Onassis Stegi Season 2022-23 English by Onassis Stegi

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What can art possibly do for anyone?

Quite a lot, as it turns out. When it comes, that is, to artforms and artist-healers that refuse to coddle us yet bring us comfort. That unite us somehow but trouble us too. That beguile us somehow yet unveil us all the while. That manage somehow to toy with our emotional temperature.

this journey, we want to be like a bridge over troubled water.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

By setting it down again and again – saying it many times over too –will it come to pass? By spouting all the latest upbeat buzzwords – “happiness is a choice”, that sort of thing – while everything’s kicking off, in our neighborhoods and for the planet, will we achieve anything?

The Onassis Stegi team are together forging stories, meeting strangers and making them friends, drawing connections – at times instinctively, at others quite consciously – between people and ideas, invigorating situations and shaking our minds free to do things that have meaning. Here we are, singing inside the Matchbox, dancing on psychedelic rugs, each inside our very own House of Trouble, roaring “I am a woman, not a fool”, losing ourselves in techno-shamanism, and seeking out the punishment that can efface the crime before feeling furiously moved by the words and the years we’ve lost.

What can we do when positive thinking isn’t enough to make everything run smooth? When “History has its ups and downs, you know?” just isn’t enough.

Listening to ideas springing from open, curious minds that want to learn all about paganistic masks and the Anastenaria fire-walkers, to hear tell of traditional Greek music in Konitsa from the mouth of an American, to find out what happened to Kiki Margaroni.

Yet others are telling their stories through film, about a train journey to Velestino, about women battling injustice and others battling to become mothers, films about joyous highs and crashing lows.

And when we manage this, to lay us down – well, how wonderful that is.

Slipping the limits of Syngrou Avenue to dream inside building sites on Patission Street and in Votanikos, piling into cars, loading up their trunks and heading off to Ioannina and the mountain peaks of Crete, to Drama and Thessaloniki, to the islands of Tinos and Kefalonia, and to feast day celebrations in Xirokampos.

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And from there we’re off to a muddled America, placing Cavafy in the hands of artists we wholeheartedly admire, reaching up into outer space from our basement space in Olympic Tower as an 18-year-old from Athens plays his music for rappers inThroughoutAtlanta.

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CINEMA — VISUAL ARTS MAIN STAGE

The enfant terrible of French cinema presents defamiliarized images of a familiar-feeling future in both his new work Gener8ion, co-produced by Onassis Culture, and his latest feature film Athena, opening simultaneously at Onassis Stegi and on Netflix. Three pop video installations starring surfers, freedom fighters, and Charlize Theron, and a film about chaos consuming Athena.

Is there room for beauty in an apocalyptic setting? Filmmaker Romain Gavras – who has directed some of the most subversive music videos ever made for the likes of Kanye West, M.I.A., Jay-Z, and Justice – gives answer to this question with his new work, created in partnership with the musician, DJ, and record producer Surkin. Comprising three short films, Gener8ion traces the story of a future that feels very much like the present. This audio-visual journey set in the year 2034 launches at Onassis Stegi before setting off for The Mandra on Dionysiou Aeropagitou Street. In these films, there’s no sudden threat, no end-of-the-world scenario, just a seemingly “normal” setting threaded through with a slow, invisible violence – precisely the kind we’re experiencing in the present day.

Shortly after its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the feature film Athena is also to be presented alongside Gener8ion, on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. Athena – a modern Greek tragedy about an undeclared, all-out war that plunges the French suburbs into chaos – is Romain Gavras’ third feature, co-written with Ladj Ly and Elias Belkeddar, and distributed by Netflix.

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EXHIBITION HALL -1 Still from Gener8ion: Neo Surf CINEMA — VISUAL ARTS

Athens, Greece, 2034.

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Featuring 070 Shake (Danielle Balbuena / Benoît Heitz) (p) Iconoclast Music / 070 Shake appears courtesy of Getting Out Our Dreams, Inc. / Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings Inc. / Directed by Romain Gavras / Music by Gener8ion / Co-produced by Iconoclast and Onassis Culture / Producer Arnaud Le Méné / Director of Photography Nicolas Loir / Focus Duller Vincent Toubel / Second Camera Assistant Paul Bailleux / Drone Operators Myron Mance, Stephan Van Zyl / Art Design Arno Roth / Stylist Nick Royal / Stylism Alyx Studio / Executive Production Akrobat Films / Executive Producer Theodora Gourgouras / Production Manager Babis Vlachodimitropoulos / First AD Emmelia Chatziandreou / Location Manager Giorgos Alexopoulos / Unit Manager Nikos Filippakis / Makeup and Hair Maria Vez / Jetfoil company Takuma / Post-production Poster / Post-Producer Cyril Bordesoulle / Editors Nicolas Larouquere, Walter Mauriot / Color Grade Mathieu Caplanne / VFX Production Guillaume Marien / VFX Supervisor Yan Aldabe / Flame Fred Brandon & Clement Germain / Casting Ilan Guyot, Joris Ly, Djiby Kebe, Chloé Payen, Marguerite Thiam / Body Double Théo Démanez, Clément Colmas, Léo Paul Etienne ROMAIN GAVRAS GENER8ION: NEO SURF

Romain Gavras’ first film to be shot in Greece, produced by Onassis Culture, presents poetic images of a near future filmed in an ancient marble quarry. Teenagers living in abandoned areas on the outskirts of Athens pass the time hunting ostriches, and surfing in the Isthmus of Corinth. Meanwhile, the government provides restricted access to an area inundated by toxic algae, allowing only local residents to enter.

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How many emotions can fit inside a film? Charlize Theron – a leading actor of our time – plays the principal role in Emotions, appearing as a perfect, AIanimated 3D star. According to the film’s plot, the system provides the Indian film industry with hyper-realistic replicas of Hollywood actors capable of rendering a wide range of emotions.

Mumbai, India, 2034.

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by Romain Gavras / Music by Gener8ion / Produced by Iconoclast / Producer Arnaud Le Méné / Production Coordinator Alice Eynaud / Executive Producer Francesco Colombo / Producer Jeff Kopchia / Coordinator Nathaniel Dueber / First Assistant Director Spike Topian / Second Assistant Director Yvonne Wang / Director of Photography Arnaud Potier / First Camera Assistant Chris Strauser / Second Camera Assistant Per Chris / D.I.T. Lanlin Wong / Gaffer Jesse Wine / Best Boy Electric Simon Cho / Key Grip David Riggio / Best Boy Grip Per David / Sound Mixer Joe Hettinger / Boom Op Mark Grech / Hair Sami Knight / Makeup Laramie Glen / Stylist Sara Sensoy / VFX François Xavier Pourre / Post-production Poster CINEMA — VISUAL ARTS ROMAIN

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Wyoming, NAU, 2034.

Directed by Romain Gavras / Music by Gener8ion / Produced by Iconoclast / Producer Arnaud Le Méné / Director of Photography Benoit Soler / Focus Puller Vincent Toubel / Second Camera Assistant Paul Bailleux / Drone Operators Myron Mance, Stephan Van Zyl / Art Design Nathan Parker / Stylist Hannah Edwards / Executive Production Shelter Film / Executive Producer Albert Zurashvili / Producer Daria Stepani / Line Producer Roman Kravets / First Assistant Director Grits / Second Assistant Director Vadim Yuzhba / PM Maks Matveev / Production Designer Mikhail Levchenko / Wardrobe Stylist Valentin Bren / Gaffer Eugene Vivcharik / SFX Vadim Lysak / Stunts Ilya Yurchishin / Location Manager Oleg Kuptsov / Casting Assistant Ive Botoku / Crowd Casting Assistant Panas Andrew / Post-production Poster / Post-producer Cyril Bordesoulle / Editors Benjamin Weill, Walter Mauriot / Color Grade Mathieu Caplanne / VFX Mathématic GENER8ION: AGARTHA

13 ROMAIN GAVRAS ROMAIN Gener8ion:GAVRASAgartha 22.09—23.10.22

Agartha was shot in the forests of Ukraine, where a metal spaceship was constructed out of old Red Army tanks. The film is a propaganda video of the so-called Agartha Liberation Army. This fictitious insurgent group declared their independence from the North American Union in the states of Wyoming and Idaho in the year 2029. Their firm belief that the Earth is hollow and holds the answer to everything means they violently oppose any form of space exploration.

A tragedy by Romain Gavras, produced by Iconoclast, distributed by Netflix.

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Following its premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Athena is to be given a special screening at Onassis Stegi to coincide with its worldwide release on Netflix. In the words of the rapper Jay-Z: “Romain is a genius who turns violence into poetry... the cause justifying the destruction.” For his third feature, the director delivers an immersive modern adaptation of Antigone by Sophocles, co-written with Ladj Ly and Elias Belkeddar. Just hours after the tragic death of a young boy in unexplained circumstances, his three elder brothers and their entire housing project – called Athena – are plunged into chaos.

Directed by Romain Gavras / Written by Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly, Elias Belkeddar / Produced by Iconoclast: Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Mourad Belkeddar, Jean Duhamel, Nicolas Lhermitte / Produced by Ladj Ly and Romain Gavras / Director of Photography Matias Boucard / Original Music Gener8ion / Editor Benjamin Weill / Production Designer Arnaud Roth / Costume Designer Noémie Veissier / Starring Dali Benssalah (Abdel), Sami Slimane (Karim), Anthony Bajon (Jérôme), Ouassini Embarek (Moktar), Alexis Manenti (Sébastien) / Runtime 97 minutes

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Still from Athena

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Original photo © Jean Michel Blasco

BROSROMEO CASTELLUCCI

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Twenty-three men are central to this work. There is no requirement for them to be actors, and no conventional rehearsal process for them to go through beforehand. There is only a pact: they are there to follow orders, no matter how strange or baffling these may be. A monumental farce involving free will, played out on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. These men recruited by Romeo Castellucci – who are dressed and act like law enforcement officers – carry out commands fed to them via earpieces throughout the performance. There is no room here for improvisation of any kind. They must obey.Asdisturbing as it is ingenious, Bros unfolds within a compaction of space and time – within a boundless present and an uncharted “somewhere/ anywhere.” Law itself is set up to (in)visibly star alongside the on-stage throng. Romeo Castellucci orchestrates an awe-inspiring, existential farce that spurs us to re-examine our relationship with freedom, justice, violence, personal responsibility, critical thought, accountability, and obedience. The theater stage is transformed into a metaphysical setting through which humanity parades as a kind of subservient brotherhood, ready to rip its own flesh to shreds at any moment. Bros, as in brothers.

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Bros, as in brothers. Theater’s great iconoclast ― the Italian director Romeo Castellucci ― is staging a curious ritual that toys with law and order at Onassis Stegi.

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and Direction Romeo Castellucci / Music Scott Gibbons / With Valer Dellakeza and the Officers Luca Nava, Sergio Scarlatella / With Men from the street / Collaboration in Dramaturgy Piersandra Di Matteo / Director Assistants Silvano Voltolina, Filippo Ferraresi / Standards written by Claudia Castellucci / Technical Director Eugenio Resta / Stage Technician Andrei Benchea / Light Technician Andrea Sanson / Sound Technician Claudio Tortorici / Costumes Chiara Venturini / Stage Sculptures and Automations Plastikart studio / Costume Creation Atélier Grazia Bagnaresi / Latin translation Stefano Bartolini / Production Director Benedetta Briglia / Promotion and Distribution Gilda Biasini / Production and Tour Giulia Colla / Organization Caterina Soranzo / Technical headquarters team Carmen Castellucci, Francesca Di Serio, Gionni Gardini / Administration Michela Medri, Elisa Bruno, Simona Barducci / Economic consultancy Massimiliano Coli / Produced by Societas, in co-production with Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels), Printemps des Comédiens 2021 (Montpellier), LAC Lugano Arte Cultura (Switzerland), Maillon Théâtre de Strasbourg - Scène Européenne (France), Temporada Alta 2021 (Spain), Manège-Maubeuge Scène nationale (France), Le Phénix Scène nationale Pôle européen de création Valenciennes (France), MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (France), ERT Emilia Romagna Teatro (Italy), Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen (Germany), Holland Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands), Triennale Milano Teatro (Italy), National Taichung Theater (Taiwan)

Photo © Jean Michel Blasco

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20 STEGIONASSISBLOCKPARTY2022 04.10.22

A block party means one thing: it is time to head out onto the streets of our neighborhood. A liberating street party for the citizens of Athens is coming to the Neos Kosmos neighborhood, where there’s always non-stop life. A party to remember for time to come, with an explosive and eclectic line-up of Greek and international acts, a crowd of the young and the beautiful, voguing balls, and many more surprises besides. All until the clock strikes twelve. So, come join us in the streets around Onassis Stegi. Because we’ve all missed a little laughter, music played loud, and our friends – it’s what we all need. Because cutting loose is culture too.

NEOS KOSMOS

ONASSIS STEGI BLOCK PARTY 2022

Original photo © Mike Tsolis

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Original photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

LARSEN CCHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS

“Glacier” or “ice shelf.” This is the scientific name of the huge, 10,000-year-old, immobile body of Larsen C water in Antarctica. Larsen C, twice the size of Wales, moves so slowly that it cannot be detected by the human senses. It is as if the pulse of its movement is absorbed by space and time.

In Christos Papadopoulos’ homonymous choreography, human bodies resonate to the same perpetual rhythm, in a dreamlike sequence where they progressively appear as eerie as the polar landscape. Christos Papadopoulos becomes again an observer of the movement of the minimum which, in its interiority and repetition, produces life. Larsen C is a party in homage to the silent transition of bodies. It is “a metaphor,” comments the choreographer himself, “of life that, invincible, goes on.”

Shortly before traveling abroad again, Christos Papadopoulos’ latest work, an international co-production of Onassis Stegi, is making a stopover for a second season in Athens, where the rehearsals and the beginning of its development occurred.

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“A name circulates, praised for its boldness and minimalist but stunning virtuosity, for its performers. A revelation. He is Greek,” noted the Belgian press last year. Similar praise followed in every European city where Larsen C was presented.

Larsen C: a work of art in movement inspired by the slowness of melting glaciers in order to speak of the fierceness of life.

Those of us who saw it last March agreed: this dance performance is a masterpiece. It must be repeated. The Greek choreographer-revelation and his latest work are here again. Dancing like a glacier.

