DIPTYCH

DIPTYCH

DIPTYCH, the new project by Konstantinos Papasotiropoulos in collaboration with Eleftheria Agapaki, is presented for six days at the Foyer of PLYFA. Stefanos Vlachos, in the theater’s antechamber, performs a solo piece consisting of OKU NO HOSOMICHI and ARCHEION, presented in succession, capturing the work of the walking man.

A. OKU NO HOSOMICHI (September 2024, Ballas, 30’)

I am walking
I am walking
I am walking
I am walking
I am walking

A rectangular metal sheet surface laid with fine charcoal / a hole before the world / dislocated from the effort of observation / I receive the world / I walk / white light / the walking man sees with his fingers

B. ARCHEION (October 2023, Athens, 20’)

An imaginary cylindrical collage of snapshots from the lives of people who separated from themselves out of love / a man dances at its center / orange light / within the hole I am signified / perhaps the air / in the trace, the entire journey is stored / vertical arrangement of the body

Notes:
OKU NO HOSOMICHI is a stage adaptation of the eponymous travel diary by the classical Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694). This text follows the journey of Bashō and his student from present-day Tokyo to the northern provinces of Japan. In OKU NO HOSOMICHI, the journey of man through the world is captured. ARCHEION constructs a textual body with excerpts from the Synaxarion of Saint Nikodemos (1749–1809). At the center of a hole in his path, man connects with the body of the multitude of Saints.

DIPTYCH is an independent production of HËW.