The work of Utravel won the AK Kunstpreis 2020 award. The prize is awarded by Arbeiterkammer (Employees’ Chamber) of Upper Austria to graduates of Kunstuniversität Linz, whose work relates to the working environment, the current working conditions and the trends in the workspace.
Lachesis Algorithm (part of the triptych “The Moirae”) will be screening at Cyber Salon of “PIKSEL20. The future narrow, where you don’t want to go.”
The three Moirae are transformed from mythical entities to three algorithms and re-define the destiny of western archives. Mythical beings acquire algorithmic substance and derive material from the open licensed repositories of Western culture through the Europeana accumulator.
The stored files become operational after being fragmented and rebuilt through structural modification.
In Greek mythology the three moirae are:
Clotho who spun the thread of life.
Lachesis who measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rot and decided who will take each part and how he/she will be benefited.
Atropos was the cutter of the thread of life.
The myth defines the function and behavior model of the three algorithms.
As the mythical Clotho selects and prepares the raw material, the Clotho algorithm draws all the images to be processed by moirae. Images are selected based on three criteria:
1.date. Selected images were added to the platform three days earlier because Moirae appear on the third day of birth.
2.the file being edited is an image and its type is .jpeg,
3.the edited files are licensed of free re-use
The algorithmic Lachesis deconstructs the images collected by Klotho. After setting the number of pixels per line, it creates a continuous thread that is unwrapped on the screen. The way the new remodeled material is represented draws visual inspiration from the textile weaving. The thread remains continuous and rotates from right to left and then from left to right creating an endless weft. This alignment creates patterns through the relationships that neighbouring pixels develop.
The Atropos algorithm cuts pieces of this new digital woven and transforms them into standalone physical objects.
The algorithmic moirae are independent. According to the laws of necessity, they are called upon to redefine the destiny of archival material, by reasserting the materiality of cultural heritage to redefine its digital transformation.
Maria Varela (Athens, 1984) works as a media artist with her focus on creative technologies, data weaving visualisation and conducting workshops. In her practice she experiments with ways in which the archival event can be transcribed from the digital environment to the natural world. Maria is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019.
On November 10th, we had the pleasure to host Elpida Karaba, art theorist, independent curator and member of our selection committee for the weekly Zoom meeting with our Fellows. Through her personal archaeology, Elpida discussed her practice and her focus on the relationship between art and systems of knowledge, archival art, art in the public domain and performative and activist practices in the arts. Among others, she talked about her involvement in the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices and the Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT), a hybrid of artistic, curatorial and educational practice.
How does one professional claim his/her field of action? For Elpida this is a matter of discursive exchange and position taking.
The 61th Thessaloniki Film Festival was held online, due to pandemic, from November 5th until November 15th.
You may find bellow the participation of our beloved Fellows in screenings, open discussions and the exhibition “Intimacy. A contemporary tyranny.”
Screenings
Digger – Georgis Grigorakis (Fellow 2018, moving image)
Kala Azar – Janis Rafa (Fellow 2020, moving image)
Anthology of a Butterfly – Kostis Charamountanis (Fellow 2020, moving image)
Mila – Christos Nikou (Fellow 2020, moving image)
As if Underwater – Anthie Daoutaki (Fellow 2019, visual arts)
The End of Suffering (A Proposal) – Jaqueline Lentzou (Fellow 2018, moving image)
The Meaning of August – Manos Papadakis (Fellow 2020, moving image)
In her Steps- Anastasia Kratidi (Fellow 2019, moving image)
Ehxibition – “Intimacy. A contemporary tyranny.”
