interview to Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos for the6milliondollarstory.com

http://the6milliondollarstory.com/index.php/interview/109-theo-prodromidisjours-des-affaires

The Magnificent Capital, 2007

THE MAGNIFICENT CAPITAL from Theo Prodromidis on Vimeo.
The Magnificent Capital
2007
HDV, stereo, 32’00”

Written, Directed and Edited by
THEO PRODROMIDIS

©2007

commissioned by

State Museum of Contemporary Art

1st THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
HETEROTOPIAS

International Workshop of Young Artists

The day the goverment didn't fall and the people didn't vote

documentation of Untitled (stage design for the performance of a play for a meteorite state, after Antonas)

Theo Prodromidis
in collaboration with Zaira Falirea
Untitled (stage design for the performance of a play for a meteorite state, after Antonas)
2011, wood, 400cmX250cmX200cm

shown at the show
PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS: TOWARDS A NEW REMAPPING curated by Christina Androulidaki for AD Gallery under REMAP3

http://www.adgallery.gr/en/gallerynews/item/224-remap

documentation of Notes for the performance of a play for a meteorite state (Miss Bikini Greece 2011 balancing act) 2011

Theo Prodromidis

Notes for the performance of a play for a meteorite state (Miss Bikini Greece 2011 balancing act)

2011, inkjet print, 100cmx70cm

shown at the show
PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS: TOWARDS A NEW REMAPPING curated by Christina Androulidaki for AD Gallery under REMAP3

http://www.adgallery.gr/en/gallerynews/item/224-remap

an ethnopoetic sequence as a result of a performance with 521 books on the Left constantly re-organised

for more info on the performance at the Kunsthalle Athena

theo-prodromidis.blogspot.com/​2011/​06/​farewell-at-kunsthalle-athena.html

9 jours des Affaires en cours

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9 jours des Affaires en cours

Θοδωρής Προδρομίδης & Πέτρος Νικόλτσος

Διάρκεια: 20 Οκτωβρίου – 20 Νοεμβρίου
(Εγκαίνια: Πέμπτη, 20 Οκτωβρίου στις 21:00)

Ανοιχτά καθημερινά 12:00 – 00:00

Ο Θοδωρής Προδρομίδης και ο Πέτρος Νικόλτσος καταγράφουν το τοπίο της Αθήνας, δημιουργώντας ένα προσωρινό αρχείο και παρουσιάζοντας το ως μιά αφήγηση μέσω πολλαπλών προβολών στο project space του six d.o.g.s.

Η αφήγηση αυτή, χρησιμοποιεί τοσο την αρχιτεκτονική οσο και την εγγενή επιτελεστικότητα των καταστάσεων που συναντά ένας περιπατητής της πόλης αυτής, και επιχειρεί να δημιουργήσει ένα σενάριο επιστημονικής φαντασίας, βασισμενο πάνω στη σχέση του μοντέρνου και του προσωρινού. Η δομή αυτής της αφήγησης καλεί τον θεατή να βρεθεί ανασταλμένος μεταξύ της ιστορίας και της πληροφορίας.

Λίγα Λόγια για τους καλλιτέχνες:

Θοδωρής Προδρομίδης:
Γεννήθηκε το 1979 στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Ζεί και εργάζεται στην Αθηνα. Σπούδασε Media Art στο University of Westminster και αποφοίτησε από το MFA in Fine Art στο Goldsmiths το 2007, στο Λονδίνο. Έχει συμμετάσχει σε εκθέσεις, μερικές απο των οποιων είναι οιPlacements - Replacements - Misplacements: Towards a New Remapping, AD Gallery for Remap 3, Athens, Farewell, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, (2011), Sensitivity Questioned,Ileana Tounta Art Centre, Athens, (2010), Move, Werkleitz zentrum für medienkunst, Halle, Germany, Midsummer Night’s Dream – Intercessions, Remap KM, parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (2009), Passage, European network for young artists, Contour Mechelen, Brussels, Belgium (2008), Workshop, part of Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art ,State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece και National Review for the Live Arts, Tramway, Glascow, Scotland (2007).Έχει βραβευτεί με το European Media Artists Award (EMARE) 2008 και το βραβείο του Ιδρύματος Ωνάση 2006. Έργα του βρίσκονται σε δημόσιες και ιδιωτικές συλλογές στην Έλλαδα, το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο και την Ιταλία.

Πέτρος Νικόλτσος:
Ο Πέτρος Νικόλτσος γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1979. Σπούδασε με τους φωτογράφους John Brooks και Νίκο Οικονομόπουλο και έχει δουλέψει ως βοηθός του Jim Godberg του πρακτορείου Magnum. Το 2007 εκδόθηκε το βιβλίο 'Λος Άντζελες' από τις Εκδόσεις Μελάνι, με φωτογραφίες του και κείμενα της Σώτης Τριανταφύλλου και το 2010 το βιβλίο 'Flâneur' από τις εκδόσεις ΙΑΝΟΣ με φωτογραφίες του και κείμενα του Στέφανου Τσιτσόπουλου. Από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2008 συνεργάζεται με το περιοδικό SOUL. Έχει παρουσιάσει την δουλεία του σε ομαδικές και ατομικές εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό.

