What if we could erase our painful memories? What would the world be like if traumatic memories (individual and collective) did not exist and therefore could not cause pain and what if humanity one day decided to be condemned to oblivion?
Memory Removal Office | Complete deletion of trauma
Performers: Anthi Charalambopoulou, Thanasis Lazos, Calliope Preka, Pinelopi Papagianakopoulou, Filippos Alexopoulos, Dimitra Nikolopoulou, Irini Kalogeropoulou
Photography by: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
In times of pandemic, inclusion and isolation having as a stimulus Ulysses of J. Joyce we create a participatory performance project about the mneme, the memory and the trauma. A dystopic office which deletes memories and promises lifelong happiness giving to an impossible reality dimensions of a parallel world. Every participant has the status of a client who can receive personalized services for a new life without worries, problems and unpleasant memories. For its inspirers, this office is a projection of the way in which society imagines its place in the world, its present, its past and its possible future.
Memory Removal Office | The river of oblivion
Memory Removal Office | Performer: Katerina Anastasiou
Memory Removal Office | Performer: Dimitra Nikolopoulou
Memory Removal Office | Brain Washing
Memory Removal Office | Performer: Lisa Koustoudaki
Memory Removal Office | Performer: Persephone Lalioti
Memory Removal Office | Service: Deletion of collective memory
Memory Removal Office | Performer: Pinelopi Papagianakopoulou
Conception: Dimitra Nikolopoulou, Sofia Kyriakidou, Irini Kalogeropoulou
Project Design: Irini Kalogeropoulou, Sofia Kyriakidou
Curation: Dimitra Nikolopoulou
Performers: Filippos Alexopoulos, Katerina Anastasiou, Anthi Charalabopoulou, Irini Kalogeropoulou, Nikon Kastritis, Lisa Koutsoudaki, Sofia Kyriakidou, Apostolos Ladas, Thanasis Lazos, Persephone Lalioti, Akis Manthos, Dimitra Nikolopoulou, Pinelopi Papagianakopoulou, Calliope Preka
Poster Artwork: Persephone Lalioti
Location: Association of Greek Archaeologists, Ermou 134 Athens
Duration: 70’
The project was carried out in the context of the Performance Lab of National Theatre of Greece facilitated by Dimitra Nikolopoulou
