Rebelling Opera Theater

Greece: Occupation of the Opera House of Athens

Rebelling Opera Theater

December's rebellion, while drawing strength from all previous social
struggles, laid the ground for a generalized resistance against
everything that offends us and enslaves our lives. It triggered a
fight for life that is being disparaged on a daily basis. As an answer
to those who understand rebellion as a short lived firecracker, and
discard and undermine it by simply saying "life goes on", we say that
the struggle not only continues but has already set our lives on a new
basis. Nothing is finished; our rage perseveres. Our agony has not
subsided; we are still here. Rebellion in the streets, in schools and
universities, in labor unions, municipal buildings and parks.
Rebellion also in art.

Against art as a spectacle that is consumed by passive viewers.

Against aesthetics that exclude the 'different'.

Against a culture that destroys parks and public space in the name of
profit.

We unite our voices with all those in struggle.

In solidarity with Konstantina Kouneva and those arrested during the
rebellion.

With our struggle and our own culture, we respond to state oppression,
social exclusion and to the attempts of the mass media to terrorize
and misinform.

With this initiative that originated in the 'Arts' (considering
everybody's life as art), we re-claim a space for the art of living of
each and everyone to unfold and for exploring the reformation of
culture. We aspire to an unmediated art; open and accessible to all.

We liberate the Greek National Opera because by definition it belongs
to all of us.

We feel the need to take things from the beginning and to reinvent the
role of art.

Through self-organized processes, we propose free creative actions by
everyone and for all those who consider culture as a product of
collective creativity.

To recover and reclaim the culture that has been stolen from us.

OPEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE LIBERATED OPERA EVERYDAY AT 9.00 PM

Our theater the streets, our art the revolt