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
Free entry with Pre-Booking. Pre-booking will be announced soon. There will be open events for the public in November 2023.
Every visitor pays the entrance fee for the archaeological site on the spot
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.
Further Info
From 29 March to 8 April, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents in the foyer of Cine Eleusis Cultural Centre Mystery 178 Collecting flowers with her girlfriends, an exhibition dedicated to the flora of the Archaeological Site of Elefsina, created by the artist Violeta Diamanti-Meletiou and the teacher Irini Yovanou.
From April 13th to April 16th, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents an exhibition with artistic creations by Nicoletta Granitsa (aka Magemeli, a name that is inspired by the “alchemical” society of bees), under the title: Mystery 197 Paper World – A Letter to Eleusis, at the Canteen – Art Hub.
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