ELENI ZERVOU
SOCIAL DISSONANCE
by Mattin with Eleni Zervou, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris, Dafni Krazoudi, Smaragda Nitsopoulou and Dania Burger
Listen carefully.
The audience is your instrument, play it in order to practically understand how we are generally instrumentalised.
Prepare the audience with concepts, questions, and movements as a way to explore the dissonance that exist between the individual narcissism that capitalism promotes and our social capacity, between how we conceive ourselves as free individuals with agency and the way that we are socially determined by capitalist relations, technology, and ideology.
Reflect on the I/We relation while defining social dissonance.
Help the collective subject to emerge.
“Social Dissonance” was a durational concert conceived by Mattin and interpreted by Eleni Zervou, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris, Dafni Krazoudi, Smaragda Nitsopoulou and Dania Burger. It was performed daily during the course of the exhibition, first in the Athens Conservatorium(Athens) and later in Documenta Halle(Kassel) for 163 days in total, with an interlaping period during which the concert was performed in both cities. Every concert was documented on video, streamed online on Pscp.tv and archived on Youtube.com and Archive.org (specific links are listed bellow).
During “Social Dissonance” the interpreters would interpret an instructional score together with the audience in order to explore the concept of alienation, how “we are generally instrumentalised” and the way we are “defined by capitalist relations”, with utmost purpose to “help the collective subject to emerge”.
http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/16740/social-dissonance https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZN3mZD45YnZjD27prGoMjw/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=d https://archive.org/details/@social_dissonance_d14
http://www.periscope.tv/socialdissonanc
http://www.www.periscope.tv/socialdissonan1 http://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13701/rainer-oldendorf http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/17027/scratch-cottage-and-nature-study-notes
2017