Athenian Nights
at State of Concept
Saturday 19 th of Decem ber 2015, 9pm – 6am
Program m e
21:00 – 22:00
Iliana Fokianaki
Welcome note
Akis Papantonis, He, She (reading in English)
Barbara Polla
Introduction to the poetry series
Me and You (reading in English and in Greek)
Rebecca Camhi
Krishnamurti, Think of These Things (This
Matter of Culture) (reading in Greek)
Alice Palaska
Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short
Stories of Ernest Hemingway (reading in
Greek)
Maria Mamalinga
Joyce Mansour, collection Screams (reading in
Greek)
Eliza Gerolimatou
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (reading
in Greek)
22:00 – 23:00
Giulia Casartelli
Clementina, a story by Giulia Casartelli from
the work of Eva Marathaki, translation by
Johanna Bishop (reading in Italian)
Eva Marathaki
Clementina, a story by Giulia Casartelli from
the work of Eva Marathaki, translation by
Johanna Bishop (reading in Greek)
Dido Lykoudis
Frank Smith, Guantanamo (reading in French
and in Greek)
State of Concept
Tousa Botsari 19, Athens, 11741, Wednesday - Friday 4:30pm-8:30pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm T: +30 213 0318576, info@stateofconcept.org, www.stateofconcept.org Patricia Giannopoulou
Peter Handke, Song of Childhood
Quinn Latimer
Quinn Latimer, “Corpse Life, or Live from
Athens”, “A Hotel for Robert Ashley”, “Your
Mother Comes Back as Your Driver, or Scene in
Yellow and Silver”
& Brandon Shimoda, Evening Oracle
(reading in English)
Dio Kagelari
Matsie Hadjilazaros, Dédicace à rebours
(reading in Greek)
23:00 – 00:30
Dimitrios Antonitsis
Rene Ricard, And So Is My Heart a Crash Pad
& The Death of Johnny Stompanato (reading in
English)
Antonis Katsouris
David Trinidad, The Sylvia Plath Cake
Cookbook (reading in Greek)
Dimitra Ioannou
I would love to be able to persuade you (reading
in English)
Amalia Askordalaki
Vergin tutto amor, aria of Francesco Durante
Natasa Giannaraki
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
(From A to B and Back Again) Chapter 14: “The
Tingle” (reading in English)
Katerina Tselou
Jean-Philippe Rossignol
& Myrto Andrianakou
Ovid, Daedalus and Icarus from
Metamorphoses (reading in French)
Kate Adams
I'm not a Pheasant Plucker (performance)
Katerina Gregos
Hugo Ball, Karawane & Gadji beri bimba
00:30 – 01:15
BREAK
Live music by Apanema
State of Concept
Tousa Botsari 19, Athens, 11741, Wednesday - Friday 4:30pm-8:30pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm T: +30 213 0318576, info@stateofconcept.org, www.stateofconcept.org 01:15 – 2:30
Giorgos Papadatos
Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars and
The Inner Side of the Wind (reading in Greek)
Kosmas Nikolaou
Annebella Pollen, Τhe Kindred of the Kibbo
Kift: Intellectual Barbarians (reading in
English)
Maro Michalakakos
& Alkistis Poulopoulou
Sozita Goudouna, Io Carydi
& Thanos Koutsianas
Yves Klein, The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto
(reading in English: Sozita Goudouna & Io
Carydi. Music by Thanos Koutsianas)
Humberto Maturana Romesin & Gerda VerdenZoller, Origins of Humanness in the Biology of
Love (reading in English: Thanos Koutsianas)
Fanis Kafantaris
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale,
“Loomings” (reading in Greek)
Stavros Kavalaris
Frank O'Hara, How to Get There from the
collection Lunch Poems (reading in English)
2:30 – 3:30
Helle Wagner
Inger Christensen, Butterfly Valley: A Requiem
(reading in Danish and in German)
Michael Dodson Sifneos
Evridiki Sifneou, Imperial Odessa: Peoples,
Spaces, Identities & Intimate Space
Katerina Fragou
Zafiris Nikitas, The City of Light (reading in
Greek)
Danai Anesiadou
Anonerousanus (performance)
Nikos Papadopoulos
2 Songs and 1 Lute (performance)
Kostas Stasinopoulos
Louise Bourgeois, The Return of the Repressed
(reading in English)
3:30 – 4:30
Antonakis
The Two Johns (reading in Greek)
Amalia Charikiopoulou
Komal (reading in English)
Thodoris Prodromidis
Makis Malafekas, Topos (reading in Greek)
State of Concept
Tousa Botsari 19, Athens, 11741, Wednesday - Friday 4:30pm-8:30pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm T: +30 213 0318576, info@stateofconcept.org, www.stateofconcept.org Konstantinos Emmanouil
Kiki Dimoula, Eve
Konstantinos Emmanouil, On love
& Yiorgos Chimonas, Man’s helpless loneliness
Antonis Kontroyannis
Glikeria Basdeki, Ramona travel / land of
kindness (excerpt) &Untitled (facebook post),
Sarah Kane, Crave (excerpt, translated in
Greek by Jenny Mastoraki)
Lena Kitsopoulou, Love is (verses for “Golfo”, a
play by the National Theatre of Greece – 2013)
Miltos Manetas
Miltos Manetas, Facebook Summer of Our
Discontent
4:30 – 6:00
Augustus Veinoglou
Dream 3.2.12, “The grotto”
Dream xx.xx.xx, "Pnigmos"
Dream 13.1.13, "Hotel complex"
Dreamdust
(reading in English)
Konstantinos Kotsis
François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, The
Adventures of Telemachus (reading in French)
Semeli Safou
Chiara Bertini
Cesare Pavese, Agonia (reading in Italian and
in English) & Alda Merini, Io non ho bisogno di
denaro (reading in Italian)
Alexandros Tsampoukas
C. P. Cavafy, Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340
Barbara Polla
& Jean-Philippe Rossignol
Pina Bausch, an excerpt from Waltz (reading in
French)
Barbara Polla
Nikos Kavvadias, Marabout (reading in French
and in Greek)
State of Concept
Tousa Botsari 19, Athens, 11741, Wednesday - Friday 4:30pm-8:30pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm T: +30 213 0318576, info@stateofconcept.org, www.stateofconcept.org In collaboration with
With the support of
Kate Adams’ performance is supported by the University of Salford Manchester
Kindly sponsored by
Extra virgin olive oil 3621
Salero Restaurant
Takis Bakery
Media Sponsors
State of Concept
Tousa Botsari 19, Athens, 11741, Wednesday - Friday 4:30pm-8:30pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm T: +30 213 0318576, info@stateofconcept.org, www.stateofconcept.org