archive [2009 – 2010]

project h. [1/3]

first screened @ virion festival, australia, july + august 2010

the project h. is a web based work. using the online database and mixed media project h. explores the person behind the screen. project h. [1/3] using the video format creates a web poem or a web opera based on bizarre posts from a blog.

conception + realization by dinos nikolaou

Les Adieux [sketches on Bataille’s dead man]

first performed @ KNOT Gallery, athens, april + may 2010

a dark tale on the process of mourning. the secret chamber, the living-room, the forest and the inn host marie, edouard and a strange optasia. the tenebrous world of desire, of farewell, of the promise, but also of the fundamental responsibility towards the person who disappears haunts these spaces and transforms them into landscapes of otherness.

conceived + directed by dinos nikolaou
music: gustav mahler [Rückert Lieder]
sound composition + design: ioannis kotsonis
set + costume + lighting design: dinos nikolaou
graphic design: marios gampierakis
performers: vasiliki andreou + themelis glynatsis

GEOGRAPHIES II / Pound Geography

first performed @ KNOT Gallery, athens, january 2010

the Geographies, stage installations of landscapes and incidents, are part of an on-going project whose fundamental aim is the creation of uncanny portraits. the Geographies Project is always in progress, and presents the audience with an attempt of mapping singular traces and a construction of strategies regarding that which has not take place yet.

Pound Geography, was an installation on the architecture of the desolate landscape, on the voice which sounds bizarre and foreign, on the movement which has ceased or maybe has not.

conceived by dinos nikolaou
direction: dinos nikolaou + myrto vagiota
sound composition + design:dimitris kalliris
set + costume + lighting design: dinos nikolaou + myrto vagiota
sculpture design: vaggelis makropoulos + nikolina bairaktari
graphic design: marios gampierakis
performers: vasiliki andreou + themelis glynatsis

GEOGRAPHIES I / Byron Geography

first performed @ Kleio Theatre, thessaloniki, april 2009

the Geographies, stage installations of landscapes and incidents, are part of an on-going project whose fundamental aim is the creation of uncanny portraits. the Geographies Project is always in progress, and presents the audience with an attempt of mapping singular traces and a construction of strategies regarding that which has not take place yet.

Byron Geography was a study on geography as a geometry of places and incidents / on next to nothing / on naive melancholia / on next to nothing / on irony / on next to nothing / on cherries / on stillness / on next to nothing

conceived + directed by dinos nikolaou
set + costume design + videos: agapi giouna
sound composition + design: dimitris kalliris
lighting design: dinos nikolaou + agapi giouna
performer: vasiliki andreou
voiceover: konstantinos aspiotis