Posts Tagged ‘thanos polymeneas-liontiris’
Quicklime
Quicklime is a 4 hours-long durational performance / human installation. It was presented on December 2nd and 3rd, 2016 at De Nieuwe Regentes in Den Haag, within the Modern Body Festival.
Quicklime is an invitation to dive into the remnants of an ecosystem, a rarefied landscape of inertia, inhabited by standing swimmers, suspended in a space-time continuum.
This durational performance/ human installation is based on a cybernetic system that follows its own set of rules to evolve gradually —almost unperceivably to the alien eyes —, into the soundscape of a posthuman vivarium. The I in Quicklime is collective, as the ecology of the landscape is fueled by the synergy of the elements that define it: the performers, the audience and the media.
Throughout the duration of Quicklime the audience is welcome to come and go as they wish.
Concept/Music/Direction: Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
Assistant director: M. Eugenia Demeglio
Texts: H. Muller, Aeschelus, Heracletus, W. Shakespeare, T.S. Elliot , G. Seferis, F. Hölderlin
Adaptation: Nikos Ioakeim, Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
Devised with and performed by: Nikos Ioakeim, Katerina Kostantourou, Nikos Adwnopoulos, Friso van Wijck, Gonçalo Almeida, Theresa Elflein, Arthur Leadbetter.
Special thanks for the support to: [OUT]OPIAS, Modern Body Festival, Esther-Mary D’Arcy, Lou Perrotta, Jordi Ballarin, Athar Jaber, Luisa Barbero, Olivia Gray, Massimo Demeglio, Silvana Rufino, Roberto Alfieri, Fotini Arapi, Giovanni Mori, Verbena Giambastiani, Eniluap Rentsök, Rachele Rapisardi, Vasso Polymeni, Alberto Novello, Roubini Papadaki, Tanbir Johal, Mihailos Liontiris.
This performance is one of the experiments of a larger scale practice-based research on interactive music theatre.
Ασβεστης
Ασβέστης is a durational performance / human installation. It was presented on November 18th, 2016, in the Benaki Museum, as part of the [OUT] TOPIAS exhibition.
Ασβέστης is an invitation to dive into the remnants of an ecosystem, a rarefied landscape of inertia, inhabited by standing swimmers, suspended in a space-time continuum.
This durational performance/ human installation is based on a cybernetic system that follows its own set of rules to evolve gradually —almost unperceivably to the alien eyes —, into the soundscape of a posthuman vivarium. The I in Ασβέστης is collective, as the ecology of the landscape is fueled by the synergy of the elements that define it: the performers, the audience and the media.
The duration was 8 hours, during which the audience was welcome to come and go as they wish.
Concept/Music/Direction: Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
Assistant director: M. Eugenia Demeglio
Texts: H. Muller, Aeschelus, Heracletus, W. Shakespeare, T.S. Elliot , G. Seferis, F. Hölderlin
Adaptation: Nikos Ioakeim, Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
Devised with and performed by: M. Eugenia Demeglio, Nikos Ioakeim, Nikos Antonopoulos, Alexis Kotsopoulos, Iakovos Pavlopoulos, Rezarta Krugia
Special thanks for the support to: [OUT]OPIAS, Modern Body Festival, Esther-Mary D’Arcy, Lou Perrotta, Jordi Ballarin, Athar Jaber, Luisa Barbero, Olivia Gray, Massimo Demeglio, Silvana Rufino, Roberto Alfieri, Fotini Arapi, Giovanni Mori, Verbena Giambastiani, Eniluap Rentsök, Rachele Rapisardi, Vasso Polymeni, Alberto Novello, Roubini Papadaki, Tanbir Johal, Mihailos Liontiris.
This performance is one of the experiments of a larger scale practice-based research on interactive music theatre.
Photo courtesy: Christina Bratuska /// Seventh Swan Photography
2/3 Dec 16: Quicklime @ Modern Body Festival
18 Nov 16: Ασβέστης @ [OUT] TOPIAS – Benaki Museum
the landscape may be a dead star
the landscape may be a dead star is a durational performance based on Heiner Müller’s MedeaMaterial, Despoiled Shore and Landscape with Argonauts. The audience is invited to explore a deconstructed space where three individuals play, read, act, sing and more.
