Theatrum Mundi collaborates with Onassis Stegi on The City Talks Back

Onassis Stegi and Theatrum Mundi are excited to announce the collaborative project The City Talks Back. 

If to be politically engaged is to have one’s voice ‘heard’, then how and where does this hearing happen? Whose voices are heard, both in the street and on the political stage? What is the role of architecture in amplifying or indeed diminishing the audibility of different voices? Based in Athens, a migrant-welcoming city, this research hopes in particular to ask where migrants are ‘heard’, and how the conditions of their being heard impacts their reception. 

These questions will be the focus of two group residencies combining urbanists, sociologists and performing artists. Athens based researchers George Samantas, Tim Ward, Stefania Gyftopoulou and Tom Western will collaborate with visiting artists Mercedes Azpilicueta, Urok Shirhan, and Ella Finer, as well as Theatrum Mundi’s John Bingham-Hall and Fani Kostourou. 

Participants will produce a performed or recorded creative or research work for a 3-day Public Assembly at Onassis Stegi from 26-28 June 2020. All contributions will be made available online and the project will lead to a joint publication.