Participating Fellows: Ileana Arnaoutoglou (2020), Maria Varela (2019), Zoe Gaitanidou (2019), Petros Efstathiadis (2020), Iasonas Kampanis (2020), Aristeidis Lappas (2020), Iasonas Megoulas (2018), Margarita Bofiliou (2019), Paola Palavidi (2018)
Open discussion – Directors’ Corner – November 11th
Georgis Grigorakis (Fellow 2018)
Digger is the first feature film by Georgis Grigorakis which won 5 awards at the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival, the following:
Special Jury Award – Silver Alexander
Greek Film Centre award
The “J.F. Costopoulos Foundation” award
Youth Jury awards – best feature film award
Fischer Audience awards for a film in the international competition
A contemporary western about a native farmer who lives and works alone in a farmhouse at the heart of a mountain forest in Northern Greece. For years now, he has been fighting with an expanding industrial monster digging up the forest, disturbing the lush flora and threatening his property. Yet, the greatest threat comes with the sudden arrival of his young son, after a twenty-year separation. They turn into enemies under one roof. Father and son confront each other head on, with nature as their only observer, a showdown that ultimately yields an unexpected redemption for both.
Georgis Grigorakis is a moving image SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.
“Looking back, thinking sideways”
Referring to the milestones of her career, Efrosini Protopapa talked to our Fellows about the relationship between contemporary dance and choreography and other forms of art (such as theater and the visual arts) as well as practical philosophy. Efrosini is a London-based choreographer,scholar and member of our selection committee.
For our mentor’s talk, this week we invited Stergiani Tsintziloni, dance curator, researcher, theorist and member of our selection committee, to discuss her vast experience in the field of dance. Stergiani talked about the notion of being a network extender (versus a networker) and her vision to contribute as such in the development of dance practices in Greece. Thanks everyone for attending and engaging in such a fruitful discussion with Steriani.
The biggest annual art event of Athens and one of the oldest international art fairs in Europe, Art Athina, organized by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association since 1993, is returning for its 25th edition via #AA20Virtual. Taking into consideration the new pandemic reality, this year’s event, which was originally scheduled to be held at the Zappeion Hall, goes digital; Instead of physical exhibitions, every gallery that’s included in this year’s event is being hosted in individual Art Athina Viewing Rooms.
Check below our Fellows’ participation:
VIEWING ROOM
A.ANTONOPOULOU.ART GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/a-antonopoulou-art-gallery/
Stefania Strouza (Fellow 2018)
ΤHE BREEDER
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/τhe-breeder-gallery/
Aristeidis Lappas (Fellow 2020)
CRUX GALERIE
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/crux-galerie/
Anestis Ioannou (Fellow 2020)
ELENI KORONEOU GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/eleni-koroneou-gallery/
Eirene Efstathiou (Fellow 2020)
DONOPOULOS IFA GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/donopoulos-ifa-gallery/
Fotis Sagonas (Fellow 2018)
KALFAYAN GALLERIES
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/kalfayan-galleries/
Rania Bellou (Fellow 2018)
LOLA NIKOLAOU GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/lola-nikolaou-gallery/
Vasilis Alexandrou (Fellow 2020)
HOT WHEELS ATHENS
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/hot-wheels-athens/
Anastasia Pavlou (Fellow 2019)
ZOUMBOULAKIS GALLERY
https://aavirtual.gr/viewing-room/zoumboulakis-gallery/
Dimitris Efeoglou (Fellow 2019)
VIDEOS
Meals on Wheels, Manolis Daskalakis Lemos (Fellow 2018)
Factitious Imprints, Eva Papamargariti (Fellow 2019)
Like a Rock Like a Wave Like the Sea, Valinia Svoronou (Fellow 2019)
Sotirios Bahtsetzis – curator of contemporary art, critic and Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary art history at Deree The American College of Greece and the Hellenic Open University and ARTWORKS selection committee member, shared with our new cohort of fellows his curatorial experience. Among others, he underlined the importance of cultivating a nurturing relationship with the artists and talked about his methodology when taking on a new project. He presented various curatorial projected he has worked on, such as Drawing Screen (2006), Open Plan Art-Athina, (2007), Women Only (2008), Paint-id: Contemporary Painting in Greece (2009) , Homemade Exotica (2019).
‘Mila’ (Apples, Greek: Μήλα), a drama film which explores selective memory, has been submitted by Greece for the best international feature category at the 93rd Academy Awards.
