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.

CHTHONIA
Lena Delavia - Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese
Where old technology fades, new human advancements are constructed. Upon gazing at the site, a series of questions arises: What will happen now? Will it evolve into another, more high-tech form? What role do humans play in all of this? Particularly women. Only men used to work in the factory. Female energy is nowhere to be found. I wish to add it to the site, drawing influences from it. A female, chthonian energy that leaves its traces wherever it passes. This energy transforms into an installation placed within a static, motionless, lifeless site, leaving behind its long-missing mark. The representation is realised at specific places throughout the site.

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 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 become an agent of culture, offering its historical sites as a canvas for artistic creation. Through the Waves of Light online festival, PPC contributes to repurposing industrial landmarks into vibrant symbols of the connection between the past and the future, where energy meets art.

Creative team – Cast

CONCEPT
LENA DELAVIA
DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU

CAMERA
DESPINA ZACHAROPOULOU

PERFORMER
LENA DELAVIA

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