glieser (2025)

A banished creature treads the verge of a timeless afterworld. A scavenger in nature, it encounters fossils of the species it once belonged to. Driven by instinct, first light inspires desire. It passes beyond the border of the world, the earth cracks and pleasure seeps through its seams. A heart becomes a portal, a machine towards an annihilating immortality. A sentinel enters stage left.”

Glieser unearths a personal archaeology of memory, tracing fragmented narratives of adolescence, displacement, and desire. Drawing from summers spent growing up in Cyprus, it reflects on the emergence of Queer identity within conditions shaped by militarisation and geopolitical division. The work engages experiences of evading compulsory military service, traversing a demilitarised border into illegally occupied territory in search of love through Grindr, and heartbreak under the unrelenting Mediterranean sun.

Choreographed and Directed by Demetris Charalambous Original sound by Quique Rios Ellis Performed by Demetris Charalambous, Caias Kim, Channce Williams

Performances:

Friedrichs Pontone Gallery, Manhattan, New York (2025) Movement Research at the Judson Memorial Church, Manhattan, New York (2025) Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York (2026)