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In the Name...
A Modular exhibition on faith, disbelief and other miracles
We are set within the hub of ecclesiastical requisites in Athens, surrounded by church supplies and other ceremonial items used in rituals. Shop fronts with a variety of vestments and liturgical objects and other products of purpose, some of which have not yet assumed a ritualistic functionality, subject the visitor to an atmosphere of impressions and associations. Faith or trust, Devotion or Obsession. We must express this thought in an earthly and ordinary sense: Can we act upon distinguished situations of great importance, before they develop as such? Can we embrace, that which is potentially "Grand" and "Majestic"? Do we reject it in feeling of empathy, out of fear of losing oneself to a state of inferiority? Do we mistakenly turn to defend ourselves by performing exorcisms with protection charms, gemstones, amulets and other types of applied magic? Do we "spit behind us" as a custom tradition to protect against the evil eye, or do we "throw a black stone behind us”, so as never to see it again? Unanswered questions with an infinity of interpretations. 22 stories, 22 artists develop their artwork and installations in the rooms and spaces of a 3-storey residential building, that later housed local workshops and businesses with church supplies and utilities.
Participating artists: Nikos Artemis, Eleanna Balesi, Kostas Bassanos, Dimosthenis Bogiatzis, Katerina Botsari, Sotiris Fokeas, Vasilis Galanis, Vangelis Gokas, Babis Karalis, Markela Kontaratou, Dimitris Kontodimos, Kostas Lales, Natalia Manta, Despoina Pantazi, Nina Papaconstantinou, Nikos Papadimitriou, Amo Soy, Kleopatra Tsali, Kostas Tsolis, Andreas Vousouras, Dimitri Yin.
Curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos
Coordinated by: Fotini Kapiris
Opening: Friday, 9.10, 15:00 - 22:00
9 – 18.10.2020
Mon. - Fri. 18:00 - 21:00, Sat. & Sun. 12:00 – 16:00 | Sat. 17th & Sun. 18th 12:00 – 21:00
by appointment: info@apart-network.gr / office@cheapart.gr
25 Apollonos Str., Plaka – Mitrópoli, 105 56 Athens
* The exhibition will be realized considering all protective health measures and obligations commanded by the present conditions.
"εἰς τὸ ὄνομα.../ in the name..." is part of the Cultural Program "Αθήνα-Σημεία Τομής/ Athens-Intersection". The exhibition is held under the Auspices/ Support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, organised by APART Art Research & Applications, coordinated by CHEAPART, collaborating organization FOTA/ Friends of Trigono Athens. The exhibition takes part in AAvirtual / Art-Athina.
SWITCH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
MINT is coming back with the third edition of SWITCH short film festival in town!
SWITCH is an unusual experimental movie night held in Roodkapje Rotterdam for the last two years, giving an extra exposure to fresh talents during the time of IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam).
This time we are curating 21 films of various genres from filmmakers around the world to blow your mind again.
After the screening, there is an after party with boosting tunes from our beloved DJ Max Crezee!
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Door opens at 19:30
Cluster 1 (20:00-20:40)
Ruben Kotkamp - untitled in chrome 01
Wednesday Kim - The aesthetics of being disappeared part 1
Sevda Khatamian - The Street
Iztok Klančar - Rapture
Alexandra Hsu - Degree of Trust
Auryn Parkinson - Waarom
Cluster 2 (21:00-21:40)
Andre Perim - INFOTOXICATION
Leila Basma - New Years
Diego Marín - Propiocepción
Loïc Hobi - L'Homme Jetée
Cluster 3 (22:00-22:40)
Ana Brumat - The Pursuit of Anomalous Mind Habitats
Thaís DeMelo - AMPM
Kuesti Fraun - BEN
Yeon Sung - Rusty Odyssey
Marieke de Zwaan - So I Stay
Cluster 4 (23:00-23:50)
Sue Bridge - The Last Egg
Doina Domenica Cojocaru-Thanasiadis - Collective Responsibility
Markela Kontaratou - Wuthering Heights
Ingrid Verweijen - Do I sound like a robot
Mateo Vega - Radio Voorwaarts
Nils Gunnars - Please just let me focus on the visuals
24:00 - 02:00
PARTY! PARTY!
