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SNFCC Members x Artworks x Delta Restaurant

We are delighted to inaugurate a new collaboration with Delta Restaurant and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC), offering a thematic initiative of artistic visits in two parts, exclusively for SNFCC Members!

Delta, the fine-dinning restaurant by Dipnosofistirion at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), driven by the cultural character of its operation, αs well as being a lively promotion platform of contemporary visual arts, collaborates with ARTWORKS and presents works of Greek artists in the restaurant’s venue. The restaurant embraces art and organically integrates yearly rotating artworks in its interior and surrounding spaces. Following the concept of sustainability, we are invited to think of art as part of diverse ecosystems and interdependent interactions.

In this context, the Membership Program has planned exclusively for the Members of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) a group of thematic visits from November 2021 to March 2022. The visits are structured between two parallel axes: initially in the Delta area, where through monthly tours, the works of the 5 participating artists that have been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program by ARTWORKS will be presented, and then off the premises of the SNFCC, at the studios or in exhibition spaces of the up-and-coming artists.

During SNFCC members’ visits to Delta Restaurant, the initiative and the philosophy behind the partnership of Delta with ARTWORKS will be presented, and members will be guided in the selected works of the 5 artists, which are harmoniously integrated in the restaurant space. Then, the artists will welcome the members to their space, presenting their work and creating the space for an open discussion.

The events are dedicated to all our members who love art and culture and want to immerse themselves in the concept of artistic creation and its practice, in every form. They are also addressed to all those who are interested in getting to know the modern ambassadors of the domestic art scene.

Participating artists: Petros Moris, Malvina Panagiotidi, Katerina Komianou, Manolis Daskalakis Lemos and Dimitris Efeoglou

The 5 artists presenting their work this year have been awarded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program, ARTWORKS, thanks to the founding donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Visits Schedule:

November:
Monday 8/11, 18.00 | 1st Visit to Delta Restaurant
Saturday 20/11, 12.30 | Off Premises: Petros Moris- Solo exhibition at Radio Athènes
December:
Monday 6/12, 18.00 | 2nd Visit to Delta Restaurant
Thursday 9/12, 18.00 | Off Premises: Studio Visit | Meet the Artist: Malvina Panagiotidi
January:
Monday 10/01, 18.00 | 3rd Visit to Delta Restaurant
Saturday 15/01, 12.30 | Off Premises:Studio Visit | Meet the Artist: Katerina Komianou
February:
Saturday 12/2, 12.30 | Off Premises: Studio Visit | Meet the Artist: Manolis Daskalakis Lemos
March:
Saturday 12/3, 12.30 | Off Premises: Studio Visit | Meet the Artist: Dimitris Efeoglou

Delta was created through an initiative and a grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center A.E. It aims to become a landmark culinary destination in line with the high standards of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and to share Greek cuisine around the world.

Free entrance via online pre-registration*

* Pre-registration for our monthly visits starts at the beginning of each month. The information is provided through the Newsletter of the Members of the SNFCC.

This initiative is a collaboration of the SNFCC Members Program with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program, ARTWORKS and the Delta Restaurant.

More info here.

9 FELLOWS SCREEN THEIR MOVIES AT THE 62th THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL

The 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival is returning to its home turf, the movie theaters, prioritizing safety and abiding by all health and safety protocols, from Thursday 4 to Sunday 14, November 2021. This year’s celebration of independent cinema will take place in physical spaces, but online as well.

Within the framework of the 62nd TIFF, 197 films will be screened in the time-honored home ground of the Festival, while the audience will have the chance to watch 144 films online, through the digital platform of the Festival, online.filmfestival.gr.

Check below our Fellows’ movies which will be screen at the 62nd TIFF:

Brutalia, Days of Labour, Manolis Mavris
More info here

Motorway 65, Evi Kalogiropoulou
More info here

ORFEAS2021, FYTA*
More info here

Soul Food, Nikos Tsemberopoulos
More info here

Souls All Unaccompanied, Yorgos Teltzidis
More info here

The Timekeepers of Eternity, Aristotelis Maragkos
More info here

Holy Emy, Araceli Lemos
More info here

Magnetic Fields, Yorgos Goussis
More info here

Moon, 66 Questions, Jacqueline Lentzou
More info here

*Foivos Dousos part of the artistic duo FYTA is Fellow

The Department of Civil Imagination (DCI) Agency in Athens

ARTWORKS founders, Marily Konstantinopoulou & Dimitra Nikolou, were among the art professionals that were interviewed by 3 137 within the scope of RESHAPE in relation to the art sector in Greece.

