HOMEWARD
A MONSTROUS UTOPIA
MICHAEL CACOYIANNIS FOUNDATION
17th February – 12th March 2023
Friday, Saturday, 21:30
Sunday, 20:00
biology new
black and monstrous
and everything and all noise unbearable
for the glory of the new king
the new species
which will tame the earth and subdue the animals and life itself will
conquer
it is there
and accepts
it only accepts
on it all the black pouring of the gods
let it all fall on it
cover it
on it the remains of the world
on it the universal goo and the black pouring on it
all its body
a cosmic comedyto be seen
Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation presents the visual performance Homeward, by Fanis Sakelalriou, in a specially configured space in its underground facilities (Peiraios 206, Tavros), on from February 17 through March 12, 2023.
In a nightmarish landscape of a timeless unconscious, where all life has been reduced to black dust, we witness the punishment ritual of the new species that annihilated everything that ever was. In the Tamer’s strange show, the Beast is pulled towards the Human and their destructive union. Existing in the liminal territory between performance, installation, noise show and visual theater, Homeward explores the human’s moral stance against the world and the Others, as well as our relationship with the uncanny.
Director’s Note
Homeward imagines a monstrous utopia, where traditional human concepts like gender, the self and the Other, good and evil are absent. Through dramaturgical structures of primal rituals – common on a universal and timeless scale – we are invited to to take part in the transition from the human to what follows. Perhaps it is the Beast. Perhaps it is the post-human. Essentially, a nightmarish rite of passage is performed, a monstrous funeral, during which all polarizations and discriminations are buried. The new species is revealed, in which all opposites are assimilated in harmony, without moral disposals, and in complete acceptance. As above, so below. And perhaps in this way, the human might communicate with the great Other – whatever has been called divine – which, as time has already shown, is no other than the next human, a Homo Deus.
Artistic Team
Director – Text – Sound Design: Fanis Sakellariou
Set Design: Olga Ntenta
Costume Design: Constantinos Chaldaios
Movement Design: Maro Petli
Lighting Design: Marietta Pavlaki
Constructions: Lydia Lampropoulou, Constantinos Chaldaios, Nikolas Tsounakas
Mask Construction: Katerina Mitsiali
Dramaturgical Advisor: Daphne Patsourakou
Performers: Thodoris Vrachas, Alexandros Kanavos, Sofia Nikolopoulou
Production Management: Lydia Lampropoulou
Production: Subtronica
Communication: Katerina P. Trihia @ablaze.meursault
Visual Communication (Graphic Design, Photographs & Drone): Dimitris Gelbouras @forbidden.designs
Trailer – Teaser & Photographs: Giannis Papoutsis