Mikaela Liakata
Set Designer - Video Designer - Architect
60 designers
57 projects
Architect, set designer and video projection designer. She has designed for the West End and other stages in London, the Edinburgh Festival, La Mamma, New York, Opera Halle Germany, the National Theatre of Greece, the Jiangsu Center, Nanjing, China et.al. Among others she has collaborated with: Simon Mc Burney, Shana Cooper, Clint Dyer, Jessica Latowicki, Louisa Proske, Daniel Raggett, Elephas Tiliensis, Eleni Georgopoulou, Idea, Dimitris Kataleifos, Giannis Leontaris, Lili Meleme, Avra Sidiropoulou, Eleni Skoti, Nadia Foskolou. As an associate designer she has worked with directors: Ivo Van Hove, Robert Icke et.al. She graduated with honors from the School of Architecture and the postgraduate course Space Design Culture at the NTUA. She holds an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She is a Fulbright, A. Onassis, Attiki Tradition and NYU scholar. She has won first prize in two national architectural competitions. She has taught at the Department of Digital and Performing Arts at the University of Peloponnese and has worked as a teaching assistant at the School of Architecture, NTUA.
The performance is based on the true story of Anna Sorokin, who was convicted of defrauding financial institutions, banks, hotels and New York’s social elite. The dramaturgy suggests that the characters live between reality and a digital fantasy. So, we had a unique opportunity to freely experiment on stage combining the human body, sculptural forms, video art and programming. The setting is a sculptural wall made of seventy screens, where actors step, climb, or sit. An elevated reflective platform and the wall form an oversised smart-device on stage. The screens -either as a whole or individually-create a digital environment where characters are transported to places, while we can read their thoughts, their memories but also the screens of their mobile phones. The projection content is inspired by the aesthetics of collage, comic books and video art.
Author: Joseph Charlton
Direction: Daniel Raggett
Set & Video Design: Mikaela Liakata & Tal Yarden
Lighting Design: Jessica Hung Han Yun
Sound Design: Mike Winship
Costume Design: Natalie Pryce
Associate Video Design: Mogzi
Photos: Tal Yarden
The performance is based on the true story of Anna Sorokin, who was convicted of defrauding financial institutions, banks, hotels and New York’s social elite. The dramaturgy suggests that the characters live between reality and a digital fantasy. So, we had a unique opportunity to freely experiment on stage combining the human body, sculptural forms, video art and programming. The setting is a sculptural wall made of seventy screens, where actors step, climb, or sit. An elevated reflective platform and the wall form an oversised smart-device on stage. The screens -either as a whole or individually-create a digital environment where characters are transported to places, while we can read their thoughts, their memories but also the screens of their mobile phones. The projection content is inspired by the aesthetics of collage, comic books and video art.
Architect, set designer and video projection designer. She has designed for the West End and other stages in London, the Edinburgh Festival, La Mamma, New York, Opera Halle Germany, the National Theatre of Greece, the Jiangsu Center, Nanjing, China et.al. Among others she has collaborated with: Simon Mc Burney, Shana Cooper, Clint Dyer, Jessica Latowicki, Louisa Proske, Daniel Raggett, Elephas Tiliensis, Eleni Georgopoulou, Idea, Dimitris Kataleifos, Giannis Leontaris, Lili Meleme, Avra Sidiropoulou, Eleni Skoti, Nadia Foskolou. As an associate designer she has worked with directors: Ivo Van Hove, Robert Icke et.al. She graduated with honors from the School of Architecture and the postgraduate course Space Design Culture at the NTUA. She holds an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She is a Fulbright, A. Onassis, Attiki Tradition and NYU scholar. She has won first prize in two national architectural competitions. She has taught at the Department of Digital and Performing Arts at the University of Peloponnese and has worked as a teaching assistant at the School of Architecture, NTUA.
Author: Joseph Charlton
Direction: Daniel Raggett
Set & Video Design: Mikaela Liakata & Tal Yarden
Lighting Design: Jessica Hung Han Yun
Sound Design: Mike Winship
Costume Design: Natalie Pryce
Associate Video Design: Mogzi
Photos: Tal Yarden
