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Mystery 20 Performing Arts Initiator – Narrative Archaeology

Contributors:

Concept: 2023 Eleusis
Curator – Director: Gemma Hansson Carbone
Scientific Advisor: Ioulia Kaoura
Associate Director:Hliana Kaladami
Artists – Researchers: Electra Angelopoulou,Thanasis Akokalidis, Electra Kartanou, Konstantza Kapsali, Vassilis Mavrianos, Eleni Moleski, Nicoleta Xenariou, Gary Salomon
Production: Mentor
Collaborators during the preparatory phase: George Kritharas, Phaedon Moudopoulos, Vladimiros Nikolouzos
Special Thanks: Kalliope Papangeli, Yorgos Pavlopoulos, Kostas Lykides, Vienna Eleuteri, Michael Held, Takis Mastrantonis and the students of the graduate NKUA programme Management of Monuments: Archaeology, Urban Planning And Architecture

Information:

The first event (February 2023) is closed to the public. There will be open events for the public in May and November 2023.

By means of a specially curated route through the archaeological site of Eleusis, the project aims to introduce an original perspective on notions of History, Time, and Space wherein visitors’ curiosity about the past and archaeological ruins becomes a shared human experience.

Every archaeological site conceals a narrative and cloaks the passage of time. Every archaeological site constitutes a silent chronicle. It is a necropolis, a city of ghosts and shadows, a theatrical stage of human history. How can we best access this shadowy realm? What path should we follow? How can a fragment acquire a voice? And how can we discern the traces left by past users and visitors?

Narrative Archaeology, adapted for the sanctuary of Demeter at Ancient Eleusis, capitalises on the potential relationship between archaeology and the performing arts, stones and traces, the human body and memory, visitors and a site.

Narrative Archaeology experiments with the specific conditions that enable a site to tell its unique story to visitors in the form of a vivid, interactive experience. As part of this approach, the performing arts can provide a living presence that navigates the sanctuary and gives voice to unspoken aspects of the past.

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People - Society
The first axis spans the evolution of society from Antiquity to the present in order to connect the strange with the familiar, to discover hidden aspects, memories and elements of cultural diversity. The thematic axis People | Society focuses on inclusion, the way that European society is shaped and, the ways in which we interact with each other, through the three themes/notions “Europe of Citizens”, “Europe, Daughter of Phoenix” and “Human Mysteries”.
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Mystery 20 Performing Arts Initiator - Narrative Archaeology 2024

Mystery 20 Performing Arts Initiator − Narrative Archaeology, one of the most significant action-models of the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture programme, returns curated and directed by Gemma Hansson Carbone, in collaboration with Hliana Kaladami, on 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 & 12 October at the iconic archaeological site of Ancient Eleusis.


Mystery 66 Voices in the city | Open Station - Open Community

2023 Eleusis supports the project «Open Station – Open Community» organized by the youth team of Cultterra, as part of Mystery 66 Voices in the city, every Thursday from 12 September to 19 December at OSE – Elefsina Old Railway Station.


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