Author: gourgourini

The art exhibition by Elina Niarchou and Jérémy Lacombe, entitled “Domesticated mythologies” opens on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at or.artspace.

The two artists draw on material from their everyday life in the place they live, the island of Tinos, and interpret it through visual means. As the two of them navigate the island, the past, the present and the future become blurred and spatial and temporal discontinuities are created. In their work, various fragments are woven together and form a new visual mythology. The mysterious world of Elina Niarchou is captured through painting, as well as through sewing, and receives within it the Jérémy Lacombe’s marble sculptures that look like fossils of mutant creatures of an era that has passed or is to come. The new landscape resulting from the collaboration between Niarchou and Lacombe takes on a dreamlike dimension, revealing another aspect of the familiar environment.

Elina Niarchou is a visual artist who lives and works in Tinos. She is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and of the Marble Sculpture Art School of Panormos in Tinos. Niarchou has participated in artistic programs in Greece and abroad (Into the ocean, Bourglinster, Luxembourg 2017/ Roder, Rodez, France, 2019 / Contemporary art practices engaging with the unexplored folk culture of Xiromero in Aetolia- Akarnania, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, 2020). Since 2018, she has been organizing art workshops for children and adults in Tinos, in collaboration with Jérémy Lacombe (Museum of Marble Crafts, PIOP). In 2022, she was awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS.

Jérémy Lacombe is an artist who lives and works in Tinos. He is a graduate of the Fine Art School of Bordeaux and holds a master’s degree in visual arts pedagogy for adolescents from ESA-ERG of Brussels. His artistic work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Ces lieux qui nous gouvernent, Gallerie du Haut Pavé, Paris, France 2018/ Murs en suspens et autres météores, Rodez, France, 2019/ Marmania, Antiparos 2022/ Zig Zag Festival, Ysternia, Tinos, 2022). Since 2018, he has been co-organizing, together with Elina Niarchou, art workshops in Tinos.

Visual communication: Jérémy Lacombe

Duration of the exhibition: 8 to 24 December 2022
Opening, Thursday 8 December, 18:00-22:00
Thursday 15 and 22 December, 18:00-22:00
Friday 9, 16 and 23 December, 18:00-22:00}Saturday 10 and 17 December, 12:00-22:00
Sunday 11 and 18 December, 12:00-22:00
Last day, Saturday 24 December, 12:00-16:00.

or.artspace,
89
Dimitrakopoulou street
Koukaki

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or.artspace was founded in Athens, in 2021, by Dr. Elpida Rikou, a visual artist and anthropologist. It is a personal working space, which remains open to collaborations. At or.artspace, at 89
Dimitrakopoulou street in Koukaki, works of art are created, exhibited and sold, while workshops are also organized for small groups, on various subject matters. The project’s aim is to explore alternatives (see or -disjunction) for self-subsisting art making in Greece.

https://orartspace.com/
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Drawing, as a primary visual language, remains a powerful means to translate, document, and analyze our society. The need to understand the world through visual lenses seems more urgent than ever: images transcend the barriers of language and enhance communications in an increasingly fluid society, in a world that changes rapidly and where nothing remains the same.

Considering this rapid change to be inevitable, we came up with the theme Here And Now, which conceals multiple meanings. First, it creates urgency. It causes the act of pausing, to understand the moment before it fleets. Secondly, it represents the literal action of the Lisbon Drawing Club: a community indulging in the present, drawing together. This togetherness allows experiencing a unique moment of creation, reflection, and representation.

Through quiet contemplation, the viewers will be able to see the body’s different sensations and forms, as well as the images evocatively suggested by these works. While they may look small in scale, they open up a wide space to rethink the actual notion of the body and the human condition.
By collecting drawings from the Here and Now, this exhibition also grasps the mutation of time. Moments are ever-evolving, time continuously transforms the (now-past) present into a new (more-current) present. Each of the selected drawings testifies to the liveliness of both the drawer and those being drawn; for life means movement, action, and transformation. Therefore, this exhibition acts as an archive of moments in time, an archive of people and connections. Here and Now might seem difficult or uncertain, but it can also be a great time to live — unquestionably, a time worth grasping.

