Date and Time: 16/05/2026 (20:00), 16/05/2026-17/05/2026 (12:00-22:00)
Location: former Bank of Greece, City Hall Sq
Eleni Moschovoudi
Within the framework of developing a digital poetics project, I have chosen to work with an excerpt from The Hollow Men by Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965). First published independently in 1925 and later included in the collection Poems: 1909–1925, the poem offers a compelling foundation for artistic exploration.
My choice of this work is informed by its thematic depth and aesthetic complexity, which, in my view, render it particularly suited to reinterpretation through digital media.
Written in the aftermath of profound post-war disillusionment, “The Hollow Men” gives voice to a generation marked by spiritual emptiness, estrangement from shared values, and an inability to construct meaning. This condition finds a strong resonance in my own experience of the present—within the space and time I inhabit.
In this context, the human being, positioned as a worker behind machines, gradually assumes a machinic condition—engaged in continuous production while sacrificing not only individual identity and environment, but ultimately the identity of society as a whole.