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New Spatialities: Performing Arts and Outdoor/Open Space

The theme of the Greek contribution is exploring the shift from the devised visual space of scenography towards the dynamics of outdoor space.

The quest for new spatialities arising from diverse negotiations of the open, outdoor and public space is a central issue for the concept. Renegotiating the relations between the artistic event, the artist, the space and the participating audience through an expanded grasp of the spatiality of outdoor / public space that is considered performance space is at the core of the Greek exhibition’s quest.

The concept that any space is potentially a stage is of great importance. Space is thus regarded as an open territory, as an open system for the performance event; it is a boundless space in continuous process of construction and reconstruction, and of deposition of layers made up from visual material, meanings and narratives of the performance event.

The exhibition consists of videos by 20 individual artists and performing arts companies, who present a total of 27 projects created during the past four years for site-specific and site-related outdoor spaces and shaped primarily in a dialectical relation to their characteristic spatial substance.

These performative events have been expressed as human actions in a plethora of aesthetic forms: theatre, dance, performance, happening, actions interventions, hybrid forms, etc.

Echoing PQ’s main theme Music Weather Politics, the process of transforming space to a dynamic political attitude in the context of turbulent rules and regimes is also examined.

The Greek participation broadens the specific meaning of a ‘site’ that is defined by space-time and by experience, assigning priority to the special creative parameters of weather conditions and light, music, sound, physicality, and movement or dance, since the interaction of these parameters with particular elements of the space aims at creating a new – complex and spatially defined – meaning-bearing premise.

Αssociate Curator for Theory: Maria Konomis

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

• Michael Kliën

Additional information: Kliën is a leading voice in contemporary choreography. His artistic practice encompasses interdisciplinary thinking, critical writing, curatorial projects and choreographic works. He is equally at home in the performing and the fine arts.

Exhibiting works

• : (Prologue to Parliament), 2013 Performers: Kaspar Aus, Luke Clancy, Jeff Gormley, Maria Hanson, Tom Hanson, Clarissa Hanson, Vitoria Kotsalou, Lizzy Le Quesne, Zoe Savdarides, Ed Shouten, Steve Valk Christina Jane Gangos is an independent documentary filmmaker. Her observational documentaries have been presented internationally (National Portrait Gallery, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin etc.). Her films capture everyday moments and processes, inundated with the ability to disclose reality to the patient viewer. www.christinagangos.com ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: In September 2013 eleven people gathered on a private rooftop on Hydra to convene a two-hour Parliament as proposed by choreographer Michael Kliën. This new adaption of Parliament aims to get the body politic into a state of dance and formed the prologue to a an exhibition at the Beanki Museum, Athens in 2014.
• Jenny  Marketou

Teaching activities: Marketou is a full time professor at the School of Art, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, CA.
Additional information: Marketou is an internationally known interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. In her work she utilizes video, sound, video installation, Internet, photography and performance to explore a variety of esthetics, ethics and poetics.

Exhibiting works

• : (Bubbles), 2009 Performers: GENERAL PUBLIC ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: 'Bubbles' was first commissioned and presented at the 'The Threshold of the Noosphere' exhibition, curated by Blanca de La Torres, as part of the Tina b Festival, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. 'Bubbles' rides are meant to offer the participant the ultimate 'freedom' and 'escape' from the malaise associated with the urban reality.
• Jenny Argyriou

Specialization: media artist
Additional information: Argyriou is a performance maker and media artist. She is a graduate of the State School of Dance and a scholar of the Onasis foundation. She studied in New York and founded amorphy.org. Her work is based on the dialogue between performance art and new media.