The Culture Ministry chose the specific film directed and produced by Christos Nikou
‘Mila’ Synopsis
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery.
The 93rd Academy Awards will take place on April 25, 2021.
Christos Nikou is a moving image Fellow 2020.
Are you a Prepper or you belong to the Golden Horde? Readiness, an epic Live Action Role Playing Game will unravel over the next four days inside an immersive Bootcamp and be Live Streamed continuously.
This is a call to arms!
READINESS : THE LARP has Begun! A 4 day long experiment in the form of a Live Action Role Playing Game that takes place in an immersive play space and will be continuously live streamed. See you at the chat ;)
Drawing on the reactionary cult of “preppers” (individuals and groups prepping for survival in scenarios of catastrophe and civil collapse), Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis and Alexis Fidetzis use role play to develop the world of “Readiness,” an immersive work that seeks to dissect the apocalyptic fantasies of preparedness. “Readiness” unfolds in the form of an epic battle between a group of preppers and the Golden Horde, the rampant mass of the ‘unprepared’, in preppers’ patriotic jargon and literature.
“Readiness” is a Chamber LARP (Live Action Role Playing Game) for 8-16 Players and a Game Master that takes place inside the “Encampment”, a fictional campsite constructed by the Preppers to protect themselves against an upcoming apocalypse of mysterious origins. “Readiness” is informed by current global turmoil and the attitudes of survival, alienation and vigilance built around it. It combines elements of gaming culture, performance, and post-media art.
The LARP will play out over 4 days, including an introduction and character building workshop and 3 Acts played in real time over 3 days. Players of “Readiness” will be assigned to one of 3 Clans (Preppers, Horde, Boogaloos) and given a Character Outline, who they can further design and refine. Once the Game starts, the Players will continuously be in character and asked to respond to various challenges and achieve their goals within the given scenario. The LARP will be broadcasted as a Live Stream and recorded for further editing and exhibition.
“Notes to Readiness: Step 1” was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of ONASSIS FOUNDATION. ONASSIS STEGI and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality.
15 OCT – 18:30 – 22:30 (ATH) Character Creation Workshop
16 OCT – 19:30 – 22:30 (ATH) LARP DAY 1 – STREAM LINK
17 OCT – 18:30 – 22:30 (ATH) LARP DAY 2 – STREAM LINK
18 OCT – 18:30 – 22:30 (ATH) LARP DAY 3 – STREAM LINK
By Kostis Stafylakis, Theo Triantafyllidis & Alexis Fidetzis
With: Vasilis Bakalis, Stathis Chalkias, Sotiris Fokeas, Christos Fousekis, Marilia Kaisar, Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Markella Ksilogiannopoulou, Anna Samara, Lia Smaragda, Savvas Tsimouris, Vassilis Vlastaras, Poka-Yio
Μovement Αdvisor: Maria Gorgia | Hosted at Maria Gorgia’s Amalgama space
Alexis Fidetzis is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.
The performance SJ is a narration of a true story. In 1905 in Orleans, France, the convicted Henri Languille lost his life in the guillotine. Shortly after his execution Doctor Beaurieux, who was present, shouted the name of the executed. The eyes of the severed head responded by opening vigorously. The doctor’s call was repeated two more times. The third time Henri’s gaze faded forever. The incident was recorded in a 6-page text by Dr Beaurieux as a medical experiment in the archives “les Archives d’Anthropologie Criminelle”. The whole event lasted 30 seconds. In 1996, Douglas Gordon exposed Henri Languille’s last moments in the piece 30 seconds text by recording Henri’s execution in a new, shorter version, which takes 30 seconds to read. In 2020 the piece SJ extends the duration of 30 seconds text through a vocal performance. A deconstructive reading of this new text unfolds a new narration, pronouncing each letter for 30 seconds. It takes about 8 hours to read the whole text in Turkish.
