• PROGRAMME

Lundahl & Seitl (SE/ UK) Symphony of a missing room

December 7-13 /// The Acropolis Museum

Lundahl & Seitl’s artistic language, mixing visual art, sound art and performance, consists a universe on its own. No wonder they are already part of the most prestigious festivals and cultural events in Europe with their impossible-to-label artworks. Symphony of a missing room takes place in museums, and its content is always re-designed to adapt to site specificity, to the particular Museum and the city it surrounds it. In Athens it will be hosted in the Acropolis Museum.

A guided visit in the Museum turns into an incredible adventure in the "missing room", only existing in the visitor’s imagination. An indescribable work of art, a strange "performance" or a poetic experience about our relationship to art and to our visionary world, about memory and time. Visitors depart on both a collective and an extremely personal journey. An intimate, poetic artwork, offering a unique experience to the visitor, as it drifts him/her away to a personal trip where imagination and reality melt in each other.

Via wireless headphones, a voice takes visitors, led by performers, on an itinerary that traverses layers of physical and imaginary architecture of the museum and its curatorial space. By the use of multi-sensory illusions and binaural sound recordings the visitor's attention is steered away from the visible and tangible world and diverted into a new perception of the self, time and space.

Concept: Lundahl & Seitl
Αssistant artist: Rachel Alexander
The Guides: Rachel Alexander, Lisette Drangert, Colin McLean, Eleni Katsoulakou, Nandi Gogoulou, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Olga Dimitraki.

Symphony of a missing room is a Lundahl & Seitl production.
Symphony of a missing room - Athens is a Lundahl & Seitl and MIRfestival production, co-produced by British Council and hosted by The Acropolis Museum.
With the support of Konstnärsnämnden Organisation, Sweden and the Embassy of Sweden in Greece.

• 5 performances daily, form December 7 to 13 except Monday. Duration: 1 hour.
• Performances only for 7 visitors each, so, PLEASE RESERVE.
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Vasistas (GR) Play back

December 7 at 21:30 & December 8 at 23:00 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space

Balancing between the hovering now and the remembrance, Vasistas, one of the most promising Greek theatre companies, introduce a chain reaction of collapsing, echoing our era in play back. The performance, an almost choreographed succession of images and situations, is part of a wider Vasistas project about loss, collapsing and memory.

Stage direction: Argyro Chioti
Conception and dramaturgy: Vasistas
In play back on stage: Ariane Labed, Efthimis Theou, Georgina Chriskioti, Eleni Vergeti, Antonis Antonopoulos, Nikoleta Xenariou, Nasos Vasios, Vivian Kravariti, Aspasia-Maria Alexiou, Yota Argyropoulou, Viki Maragaki, Adrianos Tesas, Rita Litou, Natasha Zagli, Evdoxia Androulidaki, Lia Andreou, Natasha Papandreou, Matina Pergioudaki.

Collaborators of vasistas:
Costumes design: Paul Thanopoulos
Collaboration in dramaturgy: Christiana Galanopoulou

Production : Vasistas

Supported by KOMM’N ACT, Rabbithole Art & Performance Space and MIRfestival

• Duration: 60’
• Entrance free – reservations necessary
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Efthymis Theou / Electra Angelopoulou / Anthi Efstratiadou (GR) Gavdos: The House

December 8 and 9, 20:00 & December 10, 21:30 @ 7, Havriou st. apartment

A theater/archeology performance

A structured narrative on the house centered around the ruins of a 3,500 years old building. The house as a security zone, as a space for the production of fantasies, as a place to live and die.

A narrative constructed for an islet at the southernmost part of Europe is transferred to the heart of a city that is experiencing the loss of house daily in the most intense way. The starting point was a prehistoric building at the site of Katalymata (Gavdos) in which members of the team have worked for the last eight years conducting excavation and ethnography.

A meeting of archeology with the contemporary theater that is claiming a new, non-linear narrative of the archaeological material, embodied, personal and dangerous at a time when the narration of the past becomes a weapon in the hands of everyone.

Devised by: Elektra Angelopoulou, Anthi Efstratiadou, Efthimis Theou

with the cooperation of: Philippa Karamolegou, Panagiotis Katsolis, Marianna Tzani

Graphic design: Hong Rui Choo Photos: Thodoris Thomadakis, Christina Papoulia Video: Thodoris Thomadakis, Giorgos Nikolakakis

With the support of the University of Crete and the interdisciplinary research program of Gavdos.

• Duration: 40’
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Artemis Lampiri (GR) In between

December 9 /// Rabbithole Art & Performance Space

Artemis Lampiri is a newcomer in Athens. Following her studies and a 5 year working period in The Netherlands, here she is, ready to articulate her own artistic statement about all that goes on around.

A choreographed playful nightmare about humans turned into machines. Some hope sneaks in towards the end... which doesn't have to be an end at all!

