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The new short “documentaries” series entitled “Look, Listen, Think & Imagine” by Vlefaro live cinema, continues. Reality and fiction come together to give creative answers to everyday questions, inspired by true questions asked by children.

The purpose of these videos, in addition to inspiring, entertaining and providing learning opportunities for children, is to familiarize them with the process of creative thinking, connotations, dreams and, by extension, art and poetry. Children are invited to create their own works of art, often without being shown how, and following therefore, a reverse approach to the one usually adopted by creative workshops.

Paintings, photographs, animated images and original melodies are enlisted to set in motion an unusual animated encyclopaedia, which uses information as the launchpad to create something new. Each time, children are presented with a description of the theme, a piece of research, real and fictional data, famous works of art and connotations that arise from the particular episode’s concept. Then, they are free to choose the media they wish to use in order to create their own original artworks.

In April, we are looking into stories that are well hidden into history.

We combine them with imaginary narratives and scenarios, presenting another series of fiction documentaries, full of ideas and images, leading us to the creation of unique artwork.

Human, culture, art and science evolution are full of answers. However, we find leads raising more questions about everyday life. When was the first wig invented? Why Do Witches Ride Brooms? and not umbrellas?
What happens when we dream? How many shapes did the Earth change before scientists came to its spherical truth?

Where does the myth end and where does reality begin?

Let’s explore the world together.

Contributors:
Concept, Creative guidance: Angeliki Bozou
Music, montage, animation, narration: Thanos Kosmidis
Texts: Angeliki Bozou, Nelli Poulopoulou

Saturday 03, 10, 17, 24/04 | 11.00
For children aged 5+

Episodes will be available on this page, as well as on SNFCC’s Facebook page and YouTube Channel.

BEYOND NOSTALGIA HIJACK

group show

Konstantinos Giotis
Eva Papamargariti
Konstantinos Pettas
Marios Stamatis
Valinia Svoronou

Duration: 17.04.21 – 22.05.21

Opening: Saturday 17 of April 11am-4pm

Konstantinos Giotis, Eva Papamargariti, Kontantinos Pettas and Valinia Svoronou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellow.

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Taking into account all health measures for the safety of our visitors we kindly ask you to wear a mask when entering the space.

Up to 4 people will be allowed in the exhibition simultaneously.

The Mediterranean Biennale, organised by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, will present the works of over 70 artists from 21 different countries, hosted for the first time by the Republic of San Marino. The title chosen for the nineteenth edition is School of Waters, imagining the Biennale as a collective platform capable of deconstructing stereotypes derived from the Eurocentric interpretation of the Mediterranean basin.

From 15 May to 31 October 2021, the Republic of San Marino will play host to MEDITERRANEA 19, the Biennale of Young European and Mediterranean Artists, promoted and organised by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, an international association with 47 members and partners in 16 European and Mediterranean counties, in partnership with the Republic San Marino Ministry of Education and Culture, the Cultural Institutions of the Republic of San Marino and the University of the Republic of San Marino.

The eighteen editions since the Biennale first started life in 1985 in Barcelona have been hosted in such cities as Marseille, Valencia, Lisbon, Sarajevo and Athens, while the latest edition was held in the two cities of Tirana and Dürres, in Albania. The list of hosting institutions is no less impressive, taking in the MACRO in Rome, the Nottingham Contemporary in the UK and the Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece.

With its title School of Waters, MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale will unfold in several spaces in the historical nucleus of San Marino, some in the National Gallery and others elsewhere, such as the First Tower – the republic’s original fortification atop Monte Titano, the Pianello Cisterns – a large mediaeval space located underneath the floor of the Public Palace, and the Old Convent of Santa Chiara, which now houses the University of San Marino.

The Biennale will present works, site-specific installations, films, videos and performances by more than 70 artists from the Mediterranean area, from Italy to Tunisia, from Spain to Montenegro, from France to Jordan and from Malta to Lebanon, with the aim of employing the common heritage of these shared waters as a starting point for overcoming nationalisms and rediscovering the Mediterranean as a complex platform of lifeforms and processes of knowledge.

