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.


YOUR ELECTRICITY
Anna Sirinidou

This piece explores the psychosomatic journey of humans through footage taken from the PPC factory in Megalopoli. Their personal experiences encompass feelings, memories, thoughts, their subconscious, and their need for connection, which they eventually find through a long process. The title Your Electricity alludes to street cables that connect and transfer light to various places, as well as to the fact that the human body contains electricity. Voice is a friend to humans, serving as a form of support. Every space and object in this work represents and elucidates elements of that journey – as the voice explains. A person’s light in the form of electricity is a key element of this piece, along with the acceptance of that light. The goal is not to short-circuit the plug with the electroshock of one’s own light. Images serve as a journey; this is why this video unfolds in a forward direction.

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