The Soup
The mixed-media performance The Soup: a contemporary ritual - tribute to the freedom and speech (and beyond) is inspired by the ideas of contemporary philosopher Achille Mbembe as expressed in his book Necropolitics. The hope is that we remember and relive the primordial significance of what it means to be human by sharing such fundamental experiences as food, as well as through the—bitter, perhaps?—realisation that history repeats itself. The action moves between the everyday/mundane and the philosophical/political, raising questions about the current condition of the world.
Performance, directing & video: Eleni Kolliopoulou
Co-performer: Stratos Papadoudis
Help in video editing: Aneliki Pantazi
schedule
Friday 5 December 2025 | 9pm
free admission
Limited capacity – advance booking required at crudelen@yahoo.it.
The show is interactive: there is a brief tactile contact with the performers.
Viewers will be called upon to wear the sleeping mask furnished to them for about ten minutes.
Eleni Kolliopoulou
Visual artist, performer, researcher and educator Eleni Kolliopoulou studied at the Dept of History & Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens, and graduated with a BA degree in 2003. From 2003 to 2006 she took classes in freehand drawing and colour at the art school preparatory workshop of Tassos Rigas in Athens. Between 2008 and 2013 she studied at the School of Fine Arts of Turin, Italy, obtaining ΒΑ and ΜΑ degrees. In March 2020 she was awarded a PhD by Ulster University, Northern Ireland for her thesis on hybrid art installations with Butoh influences. In 2022-2024 she was a post-doc researcher with the Ionian University's Department of Audio & Visual Arts, with support from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. She has been teaching as adjunct lecturer at the University of Peloponnese, Dept of Performance Arts, in the academic years 2021-2022, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026.
Stratos Papadoudis
Stratos Papadoudis is a Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer with a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics. He sees himself as an analytical thinker and problem solver, and as he believes in one's multifaceted contribution to society he shares his focus between technological research and the arts. Having pursued vocal and theatre studies for three years, he is into performance art and has been collaborating with Eleni Kolliopoulou since 2022, in five productions to this day. In the last six years he has been systematically active in Saolin Kung Fu and Taichi Qi Gong.
