Kivotos Channel is a fake, pop-up TV channel, showcasing the human adventures in a post-apocalyptic future.

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It is the very first day of a post-pandemic era, when a community of creatures reaches the backstage of a TV Channel. Although they survived the catastrophe, they do not feel insecure. In fact, they seem ready and steady to perform, glowing their feminine selves. The world in which they have just landed is altered, it is covid-free, full of golden feathers and cosmic dust! Welcome to Kivotos Channel! A safe space for vulnerable bodies, femininities, relational politics and radical imagination for the day after. How can we possibly reclaim social inclusion adopting funny and unexpected survival strategies in a new unthinkable world? Opting for communal tactics as raw material, Kivotos Channel crew aims to rethink community and conviviality in the context of an extravagant non-stop TV program.

Wild female wrestlers, “hot” personalities, queer creatures, cyborgs, panelists and non-binary subjectivities enact their hybrid identities creating an unexpected life on-air. Kivotos Channel—composed of self-contained episodes of daily absurdity—presents: the intimate Sauna Confessions; the extravagant female wrestling camp advert; a TV quiz show called Tilekivotos; a show for alternative parenting; Breaking News of the new world; and further extravagant episodes of love and fame. Affection and hate, daddy issues and revenge, and mystery and hotness are the raw materials of the bittersweet, endless and healingly confessional mood of the Kivotos Channel shows.

Since 2019, seven European production houses, festivals, private and public institutions in the sphere of performing arts have been working together with the British ensemble “Quarantine” on the project “Moving Borders” to create various local editions of the same participatory project in public space which aim to question and redefine regional, social, and cultural borders.

Results will be presented as arks in public space from June to September 2021. The individually designed projects will be a place for encounters, participation, discourse, and performances. During the last two years, the partner cities Porto, ATHENS, Strasbourg, Dresden, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Warsaw, and Utrecht questioned local borders and their types and manifestations – geographical, architectural, social, cultural, etc. – and developed a content and conceptual framework, which is programmatically filled by “Quarantine”, local artists, activists, and citizens. “Moving Borders” is a model-project of international cooperation. At a time when nationalist, xenophobic, and other discriminatory movements are once again experiencing a dangerous upswing in Europe, and economic inequality is growing, it creates an outlook for a new togetherness.

The project was collectively created through a 2-month intensive lab. The curatorial team and the creative community jointly developed the content and the aesthetics, in such a way that the content is intellectual co-creation of all participants.

Kivotos Channel is produced by ONASSIS STEGI within the framework of the project Moving Borders which is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.