Interview by Eleni Nearchou
NECROPOLIS is an ongoing choreographic and documentary work about unknown bodies – a poignant reflection on the ongoing human tragedy at Europe’s borders. By integrating data analysis, choreographic gestures, and documentary practices, Arkadi Zaides and his team delve into the practice of forensics to conceive a new virtual depository mapping the remains of the many whose deaths remain to this day mostly unacknowledged. This archive, revealing a cartography made invisible, stretches across space and time, weaving together the mythologies, histories, geographies and anatomies of those who have found their way to NECROPOLIS. Although there are no bodies to dance with in the city of the dead, it is precisely this absence – the collective body of…