Exhibiting works

• : (Memorandum), Amorphy.org 2012, Director: Director: Jenny Argyriou, Set designer: Ash Bulayev, Christoforos Mprellis Costume designer: Despina Makrouni Video director: Jenny Argiriou Performers: Spiros Andreopoulos, Chris Kaoukis, Ermis Malkotsis, Kiki Baka, Kamilo Bentancor, Christina Sougioumtsi, Aggeliki Stelatou, Dimitirs Sotiriou, Faidra Fourouli, Marrion Renard ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: Memorandum is a hybrid performance/installation that evokes a journey of remembering in a landscape made of fragmented images, shadows and sounds. The use of space and materials creates an autonomus installation, a scaffold of an inactive mechanism that becomes active and interacts audiovisually with the performers and the viewers.
• : (Memoria Obscura), Amorphy.org 2012, Director: Director: Jenny Argyriou, Set designer: Guy Stefanou Costume designer: Despina Makrouni Video director: Jenny Argiriou Performers: Epameinondas Damopoulos, Chris Kaoukis, Ermis Malkotsis, Kiki Baka, Kamilo Bentancor, Christina Sougioumtsi, Aggeliki Stelatou, Dimitirs Sotiriou, Faidra Fourouli, Marrion Renard ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: How do we process place and the history of it? Do we allow space and time to influence what we create? How can you bring a still image to life? 'Memoria Obscura' is a staged performance based on the album 'Grevena 80 years of photographs 1895-1975' by Vaggelis Nikopoulos. A collection of photos from both historical moments and everyday life.
• Angeliki  Avgitidou

Additional information: Avgitidou is an artist, theorist and educator. She studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts (MA, PhD).

Exhibiting works

• : (Returning), 2014 ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: This work emerged from personal histories and quests associated with death, loss, time and nostalgia. In the performance 'Returning' I connected a personal history of loss and separation with the separation of the city of Nicosia into two parts. The space of the city becomes a place where personal and collective histories met.
• Vasistas Theatre Group

Additional information: The Vasistas Theatre Group is based in Athens and works between Greece and France. In creating theatrical performances that confront contemporary life, Vasistas aims to research and experiment on the action on the stage.

Exhibiting works

• : (DOMINO), Vasistas 2013, Director: Director: Argyro Chioti, Set director: Eva Manidaki Costume designer: Pavlos Thanopoulos Video director: Vasistas Group Performers: Ariane Labed, Efthimis Theou, Georgina Chriskioti, Eleni Vergeti. Antonis Antonopoulos, Avdoxia Androulidaki, Nikoleta Xenariou, Aspasia-Maria Alexiou, Babis Galiatsatos, Matina Pergioudaki, Rita Lytou, Vicky Maragkaki, Matasa Papandreou, Natsa Zagkli Production: VASISTAS | coproduction: OPEN LATITUDES (3) – European project | KOMM’N’ACT Marseille | Théâtre des Bernardines | MIRfestival | support: French Institute in Greece | OZON RAW Magazine ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: A 'mute' choreography for the fragile present and the uncertain future. With the focus always remaining on the 'survivors', the group explores the 'domino effect' of an epidemic decline that leads to emergency situations within a community. The dramaturgy is based on E. Ionesc's 'Killing Games'.
  
• Apostolia  Papadamaki

Additional information: After graduating from the State School of Dance, she undertook postgraduate studies and scholarships. Papadamaki has presented and taught all over the world, as well as collaborating with Jan Fabre. She is a former President of the Board of the State School of Dance.

Exhibiting works

• : (The Death Series #3: Uninhabited), Quasi Stellar 2012, Director: Director: Apostolia Papadamaki, Video director: Tasos Papapanos Costume designer: Ioanna Tsami Performer: Apostolia Papadamaki Curator: Sozita Goudouna ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: Site-specific performance/Delos Island/Altar of Zeus. Walking towards the Altar of Zeus as a pregnant woman determined to give birth, her belly filled with nine kilos of pure sea salt. Collective unconscious, female archetypes and cellular memory as a new-born life.
  
• Giorgos Zamboulakis

Additional information: Theatre director. Zamboulakis has directed plays in Greece and in a number of European countries. He is Artistic Director of the Experimental Theatre of Thrace and founder of the 'deviant GaZe' performing arts company.

