From October 23rd until October 26th 2021, we hosted the workshop “How to Develop a Film Collaborating With Actors” designed and led by Syllas Tzoumerkas. Moving Image and Visual Arts Fellows immersed themselves in liberating, norm-defying, head-on and market-protected paths to develop and enrich their projects through direct collaboration with actors.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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).
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.
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!
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
The show “I Heard it from the Valleys” curated by Eva Vaslamatzi presents a series of new productions linked through techniques, narratives and symbols related to the wide field of folk art. Artists are confronted with these traces of the recent past, retrieved and transferred through their work in an attempt at connecting or distancing themselves from them. Folk production and forms of knowledge, mainly anonymous, are approached here as a field of inspiration and possibility for understanding forms and behaviors, which function individually and independently from grander national narratives. Each work, with references to textiles, ceramics, dance, folk medicine and fairy tales amongst others, is a reminder of different models of life, production and economies linked often with provincial regions, the pre-eminent spaces where folk art flourishes. Without rejecting the notion of the urban landscape as an ongoing province, the exhibition focuses on the constant reliance of humans on their environment and the transfer of this relation into the material world.
The exhibition “I Heard it from the Valleys” is the result of the participation of Eva Vaslamatzi (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow) in the Curatorial Residency Program at SAHA Association in Istanbul (May-June 2021) made possible by the ARTWORKS association and with the support of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
“I Heard it from the Valleys”
Artists: Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Aslι Çavuşoğlu, Anastasia Douka, Marina Papazyan, Evi Souli, VASKOS (Vasilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis)
Curated by Eva Vaslamatzi
Opening 1/10/2021 4-9pm
Performance “The Wave” (choreographer: Evi Souli, dancer: Themis Chantzi) 6pm and 8pm
2/10 – 05/11/2021
Open every Wednesday and Friday 5pm to 8pm
and by appointment at [email protected]
Haus N Athen
Kairi 6, 105 51 Athens, Greece
The body as a tool, identity issues, navigating the boundaries between disciplines, political art in the digital era. These were some of the topics discussed during the most recent round of our Fellows’ presentations: Thodoris Trampas, Iris Touliatou , Dimitris Zampopoulos , Antigone Michalakopoulou , Vasilis Alexandrou, Konstantinos Doumpenidis and Iasonas Kampanis .This is an important part of our Program for generating ideas and for community building. Thank you all for attending!
This series of our Fellows’ presentations was all about listening to women artists talking about their work! Their presentations were the starting point for interesting conversations around topics such as aesthetic spatialities, sonic narratives, the poetic self, self-censorship, the spaces lying between humanity and animality, distortion, absurdity. Thank you Ersi Varveri, Natalia Papadopoulou , Alkistis Mavrokefalou, Sofia Sfyri , Chara Stergiou, Elisavet Sfyri and all of you who attended!
Once again this summer, ARTWORKS is participating in SNF Nostos, presenting the works of young cinematographers and choreographers who have participated in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program.
Below you may find our Fellows’ participation in the SNF Nostos:
ARTWORKS is participating in SNF Nostos and presenting short films by Greek directors who have participated in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program, highlighting the rich dynamism of Greek cinema.
Schedule of screenings:
Wednesday, 25 August
Schoolyard, by Rinio Dragasaki
A short film about everything that doesn’t end when school lets out…
“Schoolyard was filmed quickly and casually in the hot summer of 2013. It was commissioned by the Greek Film Centre and the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival. It is an experiment in what can happen when you read Andreas Embirikos while listening to Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out for the Summer.”
Year: 2014
Duration: 10’
Skin, by Manolis Mavris
A man asks himself whether it is too soon or too late to discover his body.
Year: 2019
Duration: 4
Thursday, 26 August
Kappa, by Kleoniki Stanich
Kappa finds herself in a facility that promotes social integration. Soon enough, she witnesses several attempts at interaction, which lead to a somewhat awkward situation. In response, she adopts a survival mechanism that enables her to move between her fantasy world and reality. Creating her own scenarios, she redefines communication, as well as the borders of where a relationship starts and where it ends.
