Starting point is only revealed after booking.
Performance includes a walk/tour around Omonoia Square
End Point: EIGHT (Politechniou 8)
Due to limited capacity booking is required at 6986656259 or 8eightathens@gmail.com
Free entrance with voluntary contribution
But the circle is a trap. You don’t need to go beyond it. Its enough to make circles around the square, to turn and look from all sides, without making a step beyond it. We are just standing there looking. There are many of us that we have fallen into this trap of quietly looking at the depth of the streets, the different possible routes without taking any.
(Constantina Theodorou, Omonia Diaries)
A performance about incomplete plans and the persistence of life in conditions of constant stagnation. A journey through the history of Omonoia square, centre for all incomplete plans for the city of Athens from the beginning of the Greek modern state to today, a route through ephemeral mini-utopias, a walk through changing seasons. A performance-lecture about the making of the modern Greek State, about nostalgic constructions, about the possibilities of exodus and symbiosis.
The performance begins in a secret location of the city and invites audience to a performance-lecture on personal and collective histories/mythologies. Audience members are then guided through different routes in the city to end up in a space out of time. Diaries, construction materials, failed urban plans, old collections, songs from places faraway and the little pigeons of the square guide us in this night walk late spring early summer in a forgotten part of the city centre, and invite us to rethink together the “productivity” of the streets and surrounding city space.
Created by the company
Performed/Devised by: Constantina Theodorou, Mary Lousi, Yorgia Karidi, Evangelie Fili
Direction: Gigi Argyropoulou
Video: Constantina Theodorou
Assistant Director: Evangelie Fili
This performance is supported by The Greek Ministry of Culture
This lecture-performance takes place as part of the public programme of EIGHT. A new space in the city of Athens that seeks to explore the possibilities of a critical intervention in an ever-changing precarious landscape. Bringing together forms of artistic, political and theoretical production, urban research and social action and building on radical experiments of recent years it seeks to investigate forms of continuity and instituting that challenge neoliberal demands of sustainability.
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2019-04-17 – 2019-05-24
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