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Concept & Choreography Christos Papadopoulos / With the performers Maria Bregianni, Chara Kotsali, Georgios Kotsifakis, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Tasos Nikas, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Adonis Vais / Music & Sound Design Giorgos Poulios / Set Design Clio Boboti / Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou / Costume Design Angelos Mentis / Dramaturgy Consultant Alexandros Mistriotis / Choreography Consultant Martha Pasakopoulou / Assistant Set Designer Filanthi Bougatsou / Production Management Rena Andreadaki, Zoe Mouschi / Tour Lighting Heads Alexandros Mavridis, Evina Vassilakopoulou / Set and Sound Technicians Aggeliki Vasilopoulou Kampitsi, Marilena Kalaitzantonaki, Stefania Elettra Pantavos / Tour Manager Konstantina Papadopoulou / International Distribution Key Performance / A project by Christos Papadopoulos // The Lion and the Wolf / Produced by Onassis Stegi / Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports / Supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program, NEON Organization for Culture and Development / Coproduced by A-CDCN (Les Hivernales - CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège I CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique - CDCN Grenoble - Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses - CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse - CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne) (FR); Théâtre de la Ville , Paris (FR); Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE); Julidans, Amsterdam (NL); Romaeuropa Festival (IT); Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine (FR); NEON Organization for Culture and Development (GR); Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia (IT); Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid (ES) / In collaboration with Département du Val-de-Marne, as part of the creation residency aid (FR), the Lavanderia a Vapore choreographic residencies projects (IT) / Larsen C Tour is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program

Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

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“This disease is a natural ill, not some moral evil” – so said the nurse Maria Gkika, drawing rapturous applause from Athens audiences at “I’m Positive 2021”. This year’s discussion will once again be championing inclusivity, diversity, and acceptance. People living with and without HIV will be taking to the Onassis Stegi Main Stage to tell their own personal stories, shedding light on various aspects of HIV. On October 13, we’ll be talking openly about the stigma that still exists when it comes to relationships, work, and society at large. About everything that’s been fought for and achieved, and everything still to be done. Together, let’s help make sure no-one has to suffer any more due to the taboos, ignorance, or inequality that surround HIV.Science has moved forward. It’s time society did too.

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For a fifth year, and 41 years after the first HIV diagnosis, people with real-life stories to tell will be speaking at Onassis Stegi about diversity, visibility, and acceptance in order to overcome stigma and prejudice. This open discussion on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage is to be chaired by the Greek Association of People Living with HIV – Positive Voice.

Ι’Μ POSITIVE

It’s time to talk about a society of acceptance

In collaboration with

Ι’Μ POSITIVE “THIS DISEASE IS A NATURAL ILL, NOT SOME MORAL EVIL” Maria Gkika, nurse, “I’m Positive 2021”

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ABOUT LINDA, VANGELIS?

05.11.22—22.01.23 MAIN STAGE

A lower-middle class apartment heaves, fit to burst. The AC unit’s stopped working, the TV’s always on. Frappé coffee and cigarettes. The workaday strain of a coffee shop-owning father, and a mother’s overwrought voice. The rhythmic rants of a sexist son, and a brother-in-law’s grand aria. Searing words and burning questions, all re-expressed in musical ways: “What you gonna do about Linda, Vangelis?”

The Greek family we’ve come to love and hate remains unchanged, 20 years on. Its members all “scream” their own theme – each to their own music. The conflicts and dreams, problems and ills that afflict the “sacred” institution that is the Greek family all feature in this polystylistic, high-risk musical spectacle: “War! War! This is war!”

If people didn’t speak but rather sang, what would that be like? And how might Matchbox be made a musical? Yiannis Niarros takes up the gauntlet, attempting to answer these audacious questions in the most extreme and groundbreaking of ways. Nine musicians, eleven performers, and an extensive creative team magnify the grotesque realities of Greek family life and – steered by Yiannis Niarros and Alexandros Livitsanos’ original music – present an incredible new version of the legendary Matchbox

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This crushing family massacre – centered on Dimitris, the owner of a coffee shop – soon flares up and, in the space of a single Sunday in August, everything blows sky high. Violence rockets, through the roof. The characters enter and exit this tinderbox trailed by the desperate songs and strains of their despair. The spouse Maria, the children, assorted other kith and kin – everyone rages against everyone else. And performing solo at the heart of it all: the paterfamilias.

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Matchbox is being made a musical on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. War Oratorio in Two Acts, based on the film by Yannis Economides.

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31 MATCHBOXYIANNIS NIARROSMusic Yiannis Niarros, Alexandros Livitsanos / Libretto Yannis Economides, Doris Avgerinopoulos / Lyrics Yiannis Niarros / Direction Yiannis Niarros / Artistic Direction Yannis Economides / Artistic Direction (Onassis Stegi) Afroditi Panagiotakou / Orchestration & Conductor Alexandros Livitsanos / Sets Eva Goulakou / Costumes Ioanna Tsami / Lighting Nikos Vlassopoulos / Sound Engineer Yiannis Lambropoulos / Sound Design Manolis Manousakis / Vocal Coach Margarita Papadimitriou / Movement Director Panagiota Kallimani / Music Dramaturgy Associates Giorgos Koutlis, Vasilis Magouliotis / Actors – Performers Yannis Anastasakis, Agoritsa Economou, Marios Sarantidis, Giorgos Katsis, Apostolos Psychramis, Nancy Sideri, Dafni David, Vassilis Dimakopoulos, Danai Moutsopoulou, Eleni Boukli, Theodosia Savvaki / Musicians Giorgos Bouldis (bass), Sofia Efkleidou (cello), Dimitris Klonis (drums), Alexandros Livitsanos (keyboards), Spiros Nikas (saxophone), Vassilis Panagiotopoulos (trombone), Yiannis Papadopoulos (piano), Kostas Sapounis (trumpet), Dimitris Stasinos (guitar) / First Assistant Director Anastasia Stylianidi / Second Assistant Director Isabella Kasimati / Assistant Orchestrator Giorgos Karoumpalos / Production Assistant Nikos Charalambidis / Line Production POLYPLANITY Productions - Yolanda Markopoulou & Vicky Strataki / Assistant Set Designer Elli Papadaki

“She shocks our lovely eyes” – so said Jean Genet of Betty Vakalidou. And it’s true, the novel-like life of this woman born a boy in Thrace, who was shut away in an orphanage before running away to Athens, then to America, who became a dockworker, an illegal alien, a cross-dresser, a sex worker, a writer whose autobiography caused a sensation, a founding member of the Greek Gay Liberation Movement, who underwent gender confirmation surgery, and who has captivated audiences for more than three decades as a film and theater lead, most recently appearing in The Red Lanterns directed by Vasilis Bisbikis.

How many times can a femininity, a body, a country die and be born again? This video art project by bijoux de kant sets up Betty Vakalidou – a pioneering champion of LGBTQI+ rights – to give a revelatory, resurrectional recital.

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Set on the borderline between stage and screen, between reality and virtuality, The Seven Deaths of Antona – a video art project by director Yannis Skourletis, production designer and visual artist Konstantinos Skourletis, and the bijoux de kant company – sets up Antona, the anti-hero created by Glikeria Basdeki and performed by Betty Vakalidou, to run through the history of modern Greece and bring queer identity to life as it has been assimilated by Greek popular culture, as it manifests in public memory and the historical body. Appearing with her on stage is Vasilis Ziakas, a Greek folk instrumentalist who graces her journey, her story with his music. A story as alien as it is startlingly familiar – perhaps because, as the writer Dimitri Dimitriadis once said: “We each bear a Betty inside us.”

Betty has lived many lives, and Antona is her theatrical alter ego: a character set slightly askew, inspired by her and dreamed up for her by the writer Glikeria Basdeki. Antona is a prima donna who once lorded it over the traveling Greek theater troupes of the last century, who dies in outrageously weird ways seven times over and is resurrected seven times too, just to tell the story of a life filled with astonishing experiences and incidents most absurd.

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Text Glikeria Basdeki / Direction Giannis Skourletis / Set Design, Filming & Editing Konstantinos Skourletis / Sound Alexandros Skourletis / Director Assistant & Production Manager Giorgos Papadakis / Antona is played by Betty Vakalidou / Accordion Vasilis Ziakas / Antona’s tsifteteli “How many light bulbs” is a composition by Vasilis Ziakas with lyrics by Glikeria Basdeki / The creation of the digital work “The 7 deaths of Antona” was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports / Special thanks to BRIGHT SPECIAL LIGHTING SA

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36 26.11—31.12.22 ART EXHIBITION HALL -1

Twenty years after first appearing on the scene, Aris and Lakis Ionas (The Callas) are taking over the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall -1 to present a hallucinatory exhibition suffused with Mediterranean psychedelia.

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A band, an arts duo, and brothers of course (in life and on stage), the pair always work together, and always work with their friends, from Greece and beyond, as well as with their relatives. Weaving and embroidering their “flying carpets” are none other than their mother and aunt. And the Callasettes are none other than the women by their sides – their partners, associates, and friends. Their wide-ranging, multiform oeuvre has been presented in New York, London and Paris, as well as in Athens, on Hydra, and in their village – Thermissia – which lies across from the island, on the Peloponnesian coast. It’s there, at their family farm, that they host bacchanalian, communal arts gigs, like their recent 24-hour art event held on June 21, 2022 with the support of Onassis Culture, in anticipation of this Onassis StegiExhibitionexhibition.curator

Nadia Argyropoulou gave us her own who’s-who of the Ionas brothers: “Founding figures of the Greek DIY scene, musicians, visual artists, performers, publishers, organizers of urban festivals and rural parties, filmmakers and video creators, generous and welcoming hosts at their own spaces and restless explorers of other places and approaches, ever ingenious and versatilely faithful to a de-developmental artistic way of life, standing in solidarity with counter-hegemonic collective practices. Their L.S.D. exhibition encapsulates their polymorphic presence in the arts scene, occupying Onassis Stegi with episodes drawn from an adventure that is resolute in its radical teachings of solidarity, its profligate forms of love, and the fragmentary, transformational psychedelia of death.”

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Curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, The Callas / Embroidery & Knitting Ioanna Iona, Tasia Drouza / Choreography Aggeliki Hatzi / Dancers Aggeliki Hatzi, Christina Karagianni / Performers Aggeliki Hatzi, Dionysia Bosmi, Philippa Dimitriadi, Daphne Kyriakidou, Lina Rokou, Iria Vrettou / Guests, Collaborators Jim Sclavunos, Ian F. Svenonius, Paul Artrocker / Sound Recording, Mix & Mastering Nikos Triantafyllou, Iraklis Vlachakis / Graphic Designers Anda Theodorakaki, Irene Zografou / The Callas - band members Aris Ionas, Lakis Ionas, Chrysanthi Tsoukala, Chris Bekiris / Music The Callas / Photography, Video Documentation Aggelos Kaltsis / Production Irene Zografou, The Studio - Velvet Room Projects

With this psychedelic spell of an exhibition, cast over the past, present, and future of the Greek visual arts and music scenes, The Callas are celebrating 20 years of artistic output, taking over the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall -1 to present new work, including their pop-folk embroideries and textiles, sculptures and installations made from cut up marble slabs that once paved Athens’ streets, paintings of working class Madonnas, crate-temples / DIY Parthenons, film screenings and happenings, and collaborations with guest contributors from the international and Greek scenes: everyone from Ian F. Svenonius to PapithedogTV.

TECTONICSATHENS

02—04.12.22 MUSIC OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

Ever incisive, subversive, and surprising, the Tectonics Festival is back at Onassis Stegi for a fourth year.

Festival Curators Ilan Volkov, Anne Hilde Neset, Michalis Moschoutis

With new music at its core – everything from classical orchestral music to improvised solo performances, taking in electronic music, new instruments, music installations, and much more along the way – Tectonics is returning to Athens. Onassis Stegi is partnering with the Athens Conservatoire to present yet another packed and audacious program of live music events.

Touching on everything from symphonic music to noise, and from free improvisation to contemporary composition, Tectonics uncovers new affinities between differing music styles. Acclaimed conductor Ilan Volkov, who launched the event with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, joins forces with Michalis Moschoutis and Anne Hilde Neset to create yet another unforgettable festival for the Athens music scene.

Original photo © Andreas Simopoulos

TECTONICS

ATHENS

THEATER NEW MEDIA 5TH FLOOR

Original video still © Markus Selg & Rodrik Biersteker

I AM (VR)

by Susanne Kennedy & Markus Selg in collaboration with Rodrik Biersteker

5TH FLOOR 09—31.12.22

Do you know who you are? Where you’re going to? What you’re looking for? Well, don’t worry: the time has come for you to consult your digital oracle. Because I AM (VR) is a virtual reality experience that draws participants wearing VR headsets into one of Onassis Stegi’s lesser known spaces, where they’ll find themselves inside mysterious rooms, opening doors onto the unknown, and walking down tunnels that – like wormholes of sorts – lead through the fabric of spacetime to reach new planets, set under new skies, to stand before a new oracle. And as the voice of the narrator guiding you along this psychedelic trip of self-awareness says: “If you think of fire, you are on fire. If you think of war, you will cause war. All depends on your imagination.”

Over the last 15 years, Susanne Kennedy has been radical in her experiments, introducing Internet and cyberspace paganist dramaturgies to the stage, even when tackling works as classic as Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters, which screened on the Onassis Channel on YouTube in 2020.

I AM

Just months after the Onassis Culture digital art exhibition Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data set inside Pedion tou Areos park, Onassis Stegi is presenting the first virtual work created by the acclaimed theater director Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg, in collaboration with Rodrik Biersteker.

The closest thing there is to the metaverse and techno-shamanism. A singular immersive performance, a psychedelic trip that’s also a game of self-awareness in a virtual reality setting, brought to you by one of the most important German directors working today.

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With I AM (VR) – which draws inspiration from the oracle at Delphi and its call on visitors to “know thyself” – Susanne Kennedy and her multimedia artistic associates Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker have created a virtual reality environment that takes participants on a 35-minute journey through a hallucinatory environment, a post-theatrical setting involving digital perception, play, and interaction that can only be described by the following maxim: “I dream, therefore I am – in reality and virtually.” (VR)

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Concept and Design Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg, Rodrik Biersteker / Programming Rodrik Biersteker / Visual Design Markus Selg, Rodrik Biersteker / Sound Design & Composition Richard Janssen / Text Susanne Kennedy / Dramaturgy Tobias Staab / Voices Susanne Kennedy, Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Frank Willens, Ibadet Ramadani / Avatars Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Benjamin Radjaipour, Thomas Hauser / Costume Teresa Vergho / Production Ultraworld Productions (Berlin - DE) / Management and Distribution Something Great (Berlin - DE) / Co-produced by Berliner Festspiele (Berlin - DE), Hybrid Box / Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden - DE), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg - DE), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich - DE), Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts & Society (Groningen - NL), Schauspielhaus Bochum / Oval Office (Bochum - DE), Theater Commons Tokyo (Tokyo - JP) and Volkstheater Wien (Vienna - AT) / Thanks to Chiaki Soma, Christoph Gurk, the whole Oracle Team, Rafael Steinhauser, Anna Rausch, Lucas S. Maximiliano, Matthias Lilienthal

Video still © Markus Selg & Rodrik Biersteker

DANCE UPPER STAGE

Original photo © Melanie Hofmann

2020 OBSCENE2020:ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS

2020:

“I am a woman, not a fool,” proclaims Alexandra Bachzetsis and stages a performance which serves as a manifesto for the extremeness of bodies and gazes.

