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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.


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Maria Krigka

Factory footage is presented in a loop, suggesting an endless, repetitive journey. The energy produced, at once life-giving and chthonic, remains invisible within the images and between the words, in a continuous circuit of movement, while viewers wonder about the gravity of “big mistakes”.
Millenium! There’s air water and air Restorations The rural Has aligned With power electricity home with the new goals the Reserves the New Immersion Economic regrowth Hydraulic Impressive Display power of eight rivers Methods of exploitation Center Human power artificial fueling lake device control Emblematic tower refrigerant Agricultural electrification Belt conveyor Constant electrics International interconnections of water Gus turbine unites Bond of lands Light everywhere! Ash_
The text above was created by associatively assembling words selected from the PPC’s official website (https://www.ppcgroup.com/el/omilos-dei/sxetika-me-emas/istoriki- diadromi/) and reshuffling them into a new context.

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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