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες:

six d.o.g.s
Αβραμιώτου 6-8
Μοναστηράκι
Αθήνα
T: +30 210 3210510
W: http://sixdogs.gr/


english version:

9 jours des Affaires en cours

Theo Prodromidis & Peter Nikoltsos

20 October - 20 November 2011
(Private View: Thursday, 20 October at 21:00)

Opening hours, everyday 12:00 – 00:00

Theo Prodromidis and Peter Nikoltsos document the landscape of the city of Athens producing a temporal archive and presenting it as a narrative through multiple projections at the project space of six d.o.g.s.

This narrative utilises both architecture and the inherent performativity of the situations one can stumble upon in this city.
It attempts to produce a pseudo science fiction scenario based on the relationship between
the modernity and the contemporaneity of Athens.
The structure of this narrative invites the viewer to be suspended in the space between history and information.

About the artists:

Theo Prodromidis
1979, born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Lives and works in Athens, Greece. Studied Media Art at the University of Westminster and was awarded an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2007, in London, UK. He has participated in group exhibitions such as Placements - Replacements - Misplacements: Towards a New Remapping, AD Gallery for Remap 3, Athens, Farewell, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, (2011), Sensitivity Questioned, Ileana Tounta Art Centre, Athens, (2010), Move, Werkleitz zentrum für medienkunst, Halle, Germany (2009), Midsummer Night’s Dream – Intercessions, Remap KM, parallel to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (2009), Passage, European network for young artists, Contour Mechelen, Brussels, Belgium (2008), Workshop, part of Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art ,State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece (2007), National Review for the Live Arts, Tramway, Glascow, Scotland (2007). He has been awarded with European Media Artists Award(EMARE), 2008 and Onassis Foundation Award, 2006. His work is in public and private collections in Greece, UK and Italy.

Peter Nikoltsos
1979, born in Thessaloniki, Greece. Lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece. Studied under the photographers John Brooks and Nikos Economopoulos and has worked as an assistant of Jim Godberg of Magnum Photos. In 2007, Melani Editions published the book 'Los Angeles', with his photos and texts by Soti Triantafyllou and in 2010 the book 'Flâneur' from Ianos Editions with his photographs and texts by Stefanos Tsitsopoulos. He has been a contributing artist for SOUL Magazine and their projects since 2008. His work has been exhibited in Greece and abroad.

Invitation to A Serenade (From a Gallery to a Street, Rebecca Camhi, Athens) 3rd part

Theo Prodromidis,
Invitation to A Serenade (From a Gallery to a Street, Rebecca Camhi, Athens)
2011, performance, duration variable.

The invitation to athens-based bands to perform a disruption of the everyday aesthetic experience of this street in Kerameikos, on the facarde of a neoclassical house turned into a gallery, introduces an action bound with Mediterranean traditions and mythical love stories, that of the serenade, but reversed in its dynamic, from the balcony to the street.

For the third act act, on 08/10 Jeremy Irons (members of Medusas and Another Little Girl Under The Sea) camped in the gallery and garaged out a beautiful psychedelic autumnal serenade under the first rain drops of a Fall for Athens.

farewell to a not so orwellian future

New future

Invitation to A Serenade (From a Gallery to a Street, Rebecca Camhi, Athens) 2nd part

Theo Prodromidis,
Invitation to A Serenade (From a Gallery to a Street, Rebecca Camhi, Athens)
2011, performance, duration variable.

The invitation to athens-based bands to perform a disruption of the everyday aesthetic experience of this street in Kerameikos, on the facarde of a neoclassical house turned into a gallery, introduces an action bound with Mediterranean traditions and mythical love stories, that of the serenade, but reversed in its dynamic, from the balcony to the street.

For the second act, on 30/09 Giannis from Bazooka and friends performed an hour of a serenade of noise and amplified love callings that made the gallery into a huge speaker and the street to warp around their calling.

When a monument to a neoliberal gets erected, the landscape rises

documentation of PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS: TOWARDS A NEW REMAPPING

Theo Prodromidis
in collaboration with Zaira Falirea
Untitled (stage design for the performance of a play for a meteorite state, after Antonas),
2011, wood, 400cmx250cm

Theo Prodromidis
Notes for the performance of a play for a meteorite state (Miss Bikini Greece 2011 balancing act)
2011, inkjet print, 100cmx70cm

Theo Prodromidis
An everyday exchange inside the future state of a meteorite unit
HD video, 2011
a video based on a script by Theo Prodromidis and Makis Malafekas
to be shot in the exhibition
will be online on the 5th of November 2011

http://vimeo.com/theopro/future-meteorite

Invitation to A Serenade (From a Gallery to a Street, Rebecca Camhi, Athens) for REMAP 3

Theo Prodromidis,
Invitation to A Serenade (From a Gallery to a Street, Rebecca Camhi, Athens)
2011, performance, duration variable.

