FFF4 | Piraeus / Heterochronia

"Piraeus/Heterochronia" is a video work which documented four dialogues with the people those who are living around the clock tower of the Silo, the cereal warehouse at the port of Piraeus.

"Piraeus/Heterochronia" does not depict the history of Piraeus, but mirrors “ the time of the otherness” (which the word “heterochronia" means) of the interviewees who lives or survives with Piraeus's reality, which is strongly related to its complicated history.
Each interviewee in this video has their own life, background, and time, which is diverse. But to show the same current of the real time, four dialogues took place and are filmed at the same hour on the consecutive days.
The Silo clock, which can be seen from anywhere in Piraeus, play the famous song "Children of Piraeus", from the film "Never on Sundays" at every hour. In fact, the clock is no more accurate at all, as human perception of time is subjective. Then, how can we gaze at “the time of otherness" which has a variable speed, either going faster or slower?

In conjunction of "Piraeus/Heterotopia", an interactive theater piece by Akira Takayama, "Piraeus/Heterochronia" is installed in its two starting points, the Janeiro Cafeteria at Omonia Square in Athens, and the Floating Museum "Hellas Liberty" in the port of Piraeus. This work invites the audience for travel, where they can feel all the different time – time of otherness, the audience’s own time and the real time which is passing in reality – crossing together.