It is an alive performance organism. It evolves as the performers receive tasks from a computational system that reacts to the audience’s presence and movement in the space.
This performance is one of the experiments of a larger scale practice-based research on interactive music theatre. It is devised with the collaboration of Theresa Elflein, Nikos Antonopoulos, Arthur Leadbetter and M. Eugenia Demeglio.
Presented on May 13th 2016, at the Creativity Zone – University of Sussex.
15/17 Jul 16: transitions @ Kalamata International Dance Festival
transitions
“transitions is a series of performance interventions occurring on the local bus-line no. 1 (route: Kalamata-Paralia).
Performers mingle with passengers in a very specific part of the public space, the bus, transforming an everyday-life setting into pleasantly unfamiliar situations. Passengers are invited to experience these surprising shifts of reality, a kaleidoscope of oneiric fugues from the daily routine.
During transitions anything could happen, a “normal” bus ride from and to the beach could become a jazz concert or a dance performance.”
transitions will happen on 15th, 16th and 17th July 2016, on buses of local line n.1, in both directions. transitions take place with the kind support and participation of the Municipal Conservatoire of Kalamata for the 22th Kalamata International Dance Festival.
For more information please check the festival’s website: kalamatadancefestival.gr
Curated by: M. Eugenia Demeglio, Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris
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transitions
“ Η παράλληλη εκδήλωση transitions είναι μια σειρά από παρεμβάσεις-performances που θα διαδραματιστούν μέσα στα λεωφορεία της τοπικής γραμμής 1 (Καλαμάτα – Παραλία).
Οι performers διάσπαρτοι ανάμεσα στους επιβάτες τoυ αστικού λεωφορείου, θα μεταμορφώσουν ένα καθημερινό σκηνικό σε μια σειρά από ευχάριστα πρωτόγνωρες εμπειρίες. Οι επιβάτες καλούνται να βιώσουν αυτές τις εμπειρίες σαν αναπάντεχες εκπλήξεις μεταξύ πραγματικoύ και φαντασιακού, ένα καλειδοσκόπιο ονειρικών φυγών από την καθημερινή ρουτίνα.
Κατά τη διάρκεια των transitions, μια “συνηθισμένη” διαδρομή με το λεωφορείο από και στην παραλία μπορεί να μεταβληθεί σε συναυλία jazz η σε μια παράσταση χορού”
Η παρέμβαση transitions θα συμβεί στις 15, 16 και 17 Ιουλίου 2016, στα λεωφορεία της γραμμής 1 (Καλαμάτα – Παραλία), και στις δύο κατευθύνεις. Η Παράλληλη εκδήλωση transitios γίνεται με την ευγενική υποστήριξη και συμμέτοχη του Δημοτικού Ωδείου Καλαμάτας στα πλαίσια του 22ου Διεθνούς Φεστιβάλ Χορού Καλαμάτας.
Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να επισκεφτείτε τη σελίδα του φεστιβάλ: kalamatadancefestival.gr
Επιμέλεια: M. Eugenia Demeglio, Θάνος Πολυμενέας-Λιοντήρης
29 Jun – 3 Jul 16: ICLI @ University of Sussex
25 May 16: Fermata at OSC in Brighton
25 May 16: Interfacing Sound @ The Verdict
13 May 16: the landscape may be a dead star @University of Sussex
the landscape may be a dead star is a durational performance based on Heiner Muller’s Medea Material, Despoiled Shore and Landscape with Argonauts. The audience is invited to explore a deconstructed space where three individuals play, read, act, sing and more.
the landscape may be a dead star is an alive performance organism. It evolves as the performers receive tasks from a computational system that reacts to the audience’s presence and movement in the space.
This performance is one of the experiments of a larger scale practice-based research on interactive music theatre. It is devised by Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris (currently Phd candidate at University of Sussex), with the collaboration of Theresa Elflein, Nikos Antonopoulos, Arthur Leadbetter and M. Eugenia Demeglio.
Due to the nature of the landscape may be a dead star the audience will be asked to access the space maximum 5 people at the time. Please be prepared to wait a little. Note that audience can come and go as they please.
Where? Creativity Zone – Pevensey III Building – University of Sussex
When? Friday 13th May, 14:30 till 18:30.
