Hamlet a desktop performance | Elias Adam
Hamlet browses his desktop. Shakespeare’s play themes become transparent through the use of media. During an evening screen-mirroring, love, grief, anti-depressants, death, self- destruction are intermixed with endless references to pop internet culture, to animation, to current affairs.
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Given the condition we experience, the thing that particularly troubled me was the unanimous acceptance of the mandatory ‘staying at home’ order. That did not take into consideration those who are not privileged to ‘stay at home’ (women facing domestic gender violence, LGBTiQ people abused in their family, migrants/refugees living in closed camps, working people, those with serious mental health problems etc.). I think that we must raise our voice about these people, either through art or in any other way we have access to public debate. But even after the quarantine is over, I wouldn’t like to see ‘back to normality’ narratives, as that ‘normality’ back then was still a privilege of only a few.
Artist: Elias Adam
Title of the work: Hamlet, A Desktop Performance
Year: 2020
Duration: 34΄
Medium: Video
Direction: Elias Adam
Collaboration: Christina Mavrommati
Performers: Jeo Pakitsas, Styliana Ioannou, Sofia Priovolou
Language: Greek and English
People appearing: Jeo Pakitsas, Styliana Ioannou, Sofia Priovolou
Music/songs used: “Tha Gino Vassilias” (I’m Gonna Be King”), “The Night We Met,” “Toxic Ruski,“ “Everytime,” “Stupid Love“
This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.
