Category: Fellows news

Vasilis Papageorgiou wins the First Acquisition Prize at Premio Montani Tesei Under 35 Award.

The 2020 edition of ArtVerona sees the collaboration with a new partner, a young and prestigious subject that will support the under-35 artists present at the Fair with an acquisition award. The Studio Montani Tesei law firm is specialized in art law, protects companies and individuals in their relationship with the art system and its mission focuses in particular on those forms of awareness of the world of culture and collecting aimed at creating awareness and adequate knowledge of the current regulatory system. Under these premises, it was natural to come up with the idea of instituting an acquisition prize dedicated to the younger artists, those who are most in need of support and at the same time can be the harbingers of ideas capable of improving and innovating the system even outside the art scenario. Therefore, the selection will concern all under-35 artists exhibited at ArtVerona without medium or language barriers!

The lawyer Virginia Montani Tesei, founder of the firm, born in 1986, comments with a touch of irony on her decision to support an under-35 award, an anything but banal choice but in this case also very personal: “I think supporting the generation of artists of my age group seems the most natural thing to do. I think of my peers and I, who were born in the year of the Chernobyl explosion and graduated during the Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and who now, at almost 35 years of age, have to deal with the Covid pandemic which puts projects and ambitions at risk. So, to support my generation – often unfairly defined as that of ‘big babies’ – seems to me the best way to make a small contribution to Italian art in such complicated times“.

The Award will trigger the engagement of the ArtVerona public: the jury panel – made up of Sveva and Francesco Taurisano (CollezioneTaurisano, Naples), Sabrina Comin (Project Manager of TRA Treviso Ricerca Arte) and Virginia Montani Tesei – will select 8 under 35 artists among those represented by the galleries participating in the Fair. Their names will be shared on the Instagram page of ArtVerona and can be voted for. The jury will assign the Award by choosing one of the three names most voted for online. The shortlist of the eight finalists will also be published on the Fair’s website and on the Artshell platform.

Vasilis Papageorgiou is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.

The Creative Excellence Award worth $10,000 went to Greece-France-Japan project “Titanic Ocean” from director Konstantina Kotzamani and producer Maria Drandaki. It will be Kotzamani’s debut feature following a string of successful short films.

The jury said that “Titanic Ocean” was “a daring project which is supported with flair and savviness by the producer and director. A sensual blend of fantasy and realism, Titanic Ocean presents itself as a sure-fire hit of tomorrow.”

Konstantina Kotzamani is a moving image SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018.

F.A.R. explores the ways in which Athens is inhabited. It stems from the need to understand the different types of transformations that have been taking place in Athens in the past recent years. Despite the economic recession of the last decade and the political instability in the wider Mediterranean region, the city has become a place to be. At the same time, over the last five years, we have seen the local art scene changing; the number of art spaces is growing and venues and initiatives of varying scale are developing.

On December 8th, the program begins with F.A.R. RADIO, a temporary web radio station, broadcasting via www.3137.gr. At the same time, four interventions by Can Altay, Zoe Giambouldaki, Diohandi and Kostis Velonis will be installed outside 3 137, accessible 24/7. The interventions aim to comment on the use and design of public space and reflect on stories of cultural heritage and language.

Invited guests of F.A.R. RADIO are several art initiatives of the city, individuals with a research interest in housing and collective/individual property, as well as employees or owners of small businesses in ​​Exarcheia neighborhood. The guests will develop a 50-minute show—featuring sounds, music and discussion—about their activity, their daily habits, and the city networks within which they engage.

This radio project is a follow-up to Babylon Radio, which was organized by 3 137 in 2014 and to Radio Rhodiola, commissioned by Alserkal Arts Foundation in Dubai in 2019.