13 May 16: Designing Interfaces for Creativity @ Digital Humanities Lab
Im•Medea
Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris Interview from Blast Theory on Vimeo.
Im•Medea #2: Landscape with Argonauts @Blast Theory
Im•Medea #1: Despoiled Shore @Blast Theory
25 Nov 15: Performance @ Blast Theory
19 Nov 15: Lunchtime Concert @ UoS
Lunchtime Recital – Thursday, 19th November 2015 – 1:20pm
Meeting House, Falmer Campus
University of Sussex
with M. Eugenia Demeglio, Nikos Ioakeim
Intermission 6 – M. Feldman
Meeting Point – K. Stockhausen
It – K. Stockhausen
2 Nov 15: Residency @ Blast Theory
2 Jul 15: Always Already: Impact and the Everyday
2 Jun 15: Cultures of Sound and the War Without End
6 April 15: Research in progress Sharing
16 Oct 14: Space Before Place
Sound for the installation of Agustín Serisuelo.
Exhibition Opening: 16th October 2014 h20:00 @ La Gallera, Aluders 7, Valencia, ES.
M | 2014/2015
M is a soundwalk commissioned by the 3rd International Youth Festival of Ancient Drama, taking place in the archeological site of Ancient Messene, GR.
M is devised to be an alternative educational experience for young people aged 11 to 18. Each individual is immersed in a bespoke sonic experience inspired by the history of Messene. Through an intricate sonic journey across time and space, participants are invited to imagine the life of the city throughout the years, and reflect on themes that are still relevant nowadays.
2 Jan 14: Tropical Fantasia
Live electronic set
with
Federico Reuben
Jose Duarte and Fernando Arce (Godzillasaurus)
2nd January 2014 @ Mora Books, San Jose, CR
UPDATE: listen to the set
DoeDanTapToe | 2013
Audio Text triggered from Acoustic drums.
Text by Jerome Fletcher
Programming by Thanos Polymeneas Liontiris
Performed by Adam Loveday Edwards
28 Aug 13: FASCINATE
FASCINATE2013 – 1st annual conference on Computing, Art, Architecture, Design and Performance. Falmouth University (UK), August 2013.
For FASCINATE 2013 I was in charge of the programming and delivery of the showcase.
23 Jun 13: SoN – live impro
SoN – Free Improvisation @ LivedArt Festival
with
Federico Reuben, Andrea Rushton, Chris Jones and Keith Michael
23rd June 2013 @ The Performance Centre, Penryn, UK
TIMESCAPE | 2013
Timescape is a study that explores the relationship between reality and temporality. Inspired by the philosophical concept of the Real, I was interested in discovering aural allegories that could suggest the concept through a fixed-media composition.
14 Jun 13: A Brief Introduction to Pandemonium
A Brief Introduction to Pandemonium @ Gaslighting
with
M. Eugenia Demeglio
14th June 2013 @ Gaslighting, Former Arts & Graphics Shop, Redruth, UK
17 May 13: Apolesthenta Antikeimena
Live Electronics @ School of Noises
with
Antti S. Saario and Federico Reuben
17th May 2013 @ Jacob’s Ladder, Falmouth, UK
What Then If About | 2012
What Then If About is a performance devised by Giacomo Della Marina, it is a statement on the idea of constant anti-stillness.
Presented at Lucky Trimmer Festival #18, September 2012.
A Brief Introduction to Pandemonium | 2012
A Brief Introduction to Pandemonium is a set of electroacustic music and b/w visuals, in collaboration with M. Eugenia Demeglio.
16 Feb 12: A Brief Introduction to Pandemonium
A Brief Introduction to Pandemonium @School of Noises
with
M. Eugenia Demeglio
16th February 2012 @ Jacob’s Ladder, Falmouth, UK
Membranas | 2009
Membranas is a video for an installation devised in collaboration with sculptor Alex Frances. The project is the output of a research on the notion of pre-natal cognition.
It was presented within the installation Los meteoros I.
Gallery Chirivella Soriano, Valencia, Spain.
How Much is Enough? | 2009
DarkRoom | 2009
DarkRoom – Series of interactive audiovisual installations. Valencia, Spain.
