I Lived My Myth In Greece

A lecture-tragedy on cultural debts and financial desires.

In 2005, at the aftermath of the ‘Athens 2004 Olympic Games’, the Greek National Tourism Organization EOT launched a successful campaign with the general title Live Your Myth in Greece. Today, 5 years after the European Debt Crisis started showing its teeth in Greece, it is perhaps high time we learned the true story of the Crisis, as a story in fact driven by desire which –although manifested as a complex system of money transactions– has set up the melancholic currencies of contemporary Europe.

Desire is a never-ending urgency.

Today’s Debt Crisis is haunted by very old desires.

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concept, performance: Manolis Tsipos

dramaturgical advise: Natassa Siouzouli

video art: Marek Jancovic [The Sound of Applause]

object/set/costume: Gertjan Franciscus

light design: Vinny Jones

assistant director: Vassilis Noulas

thanks to: Melissa Tun Tun, Bastien Gachet

@ Frascati, Amsterdam, 11-13 December 2013