Entrance: €6 (online) / €7 (at door)
https://roodkapje.stager.nl/web/tickets/373367
KYPSELIAN SALON @ SNEHTA
A public salon gathering. 18-28 December 2019
Opening : Wednesday 18 December 20,00 - 23.00
Duration : 18-28 December: 16.00-21.00 (closed 25th of December)
Snehta, I.Drosopoulou 47, Kypseli, Athens
A group of established and emerging artists will present their work in an exhibition that takes the shape of a collective project. The exhibition is a living documentation of continuous artistic activity in the city. Snehta Residency becomes for ten days a contemporary salon of sixty artists whose works exhibited include paintings, collages, sculptures, constructions, micro sculptures, publications and design objects. The opening of the show will be an opportunity to explore a diversity of creative initiatives and artistic practices.
Artists:
ANGELOS AKRIDA, ANTONAKIS, ILIANA ARNAOUTOU, ANTONIS VATHIS, INO VARVARITI, AUGUSTUS VEINOGLOU, MARINA VELISIOTI, ERIPHYLI VENERI, JOHN BICKNELL, BECKY CAMPBELL, DIMITRIS GEORGAKOPOULOS, IOANNA GOUMA, ERI DIMITRIADI, IRENE EUSTATHIOU, m.k.e MAKLI EFTAXIOPOULOU, APOSTOLOS ZERDEVAS, STATHIS-ALEXANDROS ZOULIAS, JAMES FULLER, CATRIONA GHALLAGER, STEVE HARVEY, CHRIS HAWTIN, GIANNIS ISIDOROU, EVA ÍSLEIFSDÓTTIR, LIZZIE KALLIGA, IRINI KARAYANOPOULOU , FLANEUR, ISMENE KING, MARKELLA KONTARATOU, DIMITRA KOUSTERIDOU, PELAGIA KYRIAZI, VASILIKI LEFKADITI, ELEANOR LINES, YORGOS LOIZOS, CHRISTELLE MAKRIS, THEODORA MALAMOU, NIKOS MANTZIOS, ELLEANA MARTINOU, ALKISTIS MAVROKEFALOU, ZOI MOUTSOKOU, IRINI BAZARA, IRINI BACHLITZANAKI, DESPINA NISSIRIOU, ANNA GONZALEZ NOGUCHI, BJARGEY ÓLAFSDOÓTTIR, PANTELIS PANTELOPOULOS, SOFIA PAPAPOLYZOU, NICOLAS PAPASSINOS-BLETAS, IRIS PLAITAKIS, PANOS PROFITIS, DIMITRIS PROTOPAPAS, NANA SACHINI, VASILIKI SIFOSTRATOUDAKI, NAIRA STERGIOU, STEFANIA STROUZA, GIORGOS TSERIONIS, JOSEPH STOKES, PANOS FAMELIS, AMALIA CHARIKIOPOULOU, ARISTEA CHARONITI, DESPINA CHARITONIDI, LILY HASIOTI, YANNIS HADJIASLANIS, ZOE HATZIYANNAKI,
The exhibition KYPSELIAN SALON is a visual happening during which the artworks will be available for a second year-round at a surprising price. Snehta’s revenue from the exhibition will go solely towards its operation and activities in the community of Kypseli.
Bolex Camera Workshop @ Snehta Residency
Artist Talk @ Snehta Residency
Artist talk with the artists of Snehta Residency Jingbo Zou, Elsa Henderson and Paige Davis, circulating over the methodology of the artist, Bataille's language of flowers and Breton's circumstantial magic. The result of our discussion were two posters: that of the Hyacinth and the Hanged Man, which were created as a postscript in the main body of work of the three artists in residence.
“April is the cruellest month”
Paige Davis, Elsa Henderson, Jingbo Zou and Thanos Makris
Curator: Faidra Vasileiadou
Opening: 18 April 20.00-23.00
Duration: 18-23 April
Opening hours: 16.00-20.00/ Sat-Sun 12.00-17.00
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot – The Burial of the Dead, The Waste Land, 1922
Curved Arrows @ Kunstraum am Schauplatz
A curved arrow stresses its ambiguity through the symbolic difference of masculine and feminine design. The arrow is used here as a metaphor of the god Eros in Greek mythology, whose thin, long and pointed objects in our case do not hit their targets. An arrow that always misses reminds us that the imaginary demands are by definition, unsatisfiable and that the original desire is sustained by its lack.