Text: Alexia Alexandropoulou, Ines Neves

The exhibition Grasping Time will be on between the 25th and 27th of November at Fabrica Braço de Prata, open from 17h-21h. The exhibition’s vernissage will take place on November 25th, between 19h00-22h00. On November 27th from 11h-16h there will be the 5h drawing session Big Draw, held between Lisbon Drawing Club and Drink&Draw Tallinn, followed by a finissage from 16h-22h.

Participating artists:
Adrien Genevard , Alina Shpakova , Ana Beatriz Ávila, Barbara Ryckewaert, Chris Markland, Flora Gasnier, Inês Garcia, João Guapo,
João Miguel Feijão, Lígia Fernandes, Madalena Bettencourt, Margherita Batoréu Annibale, Marianne Maina, Nicola Lonzi, Nicole Sánchez,
Pedro Cabral, Rita Almeida, Rita Ivo, Susanne Malorny, Tati (entalle), Tomás Reis, Utku Yavasca ,Valerio Giovannini, Vasilisa Omelchenko, Vera Joao

Curated by: mais uno +1 — Alexia Alexandropoulou (GR), Alina Shpakova (RU), Dorottya Ács (HU), Inês Nêves (PT)

Poster design: Ines Neves

*Alexia Alexandropoulou is a curatorial SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (2022)

K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents the exhibition ICARUS in Agia Paraskevi Lesvos, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis. With the participation of the artists: Absalon, Bas Jan Ader, Yannis Voulgaris, Daniel Everett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Katerina Komianou, Giorgos Kontis, Mark Wallinger, and Angelos Frentzos.

ICARUS is developed as an exhibition in a flight condition. The artists-as-passengers present their work in an environment of extended levitation, exploring how human ingenuity relates to physical and mental journeys. What can we learn from the cross-cultural wanderings in the (artistic) universe? Who are our fellow travellers in this transformation process? How can these voyages act as a healing force and contribute to social change?

Nine acclaimed Greek and international artists share personal stories about expectation, love, loss, and fall while referencing current affairs. Through the quests of each era, the mythical Icarus manages to express the primordial desire for transcendence. In this direction, the exhibited artworks (photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations) testify to the relationship between society, culture, and technology across expanded geographies.

In this context, a parallel exhibition on the second floor of K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents selected works from its collection linked to important moments of its course as a nomadic platform. The display includes a photograph by Christian Michael Filardo and a sculpture by Virginia Russolo that address themes of mapping and spirituality.

The educational program of the ICARUS exhibition is developed in collaboration with the experiential art space Lefko Harti in Mytilini. It features creative workshops and screenings for children and adults curated by Mari Moustaizi and Michael Meimaroglou. More information will be announced on social media.

Finally, a catalog (Greek/English) is published with contributions from Alain de Botton and Every Ocean Hughes, documenting all the actions and synergies carried out by the Gallery in 2022.

ΙCARUS
10/12/2022 — 05/03/2023
Opening: Saturday 10 December, 19:00
Opening hours: Saturday-Sunday, 15:00-20:00
Free entrance

For the opening of the exhibition, there will be a free round-trip bus from Mytilini to K-Gold Temporary Gallery. Departure from the KTEL bus station (Saturday 10 December at 18:00). Reservations: +30 6942202222.

