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2015 » Cyprus » Section of Countries and Regions

Curator:Marina Maleni
Designer / Architect of exhibition:Elena Katsouri
Institution:Cyprus Theatre Organisation

Creatures

Imaginary creatures in theatre

REdirecting us back to basics,

REintroducing fantasy and imagination as a means of

REdiscovering,

REthinking and

REshaping our space.

Inspired by

—PQ'15’s great choice of themes centered on Music Weather Politics

—Our understanding of Space, in which we all design, create and exist, and Space as the environment that we all affect

—The inventive break-up of exhibition space into many thematic parts and venues within the city of Prague

—The political, economic and environmental conditions affecting all of humanity, and especially the world of theatre

We introduce PQ audiences to CREATURES of imagination that offer answers by bringing us back to basic and essential values, issues and ideas.

Aristophane’s The Birds, providing the ideal ‘city’ for people who have fled their intolerable home city, and Kalikantziaroi1, reclaiming their existence because humans have totally forgotten about them and written them out of their lives, erasing them from their imaginations and thus condemning them to extinction, drove us to produce our own kind of new Imagination Manifesto, which becomes the central proposal of our exhibit.

Two productions are based on imaginary, otherworldly creatures, offering solutions to humans facing crises: one, Kali-Kantzar and Co, by contemporary writers Lea Maleni, Christina Constantinou and Valentinos Kokkinos, and one, The Birds, by the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy, Aristophanes, both of which are designed by Elena Katsouri and Georgios Koukoumas:

Two proposals, ages apart, yet both instinctively basic in essence, on how societies can face the disobedience of humans of today to their own nature, by returning to basics and looking within and seeking one’s ‘space’ through imagination.

Two designers join forces to create an installation allowing visitors to literally take matters in their own hands, to illuminate what is there to be discovered.

Through the installation we propose that the way of facing difficulties in new conditions is returning to basics through creativity and imagination. We invite each person to explore the exhibition in their own way, through peepholes, hidden artifacts, surprises in the dark and placing the ‘light’ in the palm of their hand. A playful, interactive experience for the PQ'15 visitor, whom we aspire to inspire to discover their own imagination and creativity as the central means of managing the many kinds of crisis that our world is going through.

1 Kalikantziaroi are filthy, mischievous creatures from Cypriot tradition, coming up from the center of the earth after Christmas to disrupt order, have fun, create havoc in people’s homes and realize all their mischievous urges. Not to be confused with elves or goblins.

Founded in 1971, the Cyprus Theatre Organization (THOC), as the state theatre of Cyprus, also fosters a Theatre Development Department dealing with everything that furthers the art of theatre in Cyprus and abroad. THOC's first participation in the PQ goes back to 1991 and has been responsible for Cyprus's national exhibit ever since, with remarkable feedback from both visitors and experts.

Exhibiting artists / ateliers

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  • Έλενα Κατσούρη (Elena Katsouri)
  • Γεώργιος Κουκουμάς (Georgios Koukoumas)
  • Μαργαρίτα Παπαθεοδούλου (Margarita Papatheodoulou)

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