Elefsina welcomes October with a series of events and valuable collaborations!
2, 6, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30 OCT
ΜYSTERY 7
Free University of Elefsina – IN SITU
(education / training)
EKEDA – ELEFSINA / WEST ATTICA LABOUR UNION BUILDING
LEGACY PROJECT
The Free University of Elefsina – IN SITU, which is addressed to the residents of Elefsina and the suburban areas, starts its second cycle of courses. Free participation.
DESIGNED BY: 2023 Eleusis – Cultural Training Department, Apostolos Vantarakis, Athena Mavridou, Sophia Rizopoulou
PARTNERS: University of Patras, Special Account for Research Funds – University of Patras
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4-15 OCT
ΜYSTERY 13
I_LEFT Trilogy
(performing arts)
PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
I_LEFT Asia Minor | Ano Elefsina Settlement | 5 & 7/10 | 19.00
I_LEFT Pontus | OASIS former campsite | 6 & 7/10 | 21.00
I_LEFT multimedia installation | Canteen art hub | 4-15/10 | Opening 6/10 | 19.00
The trilogy encapsulates a century of refugee and uprooting stories, from Asia Minor refugees to the Pontic Greeks, to today’s refugees and immigrants from Asia. Elefsina becomes the locus, the point of reception of the uprooted, the place where viewers become part of the experience. Free admission.
DIRECTED BY: Yolanda Markopoulou
LINE PRODUCTION: Polyplanity Productions
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7 OCT
MYSTERY 69
Greekies
12.00 – 00.00
A “stray” space in the centre of Elefsina comes to life with graffiti by two artists and an all-day outdoor music festival with dance and painting workshops, rap and open-mic performances, dance battles and an after party with local crews. In collaboration with HipHop4Hope and the painters Basement Rats, Gospel, Simekone, Soteur, and Alexandros Simopoulos.
ARTIST – DIRECTOR: Menelaos Karamaghiolis
PRODUCTION: Døcumatism
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7 OCT
Chloe in Elefsina
(book presentation)
ELEFSINA OLD TOWN HALL (Nikolaidou pedestrian Str., 19.00)
In her incredible journey through space-time, Chloe meets major historical or fictional figures from the past, in incidents that are made funny precisely due to the difference in the habits and the manners of people from other times.
AUTHOR: Erato Koutsoudaki-Yerolymbou
ILLUSTRATOR: Philippos Fotiadis
14 OCT-21 NOV
MYSTERY 34
Faces of Elefsina
(visual arts)
ELEFSINA OLD TOWN HALL
In the performance Faces of Elefsina the artist depicts a sample of the population with approximately 100 photographs of Elefsinians, descendants from Asia Minor, Pontus, the Peloponnese, Crete, Albania, Pakistan, India, and the Roma. A photographic exhibition and multimedia participatory video installation about the diverse communities of Elefsina.
ARTIST – PHOTOGRAPHER: Lina Bertucci
CREATIVE PRODUCER: Yolanda Markopoulou
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Vicky Strataki
SOCIAL RESEARCHER: Stella Papakonstantinou
VIDEOGRAPHER – PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Isidoros Maskalaris
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21-22 OCT
ΜYSTERY 91
Magnetic Dance
(dance)
X-BOWLING ART CENTER
Magnetic Dance is an interactive, augmented technology dance performance that will be held in Elefsina and Tokyo simultaneously, connecting the tales Daphnis and Chloe (Longus), and Echo and Narcissus (Ovid) with traditional Japanese Noh theatre and the classic work Izutsu.
PROJECT HEAD, CO-ORDINATOR & LEAD ARTIST: Iannis Zannos
COMPOSERS: Isobe Hideaki, Haruka Hirayama, Iannis Zannos
DANCERS: Ζουστίν Γκουσό, Asayo Hisai, Natali Mandyla, Jun Takahashi
PERFORMANCE: Yoshimitsu Yoshiya
PRODUCTION: Research Centre To Aesthate
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Dana Papachristou
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14, 15, 21, 22 OCT
MYSTERY 37
Voices of Elefsina
(interdisciplinary art project)
OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
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A transmedia community project aiming at the creation of a radio station by the city’s residents. During the open days, the public can visit the station’s studio and attend radio-related lectures, screenings, discussions and events.
