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Borderline Festival 2023

29 international and local artists, 3 unexpected spots in the city. A three-day festival for the future of electronic music

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Free admission & Events with tickets

Location

Athens, Onassis Stegi
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Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday 21 April
Time
17:30 - 23:30
Venue
Kypseli Municipal Market
Day
Saturday 22 April
Time
17:30 - 23:30
Venue
Kypseli Municipal Market
Day
Saturday 22 April
Time
23:59 - 05:00
Venue
Gagarin 205
Day
Sunday 23 April
Time
19:15 - 00:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi (Exhibition Hall -1)

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Free admission & events with tickets

What does the future of music sound like? Borderline returns to the city's heart for the twelfth consecutive year with a three-day festival that will redefine the beat of the Athenian audience.

Through DJ sets and live performances centered around an elaborate and bold curatorial concept, Borderline Festival explores new sounds and technologies, deconstructs the commonly known music genres and how pop music constantly reinvents itself, and re-approaches the future of the experimental electronic music scene.

Noise, acceleration, and multiplicity. Borderline 2023 is an exploration of the ways that avant-garde music and its techniques (loops, samples, distorted vocals) have bled into mainstream music. A new generation of artists has access to cheaper hardware and software and all the world's music at their fingertips thanks to the internet. Lines between genres crumble, new sounds and technologies emerge. Pop is dead and more alive than ever as it absorbs and metabolizes these changes.

What is the soundtrack of Athens today?

In Borderline 2023, young Greek creators, members of the vibrant local community, meet with rising international artists at three unexpected spots all over the city, creating a new soundtrack for Athens: a Mediterranean mosaic reflecting the constantly shifting musical landscape, bringing the so-called periphery back to the center of cultural production.From the open-to-all events at the Municipal Market of Kypseli to the late-night concerts at Gagarin 205 and the live performances at the Exhibition Hall -1 of Onassis Stegi. The longest-running festival of Stegi returns once again to Athens, further pursuing the exploration of the boundary lines between arts, cultures, and traditions.

Borderline 2023 is curated by Movement Radio, Onassis Stegi's web radio.

Day 1 | Program

Friday 21 April

17:30 | Kypseli Municipal Market (Free Admission)

  • 17:30 - 18:55 | DJ NOT I
  • 19:00 - 19:40 | Ygraerio
  • 19:45 - 20:30 | Spivak
  • 20:35 - 21:20 | Marina Herlop
  • 21:25 - 22:05 | Lil Mariko
  • 22:10 | OJOO GYAL

Parallel event (Free admission. Pre-booking is required to attend the workshop)

  • 15:30 | "Curatorial Practice in Music Festivals" workshop by MC Yinka at Kypseli Municipal Market

Day 2 | Program

Saturday 22 April

17:30 | Kypseli Municipal Market (Free Admission)

  • 17:30 - 19:05 | Κairo 7000 Χ Joseph
  • 19:10 - 19:55 | Odydoze feat. Spar & Han
  • 20:00 - 20:40 | Pö
  • 20:45 - 21:20 | Vikkie
  • 21:25 - 22:05 | Blackhaine
  • 22:10 | Karen Nyame KG

23:59 | Gagarin 205

  • 24:15 - 01:10 | Voltnoi
  • 01:10 - 02:10 | Slikback X Weirdcore present VOID*
  • 02:15 - 03:15 | Esplendor Geometrico
  • 03:20 | Morah

*VOID is curated by Unsound, commissioned by Rewire, donaufestival, Unsound.


Parallel event (Free admission. Pre-booking is required to attend the workshop)

  • 15:30 | "Curatorial Practice in Music Festivals" workshop by MC Yinka at Kypseli Municipal Market

Day 3 | Program

Sunday 23 April

19:15 | Onassis Stegi (Exhibition Hall -1)

  • 19:15 - 20:15 | Sofia Jernberg
  • 20:20 - 21:00 | xato
  • 21:05 - 21:45 | Arshia Haq & Yara Mekawei
  • 21:50 - 22:30 | Claire Rousay
  • 22:35- 23:15 | Aho Ssan
  • 23:20 | Jung An Tagen & Rainer Kohlberger

The workshop "Curatorial Practice in Music Festivals" led by MC Yinka, “Freedom to Move” by Sofia Jernberg, and “Sama: The Divine Listening Room” by Arshia Haq & Yara Mekawei take place in the framework of “Sounds Now” program, co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program of the European Union.

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Credits

  • Festival Artistic Direction

    Voltnoi & Quetempo – Movement Radio

  • Head of Production

    Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos

  • Production Organization

    Akis Chontasis

  • Production Management

    Dimitra Bouzani, Ioulia Stamouli, Danae Giannakopoulou

  • Technical Management

    Lefteris Karabilas

  • Assistant Technical Manager

    Giannis Dovas

  • Video Department

    Panagiotis Hadjisavvas, Stathis Darzanos, Stratos Toganidis

  • Stage Managers

    Melina Lorkidi, Natalia Vorria, Katerina Kotsou

  • Lighting Department

    Kostas Alexiou, Pavlos Pappas, Sobhy Mohamed Ali, Giannis Psarros, Evgenia Vassilakopoulou, Antonis Tsevas, Lefteris Daskalantonakis, Giannis Vollelis, Georgia Tselepi, Polichronis Stamatakis, Veaceslav Rusu, Giannis Christodoulakis

  • Audio Department

    Alexis Politis, Thodoris Tsachalos, Alekos Tzovaras, Dimitris Samaras, Giannis Gliatis, Stefanos Papoutsakis, Giorgos Tsatsoulis

  • Stage Engineers Department

    Leonardo Cela, Thanasis Ntako, Giannis Kontorouchas, Michalis Faitakis, Spiros Pitsos, Nikos Nizamis

  • Electricians

    Fotis Andrianopoulos, Kiriakos Xanthopoulos

  • Produced by

    Onassis Stegi

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