Programme 2024

The audible walk

In July-August 2019 the Medea Electronique and Giortes Rokkas spread out a network of narratives in Kera. Sound artists, dramaturgists and performers are investigating and creating a new form of artistic, digital mapping in Kera, producing the Sound Walking Rhythm, involving sites, monuments, landscapes, sounds, and interviews of the inhabitants. A walk that activates – theatrical and audible – specific points of the city, rewriting the invisible text of the area. The My City My Sound application is used as a base. This application offers a convenient, modern and direct way for artistic interpretations and transformations of sites and places. The audible walk continues to exist and is available on the digital map, for use after the walk.

Echotopia Rhizomes evolves into three phases:

A. Digital artistic mapping Artists and researchers create a new form of artistic digital mapping: they research, observe, record, record with their particular look the sound landscapes.

B. Audible Walk The project is completed and is realized through the presentation in the form of a walk-in for the viewer. The visitor is unsuspected about what he will see and what he will hear. Kera transforms into an installation with artistic works that use the material from digital mapping.

C. A special application acts as a digital map.

Conception and Realization: Medea Electronique

Composition and sound planning: Manolis Manousakis

Dramaturgy: Aggeliki Poulou

Guest artists and researchers:

Romanos Alemis Triantafillidis, Trifonia Aggelidou, Dimitris Mpampilis, Nantia Deligianni, Eleni Golfinopoulou, Dimitra Kousteridou, Thodoris Paraskakis, Georgia Pazarloglou, Alexander Solo, Elia Vardaki, Irene Papageorgiou, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Andreas Papageorgiou

More about the Soundscapes Landscapes series

Inspired by Soundscapes Landscapes Interactive Map – Rhizome 1 / New World in Production of the Onassis Foundation Roof to continue with Soundscapes Landscapes / City Above-Life Below-Roof II-Gazi, Kerameikos, Metaxourgio (Production: Roof The Onassis Foundation) and Soundscapes Landscapes / Groom III, Sellasia Sparta.

 Documentary: Soundscapes Landscapes – About 3 rhizomes and an installation

My City My Sound

My City My Sound was developed with the collaboration of Onassis Foundation and Medea Electronique within the INTERFACES project, co-funded by the European Creative Europe Program.

Kera One Stage – Giortes  Rokkas

Giortes Rokkas [www.giortesrokkas.gr] is a meeting of society and culture in the hinterland of Chania, Crete [in the villages of Rokka and Kera], and it renews each year its appointment in August. It is a celebration of the arts organized by the residents themselves and attracts more than 8,000 visitors from Greece and abroad to an Augustan “journey” of events, that whoever lives, accompanies him forever.

In the summer of 2018, with “Kera One Stage” the whole village of Kera was for the first time transformed into a stage for theater and courtyards, balconies, streets, fields and houses were transformed into small stages. The main goal of the action is to change the conventional viewing frame of a show and to create a total experience for the visitor-viewer. The tribute of Vangelis Papaevangeliou “Kera One Stage – Footprint” can give you the feeling that this first event left to us all.

MEDEA ELECTRONIQUE

 With a cult wordplay – Medea and Media (from new media), Medea Electronique was presented in contemporary art in 2006 with the multimedia project Project 1 at the Benaki Museum (adaptation of Medea by Euripides). This year’s 10-year presence on the domestic and international scene of new media and improvisation, sparking the dialogue of the scene with technology / art of image and sound, art with research. During this period she has presented performances and festivals of electronic experimental music, animations, audiovisual installations, painting, multimedia, interactive technologies as well as multimedia performances and educational workshops. Her work has also been presented to the Center for Culture of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, the Benaki Museum, the French Institute, the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, the Tannery at Booze, Greek and International Festivals and Events

Manolis Manousakis, Sound Artist – composer

He was born in Athens (1975). He studied composition and film at Columbia College Chicago in the USA. In 2006 he graduated from the Ionian University with a Postgraduate Diploma in Electroacoustic Synthesis, while in 2016 he supported his doctoral thesis at DMU under the supervision of John Ritchards and Simon Emmerson. He has been a composer since 1998. He has composed music for small ensembles, solos, electro-acoustic installations, video art and multimedia shows. He has also composed original music for musical, theatrical and dance theatrical performances. documentaries, television series, short films. Founding member of Medea Electronique.

Angeliki Poulou, Dramatist – curator

Teacher / Academic Fellow at the Ionian University. Doctor of Theater Studies, supporting the thesis The Direction of Ancient Greek Tragedy in the Digital Age (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle & Department of Theater Studies, Athens). He signed the academic supervision of the European Program Ancient Drama: inter-artistic and interdisciplinary approaches to the Michael Kakogiannis Foundation. Member of the European Network for Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Drama (ArcNet). Member of the artistic college Medea Electronique, where she participates as a dramatist and curator. Partner of the platform for Greek Greek Drama Greek Play Project. In Paris, he has taught dramaturgy and a history of directing at Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and Université de Nantere-Paris 10 from 2012 to 2015.

For more information

Katerina Maragoudakis

e-mail: info@giortesrokkas.gr