A new artistic and research site specific project, titled International Area has been launched in Argos, Mycenae and the wider Argolis region.
Funded by the Peloponnese Prefecture and the Argolida Prefectural Unit in cooperation with the City of Nafplio and the Argolis Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, it is headed by theatre scholar and critic Eleni Varopoulou.
The project was largely inspired by the former Argos Festival, held from 1994-1997, which saw events held across various ancient and modern architectural monuments, sites and factories in the area.
The first part of the project will run from 3-9 July, and will be influenced by the archaeology and heterotopia – a concept in human geography describing places and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions – and based on the diptych of the Polytoponos Iannis Xenakis and the Argoliki Industriale.
Organisers have plans to continue initiatives in the region throughout the year, before eventually expanding throughout Greece and overseas.
“[The project is an] intervention, aiming to mobilise citizens into a subversive yet creative logic, in order to develop a necessary collective consciousness,”
said Petros Tatoulis of the Peloponnese Prefecture.
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