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Month: April 2024

ARTWORKS Publication available for sale!

ARTWORKS Publication now available for sale at Hyper Hypo , SNFCC Store and the Cycladic Shop!

ARTWORKS publication consists of five issues, each one documenting every cycle of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program implemented over the years of 2018-2023.It features all the awardees -390 creatives who work in the visual arts, in moving image, dance and curating- and describes all the activities and events that took place throughout the course of each Program. It also includes essays, reflecting on and/or inspired by the fellowship, written by ARTWORKS collaborators and other arts professionals. The five issues complement each other with the aim of mapping the local contemporary art scene by highlighting its promising art force, the wide range of the differences and convergences among the various forms, aesthetic values and thematic references that drive artistic creation.

Publication: ARTWORKS
Founding Donor: Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

Issue 1:
Design: Stathis Mitropoulos
Editors: Panos Giannikopoulos, Marily Konstantinopoulou, Dimitra Nikolou

Issue 2
Design: Ogust
Editors: Danai Giannoglou, Christina Petkopoulou, Mare Spanoudaki, Eva Vaslamatzi

Issue 3
Design: Typical. Organization for standards & order
Editors: Eirini Fountedaki, Vassilia Kaga, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

Issue 4
Design: Alex Brouhard
Editors: Panos Fourtoulakis,Ioanna Gerakidi, Christina Tzekou, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Nicolas Vamvouklis

Issue 5
Design: Maita Chatziionnidou, Loopo Studio
Editors: Alexia Alexandropoulou, Ariana Kalliga, Caterina Stamou, Despoina Tzanou

Printing
Pletsas K., Kardari Z., OE

Photos: Alina Lefa

The film “Persephone, the red carpet’ created by Collectif MASI and JOSHUA OLSTHOORN screened at “Mystery 176: Cinema Days”

The film Persephone, the red carpet brings to the screen Collectif MASI’s socio-mythological sculpture with and for the people of Elefsina, created in June 2023 as part of ELEVSIS 2023, European Capital of Culture. It is directed by the MASI Collective (Madlen Anipsitaki & Simon Riedler) and Joshua Olsthoorn, with financial support from the French Institutes of Greece and Paris.

Celebrated in ancient times during the Eleusinian Mysteries, Persephone, goddess of the underworld and the cycle of the seasons, is revived as a red carpet. Persephone, the red carpet appears, disappears, unfurls and wanders through contemporary Eleusis. In collective performances, to the sound of Andreas Polizogopoulos’s trumpet, she passes from foot to hand to head, from neighborhood to neighborhood. Through ritual gestures, residents from different neighborhoods and backgrounds rewrite the myth of Persephone; and the red carpet, originally an aristocratic symbol reserved for gods, becomes a symbol of equality and unity.

The Premiere of the film will take place on April 14th at 8pm at Cine ELEUSIS, Eleftheriou Venizelou 45 in Elefsina. The film, in Greek, will have English subtitles. Duration 70’.

The screening is part of the “Mystery 176: Cinema Days” in the official ELEUSIS2023 European Capital of Culture program.

Trailer:

* Μadlen Anipsitaki is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020

Lecture “The female body in performance art: paradigms – displacements – subjectivities” by Despina Zaharopoulou

Despina Zaharopoulou, Performance Artist, Dr. of Philosophy and Fine Arts specializing in Performance Art (Onassis Foundation Scholar & SNF ARTWORKS Fellow), Royal College of Art, London will give a lecture on: “The female body in performance art: paradigms – displacements – subjectivities” on Thursday, April 4, 12:00 – 15:00, AKTO Amphitheater (11 A, Evelpidon str., 11362, Pedion Areos, Athens, Greece)

AKTO
Department of Fine Art & New Media
Evelpidon 11A, 11362, Pedion Areos

Despina Zaharopoulou
Lecture “The female body in performance art: paradigms – displacements – subjectivities”
Thursday, April 4th, 12:00-15:00

 

 

KOSTIS CHARAMOUNTANIS’ FEATURE WORLD PREMIERS AT ACID SECTION, CANNES FESTIVAL

Kostis Charamountanis’ feature film “Kyuka – Before Summer’s End” world premieres at Cannes parallel section Acid (Association for the Distribution of Independant Cinema) !

Summertime. A family of three, a single father, Babis, and his twin children on the verge of adulthood, Konstantinos and Elsa, sail to the island of Poros on the family boat for their holidays. In the midst of swimming, sunbathing and making new friends, Konstantinos and Elsa meet unbeknownst to them, their birth mother Anna who abandoned them when they were babies. This encounter will stir up long-held feelings of resentment in Babis, resulting in a sun-kissed, bittersweet coming-of-age journey for everyone involved.

This year’s selection world premieres nine features and will be screened at Cannes Festival between May 15 and 24, 2024 at Palais des festivals, Les Arcades, Studio 13, Alexandre III.

Read the conversation between Kostis Charamountanis and Tassos Chatziefraimidis that was published at READING section on ARTWORKS website here.

*Kostis Charamountanis is SNF ARTWORKS Moving Image Fellow (2020)