This exhibition is the continuation of a recent show (Stopping Point, 2018) based on a poem by Antoine Tudal, which describes the difficulty of love through the acoustic and verbal similarity of “love” (l’amour) and “wall” (le mur) in French. The“love-wall” (l’a-mur) in the second part of this visual research is titled as “Curved arrows”.
Participating artists:
Savvas Christodoulides , Dimitris Foutris, Alexandros Georgiou, Maria Georgoula, Zoe Giabouldaki, Dimitris Ioannou, Eleni Kamma, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Nikos Kanarelis, Markela Kontaratou, Karolina Krasouli, Konstantinos Kotsis, Margarita Myrogianni, Theo Michael, Nina Papaconstantinou, Tereza Papamichali, Georgia Sagri, George Stamatakis, Stefania Strouza, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Alexandros Tzannis, Panos Tsagaris, Amalia Vekri, Myrto Xanthopoulou
Curated by Kostis Velonis
Assistant curator Faidra Vasileiadou
https://k-r-a-s.com/Curved-Arrows
http://www.daily-lazy.com/2019/05/curved-arrows-at-kunstraum-am.html
https://www.parnass.at/ausstellungen/curved-arrows-im-kunstraum-am-schauplatz
http://und-athens.com/calendar/curved-arrows
Studios @ TAF
TAF / the art foundation happily presents for ninth consecutive year the group exhibition Studios 2018, opening on Thursday 29 November 2018 at 20.30 and running until 6 January.
Studios is an exhibition cycle that started in February 2011 and was initiated by TAF’s curatorial team. Its primary goal was to showcase the work of young emerging artists, while building a bridge with the audience of the city. In this light, the project emerged as an answer to the lack of exhibition spaces and structures to promote their work outside the educational institutions.
After 8 years of complex economic and cultural transformations that influenced the local artistic scene and were partly reflected on the artistic map of Athens, the staple project is still evolving and presenting selected works by the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) graduates. By bringing together works that constitute part of student theses, the exhibition aspires to illuminate aspects of the artistic issues that arise during the course at ASFA.
As in previous years, the annual group show creates a dialogue between the selected pieces produced within a given academic framework, without, however, criticizing the institution. Since the beginning of its operation, ASFA has never ceased to be a significant centre of artistic education and production in Greece.
This year the exhibition presents works by 9 female graduates. The works stand out for both their research starting point and the way in which the expressive media chosen have been used. Each work encapsulates the identity and direction of the artist's practice, while leaving a comment or reflection on its own production.
Participating artists: Alexandra Ioannidi, Ioli Katsarou, Markela Kontaratou, Maria Lympoura, Irini- Fotini Markostamou, Katerina Minty, Kallirroi Panagou, Ilianna Skoulaki, Evgenia Vereli
Curated by: Velia Calevi, Christina Dilari, Nicol Leventi
Opening: Thursday 29 November 2018 20:30
Exhibition Duration: 29.11.2018-06.01.2019
Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 12.00-21.00 & Sun 12.00-19.00
Address: Normanou 5, Monastiraki
Admission Free
The Sick Rose: Graduation Show
«Entre l'homme et l'amour,
Il y a la femme.
Entre l'homme et la femme,
Il y a un monde.
Entre l'homme et le monde,
Il y a un mur.»
Antoine Tudal, Paris en l'an 2000
In erotic literature, we often find descriptions of the impasse of a relationship based on sexual difference. The exhibition takes as its point of departure a poem by Antoine Tudal, Paris en l'an 2000, which describes the difficulty of love through the acoustic and verbal similarity of “love” (l’amour) and “wall” (le mur) in French.
However, Jacques Lacan’s reference to the poem as a semiology of difference and similarity provides a basis in order to justify the relationship through the two lovers’ blunders and fumbles, their vain and unfulfilled reveries, even through excruciating pain (la douleur exquise) that turns into tragicomedy when there is no mutual response.