Address: Agia Paraskevi, 81102 Lesvos, Greece
Telephone: +30 6942202222
Website: kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com
Email: [email protected]
Social Media: @kgoldtemporarygallery

*Katerina Komianou, Giorgos Kontis are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

K-GOLD TEMPORARY GALLERY
K-Gold Temporary Gallery was founded in 2014 in Lesvos to bring contemporary art and culture closer to everyone. It has presented the work of established artists such as Joan Jonas, Erwin Wurm, Lucy+Jorge Orta, Lynda Benglis, Jonathas de Andrade, Ana Mendieta, Cosima von Bonin, and John Baldessari. The Gallery currently collaborates with the Hellenic Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs and is part of the Miramar network. It distinguished as an innovative European cultural initiative by Nantes Métropole.

Supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports.

The exhibition “La Jalousie” is presented from 26 November to 27 November at Lycra in Hamburg. It is a group exhibition by Niklas Arnold and Despοina Pagiota, in which the two artists will present paintings and photographic works.

La Jalousie

Niklas Arnold & Despoina Pagiota

Exhibition in Lycra 26 & 27 November 2022
Address: Lycra, Eiffestrasse 432, 20537 Hamburg
https://www.instagram.com/lycra_raum/

Duration: 26/11 – 27/11/2022
Opening hours: Saturday 19:00 – 23:00 & Sunday 15:00 – 18:00

Visual artist and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021 Evangelia Vatsaki, organized & implemented “NOA project” in collaboration with the municipality of Rhodes. This was a travelogue project taking place between May and August 2022. In this context, Evangelia held a total of 44 painting workshops, 42 in the villages and 2 in the city of Rhodes. For 3 months Evangelia wandered on her bicycle from one village to the next, responding to each community and then holding a three-hour painting
workshop in nature, with participant residents of all ages.

For more information check the video here.

This video was shown as part of the final exhibition – a presentation of the project, at the Auberge de France à Rhodes, a space that presents art exhibitions and cultural activities in Rhodes.

Can a white, unrippable, resistant material become the starting point for an exhibition that
focuses on lived experience, identity, and oppositional forms of expression from the 1970s to
the present day?

The artistic director of ATOPOS cvc, Vassilis Zidianakis announces The Tyvek Project, an
exhibition that is part of its Research Programme, RRRIPP!! a series of projects that take as
their subject holdings from the collection.

The Tyvek Project was devised in collaboration with Mata Dimakopoulou (National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens), and Electra Stampoulou & Vassilis Vlastaras (Athens
School of Fine Arts) and started with two items from the ATOPOS collection: a Tyvek jacket
like the one that the American poet James Merrill ‘wore’ in “Self Portrait in Tyvek
Windbreaker,” an autobiographical poem informed by the poet’s anxiety for his own ailing
body, and his discontent vis-à-vis environmental degradation and globalised capitalism; and
a white Tyvek suit, hand-stamped by artists of the New York experimental and avant-garde
scene of the late 1970s.

Participating artists engage with the mass-produced hyper-resistant material and reflect on
urban decay, crisis and austerity, intimacy and queer experiences. This body of work was
produced in the context of workshops that conjoined research, theory, and art practice and
took place at the Athens School of Fine Arts in the fall of 2021 and 2022.

The exhibition and related events are curated and organised by Elena Koumarianou, Lydia
Panagou, and Caterina Stamou.

24 November – 21 December 2022
Opening Hours: Wednesday 16:00- 20:00, Thursday & Friday 12:00 – 18:00
Visit: Free entry, pre-booking at Artsvp
Organization: ATOPOS cvc

Participating Artists: Semeli Avramioti, Erifyli Angelopoulou, Eleftheria Amolochiti, Alexandra
Apsokardou, Ariadni Delimitrou, Eleni Dermitzaki, Orestis Dimitriou, Sophia Kapourani, Eleni
Karakou, Despoina Katsikosta, Katerina Korre, Elena Koumarianou, Alexandra Krokou,
Maria Labrinidi, Charis Mavroulias, Triantafylia Douroupi, Kyriaki Osogia, Ellie
Papadopoulou, Christina Rossi, Katerina Skordou, Elena Stigka, Alexis Tetsis, Maritina
Tselepi, Tatiana Choremi, Alma-Clara Juarez

