Bus Stories Summer 2012 (IV)

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Bus (and Metro) Stories

Summer 2012

part IV

 

 

 

 

 

 

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V.

 

 

 

Puppy Toy

Again, we go 'round and round
I get a dress
I guess it's always my round

Friends, girls, they come and go

You think you're nice

See, she, she likes that money boy
And she, she's a puppy toy

You stare, you stare and look confused
Your fruit is slightly bruised
You're aware, but don't like men, no
Your love, won't care again

Girl, you got a vicious tongue

You're talking to me?

Yeah, I wish, wish you cough up along
Girl, you see I'm insecure

And you're an idiot

Look at me, I think you're pure
Girl, get your head right

There's nothing wrong with me, mate

You, yeah, you're getting right


You stare, you stare and look confused
Your fruit is slightly bruised
You're aware, but don't like men, no
Your love, won't care again

Again, we go 'round and round
I get a dress

Tricky

Wet Cement

we met one day in wet cement
where we glued our eyes shut
and pressed with our fists

and while the trees are shrinking now
they forgot their roots
and sloped in the ground

and while I'm picking out my favorite names
where our future is concerned
in the steady blur of the days
what brought us here, why we try to say
we face back all the way

now the cement's hardened in my chest
a world of wax
scraped in through text
and someone was calling just before I woke up

my broken record spits good and bad luck
and with my broken, pale black eyes
I still see white when the snow falls lightly
in the steady blur of the days

what brought us here, why we try to say
but we face back all the way

The Morning Benders

Byzantine Opera

1.

Greek National Opera presented La Traviata at Koropi

La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman Who Goes Astray. It was originally entitled Violetta, after the main character.

Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, "c. 1700". It was not until the 1880s that the composer and librettist's original wishes were carried out and "realistic" productions were staged.

Photos are from the Greek's National Opera performance at an open theater in a village outside Athens.  (04.07.2012)

Διδασκαλία και συνοδεία παράστασης: Χρύσανθος Αλισάφης
Σκηνοθετική επιμέλεια: Γιάννης Καραχισαρίδης
Χορογραφία: Γιάννης Ντοντσάκης
Σκηνογραφική – ενδυματολογική επιμέλεια: Τότα Πρίτσα
Φωτισμοί: Νίκος Εργαζάκης

Βιολέττα: Μαρία Κόκκα
Αλφρέντο: Δημήτρης Πακσόγλου
Ζερμόντ: Πέτρος Σαλάτας
Φλώρα: Σοφία Καπετανάκου
Αννίνα: Μιράντα Μακρυνιώτη
Γκαστόνε: Νίκος Τσαούσης
Μπαρόνε: Χρήστος Αμβράζης
Ντοττόρε: Γιώργος Ρούπας
Μαρτσέζε: Μιχάλης Κατσούλης

Συμμετείχε οκταμελής χορωδία και τετραμελές μπαλέτο.

2.

The following Photos are from the European Music Day, at the Byzantine and Christian Museum

  

Στην εκδήλωση θα παρουσιαστούν δύο συγκροτήματα οι “The Athens Experiment” και οι “Drumvoice”. (20.06.2012)

Συμμετείχαν οι μουσικοί:
Δημήτρης Κεραμιδάκης-πιάνο,
Μαρία Μανουσάκη-βιολί,
Ηλίας Ζούτσος λύρα-λαούτο,
Αλέκος Ρούπας-κρουστά και
Αποστόλης Βαγγελάκης-πνευστά.

Legs and Utopia

These photos are from two summer photo exhibitions:  Totem Legs and Utopia

 Exhibition 1.

METApolis photo group presented a photo exhibition with the title "Ουτοπία - Utopia". Duration:   22/06/2012 – 1/07/2012

A few word in Greek about the concept: "Μία «Ουτοπία» πάντα συνδέεται έντονα με μια αισιόδοξη, ιδεαλιστική, σχεδόν αδύνατη και ανέφικτη τελειότητα που όμως οδηγεί ιστορικά στο δυνατό και στο εφικτό. Θα μπορούσε να είναι ευτοπία ή δυστοπία, αλλά η δική μας είναι «Ουτοπία» (ου+τόπος) γιατί φεύγοντας από τη γεωγραφική και χρονική πραγματικότητα που δεν μας καλύπτει, δημιουργούμε τη δική μας, την «Ουτοπία» της Τέχνης με μόνες σταθερές το Φως και τη Φωτογραφική μας Μηχανή. Εκεί όπου ο καλλιτέχνης εξαφανίζεται μέσα από το δημιούργημά του, αφομοιώνεται σε μια εμμονή, σε μια μικρογραφία του σύγχρονου αστικού τοπίου, σε μια φθαρμένη υλικότητα που μεταβάλλεται κάθε στιγμή σε κάτι νέο."

Exhibition 2.

“Totem Legs” 

by Vangelis Rassias

The photographer Vangelis Rassias presents the photography exhibition “Totem legs” with 23 black white selected artworks at the MCF Bar | Resto as well as at its open air space on the 3rd floor.

Totem for the primeval animistic societies used to be the symbol of a sacred cult. Female legs have been characterized as cults in every culture. This devotion has been expressed to the outmost in the cultures of the West, where legs – Totem have marked the Western Civilization for centuries.
The exhibition will be open until October 31st 2012

Tutti Frutti

 

 

Artist: Stephanie Mann

Place: Snehta Residency – Athens in Reverse

Tutti Frutti was an exhibition which had been developed whilst on residency with Snehta in Kypseli. 

Experiencing Athens as a massive bowl of fruit, Mann attempted to focus on the satsuma seeds as opposed to the entirety of the display, exploring the details of direct encounters and local happenings. 

Viewing conversations, situations and objects with the same regards to physical materials, Mann was interested in the inherent qualities within such things and aimed to recontextualise and rearranged their properties with a light-hearted and playful aesthetic. 

Slipping between video, sculpture and performance, and often involving Mann herself, the works yield a diaristic enthusiasm for the ever prevailing quirks of daily life, present despite economic difficulties. 

Featuring the slippy floors of The Byzantine Museum, instigating happenings amongst Kipseli's community and involving intriguing neighbourhood aesthetics, the works in 'Tutti Frutti' aimed to provide a celebratory broth of both historical and current local ingredients. 

Snehta Residency is based in an urban apartment in Kypseli where the selected artists live, create and exhibit their work. The residency in collaboration with the artists, deduces and cultivates experimental and daring practices through specific artistic proposals. 

At the same time the artists are asked to sharpen their sense of Athens’s current situation in order to create works that actively incorporate an internal reading of the city, a tool they use throughout their creative Athenian practice. 

Morrissey@Athens

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist.

He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. 

Widely regarded as an important innovator in indie music. Morrissey has been described by music magazine NME as "one of the most influential artists ever", and The Independent has stated "most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status he has reached in his lifetime". Pitchfork Media has called him "one of the most singular figures in Western popular culture from the last twenty years"

Morrissey's lyrics have been described as "dramatic, bleak, funny vignettes about doomed relationships, lonely nightclubs, the burden of the past and the prison of the home." His forthright and often contrarian opinions have led to a number of media controversies, and he has also attracted media attention for his advocacy of vegetarianism and animal rights. 

Morrissey is currently undertaking a 2012 tour, which started in South America and continued through Asia and North America. Over summer, Morrissey will play concerts in Belgium, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Portugal, England, and Scotland. In Fall, Morrissey will be playing 35 concerts in United States.

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These photos and video are from his concert at at Lycabettus Theatre . Athens. Greece 16-07-2012