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.
Two men go in search of a birdman to become a bird in nine steps.
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.
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.
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.
‘The Script: Make Yourself at Home’ will show the uncertain, absurd, ordinary and lonely situation most of us are in right now.
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.
"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.
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.
“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.
A man describes in as few words as possible the human race, which may be already extinct.
Just a man walking with nothing to say.
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.
A desperate meditation on the extended passage of time as experienced through social distance.
Browsing through his collection of snapshots from safety cards during take-off, Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll reflects on what these images can tell.
Sometimes you feel like an inflated prophylactic glove, and you almost want to jump out the window.
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.
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.
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.
A short film depicting the everyday life of Lalka mountainous settlement, where humans and animals’ instincts live freely and in harmony with their nature.