Exhibiting works

• : (Tea Time Europe), Ερευνητικό Θέατρο Θράκης (Experimental Theater of Thrace), 2014, Director: Director: Giorgos Zamboulakis, Set designer: Giorgos Zamboulakis Video director: Giorgos Zamboulakis Documentation: Theofilos Gerontopoulos Performers: Kaiti Marki, Eirini Samdanidou, Giorgos Deligiorgakis, Periklis Toutouktsis, Foteini Markidou, Kiki Tsakaldimi, Simos Grammenos, Ion Chatzoudis, Konstantinos Papagiannis, Fotis Koftsitsidis, Giorgos Tsakaldimis, Alexandra Stergiani, Babis Papatzelakis, Fotis Lalidis, Marinos Avanganidis ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: During the highly symbolic sunset hour and in the waters of the Delta of the River Evros, at the borders between Greece and Turkey, the 'Teat Time Europe' action/performance is about all those who lose their lives trying to reach 'civilized' Europe.
• Omada 7

Additional information: Omada 7 insists upon the collective nature of its theatrical creation process, making different and opposing esthetics match through the personal expression of each partner within a single context. Its name is a reference to the number of deadly sins.

Exhibiting works

• : (YAPI: A very nice place), Ομάδα Επτά (Omada Epta (7)), 2013, Director: Director: Vicky Mastrogianni, Concept: Vicky Mastrogianni Dramaturgy consultant: Anna Tsichli Lighting cesign – photography – video: Giorgos Zafiriou Choreography consultant: Zoi Saridou Costumes: Daphne Aidoni Assistant director: Daphne Aidoni Stage – music: Omada 7 Production: Omada 7 Performers: Androniki Avdelioti, Giorgos Andrakis, Elena Georgiou, Nikos Georgiou, Spyros Detsikas, Vaso Kamaratou, Sophia Liakou, Mary Lucy, Vicky Mastrogianni,Gerasimos Pavlou,Anna Papadaki, Vaggelis Papadakis, Maria Pigkou, Giannis Gemis ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: 'Υapi: word of Turkish origin. Incomplete construction that provokes an awkward spatial situation'. The performance began in public space, with human installations in situ. The last ones have the nature of courses – guides for the audience and its incorporation into the theatrical space and time, indicating the existence of two opposite worlds.
• : (YAPI: A very nice place), 0, Director: Viktoria (Vicky) Mastrogianni & Georgios Zafeiriou, ; Identification of exhibit: live performance ;
  Comments: A figure symbolising Greece arrives at the Prague Astronomical Clock. Standing under the clock, the figure turns on the radio and tries to arouse the interest of the public. He/she is literally spreading his/her ancestors, his/her history, his/her coastline and is actually awaiting the time of acceptance, being justified and finally sold.
• A4M  Performing Arts Group

Additional information: A4M is a non-profit professional, experimental theatre company. Its mission is to create and present experimental works that challenge the structure and presentation of performance while strengthening cultural and artistic growth.

Exhibiting works

• : (Project Odysseies: Thessaloniki), A4M 2012, Director: Director: Athina Dragkou, Music composition: Dimitris Papdopoulos Dramatic composition: Amalia Kontoyanni, A4M, Set design/costumes: Synthia Gerothanasiou, Alexandra Boussoulegka, Rania Yfantidou Design installations: Synthia Gerothanasiou, Ersi Papadopoulou Light installations: Beforelight Performers: Christina Gasiou, Anna Grivakou, Nana Kouli, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Drosia Triantaki, Spyros Chatziangelakis,Sofia Chatzivasiliou Acrobats:Ioanna Dimitriadou, Daniel Arrando Amiguet Volunteers:Evanthia Basiliadou, Aliki Dourmazer,Maria Tentolouri, Iosif Stefanidis, Thanos Nikas, Klodian Kakko, Aikaterini Margariti, Agapi Tsitiridou,Adjjima Na Patalung, Androamachi Foundoulidou, Eirini Nikolakopoulou. ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: A site-specific promenade performance that combines different art forms and different theatre forms. Inspired by the themes and motifs of Homer’s 'Odyssey', as well as the history of Thessaloniki, the performance invites the audience on a two-hour journey to places both real and surreal.
• Paris Legakis

Additional information: Legakis graduated with an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, followed by postgraduate studies in Bauhaus in Weimar and at the School of Fine Arts, Athens. Legakis is interested in the concept of limitations in social and geopolitical levels and the balance between the visual and performing arts.