RADIO shows by:

Α-Dash Space, Aetopoulos Athens, Daphne Aidoni, Antonakis, Nikolas Arnis, Athens Zine Bibliotheque,Electra Barouni, Bayard, Gordon Beeferman, Callirrhoë, Elena Demetria Chantzis, Klea Charitou, Maria Chatzopoulou, Co-Hab Athens, Communitism, Ilaria Conti, DELIVERART project, Dolce Publishing, Vasilis Dimitrakas, Dora Economou, Enterprise Projects, Eftichis Euthimiou, Florent Frizet, Afroditi Gogoglou, GRACE, Stavia Grimani, Haus N, Hydroexpress Project Publication, Laure Jaffuel,Daphne Kalliga, Eleni Kamma, KEIV, Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza, Leefwerk, LULU, Michalis Markatselis, Giorgos Mitsios, ΝΟΤUS studio, Ntizeza, Malvina Panagiotidi, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Maro Paraskevoudi, Michalis Pavlidis, Perienth Hotel, P.E.T Projects, Phenomenon, Phoenix Athens, Caroline Pradal, Eleni Riga, Rodeo Gellery, Kleanthis Rousos, Sofia Sabani, Erica Scourti, Snehta Residency, Panagiotis Sotiris, Evi Sougkara, Hristiana Stamou, Kostas Stasinopoulos, State of Concept Athens, Mina Stone, Alexander Strecker, Sub Rosa Space, Katerina Tsellou, Tsev, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, THE EIGHT, Typical Organization, Eva Vaslamatzi, Daphne Vitali, Eva Vlassopoulos, Weekend, Yellow Brick, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Zoetrope.

Interventions outside 3 137 by:

Can Altay, Diohandi, Zoe Giabouldaki, Kostis Velonis

F.A.R., Floor Area Ratio is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports (2020), Outset Contemporary Art Fund Greece and Mécène / Mycanae (members of 3 137).

Modern Love explores the state of love and intimate relationships in the age of the Internet, social media, neo-liberal capitalism, and globalisation. It probes the societal patterns and challenges as well as possibilities that the Internet and social media present to our intimate relationships.

Digital technology and consumerism have significantly transformed love and social relationships. The experience of the virtual has increasingly dissolved the boundary between private and public. This influences how we communicate and interact with one another, especially with those closest to us.

On the one hand, the Internet and social media have facilitated the expression of non-heteronormative identities, forms of desire, and alternative ways of being. On the other, they have played a problematic role in cultivating pathologies such as narcissism, obsessive self-performativity, digital dependency within relationships, and the commodification of emotion.

The conflation of reality and fantasy has created complex psychological and relational entanglements, which are explored – among other things – in this exhibition.

In cooperation with Tallinna Kunstihoone (Estonia) and IMPAKT, Utrecht (Netherlands).

Participating artists: Gabriel Abrantes, Hannah Toticki Anbert, Melanie Bonajo, Laura Cemin, Benjamin Crotty, Kyriaki Goni, David Haines, Juliet Jacques, Mahmoud Khaled, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Maria Mavropoulou, Kyle McDonald, Marge Monko, Peter Puklus, Marijke De Roover, Margaret Salmon

Kyriaki Goni and Maria Mavropoulou are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows in visual arts (2018 and 2019 respectively)

𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞

Who is silenced when another voice takes the stage? What happens when we speak another’s words?
𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘰𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 is the work developed for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 by Mercedes Azpilicueta and Angeliki Tzortzakaki with performer Maria Sideri. Based loosely on encounters recorded in the marketplaces of Athens, it takes the form of a script studying emotional affect in the languages of solidarity and communion shared between women in the public realm.
https://backtalks.city/project/you-bring-joy-into-my-life/

The artists will discuss the work with project curator John Bingham-Hall as a microcosm of the politics and processes of giving and taking voice. Questions in the making of this work become debates about the ways we hear, ignore, record, edit, and speak the words of others in the public sphere.
How can we make audible that which is edited out and make visible our own positions by revealing what is not there? For city-makers, these questions are crucial: how to translate the everyday narration of experience into the language of urban ‘decision-making’? Could scripts be seen as infrastructures for sharing the work of voicing what it means to live together in the city?
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Part of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸, a program that brings together architects, urbanists, activists, artists, and anthropologists to explore the voicings of contemporary Athens. A collaboration between Onassis Stegi and Theatrum Mundi.
More info: https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/city-talks-back

Discussion and live reading group featuring Mercedes Azpilicueta, Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Maria Sideri and John Bingham-Hall

Maria Sideri is a visual arts SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2018

FREE LIVE STREAM https://backtalks.city/live/

25.11.2020
18.00 GMT // 19.00 CET // 20.00 EEST

Can an exhibition be like a Coven, curated on the basis of autonomy, sharing knowledge and radical care?

