Made in USA | Phone Homer

Welcome to a digital, Woody Allenesque universe full of columns and Google search engines, in which the ancient myths and tragic heroes are ruthlessly debunked along with all manner of other unexpected things, including social networks, consumerism, the Y chromosome, Martha Graham’s choreographies and... hamburgers!

A charismatic performer, inspired choreographer and distinguished video-artist, Michelle Ellsworth rolls up at the Onassis Stegi for the first time with her ‘Greek’ multimedia solo in hand: an inspired, surreal and wildly funny homage to the mythic Clytaemnestra.

Masterfully blending live performance with stand-up-comedy, Ellsworth improvises in a one-woman-show whose dramaturgy, as well as whose technology, is all her own work. Drawing material from Homer’s “Iliad” and Aeschylus’ “Oresteia”, as well as from her time on Kalymnos, she creates an entire internet platform dedicates to Clytaemnestra and her interests. With herself in the role of this other, post-modern Clytaemnestra who is as desperately alone as Edward Snowden, she builds advanced interactive applications based on Kinect, throws in ‘handmade’ satirical videos, stages pseudo-academic and bizarre TED talks, goes online to speak to Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Fair Helen and faithful Penelope on Skype, and ensures she makes some unexpected sacrifices of her own along the way.