RESHAPE is an experimental, bottom-up research process that proposes instruments for transition towards a fairer arts ecosystem across Europe and the Southern Mediterranean. Forty art workers engaged in collaborative work relating to five major challenges of today’s arts sector: Art and Citizenship, Fair Governance Models, Value of Art in Social Fabric, Solidarity Economies and Transnational/Postnational Artistic Practices. Together they have created a series of Prototypes that reflect and incite the transformation of the art sector towards practices that are more in line with the civil role of the arts.

Paky Vlassopoulou, one of the founding members of 3 137, was a participant of the RESHAPE trajectory Art and Citizenship that created The Department of Civil Imagination (DCI), a fictional department that utilises the ‘civil imagination’ as a radical act to reshape realities in poetic, practical, and political ways following the provocation by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha that ‘all organizing is science fiction.’

In parallel, over the past few years, 3 137 has been developing a similar methodological tool, through the invention of the immaterial art institution GABRIELA. GABRIELA is a self-reflexive process that functions as a tool, a service, and a manual for questioning the role of―and the labor involved in―artists’ initiatives. The organizational structure of GABRIELA appropriates corporate strategies such as directorship, administration, branding, and communication campaigns to occupy public space and the web, seeking to redistribute itself among its peers.

On the occasion of this meeting between these two fictional entities (DCI & GABRIELA) a conversation, in the format of short recorded one-to-one interviews, is presented with the aim to rethink and reimagine on a local level a different arts ecosystem.

Participants: Christos Carras, Marily Konstantinopoulou & Dimitra Nikolou, Dimitris Passas, Artemis Stamatiadi, Katerina Tselou, Evita Tsokanta, and Venia Vergou.

The participants were invited to share ideas about the relationship between the private and public sector in cultural production, about the values that can be used to build a code of conduct for workers in the cultural sector and about the value of art in the social fabric.

The collection of recorded interviews is a study that enables us to understand the particular conditions within which the sector operates in Greece, to hear different perspectives in order to map the common ground that might exist for the improvement of the working conditions and the cultural production overall as well as for the development of critical discourse in Greece. The opinions that are presented here are strictly personal. The questions that were posed were the outcome of the conversations between 3 137 and Onassis AiR. The recorded interviews were conducted by Kosmas Nikolaou.

Listen to audio recorded one-to-one interviews with Marily Konstantinopoulou & Dimitra Nikolou:

Listen to all the audio recorded one-to-one interviews here

On Tuesday, October 26 and Wednesday, October 27, 2021, the research material and the presentation of a series of tools that was produced within the scope of RESHAPE in relation to the art sector in Greece, will be presented at 3 137 artist-run space.

 

DISCUSSION PANEL “SUPPORTING THE ARTS TODAY”

On Saturday, October 23, 2021, in the context of the autumn events of the Averoff Gallery, Dimitra Nikolou – ARTWORKS Co-Founder and Director of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program  – participated in the round table discussion “Supporting the Arts Today”. The objective of the panel discussion was to explore the current conditions of the support system of the arts and discuss the possibilities and the difficulties that exist from the perspective of the state, of art institutions, but also from the viewpoint of the new generation of artists.

 

Participants:
Paky Vlassopoulou, Artist, Co-founder of the artist-run space 3 137
Dimitra Nikolou, Co-founder, Program Director ARTWORKS
Marios Spiliopoulos, Artist, Tutor at the Athens School of Fine Arts,
Stamatis Schizakis, Curator, Department of Photography and New Media, Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST)

Syrago Tsiara, Deputy Director of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art Collection
Manolis Haros, Artist

The discussion was moderated by Irini Orati, Art historian.

