Visual Arts

Μedea Electronique: "Monotonia"

Audiovisual installation inspired by C.P. Cavafy's poem "Monotony"

Dates

Tickets

Free admission

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
14 April - 15 June 2014
Time
12:00-23:00
Venue
4th Floor Foyer

Information

Tickets

Free admission

Introduction

An audio-visual sculpture/installation that takes Cavafy’s poem “Monotony” as its starting point.

Medea Electronique’s audio-visual sculpture/installation "Monotony" takes Cavafy’s poem “Monotony” as its starting point.

The work explores the “monotonous thoughts” which define our daily lives. The artists say it is the bogus illusions of material goals that lure us into the endless repetition that becomes a monotonous motif in our lives.

The work sets out to exhort each and every viewer to create their own personal path through life by connecting moments from their everyday using sounds and images that seem locked into a monotonous cycle.

Credits

Video art Animation
Michael Larsson, Kleopatra Korai (Lokey)
Music
Manolis Manousakis
Installation / Set design
Christos Laskaris
Actors
Maria Goula, Yiannis Evangelidis
Curator
Elli-Anna Peristeraki

Cavafy Archive

Academic Advisor
Anastasios-Ioannis D. Metaxas
Designer of Ιnitiatives of the Archive
Afroditi Panagiotakou
Scholarly Advisor
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Project Manager
Theodoros Chiotis