Exhibiting works

• : (Linenality), 0, Director: Director: Paris Legakis, Video Director: Paris Legakis Performer: Paris Legakis ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: The artist walks on the borderline of a two-way main street in Germany: “A slow and steady pace indicates paradoxical safety. Walking on the line implies the lack of choice between the two indicative situations, in or out of the Eurozone. The line continues and is lost in the background”.
  
• : (Voices of the People), 2013, Director: Director: Paris Legakis, Performers: Kim Boram, Kwon Ryungeun, Lee Seol-ae, Lee Jung In, Park Hyunbum Speakers: Paris Legakis, Choi Seing Yoon Musicians: Uhee (Yoon Yeojoo, Lim Younhgo, Park Minwoo, Park Youngsik) Cameras: Rim zi-young, Yang Ku-ra, Lim Haerang, Jeon Jee-hee ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: People from South Korea and people from North Korea who have escaped to South Korea were asked to express their viewpoints in writing. Three groups of performers translate them into motion on a platform situated right next to the central river of the city, a boundary that divides the city into a northern and southern side.
  
• Euripides Laskaridis

Additional information: Euripides Laskaridis is a stage director, maker of short films and performer. His work has been presented in main theatres and festivals in Greece, the NYC Fringe, the 11th Biennale for Young Mediterranean artists and more.

Exhibiting works

• : (Ridicule + Transformation/The Walk), Ώσμωσις (Osmosis Theatre), 2013, Director: Director: Euripides Laskaridis, Concept: Euripides Laskaridis Costumes: Aggelos Mendis, Despoina Makarouni and Euripides Laskaridis Text: Euripides Laskaridis and Kyriacos Karseras Lyrics translated by: Kyriakos Karseras Assistant directors: Dimitris Triantafyllou, Kostantinos Davris and Eleni Zarafidou Camera: Marios Sergios Eliakis and Kostantinos Davris Video editing: Euripides Laskaridis Performers of the walk: Panagiota Alexiou, Pavlina Andriopoulou, Stella Christodoulopoulou, Nikos Dragonas, Alexis Fousekis, Christela Gizeli, Marianthi Grammatikou, Yorgos Kafetzopoulos, Amalia Kosma, Euripides Laskaridis, Olia Lazaridou, Yiannis Nikolaidis, Christos Papadopoulos, Mary Randou, Drosos Skotis. ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: A scene-compilation of works by OSMOSIS put together in the form of an outdoor, site-specific, promenade performance created for the International Network Meeting of Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM). The Walk simultaneously illustrates the contradiction of Greece's image as the cradle of democracy with the mundane, controversial reality.
• : (Relic - Josef Mánes), Ευριπίδης Λασκαρίδης - Θεατρική Ομάδα ΩΣΜΩΣΙΣ (Euripides Laskaridis - OSMOSIS Theatre Company), 2015, Director: Director/choreographer: Euripides Laskaridis, Performer: Euripides Laskaridis Consultant to the director: Tatiana Bre Costume: Angelos Mendis Creative production: Ola Fraitová, Václav Kovář Special thanks to Eva Papadopoulou and Larissa Vergou ; Identification of exhibit: live performance ;
  Comments: 'Relic-Josef Mánes' is an outdoor, site-specific performance that is 35 minutes in length. Relic is a closed-space performance that is touring Europe. This is an outdoors iteration in direct dialogue with the voluptuous feminine nudes of renowned Czech painter, Josef Mánes. 'Relic' converses with the past and the future while focusing on mankind's commitment to worship.
• Ohi  Pezoume

Additional information: The Ohi Pezoume group is a non-profit company of new makers from various fields of art and science. Director George Sachinis and choreographer Eirini Alexiou are the founders of the Ohi Pezoume performing arts company and UrbanDig Project.