Concept/composition: Artemis Lampiri Music: TheNewBestNiagara Performance: Kanty Karra, Konstantinos Rizos, Margarita Trikka, Ioanna Heitzanoglou Teaser, photos & flyer: Dionysis Tsousis, Spyros Andreadis

Production: Artemis Lampiri Many thanks to Kinitiras people for their support

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Mette Edvardsen (NO / BE) Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

December 10 - 13 /// National Library of Greece

Inspired by Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Mette Edvardsen invites us to go to the library and meet up with a "book". "Reading" will never be the same…
For ‘Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine’ a group of people/ performers memorize a book of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of living books. The books are passing their time in a library, sitting in chairs, walking around, talking together, looking out of the window, reading in paper-books from the shelves, ready to be consulted by a visitor. The visitors of the library choose a book they would like to read, and the book brings its reader to a place or setting in the library, in the cafeteria, or for a walk outside, while reciting its content (and possibly valid interpretations).

The idea for this library of living books comes from the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. It is a future vision of a society where books are forbidden because they are considered dangerous, that happiness must be obtained through an absence of knowledge and individual thought. The number 451 refers to the temperature at which book paper starts to burn. As books are forbidden in this society, an underground community of people learn books by heart in order to preserve them for the future.

Concept: Mette Edvardsen. With: Bruno De Wachter, David Helbich, Kristien Van den Brande, Mari Matre Larsen, Mette Edvardsen, Panayiota Bibli, Irini Tsava, Marios Kritikopoulos, Maria Psarologou.

Production by: Helga Duchamps/ duchamps vzw and Mette Edvardsen/ Athome

Special thanks to: Dubbelspel (STUK Kunstencentrum & 30CC, Leuven), Kaaitheater/ Brussels, Sarah Vanhee.

Supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere. Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Athens edition of the project is co-produced by Mette Edvardsen & MIRfestival, supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Embassy & The Norwegian Institute in Athens and hosted by the National Library of Greece

Title: Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine is a sentence from a book by Alexander Smith appearing in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953).

• Each performance-meeting with a book is for 1 person and lasts for about 30’.
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ORO-Loïc Touzé (FR) / kom.post (DE) /Cati (TR) Autour de la Table

Workshops: December 10-13 @ Art.Act.Area

Event: December 13, at 21:30 @ CAMP_Contemporary Art Meeting Point

Autour de la Table is a project traveling from city to city and uniting people who share a common interest on the body, its practices and adventures in the working space. A series of workshops exchanged between the international and local participants give birth to an event about the body in the urban working space made by and for the inhabitants of Athens, reminding us what a poetic and rich in unique people this city it is.

Around The Table is a project initiated by Anne Kerzerho and Loïc Touzé Production: ORO-Loïc Touzé/Nantes, with the collaboration of kom.post/Berlin and Cati/Istanbul. Project supported by Institut Français and Ville de Nantes.

The Athenian version of Around The Table is a co-production of MIRfestival and ORO-Loïc Touzé;, with the support of Institut Français de Grèce.

Also supported by the venues Art.Act.Area and CAMP _ Contemporary Art Meeting Point

ΑΤΤ Athens team: Carole Douillard, Camille Louis, Anne de Sterk, Céline Cartillier, Loïc Touzé Yiannis Arvanitis, Christiana Galanopoulou, Natassa Zouka, Sofia Mavragani, Mariela Nestora, Nikoletta Xenariou, Marguerite Papazoglou, Angeliki Poulou, Sébastien Seixas, Dimitra Stamatiou, Kostas Tsioukas, Vassiliki Tsouka.

• Participation to the final event (Dec.13) is only possible for 50 people.
• Duration 1h30.
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Hommage to Ray Bradbury and Fahrenheit 451

11 & 12 December

December 11, 20:00 // book presentation @ Free Thinking Zone
< strong>December 12, 20:00 // screening @ anamesa.gr

Inspired by Mette Edvardsen’s work, MIRfestival pays a little tribute to Ray Bradbury and his work Fahrenheit 451. In collaboration with AGRA Publications, who recently published a new translation of the book in Greek.

While Ray Bradbury left the sci-fi community a few months ago to travel to other worlds, Fahrenheit 451 is more and more at the heart of discussions about maintaining the humanist side of our society, about remaining human and preserving our civilization.

Book presentation
With
Stavros Petsopoulos, Publisher
Vassilis Douvitsas, translator
Dimtiris Emmanouilidis, sci-fi film director
Mette Edvardsen, choreographer, visual artist, book artist

Film Screening
François Truffaut, Fahrenheit 451 / 1966 / 112’.
With Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack

One of Truffaut’s strangest films, one should admit. Shot in English, with awkward and uncanny dialogues, later corrected on the French dubbed copy. A strange glance at the world of this book and at the world in general, less orwellish than one would imagine. Cahiers du Cinéma and the script of A bout de souffle are thrown into the flames, as well as Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury! End titles are not written but spoken, to match the content of the film.

TThe film will be screened in the MIRfestival way: A live set of electronic music by Yiorgos Poulios and Efthimis Theodosis inspired by the film will follow the screening.