The performance SJ is presented at the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi in Istanbul, curated by the Marina Abramovic Institute from 30/10 to 15/11 daily, 12:00-18:00, except Mondays, as part of the exhibition Akış/Flux. Its scheduled duration was 6 consecutive weeks. Part of the performance was presented in the spring of 2020 when it was stopped in a hurry due to covid 19. The continuation and completion of the exhibition will start tomorrow, Friday 30/10/2020
Due to emergency health measures, my physical presence becomes impossible, since all travels between Greece and Turkey are suspended indefinitely. In this context “SJ” will be presented in the form of video and audio installation throughout the above duration
30″ for Henri’s head
30″ Gordon’s text
30″ for every letter
Malvina Panagiotid and Vasilis Papageorgiou, both visual arts Fellows 2018, participate in the group show “On Heavy Rotation” at Callirrhoë space.
The exhibition’s point of departure is a motion, that is constantly accelerated this year: the rotation on one’s own axis. Conditioned by the pandemic and the accompanying limitations, spinning around became a collective experience. Between a steadily repeated mental rotation and a physical reeling off of recurring processes, a dynamic arises, that resembles the experience of a hall of mirrors. Introspection and self-awareness generate a turning point, that affects the individual and – like the dance of a derwish – results in fluctuating between vertigo and contemplative trance. The exhibition follows these rotational movements on the basis of several works and tries to establish intersections between their thematic radii.
With works by
Keren Cytter, Panayiotis Loukas, Matthias Noggler, Malvina Panagiotidi, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Lia Perjovschi, Evelyn Plaschg, Socratis Socratous, Nadim Vardag, Gernot Wieland
Curated by
Severin Dünser & Olympia Tzortzi
Kallirrois 122
Athina 117 41
Greece
Thursday & Saturday 4–8 pm
and upon request
Soft opening
Monday, 2 November, 5–10 pm
2 November – 12 December 2020
The exhibition is kindly supported by
Urban Antibodies examines the identity of cities and mutations. During the current climate our relationship to the urban environment transforms drastically as we witness the disruption of daily life and envisaging the future seems increasingly abstract. The exhibition intends to reimagine cities as living organisms, looking at sites of toxicity and vulnerability, recovery and care, metaphorically and literally.
In any landscape, especially in Europe, a wanderer will always stumble upon human traces of intervention. Even simple topographical features are results of ideological decisions, whereas parts of land that remain untouched do so because they exist as natural barriers or obstructions. [1] Every landscape is political and in a constant state of flux. We witness cities disappear and the urban wanderer becomes an “outlaw”, the commonplace mutates constantly. There seems to be an urgency to redesign the flow of daily life, invent something new and rethink the relationship to the cities we live in and notions of hegemony aesthetically, ethically and emotionally. The show derives from artists’ ideas on urbanism, examinations on labour, speculations on design and technology, poetic contemplations on the urban sphere.
The exhibition was shaped collaboratively as an ongoing process that evolved organically with the participants during 2020.
[1] Martin Warnke, Political Landscape: The Art History of Nature
Artists:
Lea Collet, Konstantinos Giotis (Fellow 2020), Natalia Janula, Richard Müller, Eva Papamargariti (Fellow 2019), Konstantinos Pettas (Fellow 2020), Efthimios Sakkas, Marios Stamatis, Valinia Svoronou (Fellow 2019).
Organised by weekend.Athens and Natalia Janula
Opening: Friday 30 October, 18:00-22:00.