Academic Organisers: Mata Dimakopoulou, Elektra Stampoulou, Vassilis Vlastaras
Curating and Public Programme: Elena Koumarianou, Lydia Panagou and Caterina Stamou

*Elektra Stampoulou and Caterina Stamou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

How many universes can pass before one’s eyes? How many memories can be actually shared? This performance is part of an ongoing research process based on the mapping of daily realities, existing political turbulence, discomfort, uneasiness, but also pleasure and intimacy, where the performer constructs her own fictions on stage through improvisation. She composes a spatial puzzle as fragmented and chaotic as her worlds/words, exploring strategies of transformation, constant change, resignation, abandonment, while proposing an encounter through touch, tenderness and harshness; she attempts to bring to the fore narratives beyond language, on the verge of enjoyment and annoyance, disappointment and pleasure, where ultimately, everything is tangled, creating a grip of experiences, a fragmented archive to find ourselves in.

episode 02: two is my favorite colour
Sophia Danae Vorvila

TOBE Antwerp 2022 expo
25  November 17:00 – 27 November 19:00 UTC+02
More info: https://www.tobeantwerp.com/performance-2022/

Myrto Vratsanou’s 360° video “The things in my room” is screened in the context on the Virtual Surreality project by bodytalk, as part of this year’s umPollen festival.

Μore info:
https://www.pumpenhaus.de/37304/

Myrto Vratsanou participates in the Art Cologne art fair, in the hall 11.3, booth A-026 of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), among other selected recent graduates.

More info:
https://en.khm.de/termine/news.5439.khm-auf-der-art-cologne-2022/
https://www.artcologne.com/

Folk Fiction brings together nine artists from different geographies who share a fascination with demarcating and poetically deconstructing fundamental aspects of representation. Pulling away from traditional modes of meaning-making, they look at language as a system of oral resonances and historically imbued forms. By fictionalizing and abstracting, they create new meanings that allow multiple identities to be expressed.

The works on view draw on lores, oral traditions and anecdotal accounts transmitted across times. Considering how these forms of knowledge have been reused and co-opted to build institutional and colonial narratives, the artists explore a double consciousness–simultaneously rediscovering oral traditions and inheritances, and dissembling them in order to examine their implications in the present.

From mythical maps to invented rituals, Folk Fiction looks at the past as imaginatively open-ended. Several of the works on view evoke Saidiya Hartman’s method of “critical fabulation”, which combines fiction and critical historical research to transgress the official accounts of history. Folk Fiction sees how far fabulation can be pushed, and what capability it has for producing multifaceted representations of the past, present and future.

Performance on Opening Night

and speak (why?) with mute ash

The public program of performances and gatherings will start during the opening of the exhibition with “and speak (why?) with mute ash”, a performance by writer and artist Ashkan Sepahvand on Saturday, November 19th at 19:00 pm.

Folk Fiction
November 19th – December 22nd, 2022
Opening: Saturday, November 19th at 19:00 pm
At: One Minute Space, Athens
Artists: James Beckett, Jesse Chun, Alexis Fidetzis, Carolina Fusilier and Miko Revereza, Jenny Marketou, Ashkan Sepahvand, Anastasia Sosunova, and Maria Varela
Curated by Ariana Kalliga

Weekly Exhibition Schedule
Wednesday to Friday: 16:00 – 20:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 – 16:00 PM

*Alexis Fidetzis, Maria Varela and Ariana Kalliga are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

Night Stop, a short film written and directed by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, will have its world premiere in the Short Film Competition of the Red Sea International Film Festival. The film tells about a teenage Black boy who is on his way home at night when his bicycle breaks down in the middle of a quiet highway where he meets a series of mysterious characters. The festival catalogue predicts the film will appeal to fans of the horror filmmaker Jordan Peele.

The film is produced by Danai Anagnostou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2022) for Kenno Filmi.

