"Technology is not mere tool making and tool use: it is the making of metaphors." ― James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future.

"Die ich rief, die Geister, / Werd' ich nun nicht los""The spirits that I summoned / I now cannot rid myself of again"— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

Studio Stone Age is the spatialization of a film project by Joshua Olsthoorn. The not yet released experimental film 'Stone Age' is an attempt to reconsider and reflect on how contemporary technology has shaped the very ideas of progress and sustainability in the anthropocene era. The film is built upon non-stories of characters in search of meanings in a confused time and environment. These characters played the double roles of actor and auteur and participated actively in the making of the film, turning it into a semi-improvised collaborative work. The exhibition derived from the film is showcasing fragments of the film in relation with artworks by its participants, thus turning itself into an open end collective show, whose editing process has to be operated by the visitors and whose final cut belongs to them only.

On the closing date 21.10.2020 the composer and sound artist Ioannis Savvaidis, who was involved in the creation of the film soundtrack, will do a live performance among the ancient stones in the courtyard of the Epigraphic museum. The live performance will be a 30 to 40 min improvisation on themes from the film and will be accompanied by a choreography of Florent Frizet performed by Christina Reinhardt reenacting a scene from 'Stone Age'.

Hosted by Esto Association in co-production with Typical Organization and the Epigraphic Museum of Athens.