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DANCE UPPER STAGE 16—18.12.22

Alexandra Bachzetsis. a Greek-Swiss performer, choreographer, and visual artist based in Zurich, who has notable landmarks and collaborations throughout her career – MoMA New York, Tate Modern, ImPULSTanz Vienna, Julidans Amsterdam, among others – in 2020: Obscene uses body, text, and image to explore the ambiguity of “scene” and “obscene”.

The performers are confronted with their own corporeality – with the contradictions between intuition and gesture, light and night, score and script, norm and form, conception and action. The piece, thus, not only questions the subversive and the normative in performance art, but also addresses itself to communication through excess as a radical interruption of formats, gestures, cultural patterns and archetypes.

Together with three co-performers she is focusing on the relationship between the staging of the excessive body and its consumption by the coveting gaze and the overwhelming textuality. On the one hand, the work examines the problems of theater as a manipulation machine with regard to seduction, attraction, and games of sexual identity; on the other hand, it explores the performing body itself as a place of alienation and limitation of the human being.

Is it a scene from Blowup, Michelangelo Antonioni’s renowned film, or maybe a studio where a porn film is shot? The setting of 2020: Obscene, with its bright colors and cameras recording everything, is on the edge. Like everything else happening during the 85 minutes of this performance that comments on lifestyle sadomasochistic eroticism’s fetishism.

2020: OBSCENE Original photo © MelanieConceptHofmann & Choreography Alexandra Bachzetsis / Collaboration on Concept & Stage Sotiris Vasiliou / Collaboration on Concept & Dramaturgy Dorota Sajewska / Creation & Performance Alexandra Bachzetsis, Owen Ridley-Demonick, Tamar Kisch, Sotiris Vasiliou / Sound Design Tobias Koch / Costume Design & Conceptual Advice and Research Christian Hersche, Ulla Ludwig, Laurent Hermann Progin / Communication Design Julia Born / Photography Melanie Hofmann / Hair & Makeup Shooting Delia Sciullo / Technical Direction & Light Design Patrik Rimann / Technical team Alban Schelbert, Jon Brunke, Phil Hills, Valentin Biller / Production & Tour Management Association All Exclusive, Franziska Schmidt / Supported by The cooperative support agreement between the City of Zurich, the Canton of Zurich, and Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Jacqueline Spengler Stiftung / Co-produced by Kunsthaus Zürich, Kaserne Basel, Dampfzentrale Bern, L’Arsenic–Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, ADN Neuchâtel, Tanzquartier Wien, Gessnerallee Zürich / This performance is a co-production in the frame of the Programmers’ Fund of Reso—Dance Network Switzerland, supported by Pro Helvetia—Swiss Arts Council ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS 49

ART OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

THE HALEPAS ENIGMA

WINTER ’23

The enigma of a Greek sculptor, considered through the prism of his heartbreak and mental illness, followed by his “reawakening” and return to the arts. We know more about the life of Yanoulis Halepas (1851–1938) than we do about his work. And yet, once discharged from a psychiatric hospital on Corfu after many years of silence, the artist who created the Sleeping Maiden was to carve sculptures once again, right up until the end of his life. It is precisely this “late style” that forms the focus of the present Onassis Stegi exhibition, a style with which Halepas breached classical sculptural traditions and undermined idealized conceptions of beauty and perfection, redefining the physicality and materiality of the human form in the process. His oeuvre not only marks a turning point in the history of art but also reflects the complexities and uncertainties of the modern age. With select works drawn from the sculptor’s final period, this exhibition re-examines the past, allowing his story to be read anew from a fresh perspective. From the island of Corfu to the island of Tinos, and from there on to Athens, Yanoulis Halepas – having found freedom – distanced himself from hard marble forms, moving instead towards more expressive and immediate materials and modes, and re-engaging with themes that had interested him in the past, but in ways now more impulsive and personal.

OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

A major exhibition on the life and work of the great Greek artist Yanoulis Halepas is coming to Athens.

THE HALEPAS ENIGMA

Curated by Afroditi Panagiotakou, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis / Scientific Advisor Alexandra Goulaki-Voutyra / Exhibition Design Studioentropia architects (Yota Passia, Panagiotis Roupas)

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THE HALEPAS ENIGMA

54 EXHIBITION ONASSIS STEGI

Original 3D Rendering © Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta

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EXHIBITION ONASSIS STEGI

CONSTANTINOS DOXIADIS Human Communities

Concept, Research, Curation & Design Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta / Commissioned and Produced by Onassis Foundation / Organized in partnership with Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives

If the cities are the sum of our desires, what can machines tell us about it? An exhibition about the unbounded modernism of the Greek architect Constantinos A. Doxiadis.

JANUARY—FEBRUARY ’23

pivots around a population group and a form of information collection. In the 1960s, Doxiadis Associates conducted The Human Community, a survey of Athenian residents that gauged their adaptation to the emerging pace and spaces of the postwar city. The exhibition also includes The New Human Community, a critical retracing of Doxiadis’ survey conducted with recently arrived migrants and refugees. The exhibition reveals how our contemporary and postwar periods are linked through techniques of data extraction and accumulation. Together these episodes chart Greece’s emerging informational geography, locating its boundaries and borders and the data subjects they engender.

The exhibition examines one of the most pressing and transformative conditions of the last half century — the overlapping and intertwining of cities, people, information, and computation. The first episode of the exhibition covers the prescient use of computers in the 1960s by the Greek architect and internationally celebrated planner of cities, Constantinos A. Doxiadis. The second traces these computational practices to present day Athens, with new research into the physical form, technical administration, and territorial spread of city and state border management

CONSTANTINOS

DOXIADIS HUMAN COMMUNITIES

Revi

MUSIC MAIN STAGE

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BEYOND THE SEAPAVLOS PAVLIDIS CROSSES PATHS WITH YANNIS MARKOPOULOS

Pavlos OriginalPavlidisphoto© Aristides Tsinaroglou

60 MUSIC MAIN STAGE THEBEYONDSEA WINTER ’23 Pavlos Pavlidis crosses paths with Yannis Markopoulos

Pavlos Pavlidis is taking to the Onassis Stegi Main Stage to honor the great Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos, adapting 18 of his most important works. On the invitation of the composer’s family, an unexpected musical encounter is coming into being, one filled with memories, intense emotions, and uncharted soundscapes.

Pavlos Pavlidis recalls the first Yannis Markopoulos song that shook him to his core – “Ta lógia ke ta khrónia” (“The Words and the Years”), with lyrics by Manos Eleftheriou and brilliantly performed by Haralambos Garganourakis –but also picks out the incomparable voice of Vicky Moscholiou and the colossal Nikos Xilouris on his great songs as singular moments beyond all human measure. Retaining the essence of these songs but transferring their sound from the ’60s into the present day, Pavlidis has created a musical performance in partnership with incredible musicians, stamping his own signature style on the works in ways that interlace beautifully with the unmistakable artistry of the internationally acclaimed composer that is Yannis Markopoulos. Pavlidis himself notes: “One might say that Markopoulos manages to make the inconceivable sound intuitive, fusing East with West and redefining notions of Greekness to open up new horizons.”

PAVLOS PAVLIDIS CROSSES PATHS WITH YANNIS MARKOPOULOS BEYOND THE SEA

Vocals, Guitar Pavlos Pavlidis / Keyboards Giorgos Theodoropoulos / Electric Guitar Alekos Georgoulopoulos / Violin Fotis Siotas / Electric & Double Bass Dimitris Tsekouras / Drums Thanos Michailidis / Featuring also choir and string ensemble / Sound Panos Rizopoulos / Visuals Christos Sarris

THEATER MAIN STAGE

IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDS

John Malkovich

Original photo © Māris Morkāns

In the solitude of cotton fields

It is this unspoken thing that is illuminated by Timofey Kulyabin in his production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields which – after a first work-in-progress presentation in Latvia – is to have its world premiere in Greece, on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage.Hi-tech cameras constantly surveil the two leads, gradually revealing what lies hidden between the lines and behind their various evasions: a past instance of pedophilia. As the director notes: “We are creating a show of secret desire that is punishable and which any society recognizes as criminal – according to the law. There are two actors in this play, but only one scene. We spend most of our time in subconscious, nightmarish visions…”

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Poised and plain-spoken, a peerless Valmont in the Oscar-winning film Dangerous Liaisons (playing alongside Michelle Pfeiffer and Glenn Close in 1988), a leading light of the historic Steppenwolf experimental theater company in Chicago (from 1976 to 2020), and the only Hollywood actor to have let us to take a deep dive into their mind (in Being John Malkovich, the cult art-house movie written by Charlie Kaufman) is appearing at Onassis Stegi for the first time, performing the role of the darkest client in the world theater repertoire.

With John Malkovich and award-winning Lithuanian actor Ingeborga Dapkunaite, alternating in the roles of Client and Dealer, the work is being brought to the stage by a Russian director who first came to Greece in 2018 to present a landmark production of Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters performed exclusively in sign language. JOHN INGEBORGAMALKOVICHDAPKUNAITE

“If you are out walking at this hour and in this place, you must want something, and that something I’m sure I may help you with.” This work by BernardMarie Koltès, written in the style of an 18th-century philosophical dialog, has two characters: the Dealer and the Client. We never learn the true purpose of their meeting, what the object of desire is, or the nature of their deal. Neither character says things as they really are. Everything lies hidden between the lines. Perhaps some unspoken thing lurks beneath it all…

Text by: Bernard-Marie Koltès Directed by: Timofey Kulyabin

THEATER MAIN STAGE

A world premiere at Onassis Stegi, with renowned American actor John Malkovich giving a masterful performance in one of the most mysterious works of the modern oeuvre.

Photo © Māris Morkāns

IN THE SOLITUDE OF COTTON FIELDS

With Ingeborga Dapkunaite, John Malkovich / Director Timofey Kulyabin / Stage Designer (Set and Costumes) Oleg Golovko / Dramaturg Roman Dolzhanskiy / Sound Designer Timofei Pastukhov / Video Designer Alexander Lobanov / Lead Cameraman Vladimir Burtsev / Director of Video Production Anastasia Zhuravleva / Lighting Designer Oskars Paulins / Choreographer Anna Abalikhina / Producers Flow Projects (Ekaterina Yakimova, Irina Paradnaya) / Supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the MART Foundation

DANCE MAIN STAGE

Original photo © Andreas Simopoulos

ELENITEURIPIDES LASKARIDIS

WHAT PROBLEM?YOURIS

DANCE MAIN STAGE 16—19.02.23

Soon after its presentation in Canada – and just before setting off on tour around Europe for a fourth year running – the exquisitely funny and oddly magical ELENIT is making another stop at Onassis Stegi.

A towering lady with an outlandish hairdo and an even more outlandish nose picks up the phone, sings to herself, and rubs shoulders with other strange beings, speaking to them in a language that’s all her own. This is none other than Euripides Laskaridis, transformatively inhabiting a persona as adorable as she is outrageous, a figure who welcomes us into a universe in which dinosaurs, wind turbines, Stephen Hawking, piled corrugated metal sheets, an elevated DJ platform, Nike of Samothrace – and much more besides – all co-exist.

EuripidesELENITLaskaridis

An utterly idiosyncratic scenic language saturates this exquisitely funny and endlessly charming work by a Greek artist acclaimed both at home and further afield. With a series of works described as “tragic comedies,” Euripides Laskaridis cannot easily be pegged. Active as he is – in startling ways – somewhere between happenings, burlesque, and contemporary dance, he invites us to focus our gaze on the transformative here and now of every scenic moment, defamiliarizing the familiar and making the absurd truly wondrous.

A little before the launch of the work’s fourth touring phase, ELENIT will be making a farewell stop at Onassis Stegi, where it had its world premiere back in 2019.

& Directed by Euripides Laskaridis / With Amalia Kosma // Chrysanthi Fytiza, Chara Kotsali // Eirini Boudali, Manos Kotsaris // Foivos Symeonidis, Euripides Laskaridis, Thanos Lekkas // Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Dimitris Matsoukas, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Giorgos Poulios, Michalis Valasoglou // Nikos Dragonas, Fay Xhuma // Eirini Georgiou / Costume Design Angelos Mentis / Original Music & Sound Design Giorgos Poulios / Set Design Loukas Bakas / Lighting Design Eliza Alexandropoulou / Dramaturgy Consultant Alexandros Mistriotis / Associate Movement Director Nikos Dragonas / Assistant Director Geli Kalampaka / Assistant to the Composer Jeph Vanger / Assistant Costume Designers & Special Constructions Ioanna Plessa, Filanthi Bougatsou & Olga Vlassi / Artistic Collaborator & Special Constructions Anna Papathanasiou / Assistant to the Costume Designer Aella Tsilikopoulou / Assistants to the Set Designer Filanthi Bougatsou & Dinos Nikolaou / Stage Managers Dinos Nikolaou & Giorgos Antonopoulos / Technical Director Konstantinos Margas / Rehearsal Lighting Technicians Vasilis Zindros, Tzanos Mazis & Giorgos Antonopoulos / Lighting Console Programmers Giorgos Melissaropoulos & Vaggelis Mountrichas / Sound Engineers Kostis Pavlopoulos, Kostas Michopoulos, Jeph Vanger / Production Manager Rena Andreadaki / Project Manager & Tour Production Simona Fremder / Osmosis Operations CoOrdinator Nikos Mavrakis - TooFarEast / Photography Elina Giounanli, Geli Kalampaka, Julian Mommert & Andreas Simopoulos / Cinematography & Color Correction Nikos Nikolopoulos / Video Trailer Editor Euripides Laskaridis / A Project by Euripides Laskaridis & The Osmosis Performing Arts Company [GR] / Produced by Onassis Stegi [Athens GR] / Supported by The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès [FR] within the framework of the New Settings 2020 Program / Co-Produced by Théâtre de la Ville [Paris FR], Teatro della Pergola [Florence IT], Pôle européen de création – Ministère de la Culture / Biennale de la Danse de Lyon 2020 [FR], Teatro Municipal do Porto [PT], Festival Transamériques [Montreal CA], Les Halles de Schaerbeek [Brussels BE], Teatre Lliure [Barcelona ES], Malraux – Scène Nationale Chambéry Savoie [FR], Théâtre de Liège [BE], Julidans [Amsterdam NL] & Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy [FR] / In Collaboration with ICI—Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier – Occitanie [FR] / In Association with EdM Productions – Rial & Eshelman / Funded by The Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports / The international ELENIT tour receives the generous support of Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program

ELENITEURIPIDES

LASKARIDISConceived

Photo © Julian Mommert

George falls ill suddenly, reminisces about his life suddenly, and dies quite suddenly too. Centered around an illness, various figures parade through the work: fathers and mothers, partners and children, not to mention sixty men who get on board a boat bound for an island. The work unfolds like a surreal spell that tackles the inescapabilty of death, and is punctuated by musical interludes sung by a large male choir.

