What happens to the body during sleep? How do we spend one third of our lives? During sleep our most secret and repressed self emerges. At the same time, our body becomes vulnerable.

The Hypnos Project is a festival of the Onassis Cultural Centre. It consists of an exhibition of modern and contemporary art, a series of performances and sleepovers, a series of sound works and walks, lectures and discussions, a theatre production, a pyjama party, and a special magazine issue.

Curators: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Elisavet Pantazi, Theophilos Tramboulis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Pasqua Vorgia
Coordination: Elisavet Pantazi, Konstantina Soulioti, Pasqua Vorgia
Concept: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Elisavet Pantazi

Architectural Design: FLUX – office (Eva Manidaki & Thanassis Demiris)
 
Events in the context of Hypnos Project include:

Main Exhibition | Opening: 18 April 2016 | 20:00  
The Hypnos Project brings to the public 65 masterpieces of Greek art to the exhibition hall of the Onassis Cultural Centre and to the Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue). Works by contemporary artists, as well as archival data and transcribed examples from local popular culture, in an attempt to not only mutally interract but also transform each other.

The 50 artists of the exhibition are:
Onassis Library : A Whale's architects, Dora Economou, Matsi Hatzilazarou, Nikos Kanarelis, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Zissis Kotionis , Nikos Panayotopoulos, Christodoulos Panayiotou (performance), Nana Sachini, Kostas Sachpazis, Iris Touliatou
OCC: Loukia Alavanou, Nelly Andrikopoulou, Yannoulis Chalepas  , Dimitris Charissiadis, Orestis Davias, Nikolaos Dragoumis , Andreas Embirikos, Fyta , Apostolos Georgiou, Nikolaos Gyzis, Matsi Hatzilazarou, Georgios Jakobides, Nikos Kanarelis, Apostolos Karastergiou, Nikos Kessanlis, Panos Kokkinias , Aris  Konstantinidis, Ioannis Konstantinou, Polychronis Lembesis , Panagiotis Loukas, Nikiforos Lytras, Konstantinos Maleas, Philippos Margaritis, Yiannis Moralis, Bia Ntavou , Malvina Panagiotidi, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Maria Papadimitriou, Anna Papaeti, Nektarios Pappas, Konstantinos Parthenis, Nikos Gavriil Pentzikis, Dimitris Pikionis, Théodore Ralli, Nana Sachini, Eva Stefani, Gerasimos Steris, Thanassis Totsikas, Yannis Tsarouchis, Kosmas Xenakis , Dimitris Xonoglou , Marcus Zavitsianos

Exhibition at the OCC opening hours: everyday 12:00-21:00
Exhibition at the Onassis Library opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 12:00-20:00 & Saturday-Sunday 11:00-15:00

Tickets (for both OCC and Onassis Library) | Full price: 5 € | Reduced / Friends / Small groups (5-9 people): 3 € | People with disabilities - Companions / Unemployed / Large groups (10+ people): 2 € | Children (0-10 years old): Free admission

Cocktails at the opening event by: 

The music at the opening event is by:

Performance by FYTA | 18 April | Free admission | OCC
A performance by FYTA will take place at the opening of the Main Exhibition, based on the slumber and awakening of the nation and its language.

Performance by Christodoulos Panayiotou | 23–24 April | 20:00  
Free admission - It is necessary to book your seat at  boxoffice@sgt.gr| Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue)
A performance-lecture by Christodoulos Panayiotou, titled Dying on Stage, in collaboration with the dancer Jean Capeille and the composer and pianist Kyriakos Spyrou. A reflection on the impossibility of representing death on stage.

Nova Melancholia Performance | 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-19 May | 21:00 
Duration: 1 hour | Age guidance: 18+ | Galaxia & Sfiggos str. (behind the OCC building)
An original work based on Georges Bataille’s story The Dead Man by the contemporary theatre and performance group Nova Melancholia.

Tickets | Full price: 7 € | Reduced / Friends / Small groups (5-9 people): 5 € | People with disabilities - Companions / Unemployed / Large groups (10+ people): 3 €

Exhibition and performances' curators: Theophilos Tramboulis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis


Hypnos Project Events
 
Lectures and Discussions
Insomnia | 12 April | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage | 
With: Kostas Gemenetzis, Hara Tsekou, Kostas Soldatos
Chair: Amanda Mihalopoulou

Hypnos Clinic | 19-23 April and 6-10 May 
Free admission - Thank you for your interest. The limited number of seats are now reserved. | OCC
Τhere will be a ten-day sleep clinic in the Onassis Cultural Centre; participants’ bodily reactions during night sleep will be recorded.
In collaboration with doctor/pulmonologist Martha Andritsou, scientific collaborator of Evangelismos Hospital's Sleeping Study Center.

