the A4M experimental performance arts research
group and its especially interesting Project Odysseys, a sitespecific
promenade performance that meets the cinema by
way of another road.
This is an ‘ambulant’ performance that combines different art
forms, such as visual and sonic arts, installations and live music,
but also different theatre techniques like physical theatre,
opera and acrobatics, among others. Project Odysseys selects
the public areas of the city as its field of activity. The city is
transformed into a living organism in which the everyday becomes
non-everyday and the familiar surrenders its place to the
unknown and the mysterious. Dusty walls half-knocked down by
former times, old railway lines that lead to nowhere, stories of
the city that come to life before our eyes, doors that we didn’t
open and human stories that were fermented with the past and
left to fizzle out into oblivion. Inspired by the Homeric epic, the
viewer is invited-as another Odysseus-to perambulate in the
city of Thessaloniki, discover treasures, meet whatever is different
and be guided in corresponding adventures comparable
to those experienced by the Homeric hero. The viewer is called
upon to follow a series of live images and walk in both real and
mental streets in the city, in space and in time.
At the same time, some of the viewers use a camera to record
the performance / journey itself, thus creating their own Odyssey,
their own document, through the choices they themselves
make.
The Odysseys is not a performance-it is a life experience
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