Call it a Night is a research-based performative project mainly in the form of a telephone service. People who face sleep-related difficulties are encouraged to call during specific night hours on a cell phone number which I answer. After posing a few questions, I give guidelines to the participants in order for them to start feeling more comfortable and then, I proceed to narrate stories to them. The participants are unaware that the procedure is a performative piece. 

The intention is to research emerging questions related to narrative (literary, spatial, political, personal) within the time-dependent procedure, in an effort to reconfigure narrative authorship but also participation in the performative process. Call it a Night is also used as a research tool for field study related to my PhD thesis.

For the purposes of the project a literary archive has been formed consisting mainly of short stories, unabridged fairy tales, folk tales, adaptations, A.I. generated narratives and also stories that I have recorded or composed. From the above, a script of 230 pages in English and Greek has been drafted for the purposes of the performative piece.

The project also involves promotional material for online purposes, posters, digital collages etc. and makes thorough use of advertising strategies to enhance its pseudo-service appearance. It also features social media accounts, a SoundCloud account and an internet radio station, activated accordingly when the project is performed.