The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation participates in the multimedia installation What we owe Democracy?, organized by the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus as part of the activities of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, on Sunday, July 7, 2024, at 19.00-22.00, at the Keratsini Fish Market.
In an open discussion on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Transition to Democracy, artists and theorists talk with the audience about the relationship between art and democracy, through personal narratives and experiential experiences of the critical years before and after the period of dictatorship.
How was the transition to the regime change expressed through art? When is art a political act? What has changed in the conditions of artistic creation from the years of the regime change until today?
Questions and answers about culture and politics, about the freedom of the artist and the relationship between art and Greekness in the modern era of deconstruction.
Groups together:
Titika Dimitroulia, Professor, Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Alexandros Diamantis, Director, Writer
Kostis Theos, Musician
Kostas Kanavouris, Journalist, Poet
Maria Komninou, President Board of Directors of the Greek Film Archive
Panos Kougias, Actor, Director
Lina Nikolakopoulou, Lyricist, Musician
Stelios Charalampopoulos, Director
Panos Charalambous, Visual artist
In collaboration with the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus.
As part of the activities of the Athens Epidaurus Festival.
(Nikos Diamantis orchestrates a platform of creative collaboration between more than 30 acclaimed artists, aiming to create synergies and social awareness, on the theme of Democracy and focusing on the triptych: Health – Language – Food. This ambitious action, which is a collaboration between the Athens Festival and the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, will take place in three different landmarks corresponding to the different aspects of Democracy: Sotiria Hospital (Hygeia), the National Library (Glossa) and Keratsini Fish Auction (Food). A “dramaturgy of urgency” with the participation of seven writers, fifteen actors-performers, three visual curators and one director. Poets, dancers, visual artists, musicians, philosophers, social structures and institutions collaborate. The performance – installation “WHAT WE OWE DEMOCRACY / WHAT WE OWE TO DEMOCRACY”, is an open museum of behaviors in which viewers are invited to move in different conditions, spaces and landscapes and reconstruct questions and answers, taboos and revelations.