PARTNER: Zoetrope Athens
TEAM MEMBERS: Karl Heinz Jeron, Dimitris Kourtis, Emilia Milou, Alexandra Saliba, Tasos Stamos, Yorgos Yatromanolakis, Panagiotis Velissaris
21-22 OCT
ΜYSTERY 19
Visual Arts Initiator III – But Don’t Tell Anyone
(visual arts)
PUBLIC SPACE, ELEUSIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
LEGACY PROJECT
Taking the speculation that surrounds these extraordinary pagan rites as a starting point, the residency will be completed with the exhibitions of five new commissions by the resident artists and five existing works by their mentor “initiators,” all installed inside the archaeological site, seeking to reinterpret the meaning of such notions as initiation and secrecy today.
CONCEPT: 2023 Eleusis – General Artistic Directorate
CURATION: Joanna Warsza
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25 OCT
MYSTERY 149
Transition to a Climate Neutral Future
(conference)
CANTEEN ART HUB
In May 2023, students from seven European countries gathered in Elefsina to take part in a unique conference, titled Mystery 149 Pupil Conference on the Transition to a Climate Neutral Future, in which they were introduced to processes of participatory consultation and the experience of environmental walks. This October they return to present the results of their research.
CO-ORDINATION: Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving
PARTNERS: Environmental Education Officers of the Directorates of Primary Education of West Attica, Athens A΄ and C΄, Secondary Education of Eastern Thessaloniki, Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (Germany)
29 OCT
MYSTERY 62
Nuits de Lenteur – À Propos du Temps
(interdisciplinary art project)
AGIOS NIKOLAOS CHAPEL
Nuits de Lenteur – À Propos du Temps, an action launched in 2018 and evolving from 2021 through until today, now focuses on the concept of the time of abandonment, which according to the curator of the project is that in-between interval when the body, along with consciousness, moves from one state of certainty to another.
ORIGINAL CONCEPT: French Institute of Greece
CURATION FOR 2023: Ilias Kounelas
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ONGOING
Until 15 OCT
ΜYSTERY 3
Elefsina Mon Amour
In Search of the Third Paradise
(visual arts)
ELESINA OLD OIL MILL FACTORY, X-BOWLING ART CENTER
FLAGSHIP EVENT
Mystery 3 Elefsina Mon Amour proposes a socio-political reading of landscape, space, and place. Featuring 16 international visual artists from nine countries, it aims to reveal beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most seemingly serene view, thus conjoining politics, poetics and aesthetics.
CURATOR: Katerina Gregos
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Katerina Apostolidou, Marianna Christofides, Anastasia Douka, Mahdi Fleifel, Marina Gioti, Igor Grubic, Aglaia Konrad, Natalia Manta, Adrian Paci, Şerban Savu, Sphinxes (Manos Flessas & Ioanna Tsakalou), Maria Tsagari, Dimitris Tsoumplekas, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Vangelis Vlachos
With the support of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST)
Strategic partner: Aeschylia Festival
MYSTERY 68
STALKER
(interdisciplinary art project)
PUBLIC SPACE
Citizens take over the role of narrator/guide/Stalker and invite us to interactive, cultural experiences in the public landscape. A project to co-create walking routes and city games in collaboration with the local community.
COLLABORATOS: πeripatos sociocultural enterprise, Artopolis Cultural Association, Caterina Moroni
14, 15, 21, 22 OCT
MYSTERY 37
Voices of Elefsina
(interdisciplinary art project)
OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
A transmedia community project aiming at the creation of a radio station by the city’s residents. During the open days, the public can visit the station’s studio and attend radio-related lectures, screenings, discussions and events.
PARTNER: Zoetrope Athens
TEAM MEMBERS: Karl Heinz Jeron, Dimitris Kourtis, Emilia Milou, Alexandra Saliba, Tasos Stamos, Yorgos Yatromanolakis, Panagiotis Velissaris
ALL YEAR ROUND
MYSTERY 66
Voices in the City
OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
The youth group Cultterra (formerly Youth Labs) presents its very own project Thirstdays. Its structure progresses from the most informal activities to events that are most formal and open to the public.
CONCEPT – DESIGN: 2023 Eleusis
TEAM: Cultterra
OCT
MYSTERY 65
Reframe Eleusis
(education / training)
Reframe Eleusis is a collective social activity featuring art, education and research. It invites young people from Elefsina and other areas of the Region of Attica to participate in a programme focusing on photography and visual culture, in order to create original photographic works inspired by the Elefsinian landscape.
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR: Manolis Moresopoulos
INSTRUCTORS: Myrto Papadopoulou (workshop director), Io Paschou, Ilias Lois
WORKSHOP CO-ORDINATOR: Marilia Fotopoulou
SCHOOL CONTACT PERSON: Penelope Thomaidi
PARTNER – PRODUCTION: Hellenic Centre of Photography
WORKS IN PUBLIC SPACE
MYSTERY 89
Elefsina by Night
(interdisciplinary art project)
PUBLIC SPACE
IRIS Factory (Anastasiou Milissi & Mouriki Str.)
