Segment of a performance of Build-a -Band, by Blend the Space at Juxtapose Festival in Nicosia Cyprus 2023.

Artist & performer: Gena Kalina Schneider Set & Costume design: Gena Kalina Schneider Filming & editing: Nuné Sound credits: "O Kaixis" by J.R. BATHOORN "Lule Lule" by Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra Sound design: Can Demren Artist statement: "About one year ago, on June 4th, I was being swallowed up by the darkness, after a while, a little light appeared. This light is my new companion. Her name is Lilly. Throughout the year Lilly became my friend, my alter ego, my escape, my artwork, my personal warrior, and much more. I took her into the art world with me, searching for her place to be, and realized that I have intuitively used Lilly as my placebo." 2021

Filmed by Nune Tounjikian Edited by Adonis Sergiou

Urban Gorillas presented Urban Playground”, the 2022 thematic of Pame Kaimakli festival. This edition was a celebration of play, discovery and human interactions in public spaces. As the current global pandemic persists to transform the way we live, this years’ thematic highlights the importance of public spaces to enable human connections as well as the need to create correlations between humans, city and nature. In our fast paced societies where leisure is a repressed human right Urban Gorillas proposes to rethink city spaces as a ground to accommodate places that are universally playful and inclusive for citizens of all classes, nationalities, ages, genders and abilities. Urban Playground explores the idea of play in public spaces as a tool for social and spatial interactions, sociability, co-creation and coexistence with the natural environment.

Trailer from the film "Libera me". An art performance that took place in the church of Zeerijp in Groningen.