DarkRoom is a series of interactive audiovisual installations tackling the subject of human fascination towards the extraordinary. DarkRoom I explores the extraordinary as the violent and painful, by observing the phenomena of voyeurism and its manifestation in the Internet era. The material featured in DarkRoom I is a computer-processed collection of audiovisuals sourced from the Internet. Such material, triggered by the observer, is projected onto the powerfully evocative texture of skin-colored latex.
Still Life | 2008
Still Life is a collaborative computer-aided composition by SelectInput, a music trio featuring Stelios Manousakis, Pandelis Diamantides and Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris.
Still Life was commissioned by Sound Museum for the launch of their online gallery. The composition intends to create an immersive post-digital sonic world by deconstructing the sound qualities of acoustic instruments. The real-time digital processing that allows such deconstruction takes place through a complex network of computer algorithms.
DarkLoupe | 2008
DarkLoupe is a computer-interactive composition for double bass, live electronics and video, in collaboration with Karel Doing and Gonçalo Almeida.
The dialogue between the media involved and the relationship they establish echoes the expressionists experiments of early 1900 live-music cinema.
Mnemosyne | 2008
Music composition commissioned by DansAteliers for the dance performance Memory happens Now by Liat Waysbort. Devised in collaboration with Alberto Novello.
INtrusioni | 2008
INtrusioni is a multimedia intervention, devised in collaboration with M. Eugenia Demeglio and Alberto Novello. It features live electronics, live video processing and movement. It was commissioned by the NAI (Dutch Institute of Architecture).
INtrusioni attempts to draw a parallel between virus diffusion into systems and the relationship humans have with their habitats.
Rotten Hats | 2008
Rotten Hats, or rather the end of a story that never started is an algorithmic composition commissioned and performed by ASKO Ensemble. Muziekgebouw aan t’Ij, Amsterdam.
PlusMinus Remixed | 2008
Nameless Dream | 2007
Nameless Dream is a string quartet composed for the performance Sideroxylon – A one way ticket beyond Wien.
Nameless Dream was played live during the dance performance choreographed by M. Eugenia Demeglio, alongside compositions by Nikos Ioakim and Friso van Wijck.
Music performed by: Miren Ceberio (1st violin), Pedro Porras/ Iván García Artaraz (2nd violin), Satoko Matsukuma (viola), Catarina Ferreira (cello)
Momentum | 2007
Momentum is an installation featuring a Disklavier and a computer algorithm that produces a series of mathematical functions to control the instrument.
The algorithm controls the entirety of the musical events as well as the global structure of the composition. The result is a perpetual music performance emerging from an unmanned instrument.
MPK | 2006
MPK – Memorium to Peter Kowald is an interactive composition for double bass and electronics, performed with Gonçalo Almeida.
MPK was presented in several venues, among others
SPARK – Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Theater L/V, Rotterdam, NL
University of Eindhoven, NL
Muziekgebouw aan het Ij, Amsterdam, NL
PART ONE
PART TWO
VS | 2006
VS is a video-dance realised as a collaboration with choreographer M. Eugenia Demeglio.
Editing and sound are based on algorithmical calculation over the vescica piscis, to experiment the possibilities beyond aesthetic choices.
Lost in Paradise Rockland | 2006
Lost in Paradise Rockland is a performance for piano and electronics.
Inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, it is performed by Nikos Ioakeim.
Video recording of the performance in Theater Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam, NL.
Spin | 2006
Fixed media composition for the homonymous dance performance by Liat Waysbort.
Scratch | 2005
Fixed media composition for the homonymous dance performance by Liat Waysbort.
Als Regent het Varkens | 2005
Als Regent het Varkens is a music composition commissioned by NPS Radio 4 for a radio-play.
The play was situated in an installation in Vredenburg Utrecht and it was broadcasted from the radio during the Nederlands Muziek Dagen Festival.
tin’autopouitane | 2005
tin’autopouitane is a study on noise.
The title is inspired by a personal story: during the why? stage of childhood, my younger brother asked the striking question “what is it that was?” (ti einai auto pou htane?). When confronted with composing my first study on noise, I chose to dedicate it to him, and generally to children wisdom.
Et si la peau avant les yeux, avant la langue | 2003
Music for the dance performance Et si la peau avant les yeux, avant la langue by Yasmine Hugonnet.
Devised in collaboration with Mikael Lindqvist, Meri Nikula et al.