The curatorial team has envisaged the Biennale as a temporary school, inspired by radical, experimental teaching methods and by how they challenge artistic, curatorial and research formats. Seen in this light, School of Waters acts as a collective tool for deconstructing the stereotypes that manipulate our geographical imaginings, especially the ones closest to the Eurocentric interpretation of the Mediterranean basin.

MEDITERRANEA 19 is curated by an international scientific committee comprising the founders and participants of the third edition of A Natural Oasis?, a training and research programme supported by BJCEM, directed since 2015 by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi and open to curators, artists and cultural research under 34.
In addition to Castiglioni and Frangi (Senior Curators), the members of the Biennale’s curatorial board are Theodoulos Polyviou (Cyprus/UK), Denise Araouzou (Cyprus/Italy), Panos Giannikopoulos (Greece), Angeliki Tzortzakaki (Greece/Netherlands), Nicolas Vamvouklis (Greece/Italy), Giulia Gregnanin (San Marino/UK) and Giulia Colletti (Italy/UK).

The Biennale will be opened to the public on Friday 14 May 2021, in the presence of the institutions involved and of representatives of artists, BJCEM members and curators. The agenda, which will continue for the entire following week, will also include talks, performances and screenings, which will also be available in live streaming. A second appointment, this time with a greater focus on the performing arts, will be held in July 2021.
The opening will also be the occasion for the presentation of a book of research devoted to School of Waters, published by Archive Books of Berlin.

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MEDITERRANEA 19 YOUNG ARTISTS BIENNALE
Republic of San Marino, multiple locations
15 May – 31 October 2021
Opening: Friday 14 May 2021, from 5.00 p.m.

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Catalogue
Published by Archive Books

Selected Artists: 

Noor Abed (PS), Adrian Abela (MT), Noor Abuarafeh (EG), ALTALENA (IT), Marco Antelmi (IT), Panos Aprahamian (LB), Bora Baboci (AL), Riccardo Badano & Hannah Rullman (IT), Hanan Benammar (NO), Yesmine Benkhelil (TN), Maeve Brennan (UK), Johanna Bruckner (AT), Dante Buu (ME), Madison Bycroft (FR), Annalisa Cannito (IT) in collaboration with, Wendimagegn Belete (ETH-NO), Valerio Conti (SM), Selin Davasse (TR), Binta Diaw (IT), Adji Dieye (IT), Enar de Dios Rodríguez (AT), Caterina De Nicola (IT), Marianne Fahmy (EG), Alessandra Ferrini (IT), Enrico Floriddia (IT), Victor Fotso Nyie (IT), Haris Giannouras (GR), Marco Giordano (IT), Adrijana Gvozdenović (ME), Bianca Hisse (NO), Areej Huniti & Eliza Goldox (JO), KABUL MAGAZINE (IT), Valentina Karga (GR), Dalia Khalife (LB), Ru Kim (FR), Gašper Kunšič (SI), Sotiris Tsiganos & Ionian Bisai (GR), Vesna Liponik (SI), DDC | Design di Comunità (SM), Filippo Marzocchi (IT), Corinne Mazzoli (IT), Dina Mimi (PS), Tawfik Naas (UK), Eleni Odysseos (CY), Francis Offman (IT), Mila Panić (BA), Eva Papamargariti (GR), GianMarco Porru (IT), Gabriele Rendina Cattani (IT), Jacopo Rinaldi (IT), Virginia Russolo (IT), Pablo Sandoval (ES), Michele Seffino (IT), Selma Selman (BA), Vanja Smiljanić (RS), Alcaeus Spyrou (AL), Chara Stergiou (GR), Valinia Svoronou (GR), Theo Triantafyllidis (GR), Endi Tupja (AL), Sophie Utikal (AT), Marina Xenofontos (CY)

ARTWORKS with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) partners with  Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale “School of Water” and supports the 4 Greek artists and SNF ARTWORKS Fellows who have been selected to participate in the exhibition program (Jonian Bisai, Eva Papamargariti, Chara Stergiou and Valinia Svoronou).