 

“PORTALS” VISIT AT THE former Public Tobacco Factory

Our next stop with the Fellows 2021 was at the former Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House, a city landmark that was restored by NEON; On Thursday October 21st, 2o21 we had the chance to visit an extraordinary exhibition titled “Portals”, featuring 59 artists from 27 countries, from which 5 SNF ARTWORKS Fellows (Anastasia Douka , Eirene Efstathiou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki , Alexandros Tzannis and Myrto Xanthopoulou! Congratulations!

Along with our Fellows 2021, we were warmly welcomed by members of the NEON team, Nafsika Papadopoulou , Fanis Kafantaris and Galini Notti. We learned more about NEON organization, the philosophy behind the renovation of this historic building as well as the concept and the main axes of the exhibition.

More info here

 

“Anti-structure” at DESTE: our First group visit with the Fellows 2021

On Tuesday October 19th 2021, we held our first group visit with the Fellows 2021 at the exhibition “Anti-structure” at DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.

Andreas Melas, the exhibition curator, guided us through the works and talked about the concept behind the exhibition which he developed in collaboration with the collector Dakis Joannou in order to create a relationship between the installation works of Urs Fisher and artworks by Greek and Cypriot artists, while exploring the lines between order and chaos, stasis and flux, structure and fragility.

“ANTI-STRUCTURE”, DESTE FOUNDATION

Taking as its starting point an immersive installation with works by Urs Fischer and placing it in dialogue with the work of twenty-one Greek and Cypriot artists of various generations and modalities, Anti-Structure explores the far-fetched realm of fine lines between order and chaos, stasis and flux, structure and fragility.

Coined in 1969 by cultural anthropologist Victor Turner (1920–1983), “anti-structure” is a study of the state of mental and spiritual limbo that is characteristic of the second stage—the liminal stage—of any rite of passage, when the novitiate is neither here nor there but, betwixt and between, remains enveloped in abiding upheaval and disarray and a preternatural void.  Anti-structure thus describes a stage of perpetual transformation characterized by moments of dissolution where “structural hierarchies are flattened or inverted.” Whereas the dominant ideology du jour was that any such breakdown would result in anomie and angst, Turner recognized that in times of great happenstance, culture in fact reboots itself and new symbols, models, and paradigms arise.

It is not unusual to find such pockets of clandestine novelty simmering deep in the underground, the pregnant margins of normative order. It is in these lands of strangers and exiles, that one finds fertile ground for radical thought and very strange ideas. It is these ideas cultivated in the fringes of institutionalized etiquette that bring forth novel ways of dress, posture, and expression, attitudes that when fully formed feed back into the system to either break or make the mainstream.

The exhibition includes the works of: Yannoulis Chalepas, Diohandi, Dora Economou, Andreas Embirikos, Urs Fischer, Sotirios Kotoulas, George Lappas, Tony Moussoulides, Aliki Panagiotou, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Nausika Pastra, Georgia Sagri, Lucas Samaras, Christiana Soulou, Takis, Thanassis Totsikas, Iris Touliatou*, George Tourkovasilis, Pantelis Xagoraris, Marina Xenofontos, Takis Zenetos

*Iris Touliatou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow

Curator: Andreas Melas

More info here

3 FELLOWS JOIN THE PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION “SYNTHESIS”

“Synthesis”, a new performative installation by choreographer Tzeni Argyriou and visual artist Vassilis Gerodimos, tackles the complex event of the Greek War of Independence. Over 30 artists from the whole spectrum of performance and visual arts take part in the creation of the work, summoning the visitor to a unique experience.

“Synthesis” takes the form of a performative assemblage that correlates the process that produced the historical and socio-political network of the Greek War of Independence with that of the collective work, with its own particular, diverse conflicts, contradictions, aporias, transitions and reversals. During the three days of the event, each of whom conceptually corresponds to one of the three stages of the Greek Revolution (the intoxication of the initial outbreak, the middle-period introversion and the late-phase fatigue, but also the resilience which was a constant characteristic of the whole revolutionary decade), the artists cooperate in real time to create an interactive installation in which the spaces of the Alternative Stage lend themselves to a dynamic process of incessant visual and aural mobility. The creators set out to throw light on the invisible aspects of the official history by emphasising under-recognised factors such as financial management, military administration, ideological developments and everyday life of the revolutionary period.

