ABSTRACT
Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki are among the most famous avant-garde artists working in France. Their collaborative work combines experimental film poetics with radical feminist theory, a reflection on intersexuality, and strong theoretical inputs on the formation of political subjectivity and on the role of the arts in today’s world. Experimental film remains at the core of their work, however, and since the mid-1980s they have been increasingly crossing film with photography, video, digital images, and multimedia projects. Rethinking women’s identities, reworking female agency and reconceptualizing the nomadic body are constant topics for Klonaris and Thomadaki. More particularly, the question of the “dissident body” as a counter-subjectivity of the body that thinks and acts, rebels and disrupts, but also disfigures, is at the basis of their interaction with issues of gender, reproducibility, equality, and difference.
