Foyer of the Society for Macedonian Studies
3, 4, 7, 9, 14, 15 June, 21:00
 
Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace
27 May, collective version, 11:00
29, 30, 31 May and 2 June, individual version with free starting time between 11:00-12:30
 
Undone So Many (between Lausanne and Izmir)  
by Ant Hampton
a Time Based Editions prototype
 
Undone So Many began as a journey from Lausanne to Izmir by two artist friends. In Greece, one of them experiences health problems and has to stop. As the other continues towards Turkey, suddenly alone, the narration grows into a moving and troubled psychogeography as it shifts between ‘we’ and ‘I’, present and past, piecing-together value and meaning from the very human ruins of aspiration, history, and language. Hampton’s careful, at times miraculous process of reconnection gradually lights up a constellation: Sephardi histories, the end of the Ottoman empire, mental health, voices and earthquakes, tourism and forced movement, dementia, swifts and swallows, Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and an urgent insight into hidden atrocities at the edge of Europe being funded today from its centre.
 
Undone So Many will take place in the Villa Modiano, now the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace and formerly home to one of the city’s most well-known Sephardi families.
It will be available to experience in two ways:

• collective and synchronised engagements with the book, with audio coming out of speakers, plus lighting design, at the times programmed below (in Greek only, at set times, both at the Museum as well as additional presentations in the foyer of the National Theatre)
• setups for individuals to experience the piece alone, on headphones (in Greek and English, only at the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace)

 
Duration: 75΄
Languages: English or Greek in individual version (Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace)
Languages: Greek (Foyer of the Society for Macedonian Studies)