Photo: still from artwork by student Percy Koritsidou (2023)
PROJECT TITLE
Nafplion Blues: Prison Stories
The project focuses on the concept of incarceration, through the case of prisons in the city of Nafplion. In the DPDA course “Performance and space: the Audience, the Artist and Performance as a Meeting Ground”, students created the site-specific performance Listen – Watch – Βe Silent. Performers and audience participated in a pilgrimage procession to the places where prisons once operated (Palamidi, Vouleftikon, Bourtzi, Akronafplia). These same sites were also used in individual projects of site-generic performances inspired by stories from the old prisons. The course “Socially Engaged Performance III: Social Theatre” was held at the Agricultural Prison of Tiryns. Inmates and students participated in theatre workshops and presented the performance The Journeys of the Potato, from Andes to Tiryns: Legends and Truths.
Curator
Athena Stourna (Assistant Professor DPDA, Dr.)
Athena’s research focuses on the study of performance space and design, as well as in the relationship between food and drink with theatre and performance. Athena has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and at the Casa de Velázquez. She has been a participant in the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance (Harvard University). As artistic director of the multinational Okypus Theatre Company, Athena has directed and designed productions mounted in theatrical and non-theatrical spaces (museums, archaeological sites, and public spaces) in Greece, the Czech Republic, Wales and Argentina.
STUDENTS
Ionni Apostolidou, Ioannis Venetis, Konstantina Gkogka, Nefeli Grigoraki, Lena Delavia, Chryssa Kaloudopoulou, George Kondos, Percy Koritsidou, Mary Zaggla, Konstantina Mantzavinou, Anastasia Markella Neamoniti, Anastasia Ladopoulou, Beatriz Rodríguez Morgado, Christos Stathopoulos, Anastasia Statsenko, Virginia-Melia Stogiannidou, Spyros Stoupas, Sophia Stylianou, Sophia Hadziioannou, Danae Efrosyni Christoudi
Collaborating Faculty Members
Pablo Berzal Cruz, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Theatre Studies/Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Pablo Berzal Cruz is an architect, and holder of a PhD (Universidad Politénica de Madrid, UPM). He has collaborated in immersive theatre projects and performances, designed and curated numerous exhibitions and participated as an artist in solo and group exhibitions. He teaches in the Master’s Degree in Ephemeral Architecture (UPM). He is currently developing postdoctoral research on the performativity of ritual space, within the Margaritas Salas programme (UPM) and teaches in the Department of Architectural Projects of the same university.
George Kondis, Lab Teaching Personnel DPDA
Georgios Kondis studied Sociology and Social Anthropology and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Catholic University of Louvain). His research on “The World of Work: Aspects, Times, Places” won an award from the General Secretariat for Media and Communication. He has published twelve studies, more than thirty research reports and scientific papers in conferences. He has worked at the University of the Aegean (Department of Social Anthropology), the Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata (Department of Local Government) and the University of the Peloponnese (Department of Theatre Studies), where he currently serves as Lab Teaching Personnel (Department of Performing and Digital Arts).
Ioanna Lioutsia, Supplementary Teaching (DTS)
Ioanna Lioutsia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Theatre Studies (DTS) of the University of the Peloponnese. Her thesis is titled Performance Art in the Balkans and its Aesthetic and Political Dimensions (1970-2000). She holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Directing (Theatre Department, AUTh, 2018), a BA in Acting (Contemporary Theatre Drama School, 2017) and a BA in History & Archaeology specialising in the History of Art (AUTh, 2014). She works as performance artist, actress, director, and in Drama in Education. She was awarded the 3rd Prize in Performance Art Category in the Florence Biennale 2021 for her performance Every Day is Woman’s Day.
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