The exhibition reveals what pushes away instead of uniting, what stands as an obstacle and makes relationships incompatible uniting instead of pushes away. Archaic and biblical references about the eternal battle of sexes, as well as the rhetoric of contemporary psychology on “complementary” relationship, become the ingredients of an indirect acceptance of the separation caused by biological difference.
The emergence of divergence between desire and the obstacle that annuls it conveys the comical or melancholic outcome of an event that echoes not just the division of the relationship, but also the conflict, the struggle and the effort surrounding it. Here, there may be winners and losers, but in reality both sides annihilate each other, since idealizations and erotic frenzies are altered and extinguished in the corrosive flow of time.
In perceiving the wordplay of l’a-mur as an insurmountable “love-wall”, or even as a temporarily surmountable obstacle, the exhibition aims at parodying discontinuity in this libidinal architecture of delimitation and cut.
Curated by Kostis Velonis
Assistant Curator: Faidra Vasileiadou
Artists:
Alexandros Georgiou, Maria Georgoula, Zoe Giabouldaki, Dimitris Ioannou, Eleni Kamma, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Markela Kontaratou, Karolina Krasouli, Konstantinos Kotsis, Margarita Myrogianni, Theo Michael, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Nina Papakonstantinou, Tereza Papamichali, Kostas Roussakis, Georgia Sagri, George Stamatakis, Stefania Strouza, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Alexandros Tzannis, Dimitris Foutris
21/02/2018 – 10/03/2018
Daily Lazy Projects
Sina 6 & Vissarionos 9 (entrance)
Athens 10680
http://www.daily-lazy.com/2018/03/stopping-point-at-daily-lazy-projects.html
Stopping Point @Daily Lazy
ART4MORE
Art Residencies in Mental Health Units 2017
Project in cooperation with Athens School of Fine Arts, Trii Art Hub, Drakou 9, 13-15 October 2017
In this project, students by the Athens School of Fine Arts visit eight mental health units and conduct short-term creative workshops with the members. Their stay in the units is supervised by the unit’s art therapist and the project supervisor artist Nikos Kanarelis. In addition, a team of artists and mental health service users travel to the ancient site of Delfi and co-create artworks (EDRA members and “Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health“ members are participating). The students conceive and bring creative topics/ titles, under which the members creatively contribute, so that a final participatory artefact is produced by all. It’s a kind of creative “assemblage” of many different artworks, with a therapeutic and rewarding value. The artworks deriving from the project are exhibited in Trii Art Hub, 13-15 October.
for more information visit: https://art4more.org/
ART4MORE is an innovative International Arts Festival that brings awareness on social issues, especially mental health. The annual festival is run by EDRA in celebration of World Mental Health Day (10th October). Each year the festival explores a different central social awareness issue through contemporary international artworks, including visual arts, music, drama, dance, architecture, new media and design. The festival is being held under the auspices of the Greek Ministries of Health and Culture.
Delphi Feasts and Ancient Drama - European Cultural Centre of Delphi
ΕΟΡΤΑΣΜΟΙ ΓΙΑ ΔΥΟ ΕΠΕΤΕΙΟΥΣ!
Συνάντηση Νέων Δημιουργών "ΔΕΛΦΙΚΕΣ ΕΟΡΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΑΙΟ ΔΡΑΜΑ"
30 Ιουνίου-5 Ιουλίου 2017
Το Ευρωπαϊκό Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο Δελφών, με την ευκαιρία της 40ής επετείου από την ίδρυσή του και της 90ής επετείου από τις Α' Δελφικές Εορτές, οργανώνει από 30 Ιουνίου έως και 5 Ιουλίου 2017 Συνάντηση Νέων Δημιουργών με γενικό θέμα ΔΕΛΦΙΚΕΣ ΕΟΡΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΑΙΟ ΔΡΑΜΑ.
Την εποπτεία του προγράμματος έχει ο καθηγητής της Σημειωτικής του Θεάτρου και Θεωρίας της Επιτέλεσης στο Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών, Δημήτρης Τσατσούλης.