More info: https://mediterraneabiennial.org/

Titled 水体 Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale will advocate for processes of planetary re-alliance relying on transspecies collectivity. Exploring forms of fluid solidarity, the Biennale will convene artists to think beyond human-centered and nation-based narratives, connecting the discussions of bodies with those of the environment.

The Biennale is engaging with the history and geography of Shanghai, a long-standing arena for liquid territorial bodies, and the site for this Biennale. The city is intimately connected to the 5,000-meter descent to the East China Sea of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau’s meltwaters located at the intersection of the Huangpu and the Yangtze Rivers, and in the vicinity of the human-made Jing-Hang Grand Canal. Particles dragged from up to 6,300 kilometers of sediment are metabolized by edible plants at the Yangtze Delta, China’s most fertile agricultural site. Mineral and organic matter, travelling suspended as part of bodies of water, is then rebodied. Water flowing reconstructs geographies and vitalizes organisms. Not without struggle.

The Shanghai Biennale, the oldest art biennale in China, will ultimately interrogate its own situation at PSA, a former coal-electric plant that fueled the industrialization of the Huangpu River, a cauldron of accelerated production and bodily mobilization.

This edition will nurture art as an ecosystem of practices closely connected to different forms of human and non-human knowledge, sense, and intelligence. In close collaboration with Shanghai’s universities and networks of independent art spaces and activism, the Biennale will build on art’s interdependency with science, social constructs, technology, and modes of spirituality. Rather than presenting art as autonomous, it will provide a platform to acknowledge the diversity in which research and knowledge-making happens and is disseminated.

THE PHASES: IN CRESCENDO BIENNALE

For the first time, the Shanghai Biennale will operate as an eight-month “in crescendo” project, unfolding in three phases:

PHASE 01: A WET-RUN REHEARSAL. November 10–14, 2020. A summit bringing together contributors to present their work in the form of a performative assembly taking place in the PSA’s Grand Hall and spreading out to networks of art spaces along the Yangtze River, as well as online.

PHASE 02: AN ECOSYSTEM OF ALLIANCES. November 15, 2020 – April 9, 2021. Keeping a permanent post at the PSA, the “in crescendo” project associates itself with infrastructures where online/offline social and communal life are taking place. These include streaming TV channels, social media, university programs, and serial interventions on urban dynamics.

PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION. April 10 – June 27, 2021. Opening with a festival, the Biennale will unfold into an exhibition that will run through PSA and expand into a series of locations along the Huangpu River and across the city of Shanghai.

Shanghai Biennale 水体 Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 – Sunday, June 27, 2021

Chief Curator: Andrés Jaque

Curators: YOU Mi, Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti

Head of Research and Publications: Filipa Ramos

Participating artists:
Alberto Baraya; Ana Mendieta; Antoni Muntadas*; Astrida Neimanis*; Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor; Clare Britton*; Ayesha Tan Jones*; Cao Minghao and Chen Jianjun*; Carlos Casas*; Carlos Irijalba*; Cecilia Vicuña; Cheng Xinyi; Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe); Dai Chenlian*; Debajo del Sombrero (participating artists: Andrés Fernández, José Manuel Egea, Miguel García, María Lapastora and Belén Sánchez); Diakron and Emil Rønn Andersen*; Diane Severin Nguyen*; Feliciano Centurión; Guo Fengyi; Heather Phillipson*; Ibiye Camp*; Itziar Okariz*; Jenna Sutela; Joan Jonas*; Karrabing Film Collective; Kyriaki Goni*; Liam Young; Michael Wang*; Nerea Calvillo (C+arquitectas)*; P Staff in collaboration with Basse Stittgen*; Pepe Espaliú; Pu Yingwei*; ReUnion X DMAS*; Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen; Sun Xiaoxing, Qiu Zhen, Zhao Kunfang and Huang Siyao*; Tabita Rézaire; Torkwase Dyson*; Vera Frenkel; WORKac (Amale Andraos and Daniel Edward Wood); Zadie Xa and Benito Mayor Vallejo*; Zheng Mahler (Royce Ng and Daisy Bisenieks)

*Names with asterisks correspond to new commissions. Further artists to be announced at the press preview on April 15, 2021.

