Nikolas Kanavaris
Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Architect-engineer who graduated from the National Technical University of Athens holding an MSc in Research in Architecture: Design – Space – Culture and specialised in Set & costume Design (National Theatre of Greece) and Urban Game Design (TiP-European School of Urban Game Design). He is designing set & costume as member of the BpM theatrical group (Hyperspace or…, Zapatistas – a performance presented long ago namely today). He has designed set & costume for the stage action With the Bees or with the Wolves and set for the dance performance This is not a Profile. He is working as a freelance architect (renovation of residencies, Optical Store in Lavrion, Victoria Square Project Living Room) and also has teaching experience in architectural Design in small and complex housing. His theoretical interests lie in the concepts of space and commons and he has contributed to the collective volume Housing as Commons (under publication) and as a translator to Free Fair and Alive, the Isurgent Power of the Commons. Pertaining to these themes, he has participated in conferences (HM, ICCG) and exhibitions Infrastructures of Care Spaces of Displacement and Refuge (The Bartlett School of Architecture), Bauhaus meets commons (Goethe-Institut Athen).
Judicial text becomes a stage act as an urgent need for the two fiercely conflicting worlds to emerge. The stage space is shaped by this contrast: at the front, the spatiality established by the orating actor-lawyer and at the back musicians-judges recording and distorting his speech. Props follow this distinction: an aluminum ladder giving the impression of ascent, escape, perspective through the slant lines of its basis and an oblong table stressing horizontality, stability, inertia. The actor engages in conversation with a domestic ladder kinetically, suggesting multiple relationships with the object that constantly transform the conceptual burden of the empty space. Costume design follows spatial distinctions. The actor is associated with the young world of voluntaristic reaction, while the musicians with the adult regimental, depersonalised and aggressive world. The stage act was intended as an unexpected encounter of art with politics, theatre with reality, confinement with social resistance.
Author: Thanasis Kampagiannis
Music: Pavlos Katsivelis, Giorgos Hanos
Direction: Danai Liodaki
Scenography: Nikolas Kanavaris
Dramaturgy: Lydia Liodaki, Danai Liodaki
Photos: Nikolas Kanavaris (sketch, presentation), Petros Voulgaris (poster), Marianna Stefanitsi, archive of Municipality of Chalandri
Judicial text becomes a stage act as an urgent need for the two fiercely conflicting worlds to emerge. The stage space is shaped by this contrast: at the front, the spatiality established by the orating actor-lawyer and at the back musicians-judges recording and distorting his speech. Props follow this distinction: an aluminum ladder giving the impression of ascent, escape, perspective through the slant lines of its basis and an oblong table stressing horizontality, stability, inertia. The actor engages in conversation with a domestic ladder kinetically, suggesting multiple relationships with the object that constantly transform the conceptual burden of the empty space. Costume design follows spatial distinctions. The actor is associated with the young world of voluntaristic reaction, while the musicians with the adult regimental, depersonalised and aggressive world. The stage act was intended as an unexpected encounter of art with politics, theatre with reality, confinement with social resistance.
Architect-engineer who graduated from the National Technical University of Athens holding an MSc in Research in Architecture: Design – Space – Culture and specialised in Set & costume Design (National Theatre of Greece) and Urban Game Design (TiP-European School of Urban Game Design). He is designing set & costume as member of the BpM theatrical group (Hyperspace or…, Zapatistas – a performance presented long ago namely today). He has designed set & costume for the stage action With the Bees or with the Wolves and set for the dance performance This is not a Profile. He is working as a freelance architect (renovation of residencies, Optical Store in Lavrion, Victoria Square Project Living Room) and also has teaching experience in architectural Design in small and complex housing. His theoretical interests lie in the concepts of space and commons and he has contributed to the collective volume Housing as Commons (under publication) and as a translator to Free Fair and Alive, the Isurgent Power of the Commons. Pertaining to these themes, he has participated in conferences (HM, ICCG) and exhibitions Infrastructures of Care Spaces of Displacement and Refuge (The Bartlett School of Architecture), Bauhaus meets commons (Goethe-Institut Athen).
Author: Thanasis Kampagiannis
Music: Pavlos Katsivelis, Giorgos Hanos
Direction: Danai Liodaki
Scenography: Nikolas Kanavaris
Dramaturgy: Lydia Liodaki, Danai Liodaki
Photos: Nikolas Kanavaris (sketch, presentation), Petros Voulgaris (poster), Marianna Stefanitsi, archive of Municipality of Chalandri
