[KÁMARES] KAUNAS // 2022

// The House of Ridicule and Transformation

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.

// Where Space Becomes the Performer

// installation / portraits / videos / performance /

In [KÁMARES] KAUNAS, the project unfolded inside Kauno Menininkų Namai (Kaunas Artists' House), treating the building itself as a live score. Rooms were occupied, rearranged, and activated as autonomous situations, each hosting fragments of action, image, or encounter. Rather than guiding the audience through a linear narrative, the architecture dictated movement, rhythm, and proximity. Walls, corridors, and thresholds framed bodies and gestures, dissolving the boundary between performer, visual-art exhibition, film projection and environment.

KAUNAS marks the first full articulation of [KÁMARES] as an inhabitable structure, where space assumes agency and performs.

// where & when

LITHUANIA // KAUNAS // ConTempo Festival – Kaunas Artists' House // 11-12 August 2022

// project info

[KÁMARES] KAUNAS // 2022
// site specific

conceived, curated, directed & performed // Euripides Laskaridis

with // Manos Kotsaris, Euripides Laskaridis & Dimitris Matsoukas
concept-curation // Euripides Laskaridis
performers // Manos Kotsaris, Euripides Laskaridis & Dimitris Matsoukas
costume designs // Angelos Mentis
music // Giorgos Poulios
artistic collaborator // Loukas Bakas
assistant to the director // Dimos Klimenof
special constructions // Konstantinos Chaldaios
technical director // Konstantinos Margas
photographer // Elina Giounanli
production-tour manager // Nikos Mavrakis - TooFarEast

commissioned by // 2022 Kaunas European Capital of Culture 
co-produced by // 2022 Kaunas European Capital of Culture [LT] & the OSMOSIS performing arts company [GR] 
funded by // The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

// see also