (2022-ongoing); a series of multimedia performances that invite the audience to a table where a new subject is presented and explored each time. The project operates at the intersection of performance, installation, and social practice and aims to construct a collective experience. Drawing on the ancient spirit of the symposium, where food, dialogue, and collective reflection were inseparable, the project reinterprets communal gathering as a contemporary performative act.
Since 2022, ]sym.posion[ has had three different manifestations: ]sym.biosis.sym.posion[ (2023)took place in Audiovisual Arts Festival 2023, organised by the Department of Audiovisual Arts at the Ionian University inCorfu, Greece. A table travelled to various locations in the city and ended in an intimate dinner in the performance space. The audience was invited to participate in discussions that included a series of philosophical questions and provocations relating to public life, collective action, gender, diversity, ecophilia, cultural and spatial politics.
]eco.philia.sym.posion[ (2024) was part of the ECOPHILIA NOW International Festival 2024 that took place at Plyfa, Athens (Greece). It created an opportunity for the audience to participate in an intimate ritual of reminiscence, action and sharing and to consider what it means to rebuild their friendship (philia) with nature (home/eco). Through the embodied knowledge built collectively and the value of sharing, ]eco.philia.sym.posion[ constructed a new narrative that opposed the dystopian landscape and invited the audience to imagine a different future.
]dia.logos.sym.posion[ (2025)was part of the ECOPHILIA NOW International Festival 2025 that took place at To Pano Spiti and Lalava Workshop and Social Space in Athens. Around the symposion table we explored ‘dialogue’ not as a tool for agreement but as a fragile, necessary ritual – an open invitation to think, dream, and act together.
In ]sym.posion[, the table becomes a central scenographic device; a shared, immersive environment acting as both stage and commons: a site for a ritual where live music interweaves with gestures, words and projections like the courses in a collective feast. The project addresses urgent themes such as ecology, coexistence, collective action and democratic exchange through a collaborative artistic process.
Why TABLE?
The act of eating and drinking together around a table is a democratic, egalitarian and collaborative event, which has had special significance throughout history. A table surrounded by chairs is a domestic and informal place where we usually feel at home. It is a place familiar to us all, a space that can contain and facilitate intimate moments, where sharing is both possible and necessary.
Traditional theatre performances usually take place in a designated, formal space, where the roles of audience and performer are different and separate. Even those who are familiar with such events can be intimidated by a sense that there are unspoken rules to our conduct as audience members.
In our performance ]sym.posion[ performers and audience mingle. They sit alongside each other, eat and drink together and talk informally. Traditional hierarchies of performance and viewing are transgressed, allowing the possibilities of intervention, chance and improvisation. In this way, the performance which takes place around a table is essentially and inevitably a democratic, egalitarian and collaborative event.
The collaborative strategy and the cross form approach that we have again employed in TABLE for Compoetics is a simulation of our experience of making ]sym.posion[. It invites the reader/viewer to become part of a virtual dinner, where the artwork creates a shared space through words, images and sound – a space where imagination and artistic expression meet, opening possibilities for connection and collective reflection.
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Note: ECOPHILIA NOW International Festival brings together artists, activists, environmentalists and thinkers from across Europe and beyond, and is rooted in the concept of ecophilia – the love and friendship (philia) for our common home (eco). The festival re-examines how feminist and inclusive art practices can reshape our understanding of nature, urban space, equality, and coexistence and can foster deeper connections between humans and the natural world.
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PartSuspended Artist Collective works in a variety of art forms and disciplines. The collective uses a range of performance practices to explore the intersection between artistic creation and various aspects of contemporary life. PartSuspended’s work draws on personal and collective experiences, everyday life, social space and architecture in an attempt to imagine new possibilities for feminist action. PartSuspended is particularly interested in feminist work that asks questions and challenges conventional boundaries and forms. Their work is multimedia, multilingual and multidisciplinary.
In 2006, Hari Marini co-founded PartSuspended as a dynamic platform on which to foster performances, live art, video-work, installations, writing, participatory workshops and collaborations with artists from a variety of disciplines. The collective has presented their work to a variety of venues, symposia, conferences, online platforms and international festivals in the UK, USA, Spain, Greece, Serbia, Czech Republic.
Recently, their book entitled SPIRALS: A poetry and art anthology was published by Tears in the Fence (Dorset, July 2024, https://www.partsuspended.com/press-publications/spirals-anthology/).
Barbara Bridger is a core member of PartSuspended Artist Collective. She taught Theatre and Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts between 1990 and 2010 and is currently an independent writer, director and dramaturg. Her prose, poetry, scripts and critical writing have been widely published, performed and screened. She was Prose Writer of the Year 2002 (Writers Inc.) and has been short- listed for several other awards including Asham and Raymond Carver. At Dartington, Barbara Bridger helped to develop Scripted Media. This explored experimental approaches to script and scripting and her research also focuses on women’s writing and inclusive dramaturgical processes. https://independent.academia.edu/BarbaraBridger
Noèlia Diaz-Vicedo is a core member of PartSuspended Artist Collective. She is a Lecturer of Comparative Literature at the Department of Catalan Language and Culture at the University of Balearic Islands, Spain. She is also a poet and translator. She has published her poetry in various magazines and anthologies in Spain and USA. She has published two collections of poems: ‘Bloody Roots/ ArrelsSagnants’ in bilingual edition (Catalan-English), published by Francis Boutle Publishers, 2017 and ‘Cercels (ex)cèntrics’ published by Edicions Trememdes, 2023. She has performed her poetry around UK, Greece and Spain. She combines teaching with research on contemporary women’s poetry and gender studies at University of Balearic Islands.
Geo Kalogeropoulou (aka Dr Comet) is a core member of PartSuspended Artist Collective. She is a multidisciplinary artist and uses words, images, comics, music and performance in order to tell stories and explore alternative realities and affects. She approaches art in general in a DIY experimental style and her favorite themes revolve around the philosophy of time, space and time travel. In her comics and visual works she creates psychedelic environments using acrylics and collage in order to induce the reader/viewer into a stream of consciousness that becomes a philosophic trip. She is also a multi-instrumentalist (playing piano, synthesizers, electric guitar, saxophone, and traditional Greek instruments) and performs regularly in Athens either solo or in collaboration with other artists. Creating collectively is in the core of her practice, and she is also is part of the Lalava workshop and social space in Athens. https://www.instagram.com/drcomet/
Hari Marini is a performance maker, researcher, founding member and Artistic Director of PartSuspended Artist Collective (www.partsuspended.com), and Associate Professor of Performance and Intermediality, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University. Her research focuses on social and material contexts and conditions of performance and their social and political effects. Hari’s research outputs have been published in leading academic journals, such as European Journal of Women’s Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, Journal of Greek Media and Culture, and in the edited book Dramatic Architectures (CEAA/ESAP). Hari’s artistic practice, writing and practice-based research focus on poetics of spaces, performative architecture and women’s writing. Her creative writing and video-work have been published to journals and poetry collections such as Tears in the Fence, Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, ]performingborders[, and her bilingual book (Greek-English) entitled 28 Διαδρομές της/28 Paths of Her was published by AΚΑΚΙΑ Publications (https://akakia.net/en/shop/28-diadromes-ths-28-paths-of-her/).
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