Year: 2018
Duration: 14’
Friday, 27 August
Washingtonia, by Konstantina Kotzamani
This film is about the palm species Washingtonia, the only species resistant to the red palm weevil. Because its heart is small and dry, and no one likes small, dry hearts. Washingtonia is another name for the hot Athens summer in which giraffes, madame Ellie, a poodle, a birthday cake, and heartbeats coexist.
Year: 2014
Duration: 24’
Saturday, 28 August
Postcards from the End of the World, by Konstantinos Antonopoulos
Trapped in the dysfunction of their family vacation, the last thing Dimitra, Dimitris, and their two young daughters expect to face is the end of the world.
Year: 2019
Duration: 23’
Sunday, 29 August
Copa-Loca, by Christos Massalas
This is the story of Copa-Loca, a summer resort in the off season. Polina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares about her, and she cares about everyone—in every possible way.
Year: 2017
Duration: 14’
ARTWORKS is partnering with SNF Nostos again this summer and spotlighting aspects of modern dance, presenting the works of young choreographers who have participated in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program. From August 26 to 29, dancers and choreographers will bring their movement to the Agora of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), a central space where people meet, interact, and create experiences.
The creators were inspired during the pandemic to choreograph the dances they will present at the Agora. Today more than ever, it is important for us to rethink the body’s experience in space. In their works, they turn a critical eye to how the body functions when it is confined, restricted, and precarious, and dance is seen as a form of resistance, escape, and articulation of possible and impossible ways of acting. The Agora becomes a space of experimentation and freedom. The audience will have the opportunity to observe a diversity of trends in contemporary dance from the rejuvenating perspective of talented young creators.
ARTWORKS, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), in the context of its collaboration with MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale School of Waters will be organising a series of events in Athens under the title Liquid Junctions. The Liquid Junctions events are part of the Biennale parallel program, which will be held in various cultural institutions across the Mediterranean with a view to activating discussions around the themes of the Biennale and disseminating the exhibition’s programme .
On Friday, June 4, at 7 p.m. local time, ARTWORKS will hold a public event at the SNFCC Dome in order to support and showcase the work of all SNF ARTWORKS Fellows selected to participate in the Biennale (Ionian Bisai, Eva Papamargariti, Valinia Svoronou and Chara Stergiou). Liquid Junctions will include a DJ lecture by Hara Stergiou; a performative reading by Quinn Latimer and presentations of the works of Eva Papamargaritis, Valinia Svoronou and the artistic duo Latent Community (Ionian Bisai and Sotiris Tsiganos).
Between May 15 and October 31, 2021, MEDITERRANEA 19 School of Waters will be presenting the work of 70 artists from 21 Mediterranean countries for the first time in San Marino. The MEDITERRANEA 19 School of Waters envisions the Biennale as a collective tool for deconstructing stereotypes stemming from the Eurocentric interpretation of the Mediterranean basin, focusing particularly on the material and symbolic nature of water from a geopolitical as well as an ecological perspective. It is an invitation to discover anew the fluidity that has turned the Mediterranean basin into a versatile habitat in which various life forms and knowledge-production processes have coexisted for centuries.
The participating artists place the focus on ecofeminism and examine the major ethical and economic roots of environmental issues. Inspired by mythology, science fiction, contemporary history and examining the matter through the prism of complex marine ecosystems, they challenge human superiority and navigate the notions of feeling and thinking in more-than-human worlds.
Eva Papamargariti uses time-based media, printed material and sculptural installations to explore the relationship between digital space and material reality. Papamargariti focuses on the dialectics of fluidity, motion, as well as the relationship between bodies and the traces they leave behind as they float, sink, disperse, get cast in and out of water.
The work of the artistic duo Latent Community (Jonian Bisai and Sotiris Tsiganos) combines fieldwork and moving image to tackle contemporary judicial, social and ecological issues. The duo aims to create conceptual and emotional experiences through which a more equal and sustainable future may be imagined. Their research focuses on the critical reading of non-canonical stories and examines the ways in which these become embedded in new contexts.
