[KÁMARES] LEMNOS // 2025

// Metamorphosis as a Toy

Κάμαρα [Kámara]

noun. A room, usually private, in a house or apartment, usually a bedroom
anc. Greek καμάρα < Italian camera < Spanish Cámara < French chambre < mod. Greek κάμαρα
// Κάμαρες (plural) [Kámares]

[KÁMARES] is a multidisciplinary, site-specific project that reimagines space as a vessel. Blending performance, installation, and visual composition, it turns architecture into dramaturgy, inviting spectators to navigate intimate or unexpected rooms where reality bends and transformation takes place. Designed to travel and adapt, it inhabits spaces not conventionally conceived as theatrical—private houses, residential buildings, industrial or institutional sites—reshaping itself according to their architecture, history, and use.

Within [KÁMARES], Euripides moves beyond the role of director or performer to assume that of an overall curator. Space becomes the primary dramaturgical force, while spectators navigate freely through different rooms (kámares), encountering a constellation of events situated at the intersection of dance, theatre, performance, and the visual arts.

// When the Toy Plays Back: A Quiet Riot of Selves

// installation / portraits / videos / relics /

In [KÁMARES] LEMNOS, the project landed on Euripides’ island of origin, unfolding across two buildings of the Permanent Exhibition on the History of Children’s Toys and Books in Myrina. In dialogue with the museum’s collection, the space became a poetic playground where objects, images, and memories were set into motion.

Audiences moved through vitrines, rooms, and adjoining spaces, encountering the SELF-PORTRAITS series alongside the museum’s toy artifacts. Handmade faces, masks, wigs, and minimal transformations entered into quiet conversation with the exhibited objects—each echoing the logic of play, invention, and metamorphosis. Portraits, videos, costumes, and scenic relics from across a decade of Euripides’ artistic practice appeared dispersed throughout the space. Props, objects, and figures from his stage works resurfaced in altered states—reframed as exhibits, traces, or dormant bodies.

Rather than forming a linear narrative, the work unfolded as a slow, physical treasure hunt: a toy theatre of metamorphoses where past and present, object and subject, memory and play quietly converged.

// where & when

GREECE // LEMNOS // Kournos Music Festival 2025 – Permanent Exhibition on the History of Children’s toys and books // 3-22 August 2025

// playlist

METAMORPHOSIS AS A TOY // a playlist to remember // curated for KOSMOS 93.6 by Leonidas Antonopoulos

// project info

[KÁMARES] LEMNOS // 2025
// installation / portraits / videos / relics 

conceived and created by // Euripides Laskaridis
exhibition curator // Stamatis Schizakis
creative production collaborator // Thomas Sfounis
visual communication //  Michalis Paraskakis

// costume figure/ exhibit [2025]
costume/ exhibit sewing & construction // Melina Terzaki
costume/ exhibit creative partner // Christos Delidimos
Euripides’ head-cast // Nektarios Dionysatos
creative collaborator // Timothy Laskaratos
lighting installation support // George Ierapetritis

// self-portraits [2014 – 2021]
collaborating photographers // Ioanna Plessa [2014] & Elina Giounanli [2021]
creative production assistants // Melina Terzaki [2014] & Dimos Klimenof [2021]

// artist portrait - video [2015]
conceived, created and performed by // Euripides Laskaridis
creative collaborator //  Ioanna Plessa
commissioned by // European Dancehouse Network & Duncan Dance Research Centre
produced by // OSMOSIS performing arts company

// venus - development phase video [2014]
rehearsal directorial consultant // Tatiana Bre
costume design // Angelos Mentis
rehearsal dramaturgy consultant // Alexandros Mistriotis
edited by // Euripides Laskaridis

commissioned by // Kournos Music Festival 2025 [GR]
produced by // OSMOSIS performing arts company [GR]

special thanks to // Christos Boulotis, Dimitris Papaioannou, Vicky Marangopoulou, Penelope Iliaskou, Giorgos Poulios, Kyriacos Karseras, Simos Patieridis, Rena Laskaridou, Vicky Strataki, Vicky Kaminari, Konstantinos Chaldaios, Giorgos Hanos, Yannis Savouidakis, Nitsa Dora, Kostas and Pepi Doras, Giorgos Kotsalis, Mersa Varitou, Eliza Alexandropoulou, Thanasis Kalkanis, Sozon Besis, Charis Giannopoulou, Dimitra Sfounou, Christos Zacharopoulos, National Museum of Contemporary Art EMST, the Friends Association of the Toys and Books Museum, and its President Kostas Koutsogiannopoulos.

// see also