WINTER ’23

“A science fiction monolog with musical interludes” is how the writer Efthimis Filippou describes George, before going on to say: “It’s a work about the nature and causes and aesthetics of a beastly, deadly disease.” A “spy story” is how composer Panagiotis Melidis describes it, “only here, the murderer is inside you. It’s an exercise in self-assault that includes a survival guide – what to do when your own self, your various possible variants, attack you en masse, like a George to the power of sixty.”

George will be premiering twice over: live at Onassis Stegi, with Angeliki Papoulia performing as the narrator on stage alongside the large Corfu Men’s Choir, and as a collector’s edition vinyl – released by US label FourFour Records and produced by Onassis Culture – with actor Ben Whishaw giving a vocal performance as the narrator.

Script Efthimis Filippou / Original Music Panagiotis Melidis (Larry Gus) / Live Narration Angeliki Papoulia / Percussion Manousos Klapakis / Featuring the Corfu Men’s Choir / Costumes Design Vasileia Rozana / Line Production Fani Skartouli

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EFTHIMIS FILIPPOU PANAGIOTIS MELIDIS (LARRY GUS) George

Efthimis Filippou provides the text and Larry Gus (aka Panagiotis Melidis) the music for this portrayal of the final days in the life of a man aged around 65 – a man called George. The work’s narration and melodies are to be presented live at Onassis Stegi, and simultaneously released as a collector’s edition vinyl.

Original photo © Panos Kefalos

GEORGELARRY GUS, EFTHIMIS FILIPPOU

HEALTH UPPER STAGE

ONASSIS HEALTH DAY 2023

74 A one-day conference on the future of medicine, by the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (OCSC). 22.02.23 HEALTHONASSISDAY2023 HEALTH UPPER STAGE

In honor of the hospital’s 30 years of service, the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (OCSC), the Onassis Foundation and its Scholars’ Association are organizing the 3rd Onassis Health Day. Boasting more than one million patient appointments and tens of thousands of heart operations since first opening its doors in 1993, the OCSC is not simply the realization of the vision set out by Aristotle Onassis – it is a life-giving gift that has both transformed the public healthcare landscape in Greece and helped advance the medical sciences on an international level.

30 years at the heart of healthcare

This year’s Onassis Health Day – to be held at Onassis Stegi – will see specialist scholars, healthcare scientists, and other distinguished participants discussing the past and future of cardiology, about patients and medical personnel, as well as planning for the emerging digital realities of smart hospitals, and preparing for the 2024 arrival of the Onassis National Transplant Center (ONTRC) and all it will bring.

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One-Day Conference Content Curation Ioannis Boletis, Marianna Dalamaga, Michalis Gialouris, Panos Minogiannis, Alexandros Morellas, Xanthi Papadaki, Vassiliki Petta, Stella Tatsi, Prodromos Tsiavos, Effie Tsiotsiou / One-Day Conference Coordination Konstantinos Petsios, Kanella Psychogiou, Vanessa Tzoannou, Dimitrios Zaires / Project Coordination Vlassis Adraktas / Event Coordination Hara Syrou

Program curation, student mentoring, co-ordination Lorenda Ramou / Professor in charge (Panteion University) George - Michael Klimis

FEBRUARY ’23 MUSIC IN & OUT OF THE ONASSIS STEGI

This year’s edition serves as a tribute to a double anniversary – 110 years since the birth, and 30 since the death of Maurice Ohana, a composer whose work is deeply rooted in the music traditions of the Mediterranean. Arab-Andalusian music, flamenco, the poetry of Lorca, Greek mythology, jazz, and African percussion all feed into and inspire his compositions, as does the music of Claude Debussy, Manuel de Falla, Béla Bartók, and Olivier Messiaen. Works for solo piano and ensemble chamber music will feature across four concerts, set alongside music drawn from his personal universe.

MUSIC CONNECTS the Onassis Stegi andthe Panteion Universityvol. 8

This partnership between Onassis Stegi and the Panteion University bridges Syngrou Avenue each year through music, with the two institutions defying the physical distance between them to connect through their mutual interest in culture, with a focus on contemporary music. Composers and performers – in the main at the start of their careers – present works commissioned by Onassis Stegi, works never before performed in Greece, and repertory works, all selected on the basis of a different theme each year.

A bridge made of music is back for an eighth year, with four concerts – featuring sounds from across the Mediterranean – that pay tribute to the work of Maurice Ohana, 110 years after his birth.

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MUSIC ONASSIS STEGI WITH PANTEION

Original photo © Andreas Simopoulos

CONNECTS

Circular Cultures is an integral part of the broader collaboration between the British Council and the Onassis Foundation aiming at the development of an ongoing and action-oriented public space for ethical crafts, circular design, materials and fashion sustainability.

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Series Curation Maria Papaioannou & Prodromos Tsiavos

For a fifth consecutive year, Onassis Stegi and the British Council are presenting Circular Cultures, a sustainable design and creative economies program, which aims to promote greater awareness around sustainable design, circularity, and making cultures. Circular Cultures aims to embed a more critical dialog around design and circularity, develop the skills and knowledge of creative leaders, and create new networks around sustainability and circularity.

Sustainability, creative economies, and circular design. Circular Cultures is back at Onassis Stegi.

CIRCULAR CULTURES 2023

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Visual artist and Onassis Scholar Loukia Alavanou is inviting the public to travel through time and space with her 15-minute 360-degree VR film installed inside a domed viewing space that features special posture chairs based on designs made by the late architect Takis Zenetou, with Heinz Peter Schwerfel curating. The installation connects Classical Greek cultural heritage – specifically, a work by the playwright Sophocles – with contemporary social realities, spotlighting the desperate conditions in which the Roma community is living in Nea Zoi, Aspropyrgos in western Attica. In the film, Loukia Alavanou has members of the Roma community perform the last of three plays in Sophocles’ Oedipus cycle –Oedipus at Colonus. Transferring a Sophoclean tragedy almost 2,500 years old to the present day, she presents its plot through a combination of docufiction, music videos, pranks, and cutting-edge virtual reality technologies.

SPRING ’23

After representing Greece at the Venice Biennale with the support of Onassis Culture, the VR film Oedipus in Search of Colonus by Loukia Alavanou is now coming to Onassis Stegi.

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Artist Loukia Alavanou / Commissioner National Gallery of Greece – Alexandros Soutsos Museum / This exhibition is being organized with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, implemented by the National Gallery of Greece / A first version of the film Oedipus in Search of Colonus was realized with the support of Onassis Culture, and forms part of the Onassis Collection

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LOUKIA ALAVANOU OEDIPUS IN SEARCH OF COLONUS

82 02—05.03.23 FESTIVAL — DANCE ONASSIS STEGI

“Yes, but is it dance?”

Onassis Stegi’s established dance festival is turning ten this year and coming anew. ODD embraces the paradox, breaks down boundaries, and looks to the next decade straight in the eyes.

OnassisODDDance Days

Original photo © Petros Chytiris

ΟDD ONASSIS DANCE DAYS

Some 40 emerging choreographers have featured so far, with the Onassis New Choreographers Festival (ONC) acting as a springboard launching them beyond Greek borders, giving them the chance to tour internationally and garner awards at international dance events. Looking to the future, this year’s festival – to be known, from now on, as Onassis Dance Days – will continue to support the creation of new works developed within the utterly hybrid and dynamic form that is the contemporary performing arts. Works by artists who, no matter their ethnicity, age, disability, or arts background (be it dance or other), love to answer the simplest question in the world – “What is dance?” – in thrillingly oblique ways. Our guest star for 2023 is Marina Otero, the up-and-coming international performer, choreographer, and director from Argentina, who will be appearing in Greece for the first time with her diptych FUCK ME and LOVE ME, a pair of works in which she “romanticizes” her life story, setting out her own understanding of how things are when it comes to both “what is dance?” and “what is a life lived in love?”.

ODD as in odd. ODD as in Onassis Dance Days.

FESTIVAL — DANCE ONASSIS STEGI

Curated by Iliana Dimadi, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Konstantinos Tzathas

What springs to mind when you think of contemporary dance? Over the last ten years, we’ve dreamed up various astounding things: performances set in boxing rings and on football pitches, cooking shows and electropop manifestos, roving performances, street dance pieces, and movement works that make use of VR and AI.

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink, Alexandros Stavropoulos, ONC9, March 2022 A BOUNCE 4 MEN, Elias Hatzigeorgiou, ONC9, March 2022

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Photos © Pinelopi Gerasimou

Official guest artist at ODD 2023, and making her debut appearance in Greece, is Marina Otero (born in Buenos Aires in 1984). An artist who introduces herself as “a dancer who doesn’t dance.” Who has made it her life’s work to make her own life an artwork. Who speaks heartbreakingly, side-splittingly, and deeply about both her ill-starred love affairs and her mangled spleen.

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She admits that “theater was more essential than my life” and proves it with LOVE ME – a solo work which finds her motionless at first, in complete darkness, updating in front of the audience her private diary and confessions as a foreigner who migrated from her country.

The two presented works are part of the Remember to Live project, based on building an endless work about her life in which she will be her own object of investigation until the day she dies. First up is FUCK ME, then comes LOVE ME. “Yes, fuck me and then love me. First fuck me, then let’s talk about love...” –so says Marina Otero.

“FUCK ME” / “LOVE ME”. With these commands, a rising international choreographer from Argentina – Marina Otero – is making her Greek debut, eroticizing her life story in a double bill presented as part of Onassis Dance Days.

ODD — Onassis Dance Days FUCK ME / LOVE ME * Marina Otero ME was co-created by Marina Otero and Martín Flores Cárdenas

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“Call it narcissistic, but who else is going to talk about me if not me?” declares Otero in FUCK ME, an autobiographical work featuring five completely naked men dancing in place of her while she explains why it is she can no longer dance, starting with the story of her grandfather and his embroilment in the Argentinian dictatorship, then speaking about the surgery she has undergone and the realization of her physical decline, before going on to talk about her passion for love and travel and life and – as ever – for the stage.

*LOVE

Original photo © Marco

Roa

ODD — ONASSIS DANCE DAYSMARINA OTERO — FUCK ME/LOVE ME FUCK ME: Dramaturgy and Direction Marina Otero / Performers Augusto Chiappe, Cristian Vega, Fred Raposo, Juan Fran cisco Lopez, Bubica, Miguel Valdivieso & Marina Otero / Space & Lighting Design Adrián Grimozzi / Space & Lighting on tour - Technical Direction David Seldes, Facundo David / Costume Design Uriel Cistaro / Sound Design and Original Music Julián Rodríguez Rona / Dramaturgy Advice Martín Flores Cárdenas / Assistant Director Lucrecia Pierpaoli / Choreographic Assistant Lucía Giannoni / Assistant in Design of Spaces and Lighting Carolina Garcia Ugrin / Visual Artist Lucio Bazzalo / Audiovisual Technical Montage Florencia Labat / Costume Styling Chu Riperto / Photography Matías Kedak / Costume Adriana Baldani / Executive Producer Mariano de Mendonça / Production Mariano de Mendonça - Marcia Rivas / Distribution & Delegated Production Otto Productions, Timbre 4, Studio Grompone, PTC Teatro / This play was premiered in co-produc tion with the International Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA) 2020 / Runtime 70 min / The performance includes total nudity LOVE ME: Performer Marina Otero / Text & Direction Marina Otero - Martín Flores Cárdenas / Lighting Design Matías Sendón / Photography Nora Lezano / Illustrations Martín Flores Cárdenas / Executive Producer Mariano de Mendonça / Production Mariano de Mendonça - Casa Teatro Estudio – Marcia Rivas / International distribution Otto productions – Timbre 4 – PTC Teatro – Studio Grompone / Winning production of the Stimulus Award for the creation and production of performing arts CTBA + Banco Ciudad 2020-2021 / This work was premiered in co-production with the International Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA) 2022 / Premiere FIBA 2022 / Runtime 55 min / The performance includes nudity and strobe light

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The European platform about new media art, connecting organizations with artists, and presenting all possible futures.

08—09.03.23

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART PLATFORM

As a member of the EMAP (European Media Art Platform) network, Onassis Stegi will host a two-day networking conference in Athens bringing together representatives of all member organizations and artists selected for a residency. An opportunity to network, exchange, and introduce the member organizations to selected artists and present their projects that offer insights into our present and possible futures.The largest international platform for residencies of emerging European media artists, connects 15 leading European cultural institutions and organizations dealing with media art as well as over 80 partners, including renowned festivals, laboratories, and institutions that focus on digital arts, robotics, bio art, video, and other forms of media art. A partnership of cultural institutions aiming to support upand-coming media artists in order to create new works.

Original photo © Kiki Papadopoulou

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART PLATFORM

The young law student Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov takes the law into his own hands to murder the elderly pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna, but also her sister Lizaveta, who simply happened to return home right after the first, premeditated murder was perpetrated. What might such a vigilante act mean in the year 2023? How relevant is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece to the present day? And what inferences can be drawn in the here and now?

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Directed by Vasilis Bisbikis / Transcription & Dramaturgy Vasilis Bisbikis, Giannis Melitopoulos / With Cezaris Graužinis, Vasilis Bisbikis, Thodoris Skyftoulis and the Cartel company actors / Movement Enti Lame Lighting Design Sakis Birbilis / Set Design Kenny MacLellan / Costumes Design Giorgos Segredakis / Assistant Dionysis Kokotakis / Under the auspices and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports

A “new” story featuring a “new” Raskolnikov portrayed by Thodoris Skyftoulis, is to be presented in an utterly realistic way, via the directorial vision of Vasilis Bisbikis, with the director himself playing the role of the investigator Porfiry and the Lithuanian renowned director Cezaris Graužinis at the role of the drunk Marmeladov. All the other roles are played by Cartel company actors. The world of Dostoevsky will be converging on stage with the modern-day Western world at a crucial time when the latter seems to be in a state of dramatic transformation, one leading inescapably (whether for better or for worse, no-one can yet say) to its latest, quite different iteration.

Director

When exactly is a crime committed? The instant it is carried out, or the moment it rises in the mind of the perpetrator? How is the shift from legality to illegality defined in terms of time? And what is its punishment? The Cartel company will be exploring a series of ethical, sociological, and philosophical questions through the adaptation of this iconic 1866 novel, using a linear narrative structure to transfer the story to the present day, and setting it in the streets and neighborhoods of Athens.

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Directed by: Vasilis Bisbikis

Following on from his Of Mice and Men and The Red Lanterns, Vasilis Bisbikis is taking to the Onassis Stegi Main Stage for the first time, adapting this great Russian novel to give it a new setting: Athens, 2023.

But whatever this next manifestation may be, such questions shall always remain vital and timely, since they remain closely intertwined with human nature. And differing answers to these questions across time can perhaps drive change of any kind – be it for better, or for worse.

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AND PUNISHMENT

Vasilis OriginalBisbikisphoto © Elina Younanli

We live in a world that’s constantly in flux. The future retains a small element of surprise for us all, accompanied as it is by climate change and environmental scenarios of planetary destruction, the violent displacement of populations and human rights abuses, augmented reality, bioethics, big data, and epidemiological pandemics. Set against the backdrop of such socio-political realities, Onassis Stegi is seeking new practices, new tools, and new ideas.