Chara Stergiou’s interdisciplinary practice develops at the junction between epistemological research and artistic practice. Stergiou’s DJ Lectures are hybrid narrative techniques for disseminating stories, geographies, and identities based on non-locality and can be seen as sonic, almost radiophonic, events to be transmitted through the lens of a deviated ethnomusicology.
Valinia Svoronou’s practice includes text, moving image, augmented reality applications, publications, prints and sculpture. Using references from science fiction and mythology, she navigates alternative ways of remembering or narrating stories from a non-dominant perspective.
As part of Liquid Junctions, guest poet and critic Quinn Latimer will hold a performative reading based on her work The Samos Lecture (Like a Woman: Essays, Readings, Poems). Combining live performance and the written word, Latimer’s work examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, as well as feminist economies of writing, reading, and art-making. She will also present her film How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps), created in collaboration with Temitope Ajose-Cutting in 2020. In this work, the two artists ask a series of questions, for example: in times of isolation, what do we lack? How do we learn? What is a body, and what is a body of water?
The Mediterranean Biennale 19 School of Waters, organised by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée and the Republic of San Marino will present from 15 May to 31 October 2021 the works of over 70 artists from 21 different countries, hosted for the first time by the Republic of San Marino.
Senior Curators: Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi
Curatorial Team: Denise Araouzou, Giulia Colletti, Panos Giannikopoulos, Giulia Gregnanin, Theodoulos Polyviou, Angeliki Tzortzakaki and Nicolas Vamvouklis.
The Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs General Secretariat for Vocational Education, Training, Lifelong Learning and Youth in Greece as well as the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Directorate of Culture are founding members of BJCEM and support the participation of Greek artists and curators in the Biennale Mediterranea 19.
Liquid Junctions: MEDITERRANEA 19 Young Artists Biennale – School of Waters x ARTWORKS | SNFCC
Free entry by online pre-registration.
Pre-sale points:
Schedule:
19.00 – Introduction and welcome by the co-organisers ARTWORKS & MED19
19.15 – Screenings and short introductions by the artists
Valinia Svoronou, Endymion (greek)
Eva Papamargariti, As they were drifting away, their bodies turned into waves, 2021 (english)
Latent Community NEROMANNA (greek, english subtitles)
Latent Community Ocean is future (work in progress)
Quinn Latimer, How to move like the Ocean (english)
20.15 – Quinn Latimer reading performance of The Samos Lecture (english)
20.45 –Chara Stergiou – dj Lecture Listening to an Elusive Geography greek)
ARTWORKS, with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), partners with the Biennale of Young Artists – MEDITERRANEA 19 – School of Waters , joining the Expanded Public Program Digital Swamp which will take place in various Mediterranean cities. The aim of this Program is to activate a network of discussions and actions around the thematic School of Waters.
Specificatlly, ARTWORKS will support the SNF ARTWORKS Fellows who have been selected to take part in the Biennale (Ionian Bisai, Eva Papamargariti, Valinia Svoronou and Chara Stergiou) by organizing two events entitled Liquid Junctions. The first event will be held digitally on May 19th 2021, through two separate conversations between the guests speakers Ella Finer and Chuz Martinez, the participant artists and members of the curatorial group of Biennale, Panos Giannikopoulos and Angeliki Tzortzakaki. The second event will take part on June 2021, in a physical space in Athens, presenting the works of SNF ARTWORKS Fellows who will be exhibited at the Biennale at San Marino. More to be announced soon.
The Expanded Program of the Biennale MEDITERRANEA 19 – School of Waters, Digital Swamp, will be streamed online on the Biennale’s platform, mediterraneabiennial.org and the School of Waters Youtube account from May 14th until May 23rd 2021. ARTWORKS will be joining the Program on May 19 2021.