More info: here

RED SEA FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
The Red Sea Film Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization created to support the film industry in Saudi Arabia in the production and distribution of films, as well as education on cinema. The Foundation’s initiatives support the ambitious plans for the Kingdom in the entertainment industries, with its pillars of a vibrant society, an ambitious nation and a thriving economy.

Champions of film culture in Saudi Arabia and across the Arab world. Discover global cinema, support filmmakers, develop skills, and make ideas reality through year-round programs.

RED SEA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Every year, ten days of film, new and old – encounter the makers, learn from the masters, be inspired by the best.

The Red Sea International Film Festival is for film lovers, filmmakers, and the global film industry. See the blockbusters of the future before they hit the big screen. Discover old favorites with lovingly curated retrospectives and restored classics.

Athens – L’Aquila. A conversation on the insight into two cities, through a peripatetic experience, a gaze directed at a sense of familiarity and our fainted childhood memory.
In the presentation of the photographic books PENDULUM and HEAR YOU ATHENS, together with Alexandros Mistriotis, we will share thoughts and confessions about our experience in two diverse cities, that offered us hospitality and shaped us.

Stefania Orfanidou
https://www.stefaniaorfanidou.com/Pendulum
Georges Salameh
https://georgessalameh.blogspot.com/p/book.html
Alexandros Mistriotis
https://thereceptionathens.eu/ See less

PRESENTATION “A TALE OF TWO CITIES”
Fahrenheit 451 Books&Coffee
102 Marinou Antipa Avenue, 16346
Ilioupoli, Athens

Stefania Orfanidou
https://www.stefaniaorfanidou.com/Pendulum
Georges Salameh
https://georgessalameh.blogspot.com/p/book.html
Alexandros Mistriotis
https://thereceptionathens.eu/

*Stefania Orfanidou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020

After successful performances in Greece, Cyprus, and UK, Sam Albatros’ very own performance of their best-selling debut novel is now coming to Berlin! Following the main performance, Sam Albatros will present a stand-up comedy number about being a sissy, greek family and more.

The performance will be in Greek with English subtitles and the stand-up in English.

Lettrétage
Veteranenstraße 21
10119 Berlin Mitte
Free entry

ABOUT THE BOOK
A best-seller, social media sensation, and already adapted for the stage multiple times, the novel is the first in Greece to be written in the voice of a gender non-conforming character who comes of age in the early 2000s, during a time of social and economic turbulence. As such, it touches on a range of timely issues of broad social importance that are sure to appeal to audiences of all ages. In Greece, the book has attracted mainstream media attention and has been shortlisted for prestigious awards.

Yiorgos of Kedros, a documentary by Yiannis and Giorgos Kolozis will screen on Greek national TV ERT2 on Friday November 18 at 23:30 and will have an online follow up on ERTFLIX platform for 15 days.

https://program.ert.gr/details.asp?pid=3836695&chid=49

A journey in time through the eyes of two generations of filmmakers, at the same remote island in Greece from the ’70s until now. Yiorgos Kolozis went to Donoussa for the first time in 1972, there was no electricity or tourists then. Staying alone at Kedros beach, he acquired the name “Yiorgos of Kedros”and visited many times recording the remains of old times. Yiorgos’ death in 2009 led Yiannis, his son, to continue his work, creating a story in which time is treated as a reconsideration of the present moment. A study in the concept of memory.

