Syndrome de Laocoon

Syndrome de Laocoon 2020

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A native acanthus (Acanthus mollis L.) is torn apart. Laocoon’s Group and the allegory of Saint Paisios of Mount Athos. Arvo Pärt's “Triodion” begins with Trisagion and ends with it. Every beginning of Spring, Aris suppresses the momentum of weeds in the garden.

2020

Girlhood

Girlhood 2021

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Girlhood follows the story of three seventeen-year-old girls in a neighborhood in the center of Athens as they go through the difficult period of transition to adulthood while in quarantine isolation. Christina, Nefeli and Vera experiencing sexism, dream of their independence and try to learn to love themselves. With their faces glued to a screen, they take refuge in each other and await to finish school.

2021

Happy Hours

Happy Hours 2020

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A desperate meditation on the extended passage of time as experienced through social distance.

2020

Darwin, What?

Darwin, What? 2020

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Isabella is in quarantine due to the coronavirus. She decides it’s the right time to read all of Darwin’s books, but the writing is heavy and she falls asleep while reading. Darwin’s ghost appears in her dream. He wants to talk about the expression of emotions, because Isabella is an actress. Darwin explains that in his book “On the Expression of Emotions on Man and Animals,” he presents his hypothesis that basic expressions – just like bones or the famous beaks of his finches – are also shaped by evolution.

2020

As You Sleep the World Empties

As You Sleep the World Empties 2020

7.80

Humanity has been struck by a pandemic. People from around the globe have fallen asleep and nobody knows when they're waking up. Only few of them haven't been infected. Among them, there's a boy who fell in love with a girl right before the outbreak of the epidemic. With an old camera, he tries to capture the beauty that's left in the world, so the girl can see it when she wakes up.

2020

HOW ARE WE

HOW ARE WE 2020

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HOW ARE WE is a collectively-created performance consisting of fifteen 90-second solos that respond to 10 prompts proposed by artists Emily Mast and Yehuda Duenyas.

2020

The Script: Make Yourself at Home

The Script: Make Yourself at Home 2020

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‘The Script: Make Yourself at Home’ will show the uncertain, absurd, ordinary and lonely situation most of us are in right now.

2020

Tarantino

Tarantino 2020

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The wonderful digital world is not just about colors and fancy ringtones; it is also a space for thoughtful discussions, as well as a chance for us to become better people, leaving the past behind and, with science’s help, creating the future that we deserve.

2020

Touch Me

Touch Me 2020

5.00

In a distant future world, where water and air are contaminated, and it is prohibited to touch one another, a girl and a boy decide to go to a beach. Yorgos Zois creates an erotic sci fi through these dystopian times.

2020

Safety Cards 2.0

Safety Cards 2.0 2020

4.00

Browsing through his collection of snapshots from safety cards during take-off, Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll reflects on what these images can tell.

2020

Altostratus: An Allegory

Altostratus: An Allegory 2020

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Altostratus clouds are grey or blue grey. The sun or moon may shine through these clouds but it's signaling that a storm is on the way. This is a piece involving movement, sound, and text. It is meant to hold a space for reflection, to consider what hangs above us and how it all may fall.

2020

Perspective

Perspective 2020

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Five sights of Athens as seen from another point of view. The various names of Truman, the passing-by runner, Charilaos Trikoupis’ specialty, the animal instincts of love, and Melina, they all share personal data in the time of mask-wearing. Now, people and sights find time to get to know each other.

2020

6'

6' 2020

2.30

Set against video material of dancers in six-foot proximities, Parson reads from a diaristic meditation on the spatial protocols that have been set for us in our new world of Covid-19 behaviors.

2020

We are the King of Ventilators

We are the King of Ventilators 2020

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“We are the King of Ventilators” is a compelling and prescient performance to camera by Jim Fletcher, directed by Tim Etchells, with text by Chris Thorpe. The work takes a phrase about US ventilator production repeated by US President Donald Trump during the Covid-19 epidemic, and places it in sharp counterpoint with original material to create a comical and unsettling reflection on power, mortality, and delusion.

2020

How To Get Away With Westworld

How To Get Away With Westworld 2020

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"Getting a check." This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.

2020

The Glove

The Glove 2020

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Sometimes you feel like an inflated prophylactic glove, and you almost want to jump out the window.

2020

Hamlet a desktop performance

Hamlet a desktop performance 2020

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Hamlet browses his desktop. Shakespeare’s play themes become transparent through the use of media. During an evening screen-mirroring, love, grief, anti-depressants, death, self- destruction are intermixed with endless references to pop internet culture, to animation, to current affairs.

2020