Marie Curie Square (Marias Kiouri & Iroon Polytechniou Str.)
Eleourgiki Industrial Complex (56-64 Kanellopoulou Str.)
Iroon Square (Georgiou Pavlou Str. and Nikolaidou Str.)
Entrance of the Elefsina Old Oil Mill Factory (1 Kanellopoulou Str.)
Five lighting installations in various parts of the city, which make up a luminous route. The five bright rings correspond to the six colours of Iris, which proudly accompanied the Kore [Daughter] for as many months on her earthly journey.
CONCEPT: Eleftheria Deko
LIGHTING DESIGN: Eleftheria Deko & Associates
MYSTERY 48
Constellations
Photosynaxes
(interdisciplinary art project)
PUBLIC SPACE, IRIS FACTORY
PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
Five years after the creation of the installation Photosynaxis in Ano Elefsina, pre-existing and new lighting elements will appear in a novel composition forming an illuminated mural in the area of the IRIS factory, as part of a process contributing to its creative reuse.
ARTISTS: Creative Lighting Group Beforelight
ALL YEAR ROUND
MYSTERY 144
Leave What You Loved Once
(visual arts)
ELEFSINA OLD TOWN HALL
PARTICIPATORY PROJECT
Asking people to abandon things they once loved. An interactive installation for which the public is invited to offer up objects that will become artworks, seemingly hovering before an Elefsinian backdrop.
ARTIST: Elena Demetria Chantzis
PRODUCTION: Wild Reeds (Panos Giannikopoulos)
SEPT-DEC
MYSTERY 200
Mythological Gardens
(interdisciplinary art project)
IRIS FACTORY
An empty, deserted and abandoned space was transformed into a fertile garden. In this space, through activations/performances, a revival of the narrative of ancient Eleusis and ancient Greece will be attempted, as well as their interconnection with the recent and modern history of the city.
BOTANICAL RESEARCH: Peter Pretcher, Tillman Pretcher
ART DIRECTION: Brian Michaels
CURATORS: Brian Michaels, Sozita Goudouna
FINAL GARDEN APPLICATION: Land Office
PRODUCTION: Greece in USA, Discover Greek Culture, Kate Peila
MYSTERY 146
Transitions to Light
(visual arts)
PUBLIC SPACE
The Transitions to Light art installation comprises scrolling LED signs placed at select points across the city of Elefsina. These illuminated signboards are programmed with short “texts of transition” that conceptually contrast the advertising copy they normally screen.
ARTIST: Nikos Makarounas
LINE PRODUCTION: Myrtia Nikolakopoulou
PERMANENTLY IN PUBLIC SPACE
MYSTERY 118
Through Rupture Comes the Flow
(visual arts)
OSE – ELEFSINA OLD RAILWAY STATION
Through Rupture Comes the Flow is an installation of diverse yet complementary materials that allegorically point to Elefsina’s different historical periods from antiquity to the present day, and the diverse origins of its populations.
ARTIST: Hara Piperidou
SPECIALIST ADVISOR: Matthias Neumann
SOUND ARTIST: Lambros Pigounis
SMART STRUCTURES: Dimitrios Mairopoulos
MYSTERY 95
Epiphany
(visual arts)
COASTAL FRONT, PUBLIC SPACE
The Epiphany in-situ installation is set on an Elefsina seafront pier – a place associated with arrival, waiting, and departure. An epiphany is an emergence (a coming into view, or a visible surface), as when the materiality of an object is revealed or, metaphorically speaking and in accordance with some doctrines, when there is some manifestation of the divine.
ARTIST: Kostas Bassanos
LINE PRODUCTION: Potential Project
MYSTERY 4
Light Sgraffito
(architecture / design)
AGIA MARKELLA SQUARE
The original lighting installation Light Sgraffito is the result of participatory design in workshops with residents of Elefsina, drawing inspiration from the anthropological and folk traditions of the island of Chios, particularly from the medieval technique known as “Xysta.”
ARTISTS: Creative Lighting Group Beforelight
ARCHITECT & IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER: Anastasia Tsopelaki
METAL CONSTRUCTION: Christos Mavrakis (windoors)
What a Lovely Spot
(visual arts)
PIER
What if healing were another means of assertion? What if a collective voice could be heard as a singular one? Taking a romantic meeting place at the Elefsina pier as a starting point, Timothy Laskaratos and the Cultterra group co-author and interpret a possible love story through this epigraphic work.
ARTIST: Timothy Laskaratos
