HABEMUS PAPAM, WALTER

A site-specific performance by Nova Melancholia.

Wirlwind. Walter Benjamin is thinking aloud. Everything is a matter of montage. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope. History's automaton spits phrases.

How can political and religious issues of History awaken the present?

Through the hybrid text-collage Habemus Papam, Walter nine performers attempt to speak about lost paradise.

 

details

Text-direction : Manolis Tsipos
Sets-costumes : Dora Economou, Kostas Sachpazis, Gianna Legaki
Lighting : Thodoris Mihopoulos
Performers : Vicky Kyriakoulakou, Mary Lousi, Maria Magganari, Charis Pazaroulas, Nikos Sambalis, Ioanna Toumbakari, Giorgos Frintzilas, Michalis Fotopoulos, Despoina Chatzipavlidou
 
Manolis Tsipos' text Habemus Papam, Walter is published by NEFELI publication.
 
 
 ATHENS FESTIVAL 2009 : PEIRAIOS 260
[3-4 june 2009]
 
 
 
 

press

1.5.2009 - ATHENS FESTIVAL 
"Nova Melancholia" [gr]
by Savas Patsalidis
 
3.5.2009 - KATHIMERINI 
by Giota Argyropoulou
 
25.6.2009 - LIFO 
Manolis Tsipos is interviewed by Matina Kaltaki  
 
2.7.2009 - METRO 
"Habemus Papam, Walter at Peiraios 260. Interview with Nova Melancholia" 
by Despoina Ramandani 
 
3.7.2009 - LIFO 
 
3.7.2009 - ELEFTHEROTYPIA 
by Elena Galanopoulou
 
18.7.2009 - ELEFTHEROTYPIA 
by Electra Alexandropoulou with an interview with Vassilis Noulas 

 

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