Kyriaki Goni is an SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.

The co-Living Room Community will be united by separation. The workshop will end up in the creation of common sculpture, a PARAVAN (folding screen) through personal insights around the concepts of travel, movement, route, trail and transition. The PARAVAN will enclose embroidery and sewing techniques, of which free motives, volumes and designs, a multilayer and textured surface will come up . Each participant will  trace its personal journey harmoniously intertwined with that of his neighbor. At the end of the workshop, the individual artworks will be collected and composed to the final artwork, THE PARAVAN, which will be installed in the actual Living Room of Victoria Square Project.

Total number of participants: 30
Teams: 2
Workshops: 2 per team
Duration: 1,5 hour per workshop
Workshop design & co-ordination: Sevastiana Konstaki (Fellow 2020) & Maria Foka

In this moment of profound change, where structures that were once thought to be stable are revealed to be precarious, broken, or on the verge of collapse, the 2021 Triennial recognizes artists reimagining traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established institutional paradigms. Their works exalt states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures, porous and unstable surfaces, and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic media. The works included in the exhibition look back toward overlooked artistic traditions and technological building blocks, while at the same time look forward toward the immaterial, the transitory, and the creative potential that might give dysfunctional or discarded remains new life.

The title of the 2021 Triennial, “Soft Water Hard Stone,” is taken from a Brazilian proverb: Água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que fura (Soft water on hard stone hits until it bores a hole). The proverb can be said to have two meanings: if one persists long enough, the desired effect can eventually be achieved; and time can destroy even the most perceptibly solid materials. The title speaks to ideas of resilience and perseverance, and the impact that an insistent yet discrete gesture can have in time. It also provides a metaphor for resistance, as water—a constantly flowing and often underestimated material—is capable of eventually dissolving stone—a substance associated with permanence, but also composed of tiny particles that can collapse under pressure.

“Soft Water Hard Stone” is curated by Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, and Jamillah James, Senior Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA). Curatorial Fellow: Jeanette Bisschops.

Iris Touliatou is Fellow 2020 in visual arts.

More info: https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/2021-triennial-soft-water-hard-stone

The exhibition will open in October 28th 2021 and will run through January 23, 2022.

Two Greek films in the 2021 New Directors/New Films lineup
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 50th-anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), available April 28 – May 8 via virtual cinema. Throughout its half-century history, the festival has celebrated filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema, and whose daring work pushes the envelope in unexpected ways. This year’s festival will introduce 27 features and 11 shorts to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and FLC virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center. Two Greek features, Apples by Christos Nikou and Moon, 66 Questions by Jacqueline Lentzou are among the 27 features of this year’s line up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tw2pvynYPA

More info: https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5302

Christos Nikou and Jacqueline Lentzou are  moving image SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

“Cora” directed by  Evi Kalogiropoulou won the Εurimages Co-production Development Award in the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. “Cora” follows the story of two women who fall in love and fight to go beyond the limitations of a dystopian patriarchal society.

Evi Kalogeropoulou is an SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019 in visual arts.

The celebrations for the two hundred years since 1821 have begun and as we expected the size of exaggeration and nationalist trash reached the levels of Athens 2004 and beyond. In the midst of a pandemic, where class differences really stand out and brutal policing violates every human right in a democratic society, the Homeland-Religion-Family mythology is underlined again and again, shouting loudly, flattening in its passage any discord that does not fit the master narrative. Greek society expels everything foreign, wipes out immigrants from Victoria, cleans Omonia sq. up of drug users, saves the Exarchia neighbourhood from (flying) anarchists and replaces them with cyan and white greek flags, stories of ancient greek greatness and covid-denying orthodox priests. The complexities of the stories of queers, the disabled, refugees do not concern these celebrations of the one and only, perfect, glorious Nation.

