Athens - Thessaloniki - Nafplio - Florina

performing places and stories of resilience:
four cities, ten departments, one participation
curators' text

student exhibition space:
a tent stage

Traces on the walls
Abandoned buildings as theatrical spaces

School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (ΝTUA)

Supervisor
Stavros Gyftopoulos, Professor

Assisted by
David Negrin, Research Fellow/PhD candidate NTUA
Menelaos Karantzas, Research Fellow/PhD candidate NKUA

Photographic collages
Georgia Nikolaou

Athens

Starting from the thematic concept formulated for the Greek student participation, the students focused their research on the abandoned buildings of Athens, both public and private, which were used as stimuli and opportunities for the creation of performance spaces for theatrical or non-theatrical texts. The resilience of the buildings, the reasons for their abandonment and their histories were studied, interpreted and reflected in the design of the staging proposals. Students conceived, organised and implemented scenographic interventions on the exterior or interior of the buildings, formulated pro- posals for the configuration of the buildings, so that they could host a theatre performance or a performance piece and its audience, highlighted the relationship between the abandoned building and the people who, for different reasons, had been in these buildings in the past, prepared models and drawings and created performance material using and shaping the buildings as stage sets, in real or digital form.

Participants

Maria Alani, Christina Antoniadi, Emmanouil Askar, Aglaia Athanasiou, Stefanos Babanatsis, Konstadina Babili, Athina Badour, Zoe Cano, Marine Cauvin, Christina Chatzidaki, Stavros Chatzidimitriou, Anna Chioni, Eleni Chiotaki, Alexandre Dalmont, Chrysanthi Dimitriadi, Maria Dimitriadi, Eleni Dimopoulou, Panayiotis-Foivos Diktapanidis, Ioannis Doris, Dimitra Exarchea, Dimitris Fertis, Elli-Maria Filippou, Ntenia Floka, Emmanouela Fragouli, Coraline de Gaillande, Ioanna Giakoumi, Antonia Giannaka, Evangelia Giannakopoulou, Marialena Gioka, Maud Guays, Melis Gündoğdu, Raul Henrici, Christina-Sophia Ioannidou, Nefeli Kantemnidi, Panagiota Karanikola, Thenia Karavasili, Katerina Katsoulopoulou, Angeliki-Pavlina Kavvatha, Vasilis Kiriazopoulos, Eleni Komatea, Maria Kondylaki, Maria Konstantinidou, Calliopi Koutelieri, Emilia Kyriazi, Oceane Lechine, Panagiota Lygouri, Georgios-Evangelos Maniatis, Irene Minetou, Angela Mirasi, Despina Mouzaki, Georgia Nikolaou, Ekati Panagiotouni, Georgios Panaretos, Ioli Papalampidou, Eleanna Papamichael, Filippos Raptakis, Korina Sarikou, Hasan-Baran Şimşek, Eleftheria Sofianopoulou, Othonas Stavropoulos, Eleonora Syllaidopoulou, Anna-Maria Thalassinou, Katerina Theodorou, Fotis Trachanas, Nefeli Tsaparli, Alexandros Tsironis, Paraskevi Varkadou, Io Vellianiti, Wiktoria Wilczyńska, Maria Xenaki, Alkistis Xiradaki, Ania Żeberkiewicz, Angeliki Zontanou