REFLECT THE TIMES

‘’Oh you ocean, give us love. Look at what has happened to us. Do not run the waves against us’’ by a Syrian refugee. “These crucial times in our life where everything is so desperate … how can you be an artist and not reflect the times?’’ by Nina Simone

BANKS BAILOUT

Continuous money printing and adhering to the “Whatever it takes policy” by central banks globally has done nothing more than creating asset bubbles. Eight years after the last one broke out and the whole world suffered, a new one is in the making.

MATERIALISM

‘’Every day Americans are bombarded with hundreds of messages suggesting that the good life is attainable through the goods life. By making lots of money and spending it on products that claim to make us happy, loved and esteemed’’.

ΑΝΤΙΔΩΡΟ

A dance demonstration written based on samples from Maria Paschalidou’s © 2014 video installation “Biography of the Bread’’ presented in Cyprus Nov 12 – 29, 2014 and Greece Mar 16 – Apr 4, 2016. In the past the holy bread (Αντίδωρο) was offered to all those believers not communed but today it is offered to everyone.

FULL OF FEAR

Four European prime ministers talk about the refugee crisis at the sound of toilet flashing. Cleansing powers wash the trashes of fear away. Based on the sound installations “The Toilet Room” and “The Recipe Room” (Basil Theodorou © 2015) presented at UdK in Berlin within the context of Alvin Curran’s “Rooms with Attitude”.

Thanks to the unknown Syrian refugee, Nina Simone, Maria Paschalidou and Alvin Curran for their inspiration and/or guidance in songs 1, 4 and 5

released July 1, 2016