[KÁMARES] ELEUSIS // 2023

// A Living Archive of Personal Mythologies

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.

// Characters Return, Relics Reactivate, Audiences Orbit

// installation / portraits / videos / music & sounds / performance

In [KÁMARES] ELEUSIS the project expanded into a living archive. Characters, gestures, costumes, and scenic elements from Euripides’ previous works returned—not as documentation, but as active presences. Occupying the two-storey 1930s building of the Leonidas Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre in Elefsina and its surrounding spaces, the project unfolded as a field of accumulation and return.

Audiences circulated through rooms, courtyards, and improvised stages, encountering fragments from Euripides’ artistic universe that reappeared, transformed, and overlapped. Rather than forming a single narrative, the work operated as a constellation of situations, where relics were reactivated and the artist’s personal mythologies continued to grow.

// where & when

GREECE // ELEUSIS // 2023 ELEUSIS European Capital of Culture // 20, 21 & 22 January 2023

// reviews

“Laskaridis creates a universe, the reality of which deviates from any linear perception, triggering the senses, the imagination, and the humor of both the artist and performers, as well as the public who “travel” through it.”

- EDITING TEAM // Athinorama

“In Kámares it is as if Laskaridis became a museum himself. His whole work, the characters, the inner vibrations that can’t be directly deciphered, the narrative constructed a building that contained him and bore his name. For those of us who love and follow his work and the thread of its development and evolution, [KÁMARES] verged on the heartwarming.”

-KATERINA I. ANESTI // iEfimerida

“[The characters] parade among us, dance, play the bouzouki, sob, and recite the same incoherent, heartbreaking monologues over and over again. At first you laugh then, as always in his performances, the laughter...  turns sour. You realize that everything you see is disturbingly familiar. They seem to urge [the spectators] to activate their senses, leave logic  behind..”

- XENIA GEORGIADOU // Kathimerini

“Euripides Laskaridis’ creatures move beyond, within and alongside human nature. Yet at the same time, they are outrageous, grotesque, strange, sad and funny just like humans […] in a non-theatrical space, Laskaridis recapitulates his staged work of the last eight years. Years of dizzying creation, domestic and international recognition.”

- STELLA CHARAMI // monopoli.gr

“Euripides Laskaridis’ journey through incompatible with each other elements, combined with materials of incredible ingenuity, creates magic from the ordinary, an uncanny universe in which memories, objects, the space, language, existence, transformation, ridicule, irony and illusion, are being implemented.”

- ARGYRO MPOZONI // Lifo

// project info

[KÁMARES] ELEUSIS // 2023
// site specific – installation – performance
// 150 minutes

Conceived, curated, directed & performed by // Euripides Laskaridis

in collaboration with // [inside the house] Konstantinos Chaldaios (visual artist – set designer), Christos Delidimos (visual artist – costume - set designer), Chrysanthi Fytiza (performer), Nafsika Keke (visual artist), Pavlos Lykoudis (dancer), Dimitris Matsoukas (performer), Spyros Ntogas (performer), Ilias Skourlas (visual artist), Yorgos Stenos (musician – sound designer), Alex Vangelis (dancer), [courtyard area] Eirini Boudali (actress) and the musical ensemble: Celia Tsioufi / Colorgraphs, Thanos λόst / Lost Bodies, Kristof & Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Yorgos Stenos & Yorgos Stavridis

The costumes appearing from the plays RELIC (2015), TITANS (2017), ELENIT (2019), and TOURNÉ, were either tests or completed works by artist/costume designer Angelos Mentis.

associate architect // Loukas Bakas
assistant to the director // Ioanna Papakosta
artistic collaborators // Elena Kalaitzi & Manos Kotsaris
line producer of photographic portraits // Dimos Klimenof
portrait photographer // Elina Giounanli
technical director // Konstantinos Margas
sound engineer for the outdoors stage // Giorgos Chanos
production manager // Nikos Mavrakis – TooFarEast
production assistant // Aristidis Kreatsoulas

commissioned by // 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture 
co-produced by // 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture [GR] & the OSMOSIS performing arts company [GR]
funded by // The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports

special thanks to // Eliza Alexandropoulou, Kelly Diapouli, Nikos Dragonas, Fani Harvalia, Vicky Kaminari, Lia Laskaridou, Rena Laskaridou, Tasis Laskaridis, Angelos Mentis, Alexandros Mistriotis, Maria Moschouri, Efthimis Moschopoulos, Dimitris Papaioannou, Tina Papanikolaou, Giorgos Poulios, Giorgos Skianis, Melina Terzaki, Nikos Triantafyllou - Sonic Playground Studio, Jeph Vanger, Olga Vlassi and Natasa Zagkli.

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