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What is our homeland after all? is it not the construction of a national fantasy based on the extermination of everything that does not fit in the image of the strong and brave fighter? Can it be the majestic high mountains of the greek landscape? And why does this issue return so often in the nationalist discourse of the modern greek state? If greekness is a monster that does not make much sense, we must demonstrate the contradictions and silenced crimes that make it up – because that is the only way to survive.

This exhibition is made by subjects and talks about subjects who suffocate within the framework of greek orthodox patriotism and use creative means to express their dissatisfaction with a mythology that does not include them, does not express them, does not concern them.

FYTA, March 2021

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SNF ARTWORKS Fellows 2020 Anthi Kougia and Vasiliki Lazaridou took part in the exhibition.

Member of the artistic duo FYTA is Foivos Dousos, SNF ARTWORKS Fellows 2020.

http://www.f-y-t-a.com/

https://www.200xronia.com/

To celebrate Eye’s 75th anniversary this year, seven artists were asked by EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) to provide a film work for a digital exhibition. They are all artists with whom EYE Filmmuseum has collaborated over the past ten years in the context of an exhibition. The films are as different as the artists themselves, but they are all situated at the interface between film and visual art, precisely the focus of our exhibition policy.

Waiting for the Time to Pass (Janis Rafa, 2021, 4’30’’) watch the film
A dog waits in a car. The windows fog up and we hear the creature panting and whining softly – his impatience and restlessness are contagious. The dog is entirely at the mercy of people in escaping from this predicament. Janis Rafa connects this image with early Soviet space flights in which dogs were sent into space as part of experiments. Waiting for the Time to Pass is a new work, made during the corona pandemic, and the association with the limited freedom of movement and uncertainty about the lockdown is clear. In her earlier work, Rafa often commented subtly on the ecological disaster caused by anthropocentrism.

Janis Rafa (1984) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work featured in Eye’s 2016 exhibition Close-Up: A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands. She was artist in residence at Amsterdam’s Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, and her work has been presented at Paris’ Centre Pompidou, New York’s MoMA and London’s Tate Modern. With her first feature film she won the VEVAM Fund Prize from the Directors Forum and the Prize of the Circle of Dutch Film Journalists.

Aggeliki Bozou, Maria Varela and Ilektra Stamboulou (all of them SNF ARTWORKS Fellows in visual arts) participate in the exhibition A thousand stories stitched on a piece of cloth. 1821-2021. The exhibition includes small stories within a larger one, having as a point of reference the garment, its transformations, its symbolic dimension as well as its political and other uses from the Revolution era to today.

Through indicative examples from different time periods, interconnected and redistributed, the exhibition blends yesterday with today, local with universal, as well as “tradition” with “fashion”. From the foustanela of the revolution fighters and the versions worn by “King Otto” and by the Evzones, to Mick Jagger’s famous “heretic” variation but also to that of “Iasonas” of Bost’s Medea. From the women of Zalongo to their “motion picture” and other analogues and from the black uniforms of the Sacred Band to those of the Messolonghi Philarmonic Band in their image. In a parallel manner, from the ottoman salvar all the way to the fashion of the bloomers and the spandex, and from the philhellenic fashion à la Bobelina to the commemorative scarf of Hermès Fashion House, offering alternatives and maybe unexpected narrations.

Through the instrumental contribution of contemporary visual artists, the subjects are developed through Video/Digital Art, where old “materials” and stories are recycled to new compounds with unexpected meanings and sometimes with symbolic ramifications pertaining to the modern reality. The combined total of the works forms a serial streaming exhibition concluding in 12 individual episodes, each one with a different scenario, different protagonists and contributors. The subjects will be posted on the web as a work in progress, every Friday at 18:21p.m. Parallel to that they will be distributed through the facebook page and youtube channel of the Museum of the History of the Greek Costume of the Lykeion ton Ellinidon, inviting the public to “follow” the exhibition and to keep track of its continuity. Applying however a “phygital” (physical and digital) model of the exhibition’s evolution, selected thematic unities will be presented at the headquarters of the Museum of the History of Greek Costume and at the Central Building of the Lykeion ton Ellinidon, combining thus the physical with the digital world.

