Chronotopia is an initiative by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen, that highlights connections between experimental music and research present and past. Points of contact between past and current music, sound, and media practices are explored, for instance via re-articulations of pre-modern musical forms and practices, media-archeological research, or archives amongst others. Avoiding a linear perspective that constructs time as an indication of progress, Chronotopia adopts and explores cyclical and spiraling ideas of history and time, narrative folds, parallel cultural transmissions, as well as temporal collapses where past and present fall into each other to arrive at a new dialogue. Sound, music, media practices, and speculative activities allow for alternative temporal spaces and histories.

The commissions will premiere as a showcase event at the Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Φεστιβάλ Αθηνών & Επιδαύρου) end of June / beginning July 2021 in Athens. Chronotopia is an initiative by CTM Festival and Goethe-Institut Athen, and pleased to cooperate with Athens & Epidaurus Festival.

Workshop led by: Anke Eckardt and Akis Sinos

With participant artists:
Sofiaelena Xezonaki
Savvas Metaxas
Max Eilbacher
Giulia Vismara
Gaspar Cohen
Alyssa Moxley