These are theatrical works and performances that will startle audiences, tackling everything that’s difficult but also everything that’s pleasing – works that can stand tall beside Onassis Stegi’s large-scale productions.

Theater from the future at Onassis Stegi. New original works are selected via an annual open call to premiere on stage, on the Onassis Channel on YouTube, and beyond Greek borders. Works by new artists creating new original worlds.

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By means of an annual open call, Onassis Stegi picks out and spotlights young artists active in the performing arts – those working on the borders between theater, dance and performance, and within their hybrid combinations. The most outstanding proposals then premiere on Onassis Stegi stages – be they digital or other. But things don’t end there: outreach remains an ongoing concern, with the works receiving ongoing support from Onassis Stegi to be presented at arts festivals and cultural institutions beyond Greece.

Curated by Iliana Dimadi, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Konstantinos Tzathas

FUTUREN.O.W.

FUTURE N.O.W.

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Bernardine Evaristo, the award-winning author who conquered British literature, comes on the Main Stage of Onassis Stegi, for an exuberant discussion about the art of writing, the place of women in the “here and now” and the importance of being yourself in an ever-changing society.

BERNARDINE EVARISTO

Author, activist, writer, professor, star of two BBC documentary series, President of the UK’s Royal Society of Literature, the first black woman to win the Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo, meets the Athenian public for the first time in a discussion at the Main Stage. Born in 1959 to an English mother and Nigerian father, she grew up in London where she lives and teaches creative writing. After decades of working as an actress, teacher, singer, and activist, she stepped from the margins to the global spotlight. In her Manifesto, she talks about the racism she experienced since her childhood and the difficulties she encountered on her journey related to race, gender, social class, diversity, sexuality, and the passing of youth. In her eighth book Girl, Woman, Other – for which she was awarded the Booker Prize (2019) – twelve women living in Britain, most of them black or mixed race, of all ages, rich and poor, with different personalities and sexual orientations, have experienced social discrimination, racist behaviors, and everyday hardships from an early age. Their stories of friends, family, and lovers are woven together in search of a better future in an ever-changing multi-ethnic society.

Curated by Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Pasqua Vorgia, Lefteris Kalospiros, Costas Dardanos / In collaboration with Gutenberg Publications

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Photo © Jennie Scott

A major innovation at this year’s Borderline is the development of an expanded festival network that embraces the broader Mediterranean region, supporting new partnerships and a more sustainable touring model. Specifically, a group of artists and music outfits are to be incorporated into the network’s joint programming, launching their tour from Space21 in Iraqi Kurdistan and taking in Irtijal in Beirut and the inaugural Breach Festival in Nicosia before ending up in Athens for Onassis Stegi’s Borderline Festival. The aims of the network are to bolster regional arts communities, to share pioneering practices and ideas, to spotlight lesser-known artists, and to promote sustainability in the arts and cultural sphere.

Festival Curator Michalis Moschoutis / In partnership with Hardi Kurda (Space21), Sharif Sehnaoui (Irtijal), and Andria Nicodemou (Breach Festival)

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Borderline brings us the future of music today, with new partnerships and a more sustainable touring model.

Onassis Stegi’s longest-running festival continues to explore the borderlines between contrasting arts, cultures, and traditions. Seeking out unity through difference, Borderline presents yet another diverse and inclusive program of electronic, electroacoustic, and acoustic music, rounded out – as ever – by a selection of installations, talks, discussions, and screenings.

Original photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

BORDERLINE FESTIVAL 12

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Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union 99 EUROPE BEYOND ACCESS FESTIVAL

Partner Institutions British Council (United Kingdom), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Holland Dance Festival (Netherlands), Kampnagel (Germany), Per.Art (Serbia), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), Oriente Occidente Dance Festival (Italy) / Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union

DANCE — THEATER UPPER STAGE

A new generation of disabled artists are changing the way we experience dance and theater, taking us beyond the obvious, beyond accepted norms, and beyond access.

100 Now that the Europe Beyond Access network – which has provided disabled artists with ongoing support to smash through stereotypes involved in the creation of dance and theater productions – has completed its four-year program, Onassis Stegi is partnering with independent curators and artists to organize a celebratory event for all. A dance festival with an event program that is revolutionary for European culture, featuring performances and collective works of inclusive dance created by disabled choreographers and dancers from Greece and beyond, as well as knowledge exchange workshops, and debates that engage boldly with the European arts scene.

EUROPE BEYOND

Original photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

ACCESS FESTIVAL

Written by Dimitris Karantzas & Geli Kalampaka / Direction Dimitris Karantzas / Sets Clio Boboti / Costumes Ioanna Tsami / Movement Direction Tasos Karachalios / Video Design Geli Kalampaka / Music Giorgos Poulios / Assistant Director Kelly Papadopoulou / With Alexia Kaltsiki, Fidel Talampoukas / Crowd scenes feature volunteer performers / Line Production Rena Andreadaki, Zoe Mouschi / Produced by Onassis Stegi

THE HOUSE Dimitris Karantzas

The house. Its walls. A screen that’s always on. A woman and a man: two adults living as children. Playing, eating, knitting. Observing one another. Always there, shut away, the two of them alone inside this house. And what about the world? It’s always there too, but outside, far from them – an unknown parallel reality. A thing they’ve never seen, never dropped in on. Not ever. That is until, all of a sudden, a part of their house is destroyed and the outside world bursts in. It is the 21st century, parading through in all its trademark manifestations – war and oppression in the name of outdated ideals, the obscurantism of formerly progressive generations, modern-day far-right movements, the persecution of gender identity selection, the dispossession of the body and of nature.

Six years after Rob, Dimitris Karantzas is returning to Onassis Stegi to haunt our Upper Stage with a parable about reality catching up with you, sooner or later – no matter how hard you try to escape it.

A new and original piece of work – elliptical in nature, and focused mainly of action performed in silence – forms the textual material of this parable put together by Geli Kalampaka and Dimitris Karantzas, who draw inspiration from the Julio Cortázar short story “House Taken Over,” the Loula Anagnostaki one-act play The Parade, and an architectural researches on responses to the uncanny.

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Dimitris Karantzas

Original photo © Geli Kalampaka

THE HOUSEDIMITRIS KARANTZAS

These dance paeans bring us to self-determination and its jubilatory acceptance. A party celebrating the joy that surrounds the transformation and heterogeneity of bodies – one that incorporates all the reactions that make one thing clear to us all: we can always enjoy ourselves, even if we’re different.

Concept & Choreography Patricia Apergi / Dramaturgy Roberto Fratini Serafide / Set Design Evangelia Therianou / Lighting Design Nikos Vlassopoulos / Assistant Choreographer Emmanouela Sakellari / Artistic Consultants Iria Vrettou, Ilias Chatzigeorgiou / Creative Producer Yolanda Markopoulou, Vicky Strataki / POLYPLANITY Productions / Executive Producers Aerites Dance Company - POLYPLANITY Productions / Int. Distribution PLAN B – Creative Agency for Performing Arts Hamburg / Produced by Onassis Stegi / Co-produced by Le Gymnase – CDCN Roubaix (FR) / Premiere Onassis Stegi / Touring is supported by Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program

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“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our show! We’ll all be freefalling into the future…” This is how Patricia Apergi welcomes us into the universe of her new work, which takes us on a cerebral journey through time, and out onto the streets to throw a welcome party for the future using the most explosive materials that the past has to offer.

As Apergi herself notes: “We’re all having a hard time. But we can also sense that – in this shaken, teetering world – joy is to be found in those short breaks between battles.”And so the Onassis Stegi Main Stage is being transformed into a catwalk, for the six performer-personas who star in The House of Trouble, and steeped in the poetics of club culture and contemporary dance.

THE HOUSE OF TROUBLE Patricia Apergi

MAY ’23

Because The House of Trouble is inspired by dance forms that emerged “out there,” and “from the grass roots up” – by street dance styles that sprang up from the 1980s into the 2000s as acts of public resistance and socio-political protest in the face of violence and humiliations never brought to justice.

Six years after Cementary, choreographer Patricia Apergi is returning to Onassis Stegi with an explosive party – a paean to individuals and their choices, to diversity and freedom and self-determination.

Patricia Apergi

Original photo © Tasos Vrettos

THE HOUSE OF TROUBLEPATRICIA APERGI

Original photo © Artūrs Pavlovs

THEATER MAIN STAGE

ROHTKOLUKASZ TWARKOWSKI

What do originals matter in a time of NFTs and blockchains?

A Chinese restaurant, with hanging lanterns and cooks standing over pans of noodles, an all-white New York gallery with neon signs, the messily unmade double bed of an artist from Latvia who would go on to change the course of contemporary art history, and screens towering seven meters tall, all on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage. This setting – a cross between a film set and a video art project flooded with loud, atmospheric beats – is to be inhabited by famous painters and Chinese cooks, gallerists, art dealers and forgers, patrons of the art world and Wolt delivery drivers.

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What is art, at the end of the day?

Can a forged painting still move you?

What does art matter – what does life itself matter – now that virtual realities exist?

A series of such questions are threaded through this four-hour performance by the up-and-coming European director Łukasz Twarkowski, appearing in Greece for the first time to present an epic, masterful, and singular story about our troubled times.

LukaszROHTKOTwarkowski

A monumental spectacle of an experience on the border between theater, film, and video art by Poland’s leading contemporary director Łukasz Twarkowski, making his Greek debut with an iconoclastic performance that dives deep into the abyss that is contemporary art and centers on the strange individual that was the expressionist artist Mark Rothko.

THEATER MAIN STAGE

Who decides the value of a work of art?

How free is an artist?

At the heart of it all is the true story of an art forgery: a painting by the pioneering abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko, which sold for the astronomical sum of 8.5 million dollars. As it turns out, the painting was a forgery, making the affair one of the most scandalous instances of fraud in contemporary art history.

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Photo © Artūrs Pavlovs

Director Lukasz Twarkowski / Dramaturg Anka Herbut / Set Designer Fabien Lédé / Costume Designer Svenja Gassen / Choreographer Pawel Sakowicz / Composer Lubomir Grzelak / Video Designer Jakub Lech / Light Designer Eugenijus Sabaliauskas / Cast Juris Bartkevičs, Kaspars Dumburs, Ērika Eglija-Grāvele, Yan Huang, Andrzej Jakubczyk, Rēzija Kalniņa, Katarzyna Osipuk, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Mārtiņš Upenieks, Vita Vārpiņa, Toms Veličko, Xiaochen Wang / Director’s Assistants Mārtiņš Gūtmanis, Diāna Kaijaka, Adam Zduńczyk / Costume Designer’s Assistant Bastian Stein / Playwright's Assistant Linda Šterna / Video Designer’s Assistant Adam Zduńczyk / Video Camera Operators Arturs Gruzdiņš, Jonatans Goba / Rehearsal Translators Diāna Kaijaka, Elza Marta Ruža / Performance Manager Indra Laure / Producer Ginta Tropa / Performance is created by Dailes Theater in Latvia in co-operation with JK Opole Theater in Poland and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute with co-financing from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland

A festival ode to adventurous music experiences, games, interactive installations, sounds of objects and works. Musicians and music from around the world meet with children, parents and friends, and become one on the stages, elevators, hallways, and streets outside Stegi.

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Curated by Christos Carras, Myrto Lavda, Wouter van Looy / The BIG BANG children’s music festival is a co-production of the Onassis Stegi and the Zonzo Compagnie, and is part of the European BIG BANG network / Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union BANG

Awarded as the most innovative music festival in Europe for children aged 0-12, Big Bang returns with new adventures for the 7th year at Onassis Stegi and its neighbourhood.

BIG

After 7 years, we are now fully aware that children are always the best audience and without a second thought become part of a concert: they dance, sing and discover what Music is all about. After all, at Big Bang there are no rules and “don’ts,” just an open invitation: let’s all find our rhythm.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Original photo © Andreas Simopoulos

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ALEXANDRAS AVENUE

Photo © Stelios Tzetzias

The Talisman of All Beings (part of Extropic Optimisms series of works) by Angelo Plessas on Alexandras Avenue, in-situ neon installation

ART IN THE CITY

Photo © Stelios Tzetzias

OMONIA SQUARE

Photo © Stelios Tzetzias See Who Protects by Aristeidis Lappas at Omonia Square

ART IN THE CITY

PhotoSYNTAGMA©DimitrisMichalakis

Onassis Stegi supports the LGBTQIΑ+ community through action and initiatives undertaken both in Athens and around the world.

Photo © Dimitris Michalakis

NEOS KOSMOS

Sport courts and playgrounds are restored in Neos Kosmos, the Onassis Stegi neighborhood. Two street artists, SAME84 and Konstantinos Palaiologos, enlivened with color the basketball courts at the 39th Youth Center (on the corner of Sarkounidou Street and Kasomouli Street) and the 60th Youth Center (on Heldreich Street, at Dourgouti Park).

ONATHENS

Photo © Dimitris Michalakis

LOGGINOU GROVE

A playground and a basketball court at Logginou Grove, Mets were upgraded into a more open and “green” public space, with the contribution of two street artists from the “U can’t stop Us” team.

ONATHENS

SEPOLIA & AMPELOKIPI

Photo © Konstantinos Dimitriou

ANTETOKOUNBROS ACADEMY

It doesn’t matter where you start, but where you can reach. The Antetokounmpo brothers had the vision. In the neighborhoods that are so full of talent and dreams, but devoid of opportunities, the AntetokounBros Academy was founded, a free program of education, training, and support that goes well beyond the boundaries of basketball. For another year, young girls and boys between 12 and 16 are offered chances and opportunities that the brothers did not have at the same age, and enter training with the top female basketball player in Greece, Evina Maltsi, as their Head Coach, claiming their dreams. The Onassis Foundation, Nike, and Eurohoops Organization join powers and support young people in order to unleash their own.

Photo © Pinelopi Gerasimou

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In the beginning, there is curiosity. Without any age limits, physical limitations and boundaries, the Onassis Foundation’s educational programs are permeated by the same philosophy: timeless curiosity, inclusion, group learning. This season too, students of all school levels, university students, researchers, artists, scientists, teachers, people with or without disabilities, and families, meet at workshops, share digital apps, go out in the city, visit exhibitions, the Onassis Library, the world of the Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy, and release their potential through the scholarships of the Onassis Foundation. Discover the education universe of the Onassis Foundation at onassis.org/education and browse the digital collection of Cavafy Archive, with more than 2,000 digitized archival documents, at cavafy.onassis.org .

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MATALA ARCADE THE MANDRA ONASSIS READY CAVAFY ARCHIVE

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At Onassis Foundation, we like the noise coming out of construction sites, we love the dusty, metallic scaffolding. We like evolution, the process of change, disruption that occurs in every direction. The 2022-23 season will find us in new spaces that are under reconstruction at various places amid the Athenian urban web; construction sites in Patission Street for Matala Arcade, in Votanikos area for Onassis Ready, in Dionysiou Areopagitou Street for The Mandra, as well as the new space of the Cavafy Archive in Frynichou Street at Plaka, which will open its doors to the public in spring of 2023. So, wear your protective helmet for the next pages, as we shall tread with caution.

