Blood on Blood

A traveling performance-installation by Yiannis Kalavrianos

Stone Warehouse PPA.

2022

Revenge crimes have been a way of individual dispute resolution since ancient times. The issue of self-righteousness constantly returns and the show chooses corresponding incidents throughout the centuries. Spectators are invited to successively tour the spaces of the Stone Warehouse, while the artistically shaped space, the videos, the lighting, the four actors and the musician with his electric guitars, create a single visual-theatrical ensemble on the issue of bypassing the institutional Justice.

 

Consept-Direction: Yiannis Kalavrianos

Dramaturgy: Kelly Papadopoulou-Yiannis Kalavrianos

Visual installations-Setting: Maria Karathanou

Lighting designer: Nikos Vlasopoulos

Music composition-Electric guitar: Nikitas Kissonas

Associate Theatrologist – material collection: Vania Papanikolaou

Visual Installation/Stage designer’s assistant: Margarita Tzannetou

Dramaturgy partner: Yiannis Varvaresos

Actors: Yannis Varvaresos, Marianthi Pantelopoulou, Kelly Papadopoulou

 

 

The visual part of the performance consists of individual visual installations – scenic compositions structured in the area of ​​the Stone Warehouse. These installations use expressive means of sculpture, plastic and scenography creating modular, multi-collective project where each point constitutes a universe and all the points together make up the entire visual narrative of the show. The implementation of the visual part was designed and implemented for the specific space using elements of gesture and site specific installation.

 

These multiple points-snapshots create a large-scale single visual composition that connects the physical space with the stage action as well as the theme of self-righteousness with the visual language. The final form of the individual images as well as the whole was gradually created during the on-site process – site specific – and talks with the theatrical action, the audio-visual media, the music field and the lighting conditions.

 

It redefines the relationship of the visible – invisible, the relationship of the limits of the beginning, the end or any series. The points follow each other without distinct boundaries. The series and their viewing is the personal walking route of the visitor present in the space. The paths one can take are multiple, as is the way of viewing visual interventions.