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Kun in Exarheia/ Walking performance

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Koun in Exarheia

Research-Documentation-Creative team: Babis Baltas, Melina Plasti, Mary Kaldi, Katerina Alexiadi, Nelli Poulopoulou, Ioanna Roussou

Procuction and Direction of the Performance: Nelli Poulopoulou, Ioanna Roussou

Performers: Stefania Vlastari, Despina Greka, Vali Ioannou, Eleni Karakatsani, Stathis Kastritis, Sofia Kougioumtzidou, Katerina Kouni, Sergios Kompogiorgas, Thodoris Papadomarkakis, Nelli Poulopoulou, Ioanna Roussou, ‘Elena Stamati

Curator of Art Tribute: Vato Fratzoglou Poster,

Blog: Mary Kaldi

Take part: Students from the Experimental Music High School of Pallini Theatrical Group of Back Desks, Students of the School of Art Theater

A set of actions with a walking performance in collaboration with the Greek network for Theater in Education, the pedagological group "Skasiarcheio" and the drama school "Karolos Koun art theater. A tour in Exarheia, a special and historical area in the centre of Athens, walks through the art stations, during the years of occupation by the natzi and reneals memories through cinematic images, stating the need to preserve the cultural identity of the area.

Research-Documentation-Creative team: Babis Baltas, Melina Plasti, Mary Kaldi, Katerina Alexiadi, Nelli Poulopoulou, Ioanna Roussou

Procuction and Direction of the Performance: Nelli Poulopoulou, Ioanna Roussou
Performers: Stefania Vlastari, Despina Greka, Vali Ioannou, Eleni
Karakatsani, Stathis Kastritis, Sofia Kougioumtzidou, Katerina Kouni, Sergios
Kompogiorgas, Thodoris Papadomarkakis, Nelli Poulopoulou, Ioanna
Roussou, ‘Elena Stamati
Curated by Art Tribute: Vato Fratzoglou
Poster, Blog: Mary Kaldi
Take part:
Students from the Experimental Music High School of Pallini
Theatrical Group of Back Desks,
Students of the School of Art Theater

Koun in Exarheia

The aim of the action is to meet he young director Karolos Koun in
early phase of his artistic creation, after the end of the Popular Stage which he founded,
the creation of the "Theatrical Club Karolos Koun", the subsequent establishment of
Art Theater and his collaboration with important troupes.

We remember historically
events of the period and we walk the streets where he lived, walked and
created, during the years of Occupation and Resistance.

Koun in Exarheia

A set of actions which are aimed at opening up to the community through participation of
collectives, artistic groups, institutions, schools and neighborhood inhabitants. On the occasion of the celebration
of the World Day for Theater in Education (27/11) we revive the
historical memories connecting the past with the present through theatrical
interventions and events. We play on the streets scenes from
Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard", one of Koon's first works,
we come across images based on the chronicles of the occupation, we read
memoirs of his collaborators and literary texts about that time.

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An interactive performance

Research - Direction: Nelli Poulopoulou

Performers: Natassa Aretha, Katerina Asimakou, Stefania Vlastari, Eleni Giannakou, Katerina Delakoura, Ioanna Zavalou, Eleni Kontzila, Menia Mathioudaki, Gely Pentefounti, Ioanna Roussou, Mariliza Frona

Musicians:
Valy Ioannou / Harmonies / keyboard / Loops
George Christakis / Percussion- Drums
Spyros Tsigos: Percussion-Electro loops-Didgeridoo

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The performance takes place in an old tannery, today’s functional space, exploring human speech as a diving medium in the unconscious. Automatic speaking, prayers, unceasing flow, music and touch, construct the vessel for this journey.

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Walking around the different rooms in the space, the viewer is present as a witness or as a generator of personal and collective anxieties and wishes, between a stream of words, of silence, movement and inactivity

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This is a Performance pilot to a larger duration one, which will follow in the future, and takes place for three hours as an exhibition space

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Instructions for the audience

You are free
to browse the whole area, on the ground floor and the 1st floor, in whatever order you want following or not the map
stay in any place or leave and come back anytime
to or do not look-help any performer
to or not to take part in any action
to or do not follow the instructions posted on the site

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Ιnstructions for the audience

Squares X2
You can help the performer not to stop the uninterrupted search by offering her new words from the specific letter

Automatic writing

Automatically write down the thoughts that will come to your mind, on the pages that you will find placed

Door Studio X2

You can enter one by one or up to four
Open the first door
Close the door behind you tightly
Stay in the dark for a few seconds
Open the second door
Close the door behind you tightly

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Instructions for the audience

Designs

Draw spontaneously on the square papers you will find on the tables. Try to use the misplaced designs you draw when you have your mind elsewhere. Stick the patterns on the white board. You can draw more than one design

Office

You can enter when the door sign shows "Open". It can be entered only one at a time. Change the label from "Open" to "Closed". Close the door behind you. When you leave do not forget to turn the label to "Open"
Small room

You can enter when the door sign shows "Open". Close the door behind you. When you enter, close your eyes at the suggestion of the performers

Staircase

Take off your shoes and give them to the performer. In case you do not want to, try not to step on the wooden floor with shoes

Human zoos: The interview

The performance, part of a research project entitled "Shaking the data", is about alienation and otherness and the central question is how one can shake personal and social data in an effort to review them.

Dramaturgy: Quilombola group
Conception-text-direction: Nelli Poulopoulou
Video edit: Christos Tsamis
Music: Konstantis Papakonstantinou
Lighting designe:Adam Tsapekos, Nelli Poulopoulou
Photos: Elias Lambros
Handling: Angeliki Lymperopoulou
Production: Quilombo Centro Cultural
Performers:
Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Gerasimos Zervos, Christos Karystinos, Sergios Kompogiorgas, Vicky Pantziou, Christina Papadimitriou, Nelli Poulopoulou

Human zoos: The interview

The human "zoos", also called "ethnological exhibitions "or" Negro Villages ", were fenced theme parks that exhibited live people in public in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. This was done to highlight the cultural differences between Western culture and the natives.
Many millions of Europeans and Americans visited Zulu, Senegalese, Laponians, Pygmies, Nubians, Eskimos, Kalmyks, Buddhist monks, Sudanese, and Indians, who were portrayed as exotic species. Africans were photographed next to monkeys and chimpanzees to show visitors that they were more related to animals than to humans. This stopped around 1940. For animals the torture continues.exhibitions" or "Negro Villages", were fenced theme parks that exhibited live people in public in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. This was done to highlight the cultural differences between Western culture and the natives.

Human zoos: The interview

How does a lecture on the fullness of modern culture end up demystifying and deregulating it?

Human zoos: The interview

The superiority of the human species is in question.

Human zoos: The interview

Captivity becomes a meeting place for those who still feel free.

Human zoos: The interview

Indigenous Polynesians interview a European journalist. They comment on modern western culture, our habits, our values, our very existence. We are mirrored in the eyes of those who usually mirror nature.

Human zoos: The cage