Εβδομήντα περίπου νέοι δημιουργοί, φοιτητές Τμημάτων Θεατρικών Σπουδών και φοιτητές του Θ' Εργαστηρίου της Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών, θα παρακολουθήσουν και συμμετάσχουν σε ένα εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρον πρόγραμμα που θα περιλαμβάνει:
-Ημερίδα με θέμα "Από τη «Δελφική Ιδέα» του Άγγελου στη σκηνική πράξη της Εύας Σικελιανού"
- Θεατρικά εργαστήρια και επιδείξεις μεθόδου εργασίας
-Επιτελέσεις (Performances) από νέους καλλιτέχνες
-Διαλέξεις και συζητήσεις
Στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος φοιτητές από τα Τμήματα Θεατρικών Σπουδών των πανεπιστημίων Αθήνας, Θεσσαλονίκης, Πάτρας και Πελοποννήσου θα παρουσιάσουν μικρή παράσταση εμπνευσμένη από το αρχαίο δράμα ενώ φοιτητές από τη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών θα εκθέσουν νέα έργα τους, ειδικά φιλοτεχνημένα για τη Συνάντηση των Δελφών.
Οι εκδηλώσεις είναι ανοιχτές στο κοινό.
English:
A feast for two anniversaries!
Meeting of young creators "DELPHI FEASTS AND ANCIENT DRAMA"
30 June -5 July 2017
European Cultural Centre of Delphi
The European Cultural Centre of Delphi, in regards to the 40th anniversary from its founding and the 90th anniversary of the First Feasts of Delphi, is organising the Meeting of Young Creators with the general theme of DELPHI FEASTS AND ANCIENT DRAMA.
About seventy young artists and creators, students of the Theatrical Studies and the 9th lab of the Athens School of Fine Arts, will be participating in an extremely interesting programme which will be hosting:
- Drama Workshops
- Workshops about the "Delphi Idea" of Aggelos Sikelianos in the stage action of Eva Palmer Sikelianos
- Performances from young artists
- Lectures and Talks
In the curriculum, students from the Drama Studies of the Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras and Peloponnisos University will be presenting acts inspired from the Ancient Drama, while students from the Athens School of Fine Arts will exhibit new yorks, especially created for the Meeting of Delphi.
The events will be open for the public.
Rainer on top of staircase, Kassel
Main focus of the workshop and the trip was Hans Blumenberg book "Shipwreck with Spectator", the C.I.A.M. 4 and the filming of Rainer Oldendorf's movie, "Marco 14". Part of the workshop was transforming the Prevelaki Hall, of Politechnion. Filming of Marco 14 took place in Athens, Korinthos, the ship from Patras to Ancona, Italy, Arc-et-Senans, Besancon and Kassel.
Workshop Notes:
Ledoux architecture exhibition, Arc-et-Senans, Saline Royal
Trip Notes:
Marco 14: Workshop and Trip with Rainer Oldendorf for Documenta 14
MINT - CLASH
MINT - CLASH
31/03/2017
20:00 - 02:00
UBIK
The Performance Bar, The Black Hole, Slash Gallery
Boomgaardsstraat 69, Rotterdam, Holland
''MINT'' Presents– colorful paintings, abstract illustrations, fluid and geometric installations, movies who will invite you to different realities and performers who will surprise by every detail.
CURATED BY:
Davids Danoss & Hugo Meijer
LOCATION
-WORM /Performance bar Rotterdam /Boomgaardsstraat 71
MINT
Athens Digital Arts Festival 2016
19-22 May
Building Complex Gate Ermou 117 - 121
Historic Centre of Athens
My work Leviathan will be screened as part of the 2016 Athens Digital Arts Festival:
http://2016.adaf.gr/event/leviathan-screening-pop-compression/
Gene Swenson: “Is Pop a bad name?”
Andy Warhol: “The name sounds so awful.”
Abstract from an interview, Art News (1963)
Over the last few years, we experience a culture of excess where on one hand the overabundance of information has generated a wave of passive consumption and on the other has allowed many previously unseen trends and voices to emerge. Today, Pop may be as well defined by likes, shares, tweets, views or followers showing in a way the power of the people to decide about trends and attitudes but also highlighting the ephemerality of it, as the culture around us is changing at high speed. In that sense, we might as well say that what is considered Pop in 2015 might be outdated in 2016 and so on.
