Eirini Tampasouli

Annabelle Annabelle is a site-specific performance that took place in the giant burnt rooms of the Psiloritis Refrigerators. The performance was inspired by a Zoroastrian funeral rite performed by our friend Nikos Branidis for his cat, Annabelle. Zoroastrians used to leave their deceased loved ones in the highest points of the city, singing hymns that…

No plan(t)sland DISORDERED UTOPIA, ECO-DYSTOPIAIS REPUGNANCE AND LOATHING OF THE PATTERN A NATURAL RESPONSE?Stavroula implements mannerisms of ordered natural repetition not to depict its utopianallure but rather to create a contrasting dystopian ecosystem; an oxymoron.This approach seeks to evoke mixed feelings and a sense of duality within a space,reflecting the complexity of every entity. The…

RECLINING POSITION/ANTIFA NATURE Public space is a battlefield of ideas, bodies, images, meanings and identities. As this framework is increasingly structured in a suffocating way, observation and intervention in cases of fascist references becomes the minimum gesture against the darkness of Nazism. In the abandoned building of Psiloritis, the signs of hatred – swastikas, nationalist…

Epithelia

Artificial Jellyfish Artificial Jellyfish is a series of objects designed to drift in thewater or sit elsewhere on the ground. The chosen design references onone hand a poignant symbol of the beauty and fragility of our oceans andon the other reminds us of plastic contaminants. While drifting inwaters or sitting elsewhere on the ground, the…

Magic Curtain The curtain enhances the desertedness of the space. “Obviously somebody tried to make themselves at home“, the driver sadly thinks while passing by. I found this mythical quote in Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972: „When you look at the curtain, you are overcome with a deep sense of happiness, but…