Duration: 31 October-8 November, 16:00-21:00
15, Dimitras Str., 17778 Athens
Monroe Springs, the new solo show of Yorgos Maraziotis (Fellow 2020), swings between site and situation specificity; the interdisciplinary artist intervenes in the gallery space in order to create a sleek and salacious topos, full of eerie and disorienting elements. Drawing inspiration from violent historical events and topographical patterns of Los Angeles, Maraziotis uses the very city as an allegory to question how constructed truth becomes collective belief, and how the pragmatic blurs with the fictitious. His references include infamous Hollywood murders, the 1992 deadly riots, the communities of Sunset Blvd. and in general the self-contained status of the sprawling metropolis. The exhibition’s narrative is based on literature, music, media power-structures and collective imagination, considering that the artist has never physically visited Los Angeles. In this way, he builds an intimate and alluring installation that resembles both a playground and a torture chamber. By exhibiting for the first time together paintings and sculptures, Maraziotis shifts his role to a conductor of diverse mediums and techniques. The paintings are composed within a certain color palette while the sculptures bring together copper, aluminium, wax, glass, neon lights, and plants. The works mystically combine familiar and domestic characteristics with sharp and discomforting forms. Their strategic alignment in space creates tension which drives visitors to shift their viewing agency from optical to somatic. Monroe Springs highlights the coexistence of antithetical notions in the practice of Yorgos Maraziotis such as safety and danger, concealment and disclosure, fragility and rawness. This research engages with the inter- section of promise and play as a precarious territory standing between excitement and inertia.
Duration:
03.09.20 – 10.10.20
Base-Alpha Gallery
Kattenberg 12
B-2140 Antwerp – Borgerhout
Opening hours:
Thursday – Saturday
2 – 6 PM
Sundays by appointment
Macho Sounds / Gender Noise explores how contemporary perceptions of gender are influenced by sounds designed and embedded in today’s technologies. Looking especially into the role of the automobile industry, the project takes as a starting point the artificially produced sounds of the conventional or electric cars of the present, and of the self-driving cars of the future. It discusses how vehicles –that would otherwise be silent– involve fake engine sounds to manifest their acceleration and power, and have artificial voices set by default as female to please and assist the driver.
The car, from the past until now, has been understood as a machine with a female body, offered to be ridden, possessed and controlled. This has produced a gendered iconography where women are objectified, but it has also given birth to a rich genealogy of powerful feminist resistance in relation to it. The project addresses the impact of patriarchal machines on the social construction of gender, and raises questions through feminist and queer perspectives: What will the voice and the engine of tomorrow’s car sound like, and who will be addressed? How can the stereotypes and prejudices reproduced through technologies be opposed? What does the car –as a powerful machine– stand for, in times of economic, societal and climate crisis? Which vehicles can drive us to messy and noisy places and worlds beyond binaries, hierarchies and categorizations?
The project is an an audiovisual installation combining video, sound and kinetic elements inspired by literature on cars, queer and feminist approaches on technology, as well as field work conducted in the city of Stuttgart. Motor mouths, artificial voices, human and machine written texts come together to expose and discuss the gendering of technologies on a symbolic and material level.
Macho Sounds/ Gender Noise was developed within the framework of the Hannsmann-Poethen literary scholarship of the state capital Stuttgart, that Sofia Dona and Daphne Dragona were awarded in 2020.
It is presented as part of DIE IRRITIERTE STADT festival in cooperation with the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and at the GEDOK-Galerie Stuttgart.
Sofia Dona is an visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020.
Credits
3-channel video installation
Camera: Sofia Dona
(29 min, color, full HD, stereo)
Performers: Anna Pangalou, Stavros and Ilias Grillis
Editing: Red Light Studio, Sofia Dona
Excerpts from the video [CAR ASMR] by Motline
Animated text
Text: Daphne Dragona
(12:23 min, color, full HD)
RNN generated text: Lukas Rehm
Animation: Matthias Fritsch
Kinetic Sculpture
Design: Sofia Dona
(Object from rubber, metal, plastic
overall dimensions: 43cm x 100cm 170cm)
Production: Lazaridis Studio
With our warmest thanks to Sofia Bempeza, Alexandros Bempezas, Jakob Berger, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Christine Fischer, Liz Flyntz, S-K-A-M e.V. (Joseph Michaels, Nikola Lutz, Arlette Probst), Matteo Pasquinelli, Thalia Raftopoulou, Eva-Maria Rembor, Christiane von Seebach, Renzo Vitale, Claudia Wronski, Lagios Recycle Cars, Tountas Garage.
42 days of quarantine
460 digitally uploaded works of art (res.momus.gr)
23 co-curators
89 selected artists
35 days of creative collaboration.