May 19
CONVERSATIONS
Liquid Junctions
18.00
Chus Martinez with Eva Papamargariti, Valinia Svoronou and Panos Giannikopoulos
19:30
Ella Finer with Chara Stergiou and Angeliki Tzortzakaki
With the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
Livestreaming from ARTWORKS, Athens, Greece
More info about the Digital Swamp | Expanded Public Program | 14-24 May 2021 in the following link
Some of our Fellows joined the workshop “Extra-Terrestrial Ethnography of the Future-Present: collaborative Writing and Zine workshop” organised by SNFPHI in collaboration with the University of Thessaly research project Greek Future Archive of Socialities Under Quarantine, the Anthrobombing platform and the Athens Zine Bibliotheque.
PART I: WRITING WORKSHOP
Taking the contemporary moment as an alien world, participants in this two-part workshop will embark on “tracking” missions, using memes, news media, vlogs, archival images, political satire, peer commentary, and works of fiction (e.g., plague literature) as “data” to create a collaborative sci–fi ethnography. The resulting textual body—an extra-terrestrial account of our “new normal”—will evolve online through a collaborative platform and result in a zine publication prepared by participants on December 17. The workshop will be conducted in Greek, with an Εnglish option.
Workshop conveners: Alexandra Siotou (University of Thessaly), George Mantzios (University of Toronto), Penelope Papailias (University of Thessaly)
In collaboration with the University of Thessaly research project Greek Future Archive of Socialities Under Quarantine and the Anthrobombing platform.
PART IΙ: ΖINE WORKSHOP
How might we turn collaborative writing and online data expeditions into zines? How might zines become vehicles for documenting the present? This workshop will draw on ideas and data produced in the context of SNFPHI’s sci-fi ethnography workshop (in November 2020) and the screening of Υorgos Zois’ Third Kind (in December 2020) to produce a collaborative zine reflecting on COVID19 from the perspective of an alien future.
In collaboration with SNFPHI project awardee the Athens Zine Bibliotheque, the University of Thessaly’s Greek Future Archive of Socialities Under Quarantine research project, and Anthrobombing platform.
Participant Fellows:
Liminalia (p. 4-13): Elektra Stampoulou, Natalia Papadopoulou, Irini Kalaitzidi, Antigone Michalakopoulou
Fragments from the south (p. 14-25): Elena Demetria Chantzis, Eirini Vlavianou, Eleni Bagaki
Haumea (p. 26-33): Ilektra Maipa
Maria Tsilogianni (p. 34-35)
951 Graspra (p. 36-67): Ionian Bisai, Vasilia Kaga, Stefania Orfanidou
Pandoras (p. 68-79): Angelos Papadopoulos
Flower Power (p.98-107): Sofia Dona, Aimilia Liontou, Thanasis Neofotistos, Phaedra Vokali
http://art-works.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/a_Zine_liminalia.pdf
During our dance workshop led by Efrosini Protopapa and Steriani Tsintziloni, we had the pleasure to invite Eleanor Bauer for an artist talk. Eleanor spoke to us about the theory and research behind her practice, the non-linearity of dance and the limitations of using language when trying to answer the question ” How does dance think?”. Thank you Eleanor for such an inspiring talk and many thanks to our dance selection committee members and mentors, Efrosini and Stergiani for making this happen.
Eleanor Bauer is a performer and choreographer working at the intersections of dance, writing, and music. Her work is rooted in syntheses of embodied intelligences in her practice of making sense with the senses in performance. From solos to talk shows to large ensemble pieces, her versatile works range in scale, media, and genre traversing categories of performance with wit, humor, and aplomb.
On February we had the chance to learn more about the works of Byron Kalomamas, Konstantinos Pettas, Eliza Sorogka, Elektra Stampoulou, Petros Efstathiadis, Lelle Demertzi, Stefania Orfanidou, Maria Tsilogianni, Antigone Theodorou and Anthi Kougia! Among other topics we reflected on displaced labour, questions around narrative formation and narration, authorship and authenticity, the ephemeral, the phenomenology of the space, speculative design and future studies. Thank you all for the great company and for the lively discussions!