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PATISSION

Situated among the Athenian districts of Kypseli, Exarcheia, and Patissia, the Matala Arcade focuses on two elements that bring people together: food and music. Furthermore, by hosting exhibitions from artists of different ethnic backgrounds, its aim is to bring the Athenian audience in contact with the most dynamic artistic voices, creating an Athenian mosaic of diverse human stories.

MATALA ARCADE

DIONYSIOU AREOPAGITOU

The Mandra, situated on a pedestrianized precinct in Plaka – at 2 Dionysiou Areopagitou Street – has hidden at its heart the most characteristic example of Athenian Belle Époque open-air theater architecture: an outdoor stage built in 1909, belonging to the so-called “mandra” (i.e. yard) theater typology, which is to say an outdoor theater bearing the form of a rudimentary stalls area with an Italianate stage. The Mandra was introduced to the Athenians last year, with the visual installation Opus Just for One Person by Ioko Ioannis Kotidis, while this season a part of the new work by Romain Gavras entitled Gener8ion will be presented there, starring actress Charlize Theron.

THE MANDRA

PhotoRENTI©Stelios Tzetzias

ONASSIS READY

In September of 2020, the Onassis Foundation transformed a huge industrial building in an uncharted territory at the greater Athenian area of Renti to an unexpected space for artistic experimentation. The first “residents” of Onassis Ready soon arrived and brought life to the former factory. Actor and director Vasilis Bisbikis found a new home for the most successful Greek theater production in recent years, Men and Mice, which was also transferred to screen. At the same time, his “roommate” Lena Kitsopoulou drew inspiration for her performance from the legendary gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which she presented at the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi in the spring of 2022. The group of “roommate” artists of Onassis Ready grows bigger day by day and the building will soon be flooded with light and people.

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The Cavafy Archive will be opening its doors in the historic heart of Athens – on Frynichou Street in Plaka – in the spring of 2023. This new space will house both the archive and library of C. P. Cavafy, as well as a collection of personal items, and works of art with references to the poet. The space will also host temporary exhibitions featuring Cavafy related art. Following the online publication of the Cavafy Archive Digital Collection in March 2019, which rendered the archive accessible to all, the Onassis Foundation is stepping up once again to meet the challenges of disseminating and granting open access to the archive. By investing in the creation of a tailor made space for the Cavafy Archive in Athens, open to all, the Onassis Foundation is providing local residents, researchers, and visitors with yet another international cultural heritage landmark.

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DIGITAL ART

For Onassis Stegi, public space is public discourse. It is political and unruly, a cornerstone of the commons and a place for lively debate. In a time when art can no longer stay neutral, Onassis Stegi is continuing to make its presence felt in the public sphere, this time transferring from Pedion tou Areos park in Athens to Ioannina in Epirus. A city where the commons movement is thriving and a place that’s introducing the newly-coined “cosmo-localism” to our lexicon – that is, the way in which the truly local is made global. In May 2023, we will once more be seeking out the threads and materials and tesserae that make up the mosaic of a public realm that casts doubt on distinctions between core and periphery, this time in Ioannina. In a porous reality determined by digital platforms and smart devices that indiscriminately extract data from people and animals, plants and objects, where does a metropolis end and the countryside begin? As you move through this rhizomatic space, how do you feel about your own body and its limits? What is it you think of? What is it you dream about? What are you?

Stay tuned at onassis.org

From Pedion tou Areos park in Athens to Ioannina city.

FROM PEDION TOU AREOS PARK TO IOANNINA CITY.

Photo © Stelios Tzetzias

DIGITAL ART

Avramidis

PhotoCRETE©Alexandros

PSARANTONIS — STAGES A/LIVE

STAGES A/LIVE. Music at unexpected places. From the top of Mount Ida to the Neratze Mosque in Rethymno. Psarantonis is coming to grace us with a concert filmed in his homeland – on the island of Crete. Manos Hadjidakis called him “Greece’s greatest lyra player” and “a powerful, singular musical presence,” while Nick Cave considers him an authentic virtuoso of world music. This great Greek master craftsman of songs – a champion and custodian of traditional Cretan music who also breathes unique new life into the form – will be conquering Mount Ida, lyra in hand, and offering up a concert of ritualistic power at the Neratze Mosque in Rethymno. Because, as he himself notes: “Tradition lasts forever. Without roots, there are no leaves, no fruits. Tradition is the art of the people – it is their faith.”

Coming to STAGES A/LIVE – as are many more unexpected concerts, in places you never dreamed. Michalis Siganidis and Larry Gus will be coming to you live from Antart Studios, which formally housed the offices and studio facilities of the legendary Finos Films.

PhotoKEFALONIA©PinelopiGerasimou

Endless Dionysian dancing, out in the Ionian Sea. For those in the know, Saristra needs no introduction. The ultimate Dionysian music festival is back for an eleventh year at its regular haunt. Old Vlachata village, on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, will once again be hosting established artists and emerging talent drawn from the Greek and international scenes in a unique setting. Three days filled with music, art, film screenings, and parallel events promise yet another powerful experience of a lifetime nestled in the heart of summer, giving us a blast of creativity that never rests. And Onassis Stegi will be there too. Over the years, Saristra has welcomed such major international artists and groups as BEAK> (the band of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow), Texan musician Josh T. Pearson, psychedelic Japanese outfit Minami Deutsch, the “sassiest boy in America” Ian Svenonius, She Past Away from Turkey, and firm favorite Blaine L. Reininger.

SARISTRA FESTIVAL 2023

PEANUT POD AND THE FILM SEED HypercomfFESTIVAL

This project is being realized in partnership with AGENSO – Agricultural and Environmental Solutions, an innovative company for agriculture and the environment

How can we improve farming areas with the help of technology? Smart agriculture has a starring role in “Peanut Pod and the Film Seed Festival,” an open-field, eco film festival presented on the island of Tinos.

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How can small-scale agricultural practice benefit from the use of new technologies, circular economy strategies, and approaches that also cultivate the earth culturally?By repairing the present, we forge the future. As part of the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS initiative, Onassis Stegi is teaming up with the Hypercomf artist collective to explore smart agriculture and give answer to how we might use technology to improve rural farming areas, making them models of sustainability and prosperity.“Peanut Pod and the Film Seed Festival,” a project to be presented on Tinos island in the fall of 2022, features a smart IoT agriculture pod that makes it possible for farmers to produce the conditions necessary for a Film Seed Festival: a peanut-crop-powered, open-field, eco film festival. Held in the agricultural area of Livadi on Tinos, the festival will screen films that study small farming communities as they try to survive in the face of demands imposed by modern-day life, and to prosper in their own unique ways. Included in the festival program are such awardwinning films as When Tomatoes Met Wagner by Marianna Economou, Snails by Grzegorz Szczepaniak, and The Babushkas of Chernobyl by Αnne Bogart and Holly Morris.

Photo © Hypercomf

PEANUT POD AND THE FILM SEED FESTIVAL

THESSALY — ETOLOAKARNANIA

How does the Greek traditional feast evolve though the years?

MARGARONI RESIDENCY

Between the traditional feasts of the countryside, the basement joints blasting with Greek folk clarinets (the so-called “klarina”) and the nightclubs of Athens, lay the lives, voices and imagination of traditional musicians, as well as an entire world that goes hand in hand. Composer Thanassis Deligiannis and playwright and philologist Yannis Michalopoulos initiated “Margaroni Residency” in June of 2022. Through this research project, their objective is to study the musical civilization across the Greek periphery but offer a novel understanding as well of its evolution and acceptance in the 1970s and 1980s. By revisiting the life of a female folk singer as their case study and the creative assembly of multimedia material, they are conducting field trips to Etoloakarnania and Thessaly, record, film, seek, find, and suggest answers to questions around the position of woman, the patterns of seasonal work, and the rural landscape of the periphery. Following the special feast that they set up with ENA ENA in the Exhibition Hall -1 of the Onassis Stegi in November of 2021, the artists and researchers return as Onassis Residents for a residency program until May 2023.

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“Trapbetiko” from the town of Konitsa. What happens when trap and hip hop are crossed with rebetiko? Just such an experiment has been completed, most successfully, by Onassis AiR resident Negros tou Moria, working with Odydoze (aka Odysseas Manoloudis). The pair traveled to the small town of Konitsa, 64 kilometers north of Ioannina, where they met with researcher Christopher King – the third core member of an explosive music group. And the results aren’t at all what you were expecting. It took four days, countless improvisations, and various breaches of fluid musical frontiers to create “trapbetiko”: a bold, all-new blend of trap and hip hop with the rebetiko genre. This project – an exclusive Onassis Stegi production – proves that fusing old with new can lay the ground for new forms, new rules, and new departures.

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The Onassis Foundation, following up on the acquisition of the Cavafy Archive, its digitization and publishing, undertook, in early 2022, the restoration of Cavafy House with a view to rendering it a cultural landmark for visitors from around the world. According to flux-office – the design partnership of Eva Manidaki and Thanassis Demiris who have undertaken the architectural study – the place where C. P. Cavafy lived for 35 years is to be restored, giving prominence to its former ambience, thus offering a glimpse into the past and into the milestones of the poet’s life. The Cavafy House will be opening its doors to the public in the spring of 2023. The restoration project of Cavafy House is being undertaken in partnership with the Hellenic Foundation for Culture, which runs the Cavafy House.

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The Onassis Foundation has undertaken the restoration of the home where C. P. Cavafy lived and wrote his poetry.

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The project is a collaboration between the cultural pillar of the Onassis Foundation in Athens, the Cavafy Archive, and the New York Cultural Center. Senior Advisor of Onassis USA, Karen Brooks Hopkins, will serve as Executive Producer. The festival, in honor of C. P. Cavafy, co-curated by composer Paola Prestini, co-founder of presenting partner National Sawdust and Afroditi Panagiotakou, Director of Culture of the Onassis Foundation, will include newly commissioned live performances, digital art presentations, screenings of short films, poetry readings, literary conversations hosted by McNally Jackson bookstores, a visual rave, and many more events. Internationally renowned artists, such as the poet Robin Coste Lewis, celebrated visual artists Julie Mehretu, Nick Cave and Bob Faust, composers Nico Muhly, Rufus Wainwright, and Laurie Anderson and many more will contribute with new works.

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On the anniversary of 160 years from the birth and 90 years from the death of C. P. Cavafy, the Onassis Foundation in New York will present a ten-day festival in May 2023 in venues across the city.

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Athens and Alexandria are two cities with histories that intertwine, places that have architectural remnants with stories to be told, and collective traumas to be glimpsed within the rifts that fracture their complex urban and cultural fabric. The Onassis Foundation has taken on the restoration and upkeep of Constantine Cavafy’s home in Alexandria, while the “Alexandria: (Re)Activating Common Urban Imaginaries” European project is spotlighting cultural issues that have arisen, considered through the symbolic and historical prism that is this landmark Egyptian city and the impact it has had on the Mediterranean region.

Thanks to the work being done by everyone from the producers of Onassis Stegi’s Movement Radio to artists tackling the modern-day urban fabric of Alexandria, all roads ever lead to Alexandria.

In the fall of 2022, as part of this European project, Onassis Stegi will once again be bringing Islam Shabana (Egypt), Neja Tomšič (Slovenia), Zeynep Kaserci (Turkey), Chiara Cartuccia (Italy), and Tahir Onur Çimen (Turkey) to Athens for a public presentation showcasing the results of their work as part of the “Caravan Residency Program: Thinking with Alexandria” held in Biella, Italy (Cittadelarte – Fondazione Pistoletto), in Alexandria and, lastly, at Onassis Stegi last spring. Also taking part in the event are researchers and academics who shaped the program’s Athens segment and made significant contributions to the artists’ research processes.Theproject is also planning for similar presentations in Marseille, in partnership with Mucem, and in Aarhus, in partnership with Kunsthal, as well as public events in Alexandria, all to be held in 2023.

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Odydoze in Atlanta, the city of trap.

“My name is Odysseas, but when I make beats, I prefer the nickname Odydoze.” The first one who showed an interest in the beats of Odysseas Manoloudis was Funeral, while his collaboration with trappers from Atlanta began three years ago, simply out of curiosity on how his productions would sound if someone put vocals on top of them. Odydoze began then scouring Instagram for anyone who needed beats. He filled his phone with more than 100 screenshots from different accounts of trappers and proceeded then in forwarding his beats. Two to three posted back, with one of them being Funeral. The first step has been made for the now 19-year-old producer, who later met Johnny Cinco and conquered together the American charts. No matter how he feels, Odydoze always ends up making music: “I believe I inject this positive energy into my music and this affects everybody I collaborate with. I pass on to them this excitement, this craving I have.” A number of new projects in the United States awaits Odydoze, as well as collaborations with Greek rappers, such as Negros tou Moria. In the new season, Odydoze’s trip to the United States as an Onassis Resident will be presented in a documentary produced by Onassis Foundation, which highlights the creative process between producer and rapper.

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The future is already here, we are metaversed. Now in its third year of operation, ONX Studio, the Onassis Foundation and New Museum’s accelerator for digital technologies and artistic creation, welcomes a new generation of pioneering artists and producers from all over the globe, practitioners who will explore the boundaries between virtual and material reality.

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Using data as a raw material and emphasizing the role that performance, materiality, and physicality can play in contemporary digital creation, the members of ONX constitute a vanguard with an increased presence at international festivals and events. This season, three Greek artists will be added to the list of current ONX Fellows from Greece (Loukia Alavanou, Manolis Manousakis, and Theo Triantafyllidis). In 2023, ONX will renew its collaboration with the Tribeca Festival in New York City, while it will also launch its collaboration with MAXforum in NYC to co-create a series of discussions on technology, science, art, and society. Highlights of the upcoming events include the exhibition of Lundahl & Seitl, a pioneering artist duo from Sweden active in the fields of immersive performance and the visual arts; the work Unfolding the Universe: First Light by Ashley Zelenskie, in collaboration with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Mozilla Hubs; as well as taking part in IDFA (the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) with its own program section.

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Unfolding the Universe: First Light will also feature sculpture and installation inspired by Webb’s first images and created with the guidance of expert scientists in the corresponding fields. The work will reflect everything from exoplanet spectroscopy and infrared image processing to Webb’s signature six-pointed stars.

How can an artist make beautiful work out of photos and data that are already beautiful in their own right? Especially if these are the awe-inspiring images of NASA’s James Webb Telescope. ONX Studio in partnership with the Onassis Foundation, NEW INC, and Mozilla Hubs, is pleased to present Unfolding the Universe: First Light. This is a solo exhibition by conceptual artist Ashley Zelinskie, curated by Maggie Masetti in cooperation with the James Webb Space Telescope team of scientists and engineers.