A version of MOMus online open call that took place last March, titled “MOMus Resilience Project” is presented at the exhibition “Together, So Far So Close.” This collective curatorial project with artworks that was created during the suffocating lockdown atmosphere, stands as a collective initiative aiming at the projection of all those things that hold us together, despite the imposed social distance.
The curatorial team set as a starting point and methodology of the process the concept “together”, because the pandemic concerns all of us. All of us had to cope with self-isolation for disease prevention. All of us felt -and we still feel- that this precious “together” is threatened, as physical contact, social proximity, and human coexistence have turned into possible risks for our survival.
Experiences, feelings, thoughts, worries and hopes are transformed into artwork, within which every one of us can recognize something deeply personal and completely ours. The inner world, the house as a space of self-isolation and introspection, the dystopian desolation of the urban landscape, the temporary environmental regeneration, the political aspect of health restrictions, and finally, the indomitable instinct of survival and coexistence are the main topics that characterize the artwork of this exhibition.
Together, amateurs and professionals, artists and art lovers, we freely and collectively communicate this initiative to the public, because we believe that art offers an escape, expresses and comforts each and every one of us. So, we stand together, fragile but still powerful, despite the imposed social distance, we express our strong willingness for meaningful communication.
The curatorial team text.
Supervisor-Coordination: Thouli Misirloglou, Deputy Director of MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts
Curatorial Team: Eleftheria Almasidou, Christina Arampatzi, Maria Charmani, Despina Fatesidou, Antoneta Garitsi, Dimitris Gatidis, Louloudia Gredi, Eleftheria Kalpenidou, Nana Kantsa, Valentini Margaritopoulou, Smaragda Nitsopoulou, Olina Oikonomidou, Marina Papadatou, Aggeliki Patakiouti, Fay Pipina, Antonis Rapanis, Meni Seiridou, Tania Siopi, Maria Soufla, Nopi Sotiriadou, Sophia Tolika, Maria Tsaousidou, Lara Vrettou
Participating Creators: Efi Amanatidou, Haris Anastasiadis, Katerina Anastasiou, Zoe Antypa, Soula Apostolaki, Aimilia Balaska, Chris Barjoka, Tasos Biris, Anna Botou, Evangelia Natalia Boutasi, Ioanna Charalampous, Elena Chatzianastasiou, Katerina Chatzidimitriou, Drosoula Maria Chatzistamou, Maria Dellaporta, Katerina Eleftheriadou, Ioanna Florou, Myrto Fousteri, Sofia Georgiadou, Georgia Georgiou, Maira Gerouki Zisi, Eleonora Geortsiaki, Elena Giannadaki, Sotiris Gkonis, Thanasis Gnesoulis, Antigone Iliadi, Paul Handley, Danai Ioannidou, Anastasios Ioannou, Lea Kavvadia, Despina Kavallari, Ioanna Kazaki, Diran Kalaydjian, Eleftheria Kalpenidou, Anneta Kapon, Spyridon Kaprinis, Stelios Karatheodorou, Ifigenia Karatzia, Maria Karkanaki, Kalli Kastori, Andreas Katsikoudis, Evi Kafiri, Nikos Kachrimanis, Konstantinos Koutsioukis, Sylvia Kouveli, Nikos Kostopoulos, Loopo Studio, Kyriaki Lykouresi, Ilectra Maipa, Georgia Mantalia, Eleni Marantou, Konstantinos Markogiannis, Panagiotis Mavromatis, Evelina Mountzia, Stratos Ntontsis, Dimitra Papageorgiou, Florentia Papamitrou, Stefania Patrikiou, Elena Pavlidou, Sofia Pechlivanidou, Aggeliki Politi, Zografia Popoli, Bernard Pourrière, Asimina Psyrra, Antonis Rapanis, Sofia Rozaki, Mariana Rossiadou, Katerina Svoronou, Sofi Senoglou, Alexandros Simopoulos, Hara Sklika, Giorgos Stergiopoulos, Alda Stefa, Sofia Symiakaki, Erietta Syroglou, Louiza Sotiriou, Sofia Tolika, Filippos Tsemperis, Ioanna Tsigara, Maria Tsiroukidou, Aleka Tsironi, Sofia Vaggeli, Loukia Vasilaki, Konstantia Vlahidou, Richard Whitlock, Doreida Xhogu, Andreas Zacharatos.
