AGORA Guide text:
The video installation “Towards the production of Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other Precious Materials” has as a starting point of reference Bertolt Brecht's The Messingkauf Dialogues, a theoretical work in a dialectical form that dates back to 1939 and was written in four different versions in a period of four years but remained incomplete.The work situates a re-interpreted version of Brecht’s work, connected to the socio-economic circumstances regarding contemporary society and the implications that these may cause, in the structures of a monetary policy, and its reverberations in the cultural sphere.
Based on Brecht’s four nights’ structure the artist aims to provoke correlations regarding two structures, the structure of politics and the structure of finance using their architectural form and specificities as a visual starting point. The work motivates the viewer to contemplate all the above elements in a manner that the aesthetic experience of viewing it produces a platform for the critical engagement of the spectator with the socio-political signifiers that are presented.
Theo Prodromidis’s video installation has a specific social context, to collective and private experiences as a consequence of politico-economic and political-cultural locations that are densified in a narrativized, critical and poetic process.
-Katerina Nikou
© courtesy of the artist and Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, 2013
Theo Prodromidis
Towards the production of Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other Precious Materials
2013
4 screen synchronised HD video installation, surround sound, 16min.
copper, metal, wood.
actress PINELOPI TSILIKA
actor ANDREAS KONSTANTINOU
dramaturg NIKOLAS HANAKOULAS
philosopher SPYROS TEGOS As Himself
electrician ALEXANDROS MAVROPOULOS
writer-director THEO PRODROMIDIS
director of photography KONSTANTINOS KOUKOULIOS
editor ARTEMIS ANASTASIADOU
sound supervisor NIKOLAS KONSTANTINOU
sound recordists CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS NIKOLAS KONSTANTINOU
first assistant director MARIA LAINAS
second assistant director ALKI POLITI
associate producer KATERINA NIKOU
producer THEO PRODROMIDIS
production manager CHRYSOSTOMOS THEODOROUDIS
1st assistant camera STAMATIS KOUROS
set designer-costume designer KATERINA TSAKOTA
hair and makeup IOANNA LYGIZOU
set photographer PETROS NIKOLTSOS
production assistants DIMITRIS OMORFOS SAVVAS PARASKEVAS
LEFTERIS STEFANIDIS LEFTERIS THEODOROUDIS
audio post-production NIKOLAS KONSTANTINOU
post-production AUTHORWAVE
post-production manager PANOS BISDAS
colorist ALEXANDROS KAPIDAKIS
subtitles PANAGIOTIS KARAHALIOS
camera BLACK MAGIC CINEMA CAMERA
lenses CARL ZEISS COMPACT PRIMES
original score composer THOMAS BAKALAKOS
"After Our Darkness" 2013
Inspired by Anne Clarke's "Our Darkness" and Bertolt Brecht's "The Messingkauf Dialogues"
a study in brass sound by THOMAS BAKALAKOS for a brass octet, 2 bassoon, drums and percussion
arrangement for concert band DIMITRIS MICHAS
lyrics adaptation THEO PRODROMIDIS
performed by PINELOPI TSILIKA and recorded at TONE STUDIO ATHENS
score performed by ATHENS MUNICIPALITY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
conductor DIMITRIS MICHAS
recorded by VASILIS EFRAIMIDIS
shot in location at
COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE
ATHENS STOCK EXCHANGE
NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE BUILDINGS AT SOFOKLEOUS AND PESMATZOGLOU
EMPOROCHALKO
COLOMBOS METALS
BIOS
co-produced by
THEO PRODROMIDIS STUDIO
PARASOL PRODUCTIONS
AUTHORWAVE
© THEO PRODROMIDIS / THEO PRODROMIDIS STUDIO 2013
installation design and supervision MARIA MANETA
artist's assistant KONSTANTINOS KOTSIS
many thanks to
GIANNIS ANAGNOSTOU, KLIMIS ASIKOGLOU, YIORGOS BAKALAKOS, DR. RUDIGER BOLZ, VASILIS CHARALAMPIDIS, KOSTIS CHRISTOPOULOS, YIANNIS EXINTARIS, NIKOLETA FILOSOGLOU, ANGELOS FRANTZIS, BABIS GALIATSATOS, SOFIA GEORGOVASSILI, ALKISTIS GIANNAKOURA, KATIA GOULIONI, AKIS GOURZOULIDIS, ALEXANDRA GRISPOU, ANJA KIRSCHNER, ELINA KOUNTOURI, KOSTAS KOUTSOSPYROS, AMANDA LIVANOU, KOSTAS MAGLARAS, SOFIA MOYSIDOU, DAVID PANOS, NELLY PAPACHELA, EVGENIA PAPAPANOU, KATERINA PERRATI, ARIS PRODROMIDIS, STAVROS RAPTIS, STRATOS SARANTIDIS, VAIA SKANDALI, KOSTAS STAMATOPOULOS, GIORGOS SYMEONIDIS, MARIANNA THEODORIDOU, ILEANA TOUNTA, KATERINA TSELOU, NIKOS VAVOURIS, NIKOLAOS VERGOPOULOS, MARIA VERGOPOULOU, CHRYSA VLACHOPOULOU, ALEX ZIKA, MARIA ZOURARI-BOLZ.
dedicated to the work and in memory of DR JACKIE HATFIELD
with the support of
OUTSET. GREECE
with the contribution of
HELLENIC COPPER DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, COPPER ALLIANCE
and SOFIA MED
in cooperation with
ATHENS MUNICIPALITY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
and OPAN (ATHENS MUNICIPALITY CULTURAL, SPORTS AND YOUTH ORGANIZATION)
