Rooms 2012_c - The Mattress

ROOMS 2012 - AMALGAMA
Contemporary Art Show

part c

Gallery Kappatos, organized for the twelfth time (since 1999) the Exhibition of Contemporary Art "ROOMS 2012" on the 5th floor of the St George Lycabettus Hotel , in Kolonaki.

Amalgama dance company was formed by Maria Gorgia in November 1998, by Maria Gorgia.

Of vital importance for Amalgama is the support of personal creativity, as well as the promotion of works with obvious peculiarities in cultural expression and authenticity – particularly regarding the movement vocabulary,

in addition to other elements comprising a dance performance: sound, scenery and lighting – all to the most feasible extent

These photos are from Amalgama's performance from their latest production called "The Mattress" that was presented at Rooms 2012

Το στρώμα

Συντελεστές
Σύλληψη-Χορογραφία:Μαρία Γοργία
Ερμηνεία: Στάυρος Αποστολάτος
Βίντεο: Βάνα Κωσταγιόλα, Μαρία Γοργία, Περικλής Μαθιέλης
Σκηνικά-Κοστούμια: Μαρία Γοργία, Σταύρος Αποστολάτος
Μίξη ήχου: Σταύρος Αποστολάτος
Παραγωγή: Ομάδα Χορού Αμάλγαμα

Carnevale 2012 II

The Carnival of Brazil (Portuguese: Carnaval) is an annual festival held forty-six days before Easter. On certain days of Lent, Roman Catholics and some other Christians traditionally abstained from the consumption of meat and poultry, hence the term "carnival," from carnelevare, "to remove (literally, "raise") meat."

The Greek Carnival is also influenced by the Brazilian-one. Carnival have roots in the pagan festival of Saturnalia, which, adapted to Christianity, became a farewell to bad things in a season of religious discipline to practice repentance and prepare for Christ's death and resurrection.

 

Rhythm, participation, and costumes vary from one region of Brazil to another. In the southeastern cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, huge organized parades are led by samba schools. Those official parades are meant to be watched by the public, while minor parades ("blocos") allowing public participation can be found in other cities.

The northeastern cities of Salvador, Porto Seguro and Recife have organized groups parading through streets, and public interacts directly with them. This carnival is also influenced by African-Brazilian culture.

 It's a six-day party where crowds follow the trios elétricos through the city streets, dancing and singing. Also in northeast, Olinda carnival features unique characteristics, part influenced by Venice Carnival mixed with cultural depictions of local folklore.

Carnaval is the most famous holiday in Brazil and has become an event of huge proportions. Excepted the industries, malls and the carnival related workers, the country stops completely for almost a week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.

Carnevale 2012 I

 

The Carnival of Venice (Italian: Carnevale di Venezia) is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts 58 days before Easter and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Martedì Grasso), the day before Ash Wednesday. "A carnevale, ogni scherzo vale!" In other words, "At a carnival, every joke goes!"

Although these photos are not from Venice, Greek carnival is, in a way, influenced by the Venetian famous celebration. 

 

It is said that the Carnival of Venice was originated from a victory of the "Repubblica della Serenissima", Venice's previous name, against the Patriarch of Aquileia, Ulrico in the year 1162.

In the honor of this victory, the people started to dance and make reunions in San Marco Square. Apparently this festival started on that period and become official in the renaissance. After a long absence, the carnival return to operate in 1979.

One of the most important events is the contest for the best mask, placed at the last weekend of the Carnival. A jury of international costume and fashion designers votes for "La Maschera piu bella". Here are the first prize winners of the last years:

 

 

Masks have always been a central feature of the Venetian carnival; traditionally people were allowed to wear them between the festival of Santo Stefano (St. Stephen's Day, December 26) and the start of the carnival season and midnight of Shrove Tuesday. Maskmakers (mascherari) enjoyed a special position in society, with their own laws and their own guild.

end of part I

Rooms 2012_b

ROOMS 2012 - Contemporary Art Show
part b

Gallery Kappatos, organized for the twelfth time (since 1999) the Exhibition of Contemporary Art "ROOMS 2012" on the 5th floor of the St George Lycabettus Hotel , in Kolonaki.