Quatuor Diotima | 20 April 2016 | 21:00 | Parnassos Literary Society (Karitsi sq 8, Athens)
The celebrated French Quatuor Diotima returns to the Onassis Cultural Centre in the context of the Hypnos Project with night as its theme.  Diotima will perform Ainsi la nuit by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) and Métamorphoses nocturnes, an early work of Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006). The concert will end with a landmark work marking the dawn of twentieth-century music, Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951). A work of abstract programme music, without words, it is based on a poem by R. Dehmel.

‘Farewell’: Lecture-Performance with Christiana Galanopoulou | 7 & 8 May | 20:00 
 Free admission - It is necessary to book your seat at  boxoffice@sgt.gr | Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue)
Following the Sleeping Girls in the secretive paths of their sleep, art historian Christiana Galanopoulou invites us on a journey exploring works of art of different eras in texts, locations, archaeological sites, but also in moments of contemporary reality and people’s stories, thus weaving a narrative about life, what lies beyond, and eternity.

Lectures and Discussions
Body: Sleeping, death and resurrection | 9 May | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage |
Chair: Dimitris Papanikolaou

Polysomnogarden | 19 May – 2 June | Evridamantos & Galaxia str. (behind the OCC building)
The medical data from the sleep clinic will be used for the creation of a visual installation by Marina Gioti. The stages of sleep will be transformed into an ever-changing visual environment with sounds, lights, projections, and moving sculptures.

Cinemarathon Let's (not) go to sleep | 13-14 May | 22:00 | Upper Stage 
A 24-hour cinemarathon with films and documentaries related to the topic of sleep.
Curator: Elias Fragoulis

Tickets | Full price for all the evening: 7 € | Reduced / Friends / Small groups (5-9 people): 5 € | People with disabilities - Companions / Unemployed / Large groups (10+ people): 3 €

six d.o.g.s pyjama party | 14 May | 00:00 
Free admission | In all the floors of the OCC | 
DJ sets will take place in all the floors of the Onassis Cultural Centre, from midnight to dawn, in what will be an unforgettable midnight party.
 
Lectures and Discussions
Dreams | 16 May | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage
The discussion will feature psychoanalyst Dany Nobus, Director of the Freud Museum, London.

The Theta Series – All-Night Event at the Onassis Cultural Centre | 29 May | 22:00Duration: till the morning (breakfast is included) | Main Stage | 
An all-night experiental event will take place at the Main Stage of the Onassis Cultural Centre by choreographer and Onassis Foundation Fellow Apostolia Papadamaki, in collaboration with composer Trifon Koutsourelis.

Tickets | Full price for all the evening: 15 € | Reduced / Friends / Small groups (5-9 people): 12 € | People with disabilities - Companions / Unemployed / Large groups (10+ people): 10 €
 
Photographic Projections in public buildings in Athens | 18 April – 19 June
Artists, dancers, and actors will be photographed while sleeping by Pavlos Fysakis. The photographs will be projected in public buildings in Kafthmonos square, Syggrou avenue and others.

Photographs were taken at the Coco-mat Hotel Kolonaki.
 
HYPNOS issue
Hypnos Project will be accompanied by an independent bilingual publication on the topic of sleep, which will circulate widely. Academics, specialists, and writers approach the issue of sleep with original ways, each one from his/her own perspective. Together they compose a polyphonic and original anthology, in which sociology co-exists with military studies, architecture with classical philology, short stories with personal testimony.

The Hypnos issue includes articles by: Joanna Bourke, Thodoris Chiotis, Simon Critchley, Vassiliki Kokkori, Elias Magklinis, Panagiotis Menegos, Sofia Nikolaidou, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Panagis Panagiotopoulos, Anna Papaeti, Dimosthenis Papamarkos, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Matina Pashalis, Aris Sarafianos, Patti Smith, James Stavridis, Konstantinos Tzamiotis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Theophilos Tramboulis, Dimitra Vogiatzaki.