ECTOPLASMS

Homemade performance in an apartment at Exarcheia by Nova Melancholia.

The performance is a particular homemade "poetry night" during which all poems from the Miltos Sachtouris collection Ectoplasms (1986) are recited. A farewell at the '80s through poems that call upon dear dead ones, with songs played on keyboards, with cheap b-movies horror scenes...
 
It is an exercise of habituation with horror.
Our helpers are the endeared dead ones.


 

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Performers: Lida Dalla, Eleni Karagiorgi (autumn 2013) / Elina Mandidi (spring 2013), Antigoni Riga, Despoina Chatzipavlidou, Vassilis Noulas
Text: Miltos Sachtouris
Directed by: Vassilis Noulas 
Set Design & Costumes: Dora Economou
Assistant director: Elisabeth Xanthopoulou
Duration: 60 min.
Thanks to Manolis Tsipos, Maria Athinaiou, Tatiana Pitta
Photos: Nikos Katsaros, Vassilis Noulas

The poems "When" and "Poros 1985" have been set to music by Vassilis Noulas

► DERVENION 54, EXARHEIA, ATHENS 
[Mar-Apr-May 2013, premiere: 9 march 2013]
[Oct 2013 - Jan 2014, premiere: 19 october 2013]

► GALERIE UM, PRAGUE
[9-10 Jun 2016] 
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► LOFFT, OFF EUROPA FESTIVAL, LEIPZIG
[16 Sept 2017]

► SOCIETAETSTHEATER, OFF EUROPA FESTIVAL, DRESDEN
[19 Sept 2017]
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press

2013 - EVENT AS PROCESS - ATHENS BIENNALE 2013 AGORA
Melancholy in the Desert. An Aesthetics of Exodus [en]
by Natascha Siouzouli
 
11.2013 - INSTITUTE FOR LIVE ARTS RESEARCH
by Hypatia Vourloumis (text in magazine: issue Melancholy and Politics)
 
7.5.2013 - ELEYTHEROTYPIA
Review by Dimitris Tsatsoulis
 
5.2013 - UNFOLLOW #17
by Theophilos Tramboulis
 
18.5.2013 - ATHINORAMA
by Iliana Dimadi
 
3.6.2013 - EFSYN
Review by Grigoris Ioannidis
 
26.10.2013 - ΒΗmagazino
by Marilena Astrapellou
 
26.10.2013 - ATHINORAMA
Review by Iliana Dimadi
 
29.10.2013 - LIFO
"A home-made performance in an apartment at Exarcheia" [gr]
Conversation with Vassilis Noulas
 
28.11.2013 - POPAGANDA.GR
Interview of Vassilis Noulas to Eva Kekou
 
12.2013 - GKOULTOURA.GR
by Manolis Vamvounis

1.2.2014 - ELEYTHEROTYPIA
by Ioanna Kleftogianni
 
5.2.2014 - DANCETHEATER.GR
Review by Nathalia Koutsougera
 
17.3.2014 - CLICKATLIFE.GR
"Theatre Review: Ectoplasms" [gr]
Review by Ioanna Kleftogianni

1.10.2016 - TA NEA
"How Much 'Performance Art' Can You Take?" [gr]
Curated by Efi Falida 
 
18.9.2017 - LEIPZIGER VOLKSZEITUNG
"Neue Melancholie mit Zombies" [deu]
by Steffen Georgi
 
Spring 2026 - FARMAKO [φρμκ] 

Annual Issue #20: Performance
"And you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? A dialogical monologue on the place of poetry at the heart of Nova Melancholia" [Gr]
Text by Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis

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