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The universe unfolds before our eyes and at ONX Studio, NYC, in a VR exhibition featuring sculpture and installations inspired by breath-taking images of NASA’s James Webb Telescope.

The exhibition features Zelinskie’s first VR artwork Unfolding the Universe: A NASA Webb VR Experience which includes animated sculpture and interactive portraiture of Webb team members. This work was created to commemorate the launch of Webb in December 2021 and has since been updated to include new elements reflecting the telescope’s “First Images” data released on July 12th.

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ULYSSES: A European Odyssey

Taking its inspiration from the James Joyce novel of the same title, this project is setting out from Athens to change the way we see the future – a modern-day odyssey stopping in 18 different European cities.

“ULYSSES: A European Odyssey” will unfold in chronological order, in accordance with the 18 episodes of Joyce’s novel, launching in Athens at the end of September 2022 before journeying to Budapest, Marseille, Trieste, and Vilnius that same fall. 2023 will see the initiative take in Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, San Sebastian, Cluj, Istanbul, Zurich, Groningen, Eleusis, and Oulu. The journey is to be completed in June 2024, with stops in Lisbon, Dublin, and Derry-Londonderry.

A new civic and cultural initiative is setting out from Athens to tour the world, uniting 18 different European cities within a singular vision and animating their public spaces for people from all walks of life, with 18 international symposia (one in each city), 30 artist exchange residencies, and 18 literary commissions for the creation of a new, European “Ulysses” to be published as a book in 2024.

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More than 80 productions and co-productions of the Onassis Stegi have been widely praised at numerous performances hosted by cultural spaces around the world. From Transverse Orientation by Dimitris Papaioannou, Larsen C by Christos Papadopoulos, and Prometheus by Nikos Karathanos, to MOS by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Vanishing Point by Alexandros Vardaxoglou and Dafin Antoniadou, and Stones and Bones by RootlessRoot, contemporary Greek culture takes upon a journey from the Onassis Stegi’s Main and Upper Stages to the whole world.

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Movement Radio, the Onassis Stegi web radio broadcasts 24/7. The web radio station of the Onassis Stegi unifies the past, present, and future, through daily live shows, dj-sets and music tributes, interviews, talk shows, and live events. Ever pulsating, Movement Radio hosts a wide range of sounds, from the Greek dj, hip-hop, and electronica scenes, to music scenes and hybrid sounds emerging from every corner of the globe, under the creative direction of DETACH (Voltnoi & Quetempo). Tune in to www.movement.radio.

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The digital future at the Onassis YouTube Channel. The Onassis Channel was born during the first lockdown in our country and became the number one digital channel of a cultural organization in Greece. In a very short period, all the Onassis Stegi productions from the last ten years of its operation were digitized and offered for free viewing to the public. However, the Onassis Channel didn’t stop there. It produced new content, especially produced for YouTube. It instigated a series of digital discussions, with a positive and thorough impact on Greek society. It offered space, time, and a digital stage to new artists, bringing them in contact with a broader audience. It re-ignited the music venues in Greece, which remained closed due to the pandemic, and created STAGES A/LIVE, a series of digital concerts with an audience from all over the world. Having amassed in total over 69,300 registered users from 94 different countries, 10,010,067 views, 705,300 hours of viewing and 55,100,000 impressions, the Onassis Channel grows bigger day by day and constantly evolves. Concerts from STAGES A/LIVE series are coming to our screens, as well as documentaries in world premiere, episodes from the series of online discussions “Society Uncensored,” and new content that brings digital future into

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We speak freely on things that are profound, but unfortunately not a given. Representatives from active organizations, members of the academic and artistic community, of the fields of activism and civil society, of journalism, research, legal representation and governance, as well as from different ethnic backgrounds and communities of Athens, take a stand on critical and current social and political issues of the time and place. In the framework of the “Society Uncensored” series, we have heard so far “voices” on issues such as femicides, the Black Lives Matter movement, gender violence and sexism, the notion of cultural identity, hate speech, contemporary parenthood, and body shaming. This year in the series, two new episodes on disability – the one on the relationship of disabled people with art and culture, and the other on mental health – will be aired, scheduled for a premiere on the Onassis Channel.

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We’re looking long and hard at everything that matters. A series of new documentaries will be bringing us closer to issues that concern us all, turning our gaze on individual and collective realities, on personal stories worth telling, on dreams, experiences, and new narratives. Democracy Is Coming explores the ever-relevant issue that is the inextricable connection between democracy and art: springing from the Onassis Foundation festival of the same title held in New York City back in April 2019, this series of interviews portend everything that is happening in our world today, and perhaps even everything yet to come. A documentary about Nikos Karathanos’ The Birds follows this iconic Onassis Stegi production’s lead performers on their journey from Epidaurus in Greece to Santiago in Chile, where they are set against the backdrop of anti-government protests that took place in the Plaza de la Dignidad. And Mommies centers on questions arising out of IVF treatments that make use of donated genetic material.

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The importance of breaking your silence. A feature-length documentary that traces the story of the Greek #MeToo movement. In 2021, Olympic gold-medalist Sofia Bekatorou sparked the Greek #MeToo movement, becoming a figurehead for thousands of abuse survivors in the process. Encouraged by her example, Amalia – a women’s sailing champion – decided to bring charges against her coach for the rape he subjected her to when she was eleven. As Sofia presses for legal reforms that will empower sexual assault survivors, Amalia takes her rapist to court in what are the first trial proceedings of the Greek #MeToo movement. Sofia becomes an activist, something she had never imagined for herself. Meanwhile Amalia is mercilessly persecuted in the Greek media, and continues to face stigma in her rural, small town community. Entrusted with exclusive access, the film – sensitively, and with compassion – follows these two women for more than a year and a half as they attempt to deal with their trauma. In doing so, it captures a critical cultural moment for Greek society, not least because, over the last decade, Greece has consistently ranked last in the EU when it comes to gender equality and women’s rights.

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Why might a woman want to become a mother at any cost? And why might another not be interested in persons born using (and carrying) her DNA? Two women – two strangers – set out their thoughts on the notion of motherhood, and the universe that surrounds it. Their parallel narratives share a similar starting point: both were involved in donation arrangements – the collection of genetic material at IVF clinics. Mommies centers on questions arising out of IVF treatments that make use of donated genetic material, and the women’s separate narrations together form a singular discourse. Produced by the Onassis Foundation, the film Mommies sheds light on the unseen procedures and prime movers of the IVF industry in Greece.

Mommies by Elvira Krithari and Maria Sidiropoulou

Still from the film Bastards by Nikos Pastras

We like to watch films.

The Onassis Foundation is pursuing lasting investment in Greek cinema and playing an active role in artistic creation. It is supporting established filmmakers and rising talent by funding screenplay development – such projects as Liar Man by Manolis Mavris, Large Rock in a Small Head by Yannis Economides and Vangelis Mourikis, Women of 1922 by Aris Kaplanidis, Bastards by Nikos Pastras, and the documentary film The Public Private House by Tassos Langis. It is facilitating the production of both shorts and features – such projects as Cora by Evi Kalogiropoulou, Wild Days by Vasilis Kekatos (his debut feature-length film), and The Crossing by Aineias Tsamatis and Katerina Mavrogeorgi. It is forging partnerships with such major institutions as the Hellenic Film Academy, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the Drama International Short Film Festival, and the Athens International Film Festival – Opening Nights to bolster Greek film, both at home and around the world. It has launched a series of film awards to support the development of new screenplays and the production of new films, and is helping to showcase new Greek releases, both in cinemas and online – such projects as Dodo by Panos Koutras and Broadway by Christos Massalas. Most recently supporting the Cannes Film Festival screening of its production On Xerxes’ Throne by Evi Kalogeropoulou, which won the Canal+ Short Film Award as part of Critic’s Week 2022, the Onassis Foundation will be continuing to champion Greek cinema this year too – its every expression, in all its forms.

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The Crossing by Aineias Tsamatis and Katerina Mavrogeorgi

A railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two wooden huts facing each other. In the scenery around, bright yellow hills and a wide-open horizon. Two guards: lonesome Yiannis, never abandoning his post, and easygoing Antonis, who endorses the laziness of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice from the radio announces the arrival of a train. The two guards lower the barriers manually. Nothing seems to disrupt their daily routine, until the moment love breaks into their lives, dismantling any certainty.

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Defying the reprimands of her wealthy bourgeois family, Nelly starts working as a dancer in a strip club. There she meets Markos, a charismatic two-bit hustler who helps her escape the henchmen sent by her stepfather. Broadway, co-produced by Onassis Culture, is the first feature film by Christos Massalas. The film stars a strong ensemble cast of young actors and performers (Elsa Lekakou, Foivos Papadopoulos, Stathis Apostolou, Rafael Papad, and Salim Talbi) and features original music by the Oscar- and Grammy Awardwinning composer Gabriel Yared (The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Lives of Others, The English Patient). Broadway premiered before an international audience at the International Film Festival Rotterdam – one of the most important film events in the world – before setting off on a long journey around the world that continues to this day, taking in numerous film festivals and movie houses along the way.

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The Onassis Foundation’s cinematic family continues to grow and grow. Each year, the Athens International Film Festival – Opening Nights showcases new voices that deserve to be heard. In light of this, it has been decided that filmmakers taking part in the Greek Short Stories – In Competition section at this year’s 28th edition of the festival will be in the running for a new Onassis Foundation Film

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The Onassis Foundation has forged a longstanding partnership with the largest short film festival in Greece, a forum that showcases the voices of emerging artists taking their first steps. Each year, two prizes are awarded to Greek filmmakers for the development of feature films. In 2021, Manolis Mavris and Aris Kaplanidis were both the recipients of Onassis Film Awards. And we will be celebrating Greek cinema once more at this year’s Drama International Short Film Festival, helping to unleash the talent and potential of young filmmakers

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As part of both its ongoing commitment to developing Greek independent film and its longstanding partnership with the Thessaloniki International Film and Documentary Festivals, the Onassis Foundation honors one Greek project taking part in each Agora Film and Agora Docs Market. At the 24th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, this prize was awarded to the documentary Lesvia – The Herstory of Eressos by Tzeli Hadjidimitriou. And at the 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the award went to the feature film Bastards, directed by Nikos Pastras. The Onassis Foundation loves Greek cinema and supports its every expression, in all its forms.

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209 At Onassis Foundation, we invest in people. We invest in human relationships, process, the offbeat look on things and the dynamics released between people different in nature. Interesting and restless minds that come together unexpectedly, in order to spark discussions and raise questions. Onassis Residents are carriers of contemporary civilization, travelers to different places on the planet. They trigger human curiosity, read, get inspired, gather experiences and create, making the local global and vice versa, but above all, their own. In the next pages, you will get to know 24 cases of the Onassis Residents, with their family growing even bigger during the 2022-23 season: Noor Abed, Patricia Apergi, Yota Argyropoulou, Margarita Athanasiou, Orestis Athanasopoulos, Tristan Bera, Khaleb Brooks, Federica Bueti, Nuno Cassola, Marianna Christofides, Stavros Chrysafidis, Alberto Conejero, Marc Delalonde, Thanassis Deligiannis, Anastasia Diavasti, Dennis Dizon, Bryony Dunne, Alkisti Efthymiou, Viktor Ehikhamenor, Moriah Evans, Ryan Ferko, Tasos Gaintatzis, Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, Danai Giannoglou, Marina Gioti, Arshia Fatima Haq, Samuel Hertz, Julian Hetzel, Daniel Hui, Stella Ioannidou, Harry Isra Muhammad, Laure Jaffuel, Nikos Karathanos, Christina Kotsilelou, Konstantina Kotzamani, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Euripides Laskaridis, Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos & Ionian Bisai), Jacqueline Lentzou, Joey Lubitz, Manolis Manousakis, Odysseas Manoloudis (Οdydoze), Nadja Verena Marcin, Yolanda Markopoulou, Yannis Michalopoulos, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Inés Muñozcano, Negros tou Moria, Yannis Nikolaidis, Aslı Özdoyuran, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Kenneth Pietrobono, Margarita Pita, Paz Ponce, Theo Prodromidis, Will Rawls, Aristide Rontini, Miriam Simun, Sister Sylvester (aka Kathryn Hamilton), Sumugan Sivanesan, Lito Skopeliti, Fotini Stamatelopoulou, Spyros Staveris, Felipe Steinberg, Prodromos Tsinikoris, Kostas Tsioukas, Nikolas Ventourakis, Amanda Vincelli, Lydia Xynogala, Ioanna Zouli

This Spanish dramaturg and playwright, who is also Artistic Director of the Festival de Otoño (Fall Festival) in Madrid, is undertaking research on-site in Greece for the creation of a new work of dance / physical theater. A great admirer of the language and culture of Greece, of which he is highly knowledgeable, Conejero will be tackling the theme of erotic desire in this new work, drawing inspiration from the Iliad, the writings of Anne Carson, and the paintings of Yannis Tsarouchis and Cy Twombly.

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As an Onassis Resident, this choreographer known for her particularly powerful scenic language is conducting in-situ research, in Athens and beyond Greek borders, in order to further develop her movement vocabulary and help formulate the dramaturgy and aesthetics of her new production –The House of Trouble – set to premiere at Onassis Stegi in May 2023.

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Thanassis Deligiannis

Thanassis Deligiannis is a composer and the creator of transmedia works. In June 2022, he launched the “Margaroni Residency” in partnership with the dramaturg Yannis Michalopoulos. Their joint research project traces the lives of traditional female singers, used as a case study in order to examine provincial Greek music culture and how it is perceived across a set period of time, namely the 1970s and ’80s. Deligiannis presented ENA ENA inside the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall -1 in November 2021. The two artists and researchers will be working on this residency through until May 2023.

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Victor Ehikhamenor

Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian multimedia artist, photographer, and writer. He has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic, and politically/historically motivated works. He has held several solo exhibitions and his works have been included in numerous group exhibitions and biennales, including: the 57th Venice Biennale as part of the Nigerian Pavilion (2017), 5th Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland (2016), Dak'Art–12th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Senegal (2016), Biennale Jogja XIII in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2015). As a writer he has published fiction and critical essays with academic journals, magazines, and newspapers round the world including The New York Times, Guernica magazine, BBC, CNN Online, The Washington Post, etc. Ehikhamenor is the founder of Angels and Muse, a thought laboratory dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African art and literature in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Marina Gioti is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Athens. Through her research project titled Sounding the Silent World – which recently won the major COAL 2022 Prize – Gioti will be exploring the problem of pollution caused by shipwrecks. By means of an interdisciplinary study of their past and present states, she is attempting to spark debate and look far into their future.

Masks, costumes, and other items associated with the rites and rituals of northern Greece are just some of the elements being brought together in this project by Tasos Gaintatzis. Taking his collection of photographic materials as a starting point, the artist is seeking to create a collective archive structured around themes of initiation and participation – be it active, or the observation of such acts as they are being formulated. Notable notions the project touches upon include philosophies of place, political dimensions of the geographic periphery, and the multiple implications and opportunities offered up by transformation as an alternative form of identity for those individuals taking part in a ritual act. The work is being curated by Ioanna Gerakidi and realized with the support of Onassis Culture.

