“Nowadays is much easier to ignore violence
 that exists all around us.
Just because there is a lot.”
Harold Pinter

“New World Order”, a subversive site specific performance will be presented by Fresh Target Theatre Ensemble in the 2nd Underground Floor of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Cultural Center’s Parking Place throughout April 2010. In parallel, in the same space and during the same period pictorial artworks by important Greek and foreign artists will be exhibited as a structural element of the performance.

In fact, it is a compilation of three one-act-plays by Harold Pinter (“The New World Order”, “One for the Road”, “Press Conference”) translated by Errikos Belies and directed by Paris Erotokritou. All of the three texts can be identified for their criticizing view over the governmental physical as well as mental violence, forced by the ostensible “democratic”, totalitarian regimes.

Due to the performance’s needs, the Parking Space of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation’s Cultural Centre is going to be transformed into a secret state agency, where art serves propaganda and state infringes upon citizen’s freedom of expression. The audience is guided to the venue of this secret agency in order to introduce them to the methods of national values’ preservation as well as the practices of the controversialist’s education.

Spectators will be able to admire national art’s works, as “Prominent Guests”, and following they will be informed, through their run to the agency’s facilities, for the way that consciences are being shaped. Finally, the Minister of Culture himself answers to the journalist’s questions about the suppression and education methods that the regime follows.

This performance follows the steps of a theatrical trend, which gains a lot of supporters in England and the United States of America. A trend, that instead of restricting the spectator to a seat, opposite the actors, includes the audience to the scenery, along the performers, calling him not only to notionally follow the plot of a performance but explore it through their senses.

The exhibition contains works by Greek and artists from abroad with the kind allowance of The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, as well as works by Marikita Manolopoulou.