Using Kavafis’ Monotonia and Vaneigem’s The revolution of everyday life as departure points – these two components become the very foundation for an audiovisual sculpture performance intended to illustrate the above theme. By deconstructing monotony as a word meaning: lack of variety and interest, tedious repetition and routine; this is translated into a cycle of events. The components are: illusion, obstruction, liminality and condition. Each and one of these have individual characteristics and are acted out differently and are not bound to any specific order but are instead used to identify and create certain sets of scenarios. The intention here is to suggest that monotony very much is in the very eye of the beholder and that a monotony for one might be an interruption for another.

We live in a universal condition, forcing upon us a state of liminality. Liminal actions and thoughts define our everyday actions of apathy; “The same things will happen again, and then will happen again, the same moments will come and go”.

We have followed that condition in our own accord, choosing the easy path and limiting our self in a confined social environment. An environment based on exclusions and social definitions serving the condition we live in.

‘Fake’ illusions of achievable materialistic goals lead to a cycle of events creating a monotonous life pattern. Commercial life style, big restaurant chains, artificial goods and faux-tech hope for a better future structured on a pyramid of materials made with pain in the third world to be consumed painlessly in the west.

The condition serves the few who belong in the system; a system of social exclusions and secluded environments, The condition has a ritualistic way of defining its purpose. It takes ownership of human behavior and controls its decisions.

‘Forbidden’ illusions are the only hope we have in our society, waiting to be awakened by obstructions. These are illusions made in childhood defining our future dreams. Dreams that where oppressed by the condition we live in.

Childhood dreams made in a fantasy world with no boundaries and with harmless intentions. “Monotonia” strives to bring back to life these illusions. It is the remembrance of a world we once fantasized, unpolluted from the materialistic world we live in.

We are waiting for these obstructions of the system to take us by the hand and move us away from the condition we live in. Obstructions are loud, forceful actions of events reacting to the conditional social system we live in. Obstructions are the inner voices; Socrates demon as he describes in his Apologia; a revo- lutionary force aiming to awaken us from our condition. They appear to us as Faces; images that call us to remember our childhood illusions and restructure our path in life. An obstruction is a scream for hope, a rebellion, a fight, a reassurance that a different future exists.

“Monotonia” does not aim to set itself against the society we live in but for the people who are trapped in this condition. We aim to break our personal monotonous cycle of events. We strive to find a new hypothesis of how social environments can survive in a modern society of different behaviors, cultural backgrounds, needs and dreams.