Hamlet a desktop performance | Elias Adam

Given the condition we experience, the thing that particularly troubled me was the unanimous acceptance of the mandatory ‘staying at home’ order. That did not take into consideration those who are not privileged to ‘stay at home’ (women facing domestic gender violence, LGBTiQ people abused in their family, migrants/refugees living in closed camps, working people, those with serious mental health problems etc.). I think that we must raise our voice about these people, either through art or in any other way we have access to public debate. But even after the quarantine is over, I wouldn’t like to see ‘back to normality’ narratives, as that ‘normality’ back then was still a privilege of only a few.

Artist: Elias Adam

Title of the work: Hamlet, A Desktop Performance

Year: 2020

Duration: 34΄

Medium: Video

Direction: Elias Adam

Collaboration: Christina Mavrommati

Performers: Jeo Pakitsas, Styliana Ioannou, Sofia Priovolou

Language: Greek and English

People appearing: Jeo Pakitsas, Styliana Ioannou, Sofia Priovolou

Music/songs used: “Tha Gino Vassilias” (I’m Gonna Be King”), “The Night We Met,” “Toxic Ruski,“ “Everytime,” “Stupid Love“

This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.