“Europe is a history of rape. Debt gives birth to tragic stories.”

I Lived My Myth In Greece is a lecture-performance on cultural debts and financial desires by Manolis Tsipos.

In 2005, at the aftermath of the ‘Athens 2004 Olympic Games’, the Greek National Tourism Organization EOT launched a successful campaign with the general title “Live Your Myth in Greece”. Today, 5 years after the European Debt Crisis started showing its teeth in Greece, it is perhaps high time we learned the true story of the Crisis, as a story in fact driven by desire which –although manifested as a complex system of money transactions– has set up the melancholic currencies of contemporary Europe. Desire is a never-ending urgency. Today’s Debt Crisis is haunted by very old desires.

11-13 December 2013, 21:30 at Frascati theater Amsterdam. Join the Facebook event!

concept, performance: Manolis Tsipos
dramaturgical advisor: Natassa Siouzouli
video art: The Sound of Applause
object/set/costume: Gertjan Franciscus
light design: Vinny Jones
assistant director: Vassilis Noulas
photography: Thomas Lenden
thanks to: Melissa Tun Tun, Bastien Gachet