Participant visual artists: Marilena Aligizaki, Alexandra Anagnostopoulou, Maria Varela, Iro Vouvoueli, Mary Thivaiou, Maria Kotsou, Aggeliki Bozou, Elektra Stampoulou

Concept – Supervision and texts: Tania Veliskou, museologist

Exhibition links:

Website: https://1821.lykeionellinidon.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreekCostumeMuseum 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lykeionellinidon 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEdjn6Uw13hCEgXOrZT2MSw

The Hellenic Film Academy (HFA) announces the appointment of Phaedra Vokali as the organization’s new General Director.

Phaedra Vokali graduated with honors from the Marketing and Communication Department of the Athens Univeristy of Economic and Business in 2005 and got her MA in Film Studies from UCL in 2008. Before entering the production terrain, she has worked in distribution, as a buyer. She has also worked as head of programming of the Athens International Film Festival, and editor in chief of CINEMA Magazine. She has been working as a producer in Marni Films since October 2013 and she is an alumnus of the EAVE Producers Network and the Torino Film Lab (Script&Pitch, Framework). Her first completed feature film production, SUNTAN by Argyris Papadimitropoulos, was awarded with Best International Feature in Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the 2016 LUX prize as well as selected for the 2016 European Film Awards. It also landed in IndieWire’s list of 20 best films of 2016 from around the world. Her second feature, AFTERLOV, by Stergios Paschos, premiered in Locarno 2016 where it got the Best Film Award by the Youth Jury and it has also been awarded in Thessaloniki IFF, Transilvania IFF and elsewhere. She has produced more than ten short films and plans to keep working on this format, while she aims working with first-time directors and supporting more female-driven narratives.

Phaedra Vokali is  SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020 (moving image)

On March 20 and 21, ONASSIS STEGI will be presenting the first edition of its New Choreographers Festival to have been created specially to live online.

For two days The Onassis NEW CHOREOGRAPHERS FESTIVAL 8 is stepping off the stage to connect with audiences in the only place we can currently be “together”: online, via the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel.

Vasilis Vilaras (“RED RIDING SHOES”), Nadi Gogoulou (“The Cooking-with-Nadi Show”), Myrto Delimichali and Stathis Doganis (“Pose_Transpose”), Irini Kalaitzidi (“yaGrid”), the Besuch Team (“Besuch”), Anna Papathanasiou (“Axel’s Just Dreaming”), Ioanna Paraskevopoulou (“All She Likes Is Popping Bubble Wrap”), Konstantinos Papanikolaou (“The Diving Horse and Other Mythologies”), Natasha Sarantopoulou (“ILISSOS / limbo eξótica”), ody icons (“YES HALLO HI”), and the Stereo Nero Dance Co. (“442, or A Game Without Score”) are all choreographing ATHENS, Greece, and the entire world in this strange year that is 2021.

Irini Kalaitzid, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou and Nefeli Asteriou, Efthimios Moschopoulos & Dimitris Mytilinaios – member of the dance group Besuch – are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows.

The first feature of Jacqueline Lentzou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018), “Moon, 66 Questions”, was selected at the section “Encounters” of the 71st edition of the Berlinale.

When a grave illness strikes down her father Paris, Artemis decides to return home to Greece after an absence of some years.Being the sole child of divorced parents, she is the only one who can look after Paris, who requires daily care. Father and daughter embark on a journey into knowledge and revelation, which heralds a new beginning for their relationship.
After a series of surprising short films, Moon, 66 Questions is the long-awaited feature debut of Jacqueline Lentzou. It initially defines itself as “a film about flow, movement and love (and lack of them)”. Delineating a psychoanalytical portrait, the film accompanies the flow of the unconscious, vivifies the grey areas of family life and restores the love between Paris and Artemis. The road is long and hard, taking in Paris’ old home movies as well as the journal Artemis keeps: writing is the only escape. It is all part of the journey she takes to bring her body closer to that of her ailing father. The structure of this beautiful, touching film is rather like the astral patterns of tarot cards: for a few moments, the sun and the moon converge and even touch in a mutual, caring embrace – just like the one between Paris and Artemis.

