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To celebrate my life under austerity practices in Greece, I turn to the house party music of the Bronx during the 1970s that emerged resiliently when the borough was in riot and crisis. This early hip-hop reduced melody in favor of repeating samples from a music’s breakbeat. My breakbeat is formed from a speech by Alexis Tsipras made during the ‘no’ referendum, in which he proclaimed that democracy is a party.

Visually structured with embroidered patterns from Eastern Attica that showcase a family’s wealth, the video accumulates images like an embroidery over this acoustic, traumatic repetition. It offers the qualities and failures of a structure based only on growth–similar to unrealistic economic models that demand only growth and ignore finite resources. In the end, the visual contents must come up against the limits of the frame.

The book, Ξέρω να λέω Όχι, by Kristina Rassidaki, read by kind permission of the author.

Sound recording, design and mix: Tim Ward
Choral arrangement of Tsipras text: Alexandra-Claire Zervas
Additional sound recordings: Jennifer Nelson, Dimitri Kotsaras, Areti Skavantzou
Camera: Dimitri Kotsaras, Natalia Papadopoulou
Art Department: Jennifer Nelson, Toby Short, Afroditi Andreou, Nadia Elgazzar
Montage and fx: Jennifer Nelson
Assistant Director: Afroditi Andreou
Production Assistants: Afroditi Andreou, Nadia Elgazzar, Areti Skavantzou
Theater lighting assistants: Stelios Troukkalkis, Angela Simidiotis, Ioannis Gerakellis

Produced in the Blackbox Theater at Deree –
The American College of Greece

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