Exhibiting works

• : (UrbanDig Project: Marathon Dam 2010), Ομάδα "Όχι Παίζουμε" (Ohi Pezoume Performing Arts Company ), 2010, Director: Direction: Eirini Alexiou, George Sachinis, Choreography: Eirini Alexiou Performers: Rowan Thorpe ('vida' group), Antonis Srouzas, George Amiras ('Menoume Ellada' National TV), Euthimis Theodosis Pavlos Tsiantos' team of climbers: Giannis Konstantakakis, Panos Athanasiadis, Christos Paterakis, Tasos Moutafis, Thomas Kitipis, Kostas Mougolas, Giorgos Voutiropoulos, Giannis Petromianos, Ipokratis Palapanoglou, Stamatis Konstantakopoulos. Costumes-scenography: Ioanna Tsami, Dimitra Liakoura (asst.) Music: Euthimis Theodosis ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: Two men fight each other over a last bucket of drinking water. When thirst and destruction reaches a peak, one of them decides to climb the wall behind them. When he reaches the top he realizes that it’s a dam hiding a lake. Ten ghost construction workers of the dam appear, carrying a pipe that pours water from the lake to the burning field.
• : (UrbanDig Project: Marathon Dam 2012), Ομάδα "Όχι Παίζουμε" (Ohi Pezoume Performing Arts Company ), 2012, Director: Direction: Eirini Alexiou, George Sachinis, Choreographer: Eirini Alexiou Performers: Antonis Strouzas, Pauline Huguet Video: Pavlos Tsiantos, Dimitris Christopoulos Lighting design: Christina Thanassoula Music: Lambros Pigounis Props and set: Dimitra Liakoura Costume design: Ioanna Tsami Climbing team: Pavlos Tsiantos, Giannis Konstantakis, Christos Tsoutsias Constructions: Pavlos Tsiantos, Rea Zekkou, Kostas Klitsas Make-up artist: Alexandra Myta Production manager: Katerina Apostolopoulou Participation: George Sachinis, Smaragda Tsachaki, Maria Tsachaki ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: The performance focuses on a temple at the base of the dam. On the walls of the temple a man sees three different ways in which he might die: dying by forest fires, by soil erosion and by the melting of the glaciers. He resists these (video) projections of his future and decides to cover the walls that speak only of catastrophe with 60 m long row of spring plants.
• : (UrbanDig Project), Ομάδα Όχι Παίζουμε (Ohi Pezoume performing arts company), 0, Director: Director: George Sachinis, Choreographer: Eirini Alexiou, Climbing instructor: Pavlos Tsiantos ; Identification of exhibit: live performance ;
  Comments: UrbanDig project is a series of productions and research in the field of site-specific performance. Artistic outcomes are inspired by research into a site's past, present, possible future and by meeting people related to it. Artistic research focuses in the dialogue between dance/movement, theatre and installation in dialogue with the site.
• Anetta Spanoudaki

Additional information: Anetta Spanoudaki was born in Berlin. She graduated in painting from the school of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In Germany she attended classes at the Academy of Fin Arts (HdK). She is a founding member of the Three Points visual art group.

Exhibiting works

• : (Corpus #), 2009, Director: Director: Anetta Spanoudaki, Video Director - Performer: Anetta Spanoudaki ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: An installation/performance that is performed in four different urban open green spaces and deals with the relationship between the private and the public.
• MiniMaximum improVision

Additional information: MiniMaximum improVision is a group of musicians, architects and visual artists who work on narrative concepts using acoustic and electric instruments, sampled sounds, voices, texts, objects and images.