Through the conversion of the Alternative Stage to a workshop space where the limits between “stage” and “backstage” become permeable and the public experience the preparation and final presentation of a series of concurrent and overlapping actions in active dialogue with each other, the creators of Synthesis trace the intertwined historical “lines” that synthesise the premeditated and the random, highlighting the analogies between a performative and a historical event.

More info:

https://www.nationalopera.gr/en/alternative-stage/es-events/item/3658-synthesis

synthesis21.gr

Maro Fasouli, Virginia Mastrogiannaki and Konstantinos Paleologos, all SNF ARTWORKS Fellows, participate in the performative installation.

EVA VASLAMATZI AT SAHA ASSOCIATION, TURKEY

Eva Vaslamatzi (curator and SNF ARTWORKS Fellow) was selected to spend 6 weeks at SAHA Association and indulge in the city’s contemporary art scene. As part of the curatorial residency at SAHA, Eva had the opportunity to visit art galleries , museum and artists’ studios. Her research resulted in the organization and curation of the exhibition ““I heard it from the valleys”  at Haus N in Athens with Greek and Turkish artists.

Eva’s residency was possible thanks to the generous support of ARTWORKS’ founding donor, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

Iris Touliatou at New York for a two-month residency at ispc

We are super happy to announce that we are finally able to resume our partnership with the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and continue serving our mission: to offer our Fellows long lasting learning and networking opportunities inside and outside Greece.

Iris Touliatou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020) who was nominated by our visual arts committee and selected by the ISCP curatorial team, will have a private and furnished studio space in Brooklyn and 24-hour access to all communal facilities at ISCP (September-October 2021). During her stay in New York, Iris will also participate in the 2021 Triennial “Soft Water Hard Stone” at the New Museum . We are looking forward to seeing Iris enjoy the fruits of her labor and we wish her the best of luck.

Our residency partnerships would not be possible without the generous support of our founding donor, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

More info about Iri’s residency here.

Opening event – 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program

We kicked off the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program with a celebratory gathering at the Romantso terrace. It was great to meet you all and we can’t wait to spend more creative (and fun) time with you in the months to come! Welcome everyone and cheers to the 80 SNF ARTWORKS Fellows 2021!

SYNASKí programme by COCHLEA res & Georgia Paizi

As part of this years’ SYNASKí programme, COCHLEA res & Georgia Paizi curate a series of open online conversational scores between 4 or 5 each time teacher/artists, followed by a Q&A.

On Sunday 17th October, the third (and last) meeting takes place on zoom, 1-3pm GMT+3
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6909853355
Meeting ID: 690 985 3355

Number of connections is limited to 100. Subscription on facebook fb.me/e/16rwOFZyN

These conversational scores attempt a non-linear mapping of the field of somatic practices, highlight the key concepts and tools brought by these practices and investigate language, poetic imagery, translation, experiential anatomy, and touch, as well as how these practices link and relate to each other, their place within contemporary movement education, their therapeutic side, and whether they contribute to a democratisation of making and training and a sense of community versus individuality in a post-capitalistic era.

SUNDAY 3 OCT
Giorgos Sioras Deligiannia
Georgia Paizi
Marilena Petridou
Marina Tsartsara
Dimitra Charalampidou

SUNDAY 10 OCT
Timos Zechas
Anna Tzakou
Vasiliki Tsagkari
Despina Chatzipavlidou

SUNDAY 17 OCT
Zoi Dimitriou
Mariela Nestora
Ioanna Palamidous
Eleni Panitska
Ireni Stamou

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SYNASKí investigates the field of somatic practices in education, artistic research and making. SYNASKí includes 105 studio hours, 92 hours of class, 14 different techniques (incl. Alexander Technique, Pilates, Yoga, Axis Sylabus, Rolfing, Antigymnastics, Feldenkrais, SRT, BMC, Franklin, Klein, Authentic Movement, Contemplative Dance Practice, Topf) brought to us 14 different artist/qualified teachers, 4 improvisation jams, 3 open discussions, 1 history & theory session, 1 mentoring session per participant, 1 closing cycle.

Funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Supported by Duncan Dance Research Centre Athens.

Collages by Lina Vergopoulou.
Currated by Georgia Paizi & www.cochleares.com

Georgia Paizi is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021

Closing event – 3rd SNF ARTIST FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

To celebrate the completion of the 3rd SNF Artist Fellowship Program, we gathered last week at Latraac Cafe! Getting together after a year of mostly digital encounters was a long awaited moment and we would like to thank everyone for joining. Until next time!

Photos: Ioanna Chatziandreou

Art workshop “Awaken the world with a magnet” by Antigoni Michalakopoulou

With Takis’ series of works with magnets and iron filings as our launch pad, and through comprehensible examples and personal experiences, we will awaken the world of our imagination with a magnet. We will follow a sequence of visual art experiments to create our own works of art, while deepening our understanding of the concept of energy flow in nature and in art. A dance of filings and lines will bring to life natural phenomena, magical creatures, stories and, of course, all of our energy to create!

Up to 15 participants
For children aged 6 to 10 years old

Saturday 16 & 30/ 10 | 17.30-19.00
Saturday 13 & 27/ 11 | 17.30-19.00

Maker Space

Free attendance by online pre-registration

For the activity held on 16/10, pre-registration starts on Saturday 09/10 at 12.00
For the activity held on 30/10, pre-registration starts on Friday 22/10 at 12.00

Session #1

We will make “impetuous designs” with ink, filings and our magnet, and awaken the force of a volcano, a twister or, maybe, the waves of the sea? What will become of this momentum? What will it transform into within our artwork?

Session #2

Playing with the concepts of order and disorder, we will unravel a tangle of filings that flows to the rhythm of our magnet. Dots and lines will help us solve this mystery… How do I unravel the tangle with my pencil? How do I impose creative “order” to creative “disorder”?

Session #3

With the help of a magic box that contains filings and plenty of imagination, we will breathe life into the magnetic creatures that will appear before our eyes: are their aliens or, perhaps, mysterious insects? Where do they live, what do they eat, what language do they speak?

Session #4

We will make sculptures out of white clay, filings and small magnets. Tree or insect? Or, perhaps, a volcano? No, it’s a flower… Or a stormy cloud watering an exotic plant!

Design/Implementation: Antigoni Michalakopoulou, Visual Artist/Architect/Educator

*Antigoni Michalakopoulou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020 in visual arts

More info: https://www.snfcc.org/en/events/art-workshop-awaken-world-magnet/10407

“faulty boy” | Sam Albatros’ debut novel

Sam Albatros’ debut novel “faulty boy” is out 15.10.2021 by Hestia publications.

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WE ARE THE HAPPIEST FAMILY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!

Dad sometimes beats me up with his belt. Once I saw someone beat his son like this in a Greek movie. Since then, every time dad beats me up with his belt, I feel like a movie star.

Mom won’t stop telling me to study, since her parents were so poor she couldn’t afford to go to school. If she wants to go to school that bad, she can go to mine and I’ll stay at home and be the housewise: I told her that once and she slapped me.

I’ll talk about my siblings another time, I’m bored now. They don’t live with us anyway, like normal siblings do.

I have the best friends in the whole wide world! Thanasis is my best friend and he sits next to me at school. We like to play many games but we don’t talk about some of them, we keep them secret. He doesn’t let me talk about them because last time I did, we got beaten up. Then it’s Athena and Sophia, who are also sitting next to each other in the class. Athena is strong and they call her a tomboy and Sophia wears glasses and she’s wise like an owl.

We love each other so much! I love Thanasis, Thanasis loves Athena, Athena loves Sophia (but won’t admit it) and Sophia loves me.

We’re the best students in the class! That’s cause I crib from Thanasis, and Athena cribs from Sophia. Sometimes though Athena forgets to mix it up a little. Once she had copied word by word Sophia’s writing exercise. When the teacher asked what happened, I butted in and said: “Great minds think alike!”.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation 25th Anniversary Short Film Challenge

How can technology be a force for good? SNF and Ghetto Film School are looking for your stories and ideas in a short film up to two minutes long (non-fiction, scripted, animation, TikTok film, photo roman) for the SNF 25th Anniversary Short Film Challenge.