Yiorgos of Kedros (82′) on ΕRT 2
Friday 18/11 – 23:30

Trailer:

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/yiorgosofkedros/

Website:
https://yiorgosofkedros.com

Awards & Distinctions
Nominated for Best Documentary – Hellenic Film Academy, 2021
Best Documentary – Balkan New Film Festival, Sweden, 2020
Best Documentary – Docfest Chalkida, 2020
Best Documentary – Ierapetra Documentary Festival, 2020
Best Directing – Ierapetra Documentary Festival, 2020
Best Editing – Ierapetra Documentary Festival, 2020
Special Mention – Beyond Borders Documentary Festival, 2020
Special Mention – AegeanDocs Festival, 2020
Opening Film – Signos da Noite, Portugal 2020
2nd Best Documentary – West Side Mountains Doc Fest, 2021
Honorable Mention – London Greek Film Festival, 2021
Honorable Mention – Deep Focus Film Festival, 2021
Best Documentary – Amorgos Film Festival, 2022

Power in modernity is gradually but steadily shifting its dominance from repression to universal preventive control. Foucault was right! The game of politics is played on our bodies. Politics becomes biopolitics. The 48 artists featured in the exhibition Confinement curated by Dimitris Trikasat the Dromokaitio P.H.A., participate with works that are dialectic, collide and, in any case, respond to the space and the semantic axis of the exhibition, works from the entire spectrum of the visual and not only the vocabulary of contemporary art: sculptures and installations, videos,sound constructions, painting, photography and performative actions. In parallel with the visual part, 5 Seminars are organized with the participation of approximately seventy academics, researchers and writers who investigate the above issues through the scientific fields that we consider critical for the content and thematics of the project, such as those of psychoanalysis, philosophy, history, literature and political theory.

Participating Artists | Dimitris Antonitsis, Chloe Akrithakis, Dimitris Alithinos, Katerina Apostolidou, Ileana Arnautou, Kostis Velonis, Babis Venetopoulos, Antonis Volanakis, Poka Yo + LAB12, Vangelis Gokas, Thomas Diotis, Markos Evloghimenos, Mary Zygouri, Captain, Nikomachi Karakostanoglou, Haris Kontosfiris, Nikos Koliopoulos, Kalliopi Lemou, Maria Loizidou, Maria Louizou, Natalia Manda, Maro Michalakakou, Vassilis Bakalis, Mania Benisi, Vally Nomidou, Angelos Papadimitriou, Anna Papaeti, Ilias Papailiakis, Nina Papakonstantinou, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Artemis Potamianou, Panos Prophetis, Pinelopi Petsini, Redoumis Dimitris, Marios Spiliopoulos, George Tserionis, Eleni Tzirtzilaki, Kostas Tsolis, Sokratis Fatouros, Alexis Fidetzis, Dimitris Chalatsis, Despina Charitonidis, Kostas Christopoulos, Dionysis Christofilogiannis.

Performances | Philippos Vassiliou, Stathis Grapsas/ Alexandros Voutsinas, Yannis Mitrou, Savvas Stroumpos/ Elli Ingliz/ Anna Marka-Bonichel, Philippos Tsitsopoulos.

SNF ARTWORKS Fellows | Ileana Arnautou, Maria Louizou, Natalia Manda, Panos Prophetis, Alexis Fidetzis, Philippos Vassiliou.

The exhibition Confinement is supported by NEON as part of its annual Grants Scheme.

CONFINEMENTS
11/11/2022 – 18/12/2022
Dromokaiteio P.H.A.
Editor | Dimitris Trikas
Organised by AMKE Rizes Politismou
OPENING: 11 November 2022, 4-9pm 7pm
OPENING HOURS: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday | 3-8pm
FREE ENTRANCE

SUN OR TOURISTS?
CHEAP DESTINATION OR GENTRIFICATION?
NEW HYPE OR ROMANTICIZATION OF POVERTY?

The series takes off with “Heat and Run: a greek summer tale”.

What is the essence of the Greek summer?

Every summer millions of tourists choose Greece as their top holiday destination, with the most days of sunshine per year and hours of sunshine per day and has been found to be the warmest European country even during winter.

From international capital and international cultural institutes to anarcho-tourists and the hyped art world, Greece is perceived as an uncultivated investment land or the place of counterculture.

So probably Greece has it all.

SUN, SEA, ISLANDS, CHEAP RENTS (for who?).