Harris Savvopoulos / Nikoletta Antonakou - Virginia Mastrogiannaki - Anastasis Stratakis

Lina Tsikouta / Peggy Kliafa - Yiannis Mouravas

Vassiliki Vayenou / Christos Kotsoulas

Dio Kaggelari / Elisa Alexandropoulou

Tassos Koutsouris / Niki Tsahra - Agathi Tsoroni

Yota Kostantatou / Ioanna Kassiki

Down

 

Cold nights, so sick of cold nights

Of wasting all my life in a black house where I grew up

Hold tight, keep saying hold tight

I don’t know what I’m waiting for

When it comes I still want more

And I’ve been locked away these great great days

And the time we spent is not our own anymore

 

This is my life,

This is your life

As the world turns down

Spinning round is and more,

 down

 

You say you’re tired, yeah you say you’re tired

And you don’t know what to do, what to do

Cause it’s all on you

You say you’re tired, keep saying you’re so tired

And you don’t know what to do when you’re falling down, down, down, down,

To the ground

to hunt you down

 

This is my life, my life, my life my life

As the world turns … down

This is my life,

This is your life,

As the world turns down

Spinning round

more spinning around is anymore

Come down, 

 down.

Summer Camp

ROOMS 2012_a

ROOMS 2012 - Contemporary Art Show
part a

Gallery Kappatos, organized for the twelfth time (since 1999) the Exhibition of Contemporary Art "ROOMS 2012" on the 5th floor of the St George Lycabettus Hotel , in Kolonaki.

Maria Maragou/Natalia Milioka

23 Curators, theater artists, choreographers, and architects, chosen by an artist or a group of artists each, presented in the rooms of the Hotel’s 5th floor.

Charis Kanellopoulou / Efi Spyrou

30 Greek and foreign artists presented audio-visual, photographic and video installations, performance, projections, films and other projects.

Gelly Gryntaki / Giannis Stamatiou

Each artist presented individually in each hotel room where the environment, was transformed into a personal space of the artist.

Kostis Stafylakis / Giannis Mpelimpasakis

Christiana Galanopoulou / Dimitris Papoutsakis

Harsh Realm

 

Last night I thought of you

Years ago, when bodies grew

An empty home

A vacant Hell

I knew you in the harsh realm

I thought about how it was

I thought about you because

I always

think about you

I always think about you

I always think about you

Widowspeak

Marx in Soho

Marx in Soho, written in 1999 by historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), is a one-man play on the life of Karl Marx. Zinn stated that he wrote the play to "show Marx as few people knew him, as a family man, struggling to support his wife and children." The play depicts Marx resurrected to defend the ideals of communism from the dehumanized version of it practiced in the former Soviet Union and to defend humanity from capitalism.

Zinn writes "Karl and Jenny Marx had moved to London after he was expelled from country after country on the European continent. They lived in the grubby Soho district, and revolutionaries from all over Europe, arriving in London, trooped in and out of their home. That imagined scene — Marx at home, Marx with his wife, Jenny, with his daughter Eleanor — fascinated me."

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Photos are from the Greek adaptation of the play: Ο Μαρξ στο Σόχο

Μονόλογος του Χάουαρντ Ζιν

Σκηνοθεσία: Αθ. Καραγιαννοπούλου

Ερμηνεύει: Άγγ. Αντωνόπουλος. Μετάφρ.: Άρης Λασκαράτος. Σκην.-κοστ.: Γ. Ασημακόπουλος. Φωτ.: Αλ. Αναστασίου.

Going Wrong

Am I holding on to something going wrong,

Am I holding on to something going wrong,

Something´s going wrong

Don´t want to believe it, I know that I´ve

been holding on, too long, too long

 

Don´t want to believe it, I know that I´ve

been holding on, too long, too long

Am I holding on to something going wrong.

Planningtorock

The Blame

They say I'm not supposed to care

Keep walking with my head high

But every time I go somewhere

I feel the dread inside their eyes

I am. How can?

How can I let it fly?

Condemned, they're still,

So I'm here to testify

 

You're the devil

You're the one that divides this place

This place

so dividing

If you're not here to stay

then we are gonna to fall

Children walk on both hands

While man still learnin' to crawl

Children fucking blowin' up mars

Grown men fucking blow-up dolls

I'm not the perfect man,

And I never claim to be

I've done some things in my time

Even I'm ashamed of me

I am .... they're killing in the name of me

I can, they can, when they're takin' aim at me

Staring so aimlessly, it's so plain to see

They're digging their hole, under the stairs

They follow the echoes of this everlasting prayer

Gonjasufi

This Land is Your Land

This land is your land, this land is my land

From California to the New York Island,

From the redwood forest to the gulf stream water,

This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

I saw above me that endless skyway,

I saw below me that golden valley

This land was made for you and me.

I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps

O’er the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts,

While all around me a voice was sounding,

This land was made for you and me.

When the sun comes shinning and I was strolling

And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling

A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting

That land was made for you and me.

 

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings