What happens when conspiracy theories stop being marginal and become hegemonic social reasoning/common opinion? Explanations become more difficult when one stops understanding the conspiratorial attitude as pure lack of rationality and detects the wide range of existential questions raised by it. The projects presented in the exhibition highlight various aspects of the conspiratorial spectrum: Urban legends of the 80’s, satanism, alternative rational narratives, heterodox belief systems, messianic scenarios of redemption, mysteries of urban space, paramedic, associative and layman interpretations.
The performance was part of the group exhibition “Invisible governments: “Gnosis” as a state of the self”, curated (and organized as a previous workshop) by Kostis Stafylakis, at “Circuits and Currents”.
The concept was the presentation of a book and a magazine, the performer is selling in her own TV show, based on the “Epsilon” theory.
The Epsilon Team is an alleged secret society that appears in Greek modern folklore, conspiracy theories and ufology. The team was first described in a 1977 book, and supposedly consists of prominent Greek people who possess secret knowledge of extraterrestrial origin. Beginning in the 1980s, literature about the society became infused with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, placing the Epsilon Team in a cosmic battle against the Jews. The body of beliefs related to the Epsilon Team has been labeled epsilonism, and those who subscribe to it have been labeled epsilonists.
Participants: Marilena Aligizaki, Thanasis Anagnostopoulos, Alexandra Anagnostopoulou, Sofia Grigoriadou, Dimitra Zervou, Marilia Kolympiri, Maria Louizou, Kyriakos Mitropoulos, Antonis Kalamaras Prapas, Theodoros Kovaios, Victor Melistas, Metatheodosia, Emilia Moraiti, The heavenly Hens, Ektor Dourakos, Giorgos Nikas, Campus Novel, Sergios Pappas, Ada Petranaki, Panos Sklavenitis, Maira Stefou, Maya Galateia Tapinou, Alexis Fydetzis, FYTA.