Exhibiting works

• Gerhard Falkner: Στην Αγορά-κοιμήθηκα ελάχιστα αυτό τον αιώνα (Agora-I haven’t slept enough in this century), MiniMaximum improVision 2012, Director: MiniMaximum improVision & Gerhard Falkner, Idea/production: Goethe-Institut Athen Execution: Goethe-Institut Athen in collaboration with City of Athens Set design: MiniMaximum improVision Video director: Dimitris Sylvestros, Christina Katsari Performers: Gerhard Falkner, Marina Agathangelidou, Thalia Ioannidou, Despoina Tsafou, Gelina Palla, Irini Christofaki, Alkistis Stefanidou ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: During the summer of 2012, MiniMaximum improVision was invited by the Goethe Ιnstitut Athen to compose original music and perform live to accompanying a reading of Gerhard Fakner’s epic poem 'Gegensprechstadt-ground zero'.
• Barbara Dukas

Additional information: Barbara Dukas is a director, actress and teacher. She has directed in theatre, dance and music theatre in Greece and abroad. She is an active member of international networks involved in continuous training and education.

Exhibiting works

• Lafcadio Hearn, Chet Williamson : (Lamda Project), Cultural Creative Company Para.site.art 2013, Director: Director: Barbara Dukas , Set design: Konstantinos Zamanis Video director: Makis Faros Performers: Betty Mandadaki, Zaxarias Rohas, Georgina Kakoudaki, Stavros Zotos, Konstantinos Mitropoulos, Michalis Christou, Gerasimos Kapatos, Students from the Senior Private School of Dramatics 'Veaki' ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: The National Garden of Athens becomes the location of a promenade that hosts an unexpected encounter between two writers who interact through their metaphysical stories. Lafcadio Hearn’s adventurous life was the inspiration for Chet Williamson’s novel 'The Story of Noichi the Blind'.
• Ioanna Remediaki

Additional information: Ioanna Remediaki holds an MA in Classical Literature and a BA and PhD in Theatre Studies. She is the Artistic Director of the 'Group Equals One' (Omada Ison Ena) theatre company and a lecturer in Greek Drama at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens.

Exhibiting works

• : Ιερά Οδός 2 (Sacred Way 2), Ομάδα Ίσον Ένα (Group Equals One (Omada Ison Ena)), 2011, Director: Director: Ioanna Remediaki , Set and costume design: Group Equals One (Omada Ison Ena) Video director: Tiziana Tomasulo, Teatro Valle Occupato Performers: Ioanna Remediaki, Thodoris Mantazelis, Chorus ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: 'Sacred Way 2' is a sight-seeing tour/performance based on texts taken from ancient Greek drama, as well as on modern texts taken from newspapers and personal stories. 'Sacred Way 2' seeks the Via Sacra that led to Eleusina and its famous Mysteries. For us today, this means seeking the body of the city, the collective voice of citizens and the common need.
• Mary Zygouri

Additional information: Mary Zygouri lives and works between Greece and Italy. She studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and completed her studies at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.

Exhibiting works

• : (Bullmarket), 2012, Director: Director: Mary Zygouri, Assistant: Aspa Siokou Photography: Panos Kefalos Editing: Stamatis Magoulas (StamEdit) Sound design: Stefanos Barbalias Performer: Mary Zygouri Produced by: Mary Zygouri ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: 'Bullmarket' explains the extreme nature of the current socio-economic situation of the present, utilizing the Greek mythological tradition of the labyrinth. The allegorical symbiosis with a corpse generates a claustrophobic feeling of living with something that is already dead.
• : (Sound of Property), 2014, Director: Director: Mary Zygouri, Curator: Margherita Zanardi Photography: Gaetano Crivaro, Simone Lecca, Marta Anatra, Andrea Mula Sound: Margherita Pisano Photographers: Michelangelo Sardo, Dietrich Steinmetz, Roberto Salgo, Rachele Salvioli, Margherita Zanardi. Performer: Mary Zygouri Produced by: Sustainable Happiness and TRW ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: The 'Sound of the Property' is a political performance, a 'ritual' of a cathartic action intended to reactivate the site. By creating new memories, it produces new prospects for elaboration in reality.
• Elli Papakonstantinou

Additional information: Elli Papakonstantinou is a theatre director. She studied at the Greek National School of Arts and graduated with an MA from the University of London. She is the artistic director of the theatre company 'ODC Ensemble' and 'Vyrsodepseio' theatre companies.

