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The Greek National Opera’s online festival Waves of Light, in collaboration with the PPC and curated by Giorgos Koumendakis, features the first series of site-specific performances inspired by the Megalopolis Steam Power Station.


A Flower Wonders Wandering  
Xenia Serafeimidou - Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese
This piece was set in the interior of the PPC factory in Megalopoli. The elements of the site are incorporated into this set, taking on a symbolic function to capture an individual’s effort to answer the questions that arise within them and understand the complexity of the surrounding world. Snapshots of this process are captured through the alternation of slow and rapid movements of a figure wandering through the site. Nature’s constant presence in humanity’s journey is highlighted by a mask of a flower and the sound of birds. A special role is played by a telephone apparatus, which marks the beginning and end of this inner pursuit while underscoring people’s profound need for communication.

The Greek National Opera assigned the organisation of a cross-university / interdisciplinary arts workshop focused on the Megalopolis Steam Power Station to the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese, involving eight university arts departments from across Greece. As part of the online festival titled Waves of Light, 20 young artists and artistic teams from university departments throughout Greece drew inspiration from the striking sites of the old PPC factory in Megalopolis to create 20 new site-specific digital works for GNO TV, the GNO’s digital platform. These works are grouped into various genres that fall within the broader fields of performing, visual, and digital arts. The music and scripts in these works are inspired by the spaces, history, and people who worked there.
Participating in this workshop were students from the following departments: Department of Music Studies (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Department of Visual and Applied Arts (University of Western Macedonia), Department of Culture and Creative Media and Industries (University of Thessaly), Department of Theatre Studies (University of Patras), Department of Sound and Image Arts (Ionian University – undergraduate and postgraduate programmes), and the Athens School of Fine Arts.
PPC, a leader in Greece’s electrification through its emblematic factories, has evolved into an active cultural agent, offering its historical sites as a canvas for contemporary artistic creation. Through the Waves of Light online festival, PPC contributes to repurposing industrial landmarks into vibrant reference points between the past and the future, where energy meets art.

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