Elefsina
14
01
2024
WEEKEND REPORT

Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below

From November 18th to January 28th, 2024 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents the group exhibition Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below featuring the participation of acclaimed artists from Greece and abroad and showcasing a series of new productions, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos.
From November 18th to January 28th, 2024 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents the group exhibition Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below featuring the participation of acclaimed artists from Greece and abroad and showcasing a series of new productions, curated by Panos Giannikopoulos.
The exhibition's narrative unfolds through the myths and history of the city of Elefsina and its Mysteries, with dance serving as a means of climax, a sacred ritual, and a method for exploring concepts of death and loss. In Mystery 151 A Rave Down Below, we witness dance and its affinity with the ailing body or even itself as illness and therapy, dance in a state of crisis, as exhaustion that brings pleasure displacing social exhaustion, as escape and counteraction.


Through installations, painting, sculpture, sound, and performance, the exhibition seeks to redefine the boundaries of dance, reflecting on the (collective) body and its absence, memory, and the necessity of movement. It contemplates utopian declarations of dance subcultures, their glorification, thwarting, and commercial exploitation, hovering between desire, disappointment, and expectation. It examines the relationship between dance movements and community formation, as well as demands for social justice, portraying dance as a translinguistic activity for creating a new world: a delirious grammar that is impossible to parse, slippery in mind and unwieldy in the mouth, passing through muscle spasms, chemical compounds, machines and pixels.

Moreover, 

On 15, 16 and 17th December, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, having achieved a small miracle in the city of Elefsina, one of the smallest cities that have hosted the institution, celebrated the completion of the official title year with a unique three-day celebration titled Mystery 1 Closing: Opening, A Ceremony.

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OPENING HOURS:

WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: 17.00 - 20.00

SATURDAY & SUNDAY: 13.00 - 20.00

 

 

FREE ADMISSION

 

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
MYSTERY 151 A RAVE DOWN BELOW 

VENUE
OLD OIL MILL FACTORY 

Kanellopoulou 1, Elefsina 192 00

CONTACT

(+30) 210 5562001, INFO@2023ELEUSIS.EU

tags: Culture Greece