The production process of the GNO Alternative Stage project Synthesis has begun

Performance/ Commissioned by the GNO Alternative Stage

Synthesis

https://synthesis21.gr

Conceived, designed and curated by Tzeni Argyriou, Vassilis Gerodimos

As part of the tribute to the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution

Synthesis is a new visual performative installation by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and visual artist Vassilis Gerodimos that tackles the complicated historical event of the Greek War of Independence. More than 30 artists from all the spectrum of performative and visual arts join forces to create this work, which will be presented on the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC in October 2021, introducing audiences to a unique experience.

The production process of Synthesis has already begun. You can watch it through the new official website https://synthesis21.gr  that includes sound clips, videos and photographs bearing the digital imprint of historical and artistic research. The website will be regularly enriched with new material as the work keeps on evolving.

This production, part of a tribute to the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [www.SNF.org].

A few words about Synthesis

Synthesis, the new work by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and visual artist Vassilis Gerodimos, is a form of visual performative installation associating the process that produced the Greek War of Independence with the process that produces a collective work through a series of conflicts, contradictions, aporias, transitions and reversals.

During the three days of the event, each of which conceptually corresponds to one of the three stages of the Greek Revolution (the intoxication of the initial outbreak, the middle-period introversion, the late-phase “fatigue”, including also the endurance as a solid characteristic of the whole revolutionary decade), a wide spectrum of artists and performers will cooperate in real time to create an interactive installation, in which the spaces of the Alternative Stage will lend themselves to a dynamic process of incessant visual and aural mobility. The creators attempt to bring out the invisible aspects of the official history by throwing light to under-recognised factors such as the financial management, military administration, ideological developments and everyday life of the revolutionary period.

Through the conversion of the Alternative Stage into a workshop space, where the limits between “stage” and “backstage” become permeable and the audience experiences the preparation and final presentation of a series of actions in active dialogue with each other, the creators of Synthesis trace the intertwined historical “lines” that synthesise the premeditated and the random and explore the analogies between a performative and a historical event.

Synthesis will be presented on the GNO Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on 29, 30 and 31 October 2021. 

Performance • Commissioned by the GNO Alternative Stage

Synthesis

29, 30, 31 October 2021

GNO Alternative Stage – SNFCC

As part of the tribute to the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution

Curators Tzeni Argyriou, Vassilis Gerodimos

Research and creative team Theo Abazis, Minas Antypas, Efi Birba, Argyro Chioti, Coti K., Maro Fasouli, Christiana Galanopoulou, Kitt Johnson, Armin Kerber, Hara Kotsali, Babis Makridis, Ermis Malkotsis, Sofia Mavragani, Miguel Ángel Melgares, Christos Papadopoulos, Evi Saoulidou, Aris Servetalis, Stavroula Siamou, Fotis Siotas, Nancy Stamatopoulou, Petros Touloudis, etc

Founding Donor to the Alternative Stage & the 2021 bicentennial of the Greek Revolution

Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [www.SNF.org]