Duration: October 20, 2020 – November 4, 2020
Alexandros Simopoulos is an ARTWORKS Fellow in visual arts at 2018 and Ilectra Maipa at 2020.
SPYROS KOUVARAS / SYNTHESIS 748 DANCE COMPANY
SISS / PHUSS: while you carry time our bodies hold history
Concept, Choreography: Spyros Kouvaras
Dancers: Alexandra Rogovska, Margarita Trikka, Aggelos Papadopoulos, Spyros Kouvaras
Performer: Aggelos Skourtis
Choreography assistant: Stella Dimitrakopoulou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019, dance/choreography)
ROES THEATER
26-27 October και 2-3 November, 21:30
The exhibition Statues that don’t move, don’t speak, don’t laugh presents seven new works in public space in the area of Amerikis Square and Kato Patissia.
The exhibition title refers to the popular children’s game, common in many countries under different names: ‘Statues’, ‘Red Light, Green Light’, ‘Grandmother’s footsteps’, ‘Statues that don’t move, don’t speak, don’t laugh’ in Greek: the children who play have to remain still, like statues, when the ‘Curator’ (or ‘It’, ‘Granny’ etc.) turns around and looks at them.
The exhibition focuses on the element of play, explores the relationship between objects, bodies and spaces, their motion and stillness, while it approaches movement and contemplation as both active and reflective processes. It is based on a random encounter with the artworks, on an impromptu that engages not only the gaze but the whole body, like the children-statues ‘freeze’ on the posture that the look of the ‘Curator’ catches them.
Anastasia Douka (ARTWORKS Fellow 2019) dresses the benches of Kalliga Square. Dora Economou forms a space by the big tree at the backside of the basketball field on the corner of Samara and Kambouroglou streets. The living statue/mime by Chrysanthi Koumianaki (ARTWORKS Fellow 2018) speaks the language of the walls around the basketball field at Samara and Kambouroglou streets. Rallou Panagiotou leaves personal notes for public services at Pavlou Bakoyianni Square. Aliki Panagiotopoulou’s work is a burial, scattering, burst and dispersal of wildflower seeds on soil, sidewalks, sewers that surround and connect the three spaces. Kostas Roussakis hands out a feuille volante to the passersby in Kalliga Square. Kostas Tzimoulis interposes sculptural drawings in the fence of the basketball field on the corner of Samara and Kambouroglou streets.
The three exhibition spaces are independent but compose an itinerary parallel to Patission Avenue. Every space has its own character and all together look like secret gardens in a neglected part of Athens. They are oases and holes in the urban grid, they balance between openness, inaccessibility and abandonment unfolding the potential and problems of public space.
Statues that don’t move, don’t speak, don’t laugh is supported by NEON Organization.
INFORMATION
STATUES THAT DON’T MOVE, DON’T SPEAK, DON’T LAUGH
01/10/2020 – 31/10/2020
Pavlou Bakoyianni square, Kalliga/Karamanlaki square, Basketball court on Samara and Kampouroglou St. | Athens
Participating artists:
Anastasia Douka, Dora Economou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Rallou Panagiotou, Kostas Roussakis, Kostas Tzimoulis
Curated by Galini Notti
BEST FEATURE FICTION FILM ORPHEUS AWARD
Special Jury Award for Director: Rinio Dragasaki, Cosmic Candy
BEST SHORT FILM ORPHEUS AWARD
Special Jury Award: Electric Swan, Dir. Konstantina Kotzamani
Honorable Mention: The Distance between us and the sky , Dir. Vasilis Kekatos
HONORABLE DISTINCTION IN ANIMATION FILM
Honorable Distinction in Animation Film: Heatwave, Dir. Fokion Xenos