Sound Design, Installation Design w/ Meanads
Eleni Ikoniadou, Aphrodite Psarra, Aliki Leftherioti
Surround Installation
Plasmata II, Onassis Stegi, Ioannina
2023
Surround Installation
Plasmata II, Onassis Stegi, Ioannina
2023
The polyphonic lament of the people of Epirus (‘moiroloi’) constitutes a subversive act: a pluralizing and collective device trying to imagine a counter-aesthetic to Eurocentric modes of living, where voice amounts most of the times to an indicator of interiority and individuality. This site-specific sound installation creates a chorus of many voices, from human and non-human laments, performing a generative AI work. Drawing on Epirotic laments from the area of Pogoni and utilizing current machine learning and voice synthesis technologies, the southern gate of the Ioannina Castle becomes a space where past and future, sorrows and joys become vocalized.
Maenads, a polyphonic strategy for producing and sharing alternative kinds of knowledge from the margins, empowers voices that are commonly excluded both from the archive of humanist political economy and the voice datasets and speech communication systems.
𝑳𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔: Anthoula Kotsou, Roula Rifouna, Stavroula Aidoni, Vaggelis Kotsou, Nikos Menoudakis
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈: James Wenlock
𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓: Dimitris Batsis