Six chosen filmmakers will be invited to a GFS Virtual Film Completion Lab for mentorship, professional training, and a production award!

Submissions are open until October 25th.

Find out more at https://b.snf.org/3sQpD9J

#RevoltingBodies by Alexis Fidetzis

For the programme of #OccupyAtopos and with reference to the 200th anniversary of the Greek revolution, the artistic director of ATOPOS cvc, Vassilis Zidianakis, invites artist, historian, and researcher Alexis Fidetzis to curate the hybrid, ongoing project #RevoltingBodies. The project aims to integrate the Greek Revolution into a broader dialogue about the revolutionary phenomenon that to an extent defined modernity, immersing into the stories of the bodies upon which both the revolutionary action and the mythologies around it are imposed.

Fidetzis transforms the neoclassical building at Salaminos 72 street into the Revolutionary Headquarters of Language and Image. The exhibited artworks are semiotic references to revolutionary moments and narratives. These artworks do not constitute an aesthetic representation of the history of the notion of revolution, instead they present more of an outline of the methods through which contemporary societies metabolize the revolutionary imaginary. A series of pencil sketches coexist with large-scale prints, creating wall installations. These artworks refer to gendered and racial identities of the revolutionary bodies while at the same time they highlight the questionable lust for glorification in post-revolutionary societies. The statue of a beheaded Jacobin on a pedestal will dominate the inner courtyard of the ‘Revolutionary Headquarters’ and will be a constant reference to the violence imposed by and on the revolutionary bodies. While the library of Atopos has been occupied by a video installation, which bombards the viewer with institutional and non-institutional representations of revolutionary actions.

The whole motley iconography will be homogenized aesthetically, through a specific color filter, a particular green shade that makes its appearance in subcutaneous aspects of the history of the revolutions, from the reference to Robespierre as a spirit as pure as the green of the sea to the turquoise green ”Faberge” eggs of the Romanov estate that Stalin secretly sold to Western tycoons.

*Alexis Fidezis is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow

 

Duration: October 6 – November 26, 2021
Days & Hours: Wednesday: 16:00 – 20:00 (in the presence of the artist & curator Alexis Fidetzis)
Thursday & Friday: 12:00 – 18:00
Saturday: 16/10, 23/10, 6/11, 20/11, 12:00 – 16:00 (in the presence of the artist & curator Alexis Fidetzis)

Free entrance, registration is required as there is a limited number of visitors allowed (up to 5 visitors per hour)

6 Fellows join the Drama International Short Film Festival

Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is Greece’s leading short film festival, and the annual meeting place for filmmakers and industry professionals. Based in the picturesque city of Drama, the festival is the leading Greek and South-Eastern European gateway to the world’s most prestigious short film awards, and nominated filmmakers qualify for the European Film Awards (EFA).

This year, 6 of our Fellows join the DISFF with their short movies:

Heatwave (Fokion Xenos)

Motorway 65 (Evi Kalogiropoulou)

Luxenia (Dimitra Kondylatou)

Souls all unaccompanied (Giorgos Teltzidis)

Brutalia, εργάσιμες μέρες (Manolis Mavris)

Soul food (Nikos Tsemperlopoulos)

>>> More info: https://www.dramafilmfestival.gr/en/

3 Fellows perform at the “Salema revisited”

How can tradition converse with other forms of artistic expression, such as contemporary dance, without being threatened or offended, but instead enriched and communicated with the respect it deserves to a wider audience? Combining the principles and themes of the dances of his native Crete with his long-standing experience as a modern dancer, Foniadakis creates a palette of rhythms and melodies for directing the flow of the performance. Above all, though, he attempts to convey the strength of the Cretans who dance the pentozalis (pente meaning “five” and being a reference to the Cretans’ fifth attempt for liberation), a ten-step dance (as the Sfakians decided to start the revolution on 10 October 1769) that consists of twelve parts (musical phrases, turnings) in honour of the twelve leaders of the uprising.