Back in 1963, Andy Warhol said that “everybody should be a machine” and that “everybody should like everybody”. Acting like machines or liking things is almost typical behaviour and part of the everyday digital routine. Digital culture is omnipresent. It has changed our way of thinking. It has changed our habits and behaviours. The techno-culture that once was odd and distant is now part of most human activities from entertainment, lifestyle, business to art and politics.
What is defined as Pop is characterised through the culture of here and now. The pleasure of sharing everyday life through online environments and digital devices manifests a new way of living where our collective identities and digital selves intersect. GIFs, memes, selfies, viral videos, the internet slang as well as sharing, posting, uploading, commenting are all practices that reflect the current cultural condition.
What kind of digital content do we consume and what culture do we create? How are we “feeding” today’s digital markets? How ephemeral is digital Pop culture? How has digital pop culture affected our daily lives? What kind of aesthetics have emerged? How do artists respond to the current condition?
Athens Digital Arts Festival 2016: Digital Pop
APhF 2015, Benaki Museum
PHOTOGRAPHY AS PERFORMANCE
[6th Edition]
“Reframing memory, performances”
Athens Photo Festival 2015
Curators: Nikolaos Stathopoulos, Sylvia Solakidi, Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Contemporary art encourages the interaction across conventional boundaries of expressive fields. Since 2009, Athens Photo Festival has been an excellent opportunity for experimenting with the ways through which an artistic medium between life and art (performance) and a major visual art (photography) can cross boundaries and create interesting hybrids.
During the 2015 Photography as Performance Event artists from diverse backgrounds (visual arts, theatre, music, photography, graphic design) will enact issues concerning self and alterit...y and will develop liminal situations through secular rituals. They will appropriate symbols, representations and social roles towards the reframing of memories depicted in photographs (The Black Swan, Vasiliki Psarou-Apostolos Plachouris, Stavros Taktikos, Thodoris Trampas, Kostas Voulgaris), the reframing of childhood memories (Alexandra Ioannidi, Markela Kontaratou, Evangelia Raftopoulou), the reframing of symbolic and social memory (Happlnk, Foteini Hatzimichail, Andri Lazarou, Maria Lympoura, Nikos Stathopoulos, Filippos Vasiliou, Nefeli Voutira), the reframing of memories from works of art or pop culture representations (The Flower Girls, Anastasis Grivas-Rilėne Markopoulou-Eva Giannakopoulou, Eleni Tsamadia,Antigone Theodorou) and the reframing of memory stored in the properties of natural or man-made materials (Maria Iliopoulou, Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki, Myrto Vratsanou).
The ultimate aim of the artists is to explore some unexpected ways of restructuring individual and collective memory by testing the ambiguity and the multiple significations of widely dispersed visual representations of human experience.
Special thanks to Megakles Rogkakos for the photographs
Territories of Crisis
TERRITORIES OF CRISIS”
AN INVITATION FROM LA POCHA NOSTRA
PERFORMANCE SALON / RADICAL PEDAGOGY / JAM SESSION / LIVE ART / ELECTRONICA
Pocha troupe core members Gomez-Pena, Michèle Ceballos and Saul Garcia-Lopez, with Pocha Associates Jess Balitrónica, Predrag Predjac and Fotini Kalle (our local producer) and our local host Vassilis Vlastaras from the Athens School of Fine Arts cordially invite you to view the high / low / sidelights, and close-ups from the 2015 Pocha Nostra International Summer Workshop.
Witness capitalist demons, pagan saints, social monsters, radical bohemians, and other wild live images at our indoors / outdoors live jam sessions hosted by the
Athens School of Fine Arts.
Saturday, June... 13, 2015 at the Theater of ASFA,
256 Peiraios St. 182 33, Rentis. 8:30-10:00 PM
FREE ENTRANCE
The night will feature performances in process by rebel artists from nine countries, three generations & multiple disciplines. This is the culmination of two weeks of radical performance exercises conducted by the infamous performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Join us for a glimpse into a radical pedagogical process featuring experimental improvisation, bizarre rituals, body/text imagery and wild live art actions.
Founded in 1993 La Pocha Nostra is an ever morphing trans-disciplinary arts organization based in San Francisco with branches in many other cities and countries.
