Goddess Garbage & Gewalt

Scriptwritter: Aristoteles Chaitidis
Director: Alkistis Kafetzi
Actress: Christina Fronista
Costume Designer: Maria Salouvardou

Aristoteles Chaitidis is an author and performer who lives in Berlin, Germany. He studied literature and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität in Munich, Germany. After years as an extra at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, he proceeded to realise theatre productions based on his own texts. On several occasions he contributed to the performance as both a performer and director. In addition he has been performing in the field of classical music as a counter-tenor. Goddess Garbage & Gewalt is an ongoing project that emerged from his last pre-lockdown theatrical production „Wenn Götter das dürfen*“, which was scheduled to be shown in early spring 2020 in Vienna. It’s the second collaboration with actress Christina Fronista and costume designer Maria Salouvardou. After the short film “stille amare”, this is also the second collaboration with cinematographer Alkistis Kafetzi.

Alkistis Kafetzi is a cinematographer and (film) editor who lives in Berlin, Germany. After finishing her studies on theater and film (National Kapodistrian University of Athens) she moved to Munich, Germany where she worked as a freelancer videographer. She has edited several short films and documentaries that were screened at European film festivals. She has been a steady collaborator of the Institute for Experimental Arts and the theater director Taso Sagri since 2011. In 2016 she directed her first short film, the documentary "Unterwegs". GG&G is the second collaboration with author Aristoteles Chaitidis

Christina Fronista was born in Athens. She had a German-Greek school education and finished her studies in Acting in Theatro Technis of Karolos Koun (Greek Art Theatre in Athens). Later she studied Musical in Berlin. Theatre performances followed in Athens, Berlin and Brandenburg in classical repertory. Her main artistic interest is the combination of theatre of the speech and musical theatre. In the Summer 2020 and in the frames of the exposition “Missing Nature” of the group Techne occurred the first collaboration with Aristoteles Chaitidis in which the monologue Goddess Garbage & Gewalt was presented as a study in Musical Theatre, work in progress and Improvisation.

Maria Salouvardou lives in Berlin and works as costume installation designer using as materials anything discarded: broken parts of instruments, toys, dolls, plastic, paper, fabrics, threads and wire. She restructures and composes with respect towards the environment. As a stylist, human hair was her first material for sculpture and installation. Apart from attaining a Business Management degree she studied -acting (Vasilis Diamantopoulos and Akis Davis Theatre Schools) - Costume design and Scenography (Little University School) -History of Art (Spanish Studio School) -History of B&W Photography (Photographic Circle). She participated as costume designer and actress in various shows and performances and lectured at the Little University on recyclable materials for making clothes. Her last performance was in Gallery II for the Landscape Metropolis exhibition with a costume made out of bin bags. She has already collaborated with Aristoteles Chaitidis and Christina Fronista, making the costume of the performance „Goddess, Garbage & Gewalt. One of her costume installations based on poems was recently presented at the Illuseum Berlin as part of the exhibition ‘Missing Nature’ organized by Techne e.V..