Description

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.


AUTOMATΑ
Andrea Diogenous, Ariadni Polychronaki - Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese
This video performance tells the story of forgotten female bodies in a deserted, male-dominated factory. As if time has stood still, these bodies move silently across spaces once crowded with people, seeking something in this unknown place. The video depicts a factory day that repeats itself, much like “Groundhog Day”, reflecting the repetitive routine of a worker through these forsaken bodies.

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.

Creative team – Cast

CONCEPT: 
ANDREA DIOGENOUS 
ARIADNI POLYCHRONAKI 
DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU 

CAMERA: 
DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU 

PERFORMERS: 
ANDREA DIOGENOUS 
ARIADNI POLYCHRONAKI  

VIDEO EDITING: 
ANDREA DIOGENOUS  

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