Every summer since 2004 the legendary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra conducts a nomadic 12 day intensive performance art workshop on performance art with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory, and activism. For the first time ever this cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary and multi-generational workshop takes place in Greece, and involves a curated group of more of 25 rebel artists coming from Mexico, the US, Greece, the UK, Australia, Finland, Canada, Germany, and Spain.
The Pocha workshop is an amazing artistic and anthropological experiment in which carefully selected artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic and sub-cultural background begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.
Workshop participants:
Rae Uddin, Caroline Garcia, Laura Corcuera, Ainoa Mela Lopez, Steven Conway, Elle Mehrmand, Ally Walsh, Ria Hartley, Denise Benavides, Andrea Pocha Tucson, Maria Isabel Ramirez, Marina Barsy, Iivi Meltaus, Jenny Zagas Franzoni, Eva Koliopantou, Eirini Danou, Yorgos Bakalos, Maria F Dolores, Stefanos Chandelis, Litsa Kiousi, Lia Giannakou, Poulheria Papahristou, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Kostas Voulgaris, Eleni Zervou, Markela Kontaratou, Konstantinos Davris, Angeliki Chaido Tsoli
You can find more about the work presented at the event here
P.A.S. #38: Places of Duration
# 38 | Places of duration
27. March - 6. April 2015 / Athens, Greece
in cooperation with epitelesis - performance art foundation, Athens, Greecewith guest teachers: Andreas Pashias and Francesco Kiais.Hosted by Cheapart Athens.
http://www.pas.bbbjohannesdeimling.de/index.php?/2015/38--places-of-duration/
Places of duration - PAS #38
As soon as something is created, built or set up, time begins to work on its consumption. This happens with houses, streets, electronic devices, cars, nature, and human beings, as well as with feelings, moments, situations and memories.
In its own existence, every single thing is in motion and temporary. For some, this fact can be terrifying, and for some this is a quality signature of life. The attempt to preserve things for a longer duration can be seen in processes such as food conservation, art restoration and traditional rituals or celebrations. The will to work against the force of time, is everywhere visible and active. This is demonstrated by the insistence to document, archive, remember, and the attempt to leave traces of our existence, as individuals and as a civilization.
Traditionally, in art it was the painting, and especially the sculpture, which expressed our aspiration to eternity. On the other hand, photography (and more specifically its digital form) reflects, almost as a mirror image, a present dimension in terms of a ‘constant ephemeral’ - another kind of eternity - as a witness of the already gone and lost moments. Through research on the ‘duration’ of these art forms, we can approach the temporary and suspensive character of performance art, which is ideally existing only in the moment, and try to touch another dimension of eternity - the memory, the remembering.
The immense knowledge of Greek sculpture, the breadth of its production and meaning, as well as the key role it played in the formation of aesthetic culture of the whole Western world, can be the reason to hold these studies in Athens where - in a current framework of growing social instability and doubt - we are given the opportunity to hold a corporeal discussion on what it means to have a position or ‘stance’ within a specific context of space-time or towards an issue of urgency.
By bringing this sculpturesque ‘stance’ into performance art, we will focus on the form of still-life performance and long-duration performance, by moving ourselves within the triangle of space-time, document-memory and artistic idea, playing between materiality and the ‘fading’, the ephemeral and the eternal, in order to situate duration into a device of visual significance and find inspiration for works which can develop in it.
“Place always opens a region in which it gathers the things in their belonging together.” [Martin Heidegger, “Die Kunst und der Raum”, E. Verlag, St. Gallen, 1969, Trans. by C. H. Seibert]
In “Places of Duration” we can find and offer space-time to meet, gather and connect, we can create places where everybody is invited to stay and be for a moment.
participants: Veronika Merklein, Anna Kosarewska, Imke Zeinstra, Aron Lesnik, Angeliki Chaido Tsoli, Manuel Lopez Garcia, Markela Kontaratou, Ruth Biene, Eliza Soroga, Christos Papamichael, Ola Koziol, Jolijn de Wolf, Sophie Terlega
You can find more about the work presented at the event here
RE.FORMANCE
Booze Cooperativa is hosting the work of 9 young artists who work in the frame of performance art.
A series of performances are taking place, which deal in many ways with performance art: sound art, interactive, mobile and immobile, public performance, in hopes of communicating with the general audience.
Booze Cooperativa, Kolokotroni 57 Athens