Integrated in the body of ‘Higher States’, ‘Thanaton, Rough Cut’ is the unrefined effort of the fourth part of Kiriakos Hadjiioannou thematics, which signifies the biography of a body through existential states, in view of possible future perspectives.

In an eternal altercation with death, the body is conceived as an element of substance of oneself and a boundary of social action. Studying various philosophical sources, one can detect two basic theories about time. One has Greek origins and advocates the closed, circular time; it is based in cosmology, having nature, the universe and the world as an archetype and being symbolized as a circle or a sphere. The other, with Jewish origins, adopts the open, linear time and is based in eschatology oriented to history, having the straight line or the arrow moving straight as a symbol. ‘Thanaton, Rough Cut’ focuses on the above controversial approaches of the circle and the straight line, thus creating a research field in which a series of binary concepts can be recreated: body language and the ‘speaking body’, sound and melody, time and duration. Movement in this sense is not conceived as a function which resists the ‘immobility’ of death, but as an act which reforms matter into something new.

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