Exhibiting works

• : (Meta (After)), OΔC Ensemble / Βυρσοδεψείο (ODC Ensemble / Vyrsodepseio), 2011, Director: Director: Elli Papakonstantinou , Concept: Elli Papakonstantinou Music/multichannel sound installation: Lambros Pigounis Choreography: Pauline Huguet Artists: Mary Zygouri, Telis Karananos, Alexandra Siafkou Dramaturgy: Dimitris Bampilis Performers: Ioannis Voulgarakis, Valia Papachristou, Adrian Frieling, Electra Tsakalia, Pauline Huguet, Larisa Vergou, Lambros Pigounis, Nikolas Stravopodis, Lazaros Vartanis, Bagelis Alexandris, Dimitris Kainos and many volunteers. Music improvisation: Lambros Pigounis (Violin, live electronics), Panos Tsekouras/Tilemachos Moussas (Theremin), Anastasia Eden (Vocals). Lighting design: Adrian Frieling, Elli Papakonstantinou Production: ODC Ensemble / Vyrsodepseio Photography: Alex Kat, Mary Zygouri Video: Constantine Pasxalis Montage: Kimon Kostaras ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: 'Meta (After)' is a promenade/site-specific performance with devised texts, set in a landscape with a specific physical and visual style and containing strong political and allegorical terms. The post-apocalyptic esthetic draws multiple parallels with the contemporary Athens, its politics and the economic crisis.
• : (Derma (Skin)), OΔC Ensemble / Βυρσοδεψείο (ODC Ensemble / Vyrsodepseio), 2012, Director: Director: Elli Papakonstantinou , Concept: Elli Papakonstantinou Dramaturgy: Stathis Grafanakis Original music: Tilemachos Moussas Scenography: Telis Karananos, Alexandra Siafkou Movement: Valia Papachristou, Christina Sougioultzi Ass. directors: Thomas Diafas, Davydd Cook, Semeli Haviara Performers: Adrian Frieling, Valia Papachristou, Lefteris Zimianitis, Aggelos Kalinoglou, Anastasia Katsinavaki, Thanos Kosmidis/Kosmas Hatzis, Nefeli Papaderou, Valia Tzanetou, Stella Christodoulopoulou Production: ODC Ensemble / Vyrsodepseio Photography: Alex Kat Video: Giannis Paraskevopoulos Montage: Kimon Kostaras ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: 'Derma (Skin)' is a promenade/site-specific performance on the move that was directly inspired by the places, materials and layered uses of the old industrial building of the Tannery, a place of both leather processing and cultural processing.
• : (Debtocrazy Revolutions), (ODC Ensemble / Vyrsodepseio, Athens), 2015, Director: Director: Elli Papakonstantinou, koncept/concept by: Elli Papakonstantinou, scénografka/teoretička, spolupracovnice / scenographer/theorist/collaborator: Maria Konomis, performeři/performers: Annika Lewis, Larissa Vergou, Lila Leontidou. Ve spolupráci s občany a návštěvníky Prahy/With the participation of citizens of and visitors to Prague. ; Identification of exhibit: live performance ;
  Comments: An in-situ performance with public participation that questions our perception of revolution today. The project aims to engage the citizens of Prague by gathering the views of passing-by/citizens on 'utopia','revolution', 'ending', 'the future after' and involving them in an in-situ remake of Leonardo Da Vinci 'Last Supper' on Wenceslas Square, as well as a Dada demonstration.
• Rootless Root

Additional information: RootlessRoot is a meeting point, an intersection and a threshold where conflicting ideas transform into a journey. It is a structure that supports the vision and creative ideas of founding members Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea.

