To what extent can we declare the authorship of our creation? Is it completely ours? Where do the artists who have influenced us, the art forms in which we were educated, or our cultural inheritances fit into the equation - do they not deserve credit?

Inspired by a very well-known guitar piece of the Spanish tradition by Romance Anonimo and an interview by Narciso Yepes declaring its copyright, this solo talks about the process of the artist determining identity.

Driven by a need we cannot always explain, we develop a strong connection to traditional art forms that do not belong to our culture. In this case we have to not only practice the technique of the form, but to absorb its style, which is the most difficult part for a "stranger," not raised inside the tradition. During this process we mimic our teachers and the artists that we admire hoping that after a while the information becomes our own.

Sometimes for the "strangers," questions arise: should we also let all her other influences & information blend with the new form; could all these potentially controversial elements be combined; how far away can we go without losing reference to one form or the other;

and should we doubt or should we just let ourselves reveal all of our influences to create something that is as much our own as it is others’?

15 & 16 Ιουνίου
στις 20:15 στο PLAYGROUND, Βουτσαρά 6 Βοτανικός.

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