Review of Panopticon in The Spectator (UK)

“the admirable Resolution Festival included a brilliantly grotesque solo by Vasiliki Papapostolou”

“Last and best was a solo by Vasiliki Papapostolou. Inspired by Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, his model for a prison in which every cell was visible from a central surveillance point, she presents herself as a human machine whose every finger twitch, every smile or frown is dictated by the tick of a slowly accelerating metronome. Efforts to resist, including a brief outburst of ecstatic freedom, are swiftly quashed. Papapostolou moves through it all like a zombie dervish: the effect is both grotesque and discomfiting.”

by Rupert Christiansen