Theo Triantafyllidis
“Notes to Readiness: Step 1”

May 14, 2020–May 31, 2020
ENTER, Onassis Foundation

Are you a Prepper or you belong to the Golden Horde? An epic online role-play battle and an artwork is about to begin. Enter into this interactive live game and prepare yourselves and your shelves. Play live on YouTube, on Thursday 14 May, 2020 at 20:00 (GMT+3).

“Notes to Readiness: Step 1” is a guide to prepare yourselves and your shelves.

Drawing on the reactionary cult of “preppers” (individuals and groups prepping for survival in scenarios of catastrophe and civil collapse), Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis, and Alexis Fidetzis use role-play to develop a set of characters for “Readiness,” an immersive work that seeks to dissect the apocalyptic fantasies of preparedness. “Readiness” unfolds in the form of an online epic battle between a group of preppers and the Golden Horde, the rampant mass of the ‘unprepared’, in preppers’ patriotic jargon and literature.

Using a tabletop play structure that extends to domestic environments, the artists produce a live stream that interacts with the YouTube audience via YouTube comments and live chatbox. In a play mode, these characters will share notes on readiness, suggest strategies of survival, and develop a sensual lexicon for our on-going confinement.

Artists Names: Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis, Alexis Fidetzis
Title of the Work: Notes to Readiness: Step 1
Year: 2020
Medium: Video/YouTube Live-Streaming
Duration of the Work: Duration of the Streaming
Language: English
Copyright owner: Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis, Alexis Fidetzis
Credits: Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis, Alexis Fidetzis, Aliki Stenou

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.