Theo Prodromidis, Je mehr es hervordringt, Documentation at Move, Halle, 2009

 excerpt of Theo Prodromidis's Je mehr es hervordringt.
published in the DVD : Move - new european media art, documentation of the EMARE works 2008 - 2009 at the Weirkleitz Festival and .move exhibition.

9th -25th of October 2009 in Halle (Saale), Germany

Produced with the support of the European Union Culture 2007 programme and within the scope of the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE) programme at the EMAN partner labs, Impakt (Netherlands), Interspace (Bulgaria), VIVID (Great Britain) and Weirkleitz (Germany)
© 2009 Weirkleitz

http://www.emare.eu/move

also check
(installation views in Halle and Exhibition info)
http://theo-prodromidis.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html
(catalogue text written by Pieternel Vermoortel)
http://theo-prodromidis.blogspot.com/2009/08/text-on-je-mehr-es-hervordringt-by.html
(installation views in Sofia and production stills)
http://theo-prodromidis.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
(interview about the work and Sofia, in english for Edno Magazine)
http://theo-prodromidis.blogspot.com/2009/01/edno-magazine-bulgaria-interview-in.html

installation view of Untitled (Canary Wharf, towards the performance of an image) 2007 at Sensitivity Questioned, Ileana Tounta, Athens

Sensitivity Questioned, curated by Iliana Fokianaki, Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece, 06/05 - 03/07 2010

SENSITIVITY QUESTIONED

Curated by : Iliana Fokianaki

06.05.2010 – 03.07.2010

The group show «Sensitivity Questioned» opens on Thursday 6th May 2010, at 19:30, at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center.


Participating artists:

Jean Luc Blanc, Gregory Crewdson, Jim Drain, Ryan McGinley, Michael Robinson, Daniel Silver, Daniel Subkoff, Stephen Sutcliffe, Scott Treleaven, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Christos Delidimos, Kostas Bassanos, Manolis Bitsakis, Vassilis Botoulas, Antonis Donef, Eftichis Patsourakis, Theo Prodromidis, Panos Tsangaris

What is sensitivity? Curator Iliana Fokianaki views sensitivity in connection with one of its most common associations: femininity.
Through research on websites created by ordinary people, she arrived at a new definition of sensitivity, invented new ways of associating the sensitive and the feminine and what the latter represents, and used these as a starting point for a presentation of works that reference, underscore and affirm various aspects of the two concepts.

Thus, the exhibition attempts to articulate a new view of the ‘feminine’ at the same time that it explores how the concept finds expression through art. The exhibition’s curator comes up with a selection of distinctly ‘sensitive’ or ‘feminine’ elements, but attempts to challenge their basic quality, give it a new twist and invest it with new possibilities. Furthermore, since the exhibition features an all-male participating artists’ list, it also seems to be addressing the issue of the feminine side of men and of how they tend to deal with it. 

Social assumptions that take sensitivity to be an exclusively female attribute are now being tackled in the visual arts arena. Works presented in this exhibition demonstrate either a choice on the part of participating male artists to approach their subject in ways that may perhaps strike the viewer as ‘feminine’, or a decision to offer an observer’s commentary of the notions of femininity and sensitivity. Viewers are therefore given the opportunity to rethink the meaning of femininity and to realize that such social boundaries are more in flux than they may have imagined.

Basically, the exhibition is a tribute to femininity in all the shapes and forms this may assume today. Through the works it includes, it hopes to cause a shift in the viewer’s perception of its stated subject.

Part of the exhibition’s proceeds will go to ActionAid Hellas to fund programs that support women in India, Cambodia and Haiti.

http://www.art-tounta.gr/files/exhibitionCurrent.html

read an interview with the curator here

The Greek Issue

my friend christina, send me this the other day.

The Greek issue is a global one.

It is a political agenda to weaken the Euro, a exercising American and City of London financial warfare to defend the dollar and Sterling pound. By attacking Greece, the smallest weak link in the eurozone chain and through eventually Euro and thus infecting all the sovereign debt in the world -government debt, sovereign state, local, provincial, of all a national state. An attempt to create a new world monetary crisis. These are based on facts and proofs and not conspiracy theories. The economy is turning into global dictatorship. Either nations will defend themselves against these predatory hedge-funds and zombie banks or the wolf packs of banks and hedge funds will attempt to attack and destroy the debt of sovereign states and that will more or less bring the system of modern states to an end and civilisation with it. 

quoting William Engdahl, Webster Tarpley and Max Keiser .