
© Elli Papakonstantinou archive
Commissioned by Pafos 2017
European Capital of Culture
© Elli Papakonstantinou archive
European Capital of Culture
Art & sound installation exhibited in Pafos, Palia Ilektriki in the frame of “Euphoria Revised” (5 miniature houses, 10 speakers and an olive tree).
People want to be happy. But how different is the cultural understanding of happiness? Here, the house is a body, a country, an entity; each house producing its own soundscape with used material from the artist’s interviews with people from Greece, Denmark, Cyprus and other European countries. All houses hanging from the Tree of Life. This is a research project, dealing with the issues of ‘I’, ‘We’ and ‘Nature’, through events such as an installation in the Chloraka Park (13.06), an art exhibition (13-25.06) and workshops at the Old Powerhouse (13.06).
The “Tree of Happiness” is in dialogue with “Happiness Unlimited” project, a performance salon, co-directed with Annika B. Lewis & presented in Athens, Greece (the Benaki Museum) and Aarhus, Denmark (Bora-Bora theatre).
Sound Installation: Elli Papakonstantinou
Curated by: Aida Eltorie
Pafos 2017 – Cultural Capital of Europe
for 2017: 13-25.06.2017
Pafos, Cyprus
Supported by:
ODC Ensemble
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Elli Papakonstantinou
Performance Director, Activist
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The Sound of the Gun | 2008
The Mysterious Mr Love | 2005
Tree of Happiness | 2017
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They’re Playing our Song | 2005
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Viciousness in the Kitchen | 2010
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Każin Barokk | 2018
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Revolt Athenς | 2015
Debtocrazy Revolutions | 2015
The Suppliants after Aeschylus after Kossovo | 1999
Richard II | 2014
Ajax | 1998
Out Cry | 2016
Out Cry | 2011
Sous l’oiel d’Oedipe | 2010
Skin [Δέρμα] | 2012
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From Α to Ω | 2010
The Country | 2009
The Iron | 2004
ODC …After Homer | 2002-04
ODC, after Homer’s Odyssey | 2009
Ma Vie de Chandelles | 2012
Touching the Bottom of the Sea | 2013
Oedipus: Sex with Mum was Blinding | Upcoming
Femme et Loup | 2014
The Decameron of Women | 2000
The Ships | 2005
Mετά [After] | 2011
Lettre aux Jeunes Acteurs | 2008
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