Salema: a struggle with time, immobility and the moment. Dancers and musicians mingle in a bizarre game, upsetting memories and emotions.

CREDITS
Choreography:
Andonis Foniadakis

Music supervisors – Orchestration:
Paris Perysinakis, Giorgos Skordalos

Original music:
Paris Perysinakis (adaptations of traditional Cretan tunes)

Dancers:
Nefeli Asteriou, Despina Lagoudaki, Evi Economou, Maro Stavrinou, Stefania Sotiropoulou, Christian Denice, Georgios Kotsifakis, Nikos Grigoriadis, Jan Labner, Anestis (Tasos) Nikas

Musicians:
Giorgos Skordalos: Cretan lyra, Cretan lute, Song
Paris Perisynakis: Viora, Cretan lyra, Cretan lute, Mandocaster
Giorgos Makris: Recorder, Ascomandoura
Petros Varthakouris: Double bass
Vangelis Karipis: Percussion

Assistant choreographers:
Markella Manoliadi, Pierre Magendie

Lighting:
Sakis Birbilis

Costumes:
Anastasios Sofroniou

Production:
visionary culture / Vassilis Grigoropoulos

*Nefeli Asteriou, Maro Stavrinou and Georgios Kotsifakis are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows
** Antonis Foniadakis is member of the selection committee for the 4th SNF Artist Fellowship Program

EP JOURNAL 5 BY KYVELI MAVROKORDOPOULOU

EP journal is a publishing initiative by Enterprise Projects in the form of an online publication of newly commissioned theoritical and research essays in both greek and english. For issue 5, curator and Fellow Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is writing about Art and Radioactivity. She looks at the ambivalent relation of art and radioactivity, but also at the possibly ambivalent nature of one’s experience of radioactivity. While great significance has been invested in the bomb, Kyveli turns to the notion of ambivalence as an interruption of the sublime visuality that characterizes nuclear images.

Check and download the essay following the link: http://enterprise-projects.com/ep-journal/

Enterprise Projects is an Athens based projects by our Fellows Danai Giannoglou and Vasilis Papageorgiou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellows).

 

27th Athens International Film Festival

ARTWORKS Fellows Elissavet Sfyri, Sofia Sfyri, Manolis Mavris, Dimitra Kondylatou, Evi Kalogiropoulou and Nikos Tseberopoulos  take part in Greek Short Stories – In Competition of the 27th Athens International Film Festival (22nd September – 3rd October 2021).

 

Zabeta
ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ / DURATION: 12’ ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΣΙΑ / DIRECTORS: Elissavet Sfyri, Sofia Sfyri

A glimpse into the life of the directors’ 90-year-old grandmother as she reminisces her forced immigration to Canada, her escape back to Greece and divorce in the 60’s. A small personal story of patriarchy in Greece.

Brutalia, Days of Labour
ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ / DURATION: 26’ ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΣΙΑ / DIRECTOR: Manolis Mavris

Perfectly identical girls work day and night. A matriarchal and oligarchic society. What would happen if we replaced bees with humans? Anna observes the universe of her hive. Not being able to consent to the violence that surrounds her, she’ll have to make a radical decision.

Luxenia
ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ / DURATION: 10’ ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΣΙΑ / DIRECTOR: Dimitra Kondylatou

A receptionist, a waitress and a chambermaid work during the summer season in Hotel Luxenia. One day, a small pause interrupts their automated, everyday routine. Luxenia is about the staged image and the backstage contradictions of the so-called hospitality industry.

Motorway 65
ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ / DURATION: 15’ ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΣΙΑ / DIRECTOR: Evi Kalogiropoulou

Two siblings live in the industrial town of Elefsina. A bridge connects their neighborhood, inhabited mostly by Black-Sea Greeks, to an area inhabited by immigrants varied background. Social divisions give rise to hostility, reflected in the local sports scene and two siblings’ relationships.

Soul Food
ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ / DURATION: 24’ ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΣΙΑ / DIRECTOR: Nikos Tseberopoulos

Yannis starts hanging out with Olga, a socially secluded hard rock woman who lives in the basement of his apartment building. Simultaneously, he associates with a group of teenagers, the leader of which bullies Olga whenever he sees her.

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