Meanwhile, 28.9% of the population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, cops are everywhere,CLASS

ΕXPLOITATION/HOMOPHOBIA/TRANSPHOBIA/FATPHOBIA/ABLEISM/RACISM are totally embedded to the greek society, femicides every month, corruption, gentrification, rents higher and higher.

However, even under these circumstances, we all wait for the summer to forget everything and get that summer state of mind, because summer for some of us is this utopian space-time continuum outside the capitalist system. So what does summer symbolize in our collective imaginary unconscious? Heat and run will try to depict the two sides of the same coin.

HEAT AND RUN: a summer tale
AYE MARI X CANTINA ANΤΙΣΟΣΙΑΛA multi media group exhibition about the two sides of the same coin curated by Vassilia Kaga.

Opening: 15 Νοvember, 19.00 – 23.00
Exhibition duration: 15 November – 10 December
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 18.00 – 22.00

Cantina ΑΝΤΙΣΟΣΙΑΛ
Leokoriou 8
10554 Αthens
Instagram: @cantinantisocial
Email: [email protected]

ARTISTS

alienprincesshasgreasyhair
Bois Futuri
Αnastasis Panagis Meletis / Panas
Froso Papadopoulou
Alki Papastathopoulos
Sofia Rozaki
Klaus Jurgen Schmidt
Alexandros Simopoulos
Αntigone Theodorou
Cantiniera

*Vassilia Kaga, Alexandros Simopoulous and Antigoni Theodorou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows

“The Fallen Dervish” is one of the most famous short stories written by Alexandros Papadiamantis, due to the inclusion of all those elements that characterize the author’s idiosyncratic language. Papadiamantis’ language combines archaizing with spoken forms of Modern Greek, in ways that no other Greek short story writer could touch. In so doing, Papadiamantis’ texts are impossible to translate into another language. In “The Fallen Dervish,” the main body of the text is written in archaizing forms of Modern Greek, while simpler forms of Greek, as spoken in everyday life, are used throughout the dialogues, as well as at certain points within the narrative itself.

If one would like to approach the socio-historical context in which Papadiamantis wrote “The Fallen Dervish,” one should certainly take into account that this short story was published in January 1896, about three months before the first modern revival of the Olympic Games in Athens. Papadiamantis, while being attuned to the transitional period in which Greece was at that time, trying between heterogeneous forces to construct a cultural identity from the ruins of its Ancient past, the Ottoman influence and the gaze of the West upon it, places in his short story a wandering dervish. This homeless stranger appears as an enigmatic figure who plays the ney flute around the area of Thesion, at a time when the underground railway was being constructed, and salep was sold at the streets. What Papadiamantis tries to achieve through this atmospheric short story is to highlight the multicultural landscape of Athens at the end of the 19th century.

The way we approached “The Fallen Dervish” was mainly based on foregrounding the author’s language, in an attempt to bring it back to the present, while respecting the idioms, the atmosphere and the rhythm to which Papadiamantis introduces us. For this reason, we decided to strip the theatrical space to the bare minimum, using natural sound in the voice and musical instruments. Our goal is to invite the audience to exit the high speed that characterizes today’s daily life, to slow down and to experience unfamiliar kinds of rhythm, vibration and flow.

Alexandros Papadiamantis
“The Fallen Dervish”
Every Saturday at 9pm, from November 12th 2022 to January 21st 2023,
at KE.ME.THE.T (23, Koilis str., Ano Petralona, Athens).
RSVP: 6939669218.

Directed by: Despina Zacharopoulou – Giannis Karounis.
Light Design: Despina Zacharopoulou
Actor on stage: Giannis Karounis
Ney: Eleni Baili
Percussion: Evangelia Stavrou

General Admission: 10 euros
Admission for four people: 8 euros each
Unemployed, SEH members, ARTWORKS Fellows, disabled: 5 euros
Special prices for organized groups.
Production: Active Body Theater (Instagram: @activebodytheaterworkshop)