Kin Baby by Eva Giannakopoulou

“Create a new species, don’t procreate” or, more accurately, “make kin not babies” – so urges the theorist Donna Haraway. This happening, created by the visual artist Eva Giannakopoulou, transforms Onassis Stegi into “Club Cosmogeny”, plunging us into a rave phantasmagoria where anything and everything is possible – even new life forms. Is faith in “something new” more powerful than reality? Who gains from the future?

This world no longer exists. A nightclub is all that remains. On the Onassis Stegi Main Stage, in Neos Kosmos (the “new world”), in a city once called Athens. Here, what’s left of planet Earth’s biodiversity is renewing itself. Here, a new world order is coming into being, where microorganisms, bacteria, plants, animals, humanoids, and abiotic beings are evolving on an equal footing to establish a singular biopolitical environment.

Credits

Concept & Artistic Direction: Eva Giannakopoulou

Choreography: Aria Boumpaki

Poetic Dialogues: Sam Albatros

Musicians: Spyros Karamitsos (drums), Solis Barki (didgeridoo)

Lighting Design: Nysos Vasilopoulos

Costumes Construction: Eva Tsabasi

Special set construction: Natalia Fragkathoula & Nikos Stathopoulos

Μakeup: Frederick Schmidt

Makeup Assistant: Natalia Fragkathoula

Flying Performers: Michael Edwards and Argyris Marinis

Performers: Katerina Kalentzi, Markella Ksilogiannopoulou, Aspa Giannoulaki, Μichael Edwards, Atossa (Paraskevi Damaskou), Tania Varveri, Eleni Karakou, Argyris Marinis, Orfeas Kyriakos Makaris Kapetanakis, Christos Fousekis

Original cast: Sam Albatros (flying performer), Eliana Otta (performer)

Interventions: Vanessa Veneti, Giorgos Samantas, Atossa (Paraskevi Damaskou)

Voice over: Christoforos Ioakimidis

Production management: Delta Pi

Commissioned & Produced by Onassis Stegi

Filming Credits

Director: Alkis Papastathopoulos

Production: Polymnia Papadopoulou-Sardeli

Director of Photography: Petros Goritsas

Editor: Alkis Papastathopoulos

Sound Design & Sound Mix: Daphne Farazi

Production Manager: Polymnia Papadopoulou-Sardeli