Exhibiting works

• : (Endless Composition ), (Rootlessroot), 0 Concept: Rootlessroot (Jozef Frucek/Linda Kapetanea) Performed by: Jozef Frucek Video and editing: Mike Rafail Music: Vassilis Mantzoukis ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: This project is about devouring until nothing remains, to take away all meaning of our creative practice, to establish absolute absence and to devour until nothing remains. 30 Wooden Beams, each of them measuring 25x20x200 cm and weighing 50-70 Kg: all is gone and altered into something new. Endless composition removes what is valuable. It is the true death of an artist.
• : (Dogman ), (Rootlessroot), 0 Movement character: Jan Lorys Music: Vasilis Mantzoukis Video director: Grzegorz Korzeniowski ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: I'm dogman
  I'm running man
  running to my place
  to preserve illusion
  of knowing who I am
  I can get mad
  Cause no one understand
  The way I really am
  Nor that I would expect that anyway.
  
• Michael Marmarinos

Additional information: Michael Marmarinos has studied biology, neurobiology, theatre directing and acting. Full CV available at www.theseum.gr. He is a member of the Int. HEINER MULLER GESELLSCHAFT and former President of ITI in Greece. He is Assistant Professor Un. Patras & Nauplion at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Thessaloniki.

Exhibiting works

• Dimitris Dimitriadis : (Dying as a country ), Theseum Ensemble (Theseum Ensemble), 2007, Director: Director: Michael Marmarinos , Dramaturgy: Michael Marmarinos, Myrto Pervolaraki Music: Dimitris Kamarotos Set designer: Kenny MacLellan Costume designer: Dora Lelouda Movement: Valia Papachristou Video director: Michael Marmarinos Film director: Nikos Anagnostopoulos Director of photography and lighting: Ilias Konstantakopoulos Sound design: Studio 19 Assistant director: Myrto Pervolaraki, Eleni Kalara Assistant costume designer: Tatiana Souchoroukof Costume group: Daphne Iliopoulos, Eva Goulaki Trainee assistant director: Sofia Philonos Handling performance audio: Claus Boukis Drums: John Leloudas Manager of Theseum Ensemble: Eleni Petassi Theatre manager: Rena Fourtouni Public relations: Virginia Katsouna Assistant production manager: Venus Christodoulou-PRO4 Production manager: Manolis Sardis-PRO4 Performers: Mpempa Mplans, Maria Stavraka, Nikos Aleksiou, Giorgos Ziovas, Themistoklis Panou, Theodora Tzimou, Smaro Gaitanidou, Kim Soo-Jin, Adrian Frieling, Petros Alatzas, Ilias Algaer, Rena Andreadaki, Melina Apostolidou, Mariska Arvanitidi, Giorgos Brontos, Margarita Kalkou, Roza Kaloudi, Virginia Katsouna, David Malteze, Telemachos Moussas, Vasilis Spyropoulos, Anna Sotidouri, Irini Tzanetoulakou, Aris Tsaousis, Lampros Filippou, Rena Fourtouni, Michalis Chatiris ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: What is a country? When might a country die? In times of crisis, this performance suggests a cry. A cry of life and hope for the upcoming disasters. A cry composed of laughter, desperation, deep joy, protest and silence. A country is basically its people. In times of crisis people expect. Waiting is the chief activity of mortals.
• Dimitris Dimitriadis: (Insenso ), Theseum Ensemble (Theseum Ensemble), 2012, Director: Director: Michael Marmarinos, Set and costume designer: Dora Lelouda Video director: Giannis Lapatas Performers: Sandra Garuglieri, Maria Nafpliotou, Electra Nikolouzou, Evi Saoulidou, Elena Topalidou, Ioanna Asimakopoulou, Alexandra Aidini, Christina Avgeridi, Marilou Vomvolou, Chara-Mata Yannatou, Virginia Katsouna, Katerina Kivetou, Regina Mandilara, Daphne Manousou, Eleni Petasi, Olga Spyraki, Maria Stavraka, Dora Stylianesi, Anastasia Hatzara Piano: Ellie Ingliz, Margarita Xanthaki ; Identification of exhibit: video ;
  Comments: The process is inverse: writings 'catch' us first and then we follow. Something like this happened with INSENSO. Or, to be more precise – INSIDE OURSELVES – we hear the writings we love, we wrote them. The Landscape – a violent excavation into memory, into the body of human experience – is the first, critical pathway to experiencing this performance.