The competitive section “Encounters” was introduced in 2020. Its goal is to support new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms in the official selection. A three-member jury will choose the winners for Best Film, Best Director and a Special Jury Award, and will announce them during the Berlinale Industry Event in March. The award ceremony will take place at the Summer Special in June. This year’s line-up comprises twelve titles from 16 countries, of which seven are first features.

Maria Varela (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019) works with codes, languages and skills that are often rooted in traditional cultures and linked to female domestic labor.

In her new work she refers back to rituals and symbols that belong to the tradition of female craft-making and decorated breads aiming to update their vocabulary and mode of production but also to experience the ritualistic patterns of their production process.

Using bread as a starting point, both as a basic food right but also endowed with symbolic potentialities, Varela re-packages the production process forming a hybrid meta-form, where producer and consumer, online and offline, interface and face-to-face, present and past, individual experience and collective labor, symbols and matter intersect.

Varela created a database of symbols, where wishes / requests / orders will be archived; she also created an algorithm which will select the wishes that will be materialized which in turn will be matched with the coded symbols that relate to each wish; the coded wishes are produced by Varela over a series of days at TAVROS and will be broadcast live via a web performance.

The next stage of the process is the formation of a social network of women who will knead, decorate and weave onto bread. Some of these women are well versed in the process and its symbolic gestures, others will be new to the process, learning and experimenting on the way through their artistic practice. The network will be completed by academics who will contribute to the discourse from an anthropological, folk and museum studies perspective.

The social network is the artwork. The code is the artwork.

The ritual
Self Practice
1. research into symbols / bibliographic research
2. contact with Female Agricultural Collective Aiantis, specializing in decorated breads
3. learning to make decorated bread, trial runs with Mrs Aggeliki Kavakaki (Female Agricultural Collective Aiantis)

Collective Practice
4. open call > collection of wishes/requests and taxonomy into a database > algorithm codification
5. web performance by Maria Varela making of decorated breads
6. workshop with decorated breads: Female Agricultural Collective Aiantis – five female artists
7. making of decorated breads by the five artists
8. podcasts by academic contributors / curated by Despina Catapoti

Presentation
9. presentation of decorated breads
10. uploading of podcasts and web performance

Participants
Aggeliki Kavakaki, Director of the Female Agricultural Collective Aiantis
Maria Georgoula, Artist
Anastasia Douka, Artist (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019)
Malvina Panagiotidi, Artist (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018)
Stephania Strouza, Artist (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018)
Paky Vlassopoulou, Artist (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018)
Despina Catapoti, Assistant Professor in Cultural Theory and Digital Culture, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean
Yannis Drinis, Head of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and
Intercultural Relations, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Βασιλική Κράββα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας, Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Εθνολογίας, Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης
Vassiliki Kravva, Assistant Professor Social Anthropology, Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace
George Manginis, Academic Director, Benaki Museum
Despina Nazou, Social Anthropologist, Postdoctoral Fellow , University of Crete

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, as part of the project The Table and the Territory.

Support:
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative PCAI , French Institute of Greece.

Watch live Decorated Bread, a web performance by Maria Varela on tavros.space Youtube channel.

Until 26 February, 10:00 -18:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFJQSzaN1es&feature=youtu.be

The short documentary “Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ No More Shall We Part, 14 Paintings, 17 Years Later”, directed by Rinio Dragasaki and Araceli Lemos, has won the award for “Best Short Documentary” at the 16th Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival, Louisiana’s (USA) second oldest film festival, that took place this January!

Synopsis: The filmmakers Rinio Dragasaki and Araceli Lemos document three years of contemporary Greek painter Stefanos Rokos’ work on the making of his exhibition “Stefanos Rokos: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds No More Shall We Part, 14 paintings 17 years later.” The filmmakers capture his daily routines, artistic process, spontaneous inspirations, and his creative dialogue with legendary musician Nick Cave.

Find more about the festival, all nominees and winners here: https://cinemaonthebayou.com

Rinio Dragasaki and Araceli Lemos are both moving image SNF ARTWORKS Fellows 2019.