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One of the most acclaimed directors and actors working in Greece today, an associate of Onassis Stegi since 2015, and the creator of intensely moving performances (The Birds and Prometheus) –showcased on tour stops in the US, Chile, and Europe – that presented ancient Greek drama anew on the world stage. As an Onassis Resident, he will be taking a research trip to Asia, visiting various urban and rural areas across the continent and studying the myths and contemporary ways of life that exist there.

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Julian Hetzel works as a performance maker, visual artist, and musician. His new work SPAfrica – to be presented in the spring of 2023 – will explore the entanglement of ethics and economics around the element of water. Focusing on the hidden economies, governing structures, and systems of power that rule our society and structure daily life, his aim is to shed light on desertification, climate migration, consumption, and charity work.

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Konstantina Kotzamani

An internationally acclaimed director whose films have garnered awards and distinctions at the world’s major film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, and Locarno, Konstantina Kotzamani will be traveling to Los Angeles as an Onassis Resident , where she’ll meet with members of the Hollywood film industry and seek inspiration for her next project. Part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s “Meet the Future” initiative.

Chrysanthi Koumianaki

Chrysanthi Koumianaki is a visual artist who lives and works in Athens. Taking the traditional Greek panigíri – a joyous feast day celebration – held on Karpathos island as her starting point, and using it as a case study, Koumianaki will be exploring the panigíri as a rite and as a living entity, as well as studying its development through time, with a focus on key social issues that arise at various points during the festivities, such as the relationships that emerge during the time spent dancing, especially in relation to the discourse on gender.

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Jacqueline Lentzou

This internationally up-and-coming director, choreographer, and singular performer is a former Onassis Scholar who has steadily worked with Onassis Stegi since 2018. This year, in addition to presenting ELENIT once more this February, he will also be expanding his research into ridicule and transformation, working in Greece and Japan as an Onassis Resident with a view to creating a new work – an international co-production set to tour the world – to premiere at Onassis Stegi in the spring of 2024.

The director of the feature film Moon, 66 Questions will be crossing the Atlantic as an Onassis Resident to attend the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, where she’ll meet with members of the film community and further develop a sensitive, personal photography project. Part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s “Meet the Future” initiative.

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Odysseas Manoloudis (Οdydoze)

Odysseas Manoloudis (Odydoze) is a music producer and Onassis Resident. He first started working with rappers three years ago, when he wanted to hear his beats overlaid with lyrics. He made his first music tracks in collaboration with Funeral and Johnny Cinco in Atlanta, climbing the American charts in the process. Over the coming year, the Onassis Foundation will be shooting a documentary about Odysseas in the US that traces the creative process between music producer and rapper.

Nadja Verena Marcin – the new artist-in-residence at Onassis Stegi as part of the European Media Art Platform 2022 – is coming to Athens in December 2022 to further develop and present her work #SOPHYGRAY, a feminist audio bot. Sophy was created using groundbreaking excerpts drawn from works by bell hooks, Donna Haraway, Silvia Federici, Audre Lorde, and Anna L. Tsing in order to –amusingly – refute gendered expectations. During the pandemic, global households relied on compliant digital service assistants like Alexa or Siri to deliver orders of all kinds, equating subservience with a feminine character. As ways of working are reevaluated around the world, this piece critically and humorously examines the ideological implications of female voices in VA technology. EMAP is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

Yannis Michalopoulos

Yolanda Markopoulou

Yolanda Markopoulou is a director and creative producer, collaborating with Onassis Stegi since its inception. She is specialized in creating interdisciplinary projects, combining performative arts with film and new media, presenting them in a wide range of site-specific contexts. Her main research focus as an Onassis Resident will be to expand her VR 360 film White Dwarf into a VR interactive performance. She will focus especially on the sensory aspects of the audience experience and seek new ways to bridge the documentary and the performative elements of the project.

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Yannis Michalopoulos is a dramaturg and philologist. He is joining forces with musician and director Thanassis Deligiannis as part of their “Margaroni Residency”, a research project tracing the lives of traditional female singers in order to examine provincial Greek music culture. This arts and research residency, launched in June 2022, will run until May 2023. Michalopoulos also worked as a dramaturg on the production ENA ENA, presented inside the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall -1 in November 2021.

Born in Ghana and raised in Kypseli, where the artist lives. Kevin Ansong – better known by his stage name Negros tou Moria – joined forces with Odydoze and Christopher King for an ambitious project marrying trap and hip hop sounds with rebetiko music. Their four-day musical experiment took place in the small town of Konitsa, where a series of improvisations and abstract takes led the project trio to the creation of a new music form they’ve dubbed “trapbetiko.” This project was realized with the support of Onassis Culture.

Dancer, choreographer, and movement director Yiannis Nikolaidis completed his first short film – in collaboration with Shampoo Films – as an Onassis Resident: a hand-crafted, DIY sci-fi film about confined bodies. In the depths of a dystopian winter, a man and a woman dressed in leather survival coveralls live in isolation inside a rural house – a hideaway – where they seek ways to communicate and co-exist. In Nikolaidis’ own, apt words: “They could be Adam and Eve, or the only man and woman left alive on Earth.”

Yiannis Nikolaidis

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Konstantinos Papanikolaou

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Konstantinos Papanikolaou is a choreographer and dancer. During the season 2021-22 he was one of the eight choreographers supported by the Grand Luxe Network, proposed by the Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Program, and benefited from the network’s professional support. He conducted part of his research for his latest work A User’s Manual (presented at ONC9, March 2022) during residency periods in Luxembourg (at "TROIS C-L"), Brussels (at "GRAND STUDIO"), and Geneva (at “L’ABRI”). In the context of his ongoing artistic research, he will carry out his last residency in Strasbourg (at "POLE-SUD") during Fall 2022.

Miriam Simun is a visual artist working at the intersection of ecology, technology, and the body. Simun’s artistic research will employ attention-deconcentration as a research methodology to investigate the relationship between water, consciousness, and time. Case studies include the bioengineering of an indigenous strain of bacteria to produce snow during warmer winters on the Velouchi mountain peak in Evrytania, and the entanglement of oil-drilling plants and sperm whale breeding grounds in the Aegean.

Miriam Simun

Fotini Stamatelopoulou works in the fields of choreography, performance making, and movement direction. As a creator, she explores movement and improvisation practices focusing on the developmental mechanisms for body image among the youth that grow up in anera of mediated contact. She will be one of the eight choreographers supported by the Grand Luxe Network for the season 2022-23, proposed by the Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Program. During her various residencies and field trips at the venues of the partner organizations she will continue her research for her new work-in-progress and will take part in a series of learning journeys and networking events.

Sister Sylvester (aka Kathryn Hamilton) is a visual artist who divides her time between New York and Istanbul. Inspired by an abandoned journal (The Constantinopoliad: An Epic) by the young C. P. Cavafy, she will be working with the Cavafy Archive in Athens on research that will lead to both an artist book and a live performance to be showcased during the Cavafy Festival in New York, in April 2023.

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Sister Sylvester (aka Kathryn Hamilton)

Fotini Stamatelopoulou

Prodromos Tsinikoris

Prodromos Tsinikoris works as a director, dramaturg, and performer in Athens. As an Onassis Resident, Tsinikoris will be developing a lecture-performance titled We Called for Guest Workers, and Dissidents Came, focusing on themes of political dissidence and exile, and in particular on those who left Greece during the military junta and found refuge in Germany. This work is to be presented at the Munich Kammerspiele in late November 2022.

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Spyros Staveris

Spyros Staveris – one of Greece’s most important photographers, who has captured Athenian society and much more besides with his camera from the 1980s right down to the present day – boasts a rich photographic archive filled with iconic shots lensing political life, the arts, fashion, high society, daily life, and current affairs. A team of archivists and photographers will be overseeing the organization and digital preservation of this photographic archive as part of an Onassis Residency.

Photo © Ellastration

ONASSIS PUBLICATIONS

A new chapter in the world of publications. The diverse universe of the Onassis Foundation is captured in the pages of the Onassis Publications: the distinct visual world of the prominent Greek choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou; the most recent series of works by the internationally renowned visual artist Jannis Varelas; the artistic universe of Lena Kitsopoulou as manifested in her diary notes; the life and works of Yanoulis Halepas; a research around the Athenian polykatoikia and the identity of the city of Athens; and a socio-scientific glossary on weather. The publication series listens carefully and documents the trends in contemporary research, highlighting the voices of significant Greek creators of today and posing questions on issues that will concern us in the future, such as artificial intelligence, political ecology, and digital culture.

And we’re continuing to play an active and substantive role in one of Europe’s largest collaborative projects – Europe Beyond Access – supporting disabled artists as they smash through the limits of contemporary theater and dance.

ACCESSIBILITYANDTHEARTS

Because culture can be accessible for all.

We are actively engaged in international networks and supporting disabled artists – in Greece, in Europe, and around the world.

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How can we improve access to culture for people with disabilities? How can we support the professional development and growth of disabled artists? Through our engagement with European efforts spotlighting works by disabled artists, we are taking part in international fora, seminars, and workshops specifically tailored to meet their needs. Furthermore, selected Onassis Stegi productions are being made accessible for all through simultaneous interpretation in Greek sign language, Greek captions for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, and audio description for persons who are blind or have low vision.

But that’s not all. We’re also fostering frank discussions about disability: an upcoming episode in our Society Uncensored series – to screen on the Onassis Channel on YouTube – will be exploring how people with disabilities connect with the arts and culture, and touching upon mental health.

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S+T+ARTS Regional Center: Repairing the Present

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Grand Luxe

European Media Art Platform / EMAP

Participating Institutions Antre Peaux (Bourges, France), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), FACT Liverpool (United Kingdom), gnration (Braga, Portugal), iMAL Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology (Brussels, Belgium), IMPAKT [Center for Media Culture] (Utrecht, Netherlands), Kersnikova Institute / Kapelica Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia), KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb, Croatia), LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Center (Gijón, Spain), m-cult (Helsinki, Finland), NeMe (Limassol, Cyprus), Onassis Stegi (Athens, Greece), RIXC Center for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia), Werkleitz Center for Media Art (Halle, Saal, Germany), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland) Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

Participating Institutions British Council (United Kingdom), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Holland Dance Festival (Netherlands), Kampnagel (Germany), Per.Art (Serbia), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), Oriente Occidente (Italy) Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

Sounds Now

EUROPEAN

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT –

Participating Institutions Snowball (Belgium), MAXXI (Italy), Art Hub Copenhagen (Denmark), STATE Festival (Germany), Onassis Stegi (Greece), In4Art (Netherlands), MEET (Italy), CCCB (Spain), Ars Electronica (Austria), Sony Computer Science Laboratories Paris (France), Kersnikova (Slovenia), CYENS (Cyprus) S+T+ARTS is a European Commission initiative that seeks to foster new alliances between science, technology, and the arts that effectively implement a Europe-wide approach to technological innovation centered on human needs and humanist values.

Participating Institutions Grand Studio (Brussels, Belgium), Centre Chorégraphique National – Ballet de Lorraine (France), Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin – CCN de Mulhouse (France), PÔLE SUD – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National de Strasbourg (France), TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique du Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Freiburg Theater (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), L’Abri (Geneva, Switzerland), Onassis Stegi (Athens, Greece)

Europe Beyond Access

Participating Institutions Musica (Belgium), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (United Kingdom), Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (Norway), November Music (Netherlands), SPOR Festival (Denmark), Time of Music (Finland), Transit Festival – Festival 2021 (Belgium), Wilde Westen (Belgium) Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

PROGRAMS Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

DANCEMUSIC

Co-funded

DIEHL+RITTER (Germany), Codarts Rotterdam – University of the Arts (Netherlands), Compagnie Jus de la Vie | Age on Stage (Sweden), Holland Dance Festival (Netherlands), Nomad Dance Academy (Slovenia), Sadler’s Wells (United Kingdom), STUK House for Dance, Image & Sound (Belgium), Mercat de les Flors (Spain), Station Service for Contemporary Dance (Sweden), KUMQUAT Productions (France), and Onassis Stegi (Greece) / Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.

Dance On, Pass On, Dream On

– SOUND ART – HERITAGE – VISUAL ARTS MUSIC – SOUND ART – COMMUNITY ART

Participating Institutions Zonzo Compagnie (Belgium), Centro cultural de Belém (Portugal), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Opéra de Rouen, Opéra de Lille (France), Bozar (Belgium), Insitituto de la Cultura y de las Artes Sevilla – ICAS (Spain), Children’s Cultural Center LTD – The Ark (Ireland), Wilminktheater & Muziekcentrum Enschede (Netherlands), Eesti Kontsert (Estonia), City of Reykjavík (Iceland), AAP-media (Belgium) Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

Co-funded

ULYSSES: A European Odyssey

by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Participating Institutions

Big Bang

Participating Institutions Stichting Brave New World Producties (Netherlands), Arts Over Borders (Ireland), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Comune di Trieste (Italy), Vilniaus miesto muziejus (Lithuania), Xwhy / Agency of Understanding (Lithuania), Budapest Brand nZrt (Hungary), Collectif ildi ! eldi (France), Rimini Protokoll (Germany), Donostia Kultura Entidad Publica Empresarial (Spain), Teater Grob (Denmark), Asociația Create.Act.Enjoy (Romania), Teatrul National Lucian Blaga din Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Stichting Fotografie Noorderlicht (Netherlands), Chorus – Non-profit Citizens’ Organization (Greece), Oulun Kaupunki (Finland), Arena Ensemble (Portugal), Museum of Literature Ireland (Ireland) Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

Co-funded

DANCECHILDREN–SENIOR

by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

(Re)activatingAlexandria: common urban imaginaries

ARCHITECTURE

Transmissions

Participating Institutions Royal Museum of Mariemont (Belgium), Bozar (Belgium), Cittadelarte – Fondazione Pistoletto (Italy), MUCEM – Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (France), Onassis Stegi (Greece), Leiden University (Netherlands), Kunsthal (Denmark), Undo Point Contemporary Art Center (Cyprus) With the support of the following associated partners Theatrum Mundi (France and the United Kingdom), French Institute of Alexandria (Egypt), CLUSTER (Egypt) Co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

MUSIC – SOUND ART MUSIC –

This project is being coordinated by Onassis Stegi in partnership with the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, with the support of EEA Grants and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism (Norway Grants) 2014-2021.

EUROPEAN

PROGRAMS Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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Director

Texts Iliana VasoValiaEvangeliaMargaritaElizampettaDimadiIlia-GeorgiadouGrammatikouKolaitiPapadimitrakiVasilatou

Text Editing – Proofreading Vassilis Douvitsas

Creative Director Christos Sarris Managing Editor Alexandros Roukoutakis

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Translation Vassilis Douvitsas Alkisti KyriacosEfthimiouKarseras

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Editor-in-Chief & Project Management Christina Kosmoglou

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