The idea of the exhibition as coven, stems from our need to initiate a conversation within the personal and political experiences of the present, raising the question of the relationship between intersectional feminism and curatorial practice. For this, as curators, we wish to create the setting for the coexistence of multiple voices and identities, and to highlight the collective relationships in the conformation of our present quests. Witchcraft is approached in a twofold way: on one hand, it operates as an archetype of empowerment and point of reference for the feminist struggles, since it underlines the historical evolution of capitalism, colonization and patriarchy (Federici). On the other hand, it acts out as a metaphor for the gender and class aspects that characterize artistic production, in a way that it plays a key role in the decisions regarding the exhibition’s realization and the question of its autonomy. At the center of the artists’ interest are emotions and embodied experiences coming from systems of oppression. Their framework is transnational, whilst memories and imaginaries of collective action emerge, as well as possibilities of healing in micro-worlds open to change.

Coven was born in January 2020 through discussions about how to come close, exchange healing and supportive practices and make space for each other in new ways of conviviality within an art exhibition context. Both, the first and the second, lockdowns forced us to postpone the show. This in turn made us redefine an idea, which at its core, is about proximity in a physical space.  We decided to turn Coven into a journey from the online to the offline world and create a community of care beyond the limits of physical space through a series of workshops, conversations and reading groups that will eventually lead – covid permitting – to the exhibit’s realization at the hospitable space of Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research.

“The more you share, the less you need”, Larry Mitchell wrote in his queer-feminist tale, The Faggots and Their Friends between Revolutions, about a rebellious utopia.

Thus, with the embracement of a feminist perspective outside the competitive environment of the dominant profit and non-profit cultural institutions, Coven as a concept wishes to embody the “love politics” it dreams of.

Curated by: Vassilia Kaga & Caterina Stamou

Vassilia Kaga is SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020 in curating

Participating artists: Margarita Athanasiou, Khaleb Brooks, Rabab El Mouaden, Marie-Andrée Godin, Eliza Goroya, Graham Kolbeins,
Vassiliki Lazaridou, Rory Midhani,  Sotiris Batzianas, Sofia Rozaki, Myrto Stampoulou, Dorian Wood.
Marie-Andrée Godin

Coven/Care – WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB /
WILD WO.MEN WITCHES /
WORLD WITHOUT WORK)
Coven/Care – WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB / WILD WO.MEN WITCHES / WORLD WITHOUT WORK) is a collective online gathering to remember (or if not, invent) and activate our faculties of care. We are going to share words and lived experiences through collective reading, grounding exercises and (their/her/his) story telling, with the intent of developing a safer spaced caring practice.

Marie-Andrée Godin was born in Canada and works between Canada and Finland, where she now lives. Her research has focused on the figure of the witch as a feminist figure and explores the concepts of a-hierarchy, craft, holistic and anti-anthropocentric thinking and knowledge as a source of potential power or oppression. She is now trying to see how magic, post-capitalism and diverse political forms or systems can be intertwined to help manifest the future. She conducts this research under the title WWW³ (WORLD WIDE WEB / WILD WO.MEN WITCHES / WORLD WITHOUT WORK) more thoroughly as a doctoral candidate at Aalto University (Finland) since 2018. This research is also supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her artistic work is mainly based in the fields of installation, performance art and socially engaged practices, and has been shown so far in Canada, the United States, Japan, Finland and Italy.

WHEN: 28.11.2020 at 18.00 Athens / 17.00 Berlin
WHERE: Online
DURATION: 2 h
LANGUAGE: English

The number of participants is limited to 15 in order to encourage comfortableness and equal space for expression among the individuals.
Please send us an e-mail with subject “Coven/Care” and your name at [email protected] to receive an invitation link for the event.

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.

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.

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)

‘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

Readiness: The LARP

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

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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.