The invitation to six athens-based bands to perform a disruption of the everyday aesthetic experience of this street in Kerameikos, on the facarde of a neoclassical house turned into a gallery, introduces an action bound with Mediterranean traditions and mythical love stories, that of the serenade, but reversed in its dynamic, from the balcony to the street.

For the opening act, on 12/09 Nalyssa Green performed a serenade unplugged, offering a baroque vocal and lyrical performance to the audience of the private view of Remap 3, intercepted by the passing traffic of Leonidou.



http://www.nalyssagreen.com/

On the Balcony, curated by Iliana Fokianaki for Remap 3

iLiana Fokianaki and Art Hub Athens are pleased to present…



ON THE BALCONY



12th of September - 30 October 2011
for opening hours please visit www.remapkm.org

Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Doug Fishbone, Assaf Gruber, Katerina Kana, Theo Prodromidis, Alexandros Psychoulis.

Balconies are an outdoors extension of a floor. They are normally closed up to a certain hight and made of a solid or see-through surface. Their origin is found as early as ancient Greece and Italy, but there is a flourish of their use throughout the centuries in Europe and Asia.

Six artists are invited to present, display, address and demonstrate their view on the balcony either it is through sculpture, poetry, photography, installation or...serenades.

The global use of the balcony is the first attractive element that is inspiring for this group exhibition, especially in relation to the globality of the neighbourhood of KM, that is inhabited by several nationalities.

Another very interesting aspect of the use of balconies is their use as an area for its owner to display its position or viewpoint. In villages in the period of Easter, housewives displayed a red cloth to inform passer-by’s they are dying eggs. In national holidays Greeks display the Greek flag to show their national pride, and in football matches their team's flag to show their joy for the win. In the greek language "i am standing on a balcony" translates to i am running for a candidate in politics.
In this year's Remap -that is in its own right a walk in the historical centre of Athens- the viewer is asked to walk through the area in order to discover and track works of art displayed in balconies or windows of buildings, all around the area of KM. The works that are placed above the eye level, are "displayed" in a balcony to be "exhibited" to their audience, to "address" their audience, therefore due to their position, they obtains a somewhat "godlike" status. The position of the viewer on street level and that of the work of art a few metres above ground, is possibly creating what Kant called the sublime.
Especially during this time that Greece is in an intense political and economical situation, the notions of "display", "exhibition" "position" that the balcony offers, are even more relevant. What do we choose to "exhibit" "display" or "support" today? Possibly works of art are one of the few that are left. 

Locations:

PERFORMANCE times and locations

Leonidou 9 (Rebecca Camhi Gallery) Theo Prodromidis performance opening night performance Nalyssa Green at 8pm (for further performance dates and times please visit www.remapkm.org)

The invitation to six athens-based bands to perform a disruption of the everyday aesthetic experience of this street in Kerameikos, on the facarde of a neoclassical house turned into a gallery, introduces an action bound with Mediterranean traditions and mythical love stories, that of the serenade, but reversed in its dynamic, from the balcony to the street.


Katerina Kana's poem recited by actress Calliopi Simou every half an hour from 17.30 onwards - Leonidou 25 4th floor window.

Our other locations are at the following balconies-

Dafni Eleonora Barbageorgopoulou - installation - Iassonos 26
Doug Fishbone - photograph - Giatrakou 28
Assaf Gruber -sculpture - balcony at Leonidou 38 (former Galini hotel)
Alexandros Psychoulis - sculptures - Leonidou 15 1st floor balcony facing Leonidou street

The exhibition is curated by Iliana Fokianaki
For more information on the show and Art Hub Athens as well as images please contact:
arthubathens@gmail.com or ilianafokianaki@gmail.com, +306945472694
www.ilianafokianaki.com
www.arthubathens.blogspot.com

PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS: TOWARDS A NEW REMAPPING, REMAP 3, AD GALLERY, ATHENS

AD Gallery presents:
PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS: TOWARDS A NEW REMAPPING


part of REMAP 3
At Thermopylon str. 27, Metaxourgeion, Athens


Curator:
Christina Androulidaki


Participating Artists:
Augusta Atla
Maro Fassouli
Dimitris Foutris
Alana Kakoyiannis
Alexandros Laios
Maria Polyzoidou
Theo Prodromidis
Anastassis Stratakis


ReMap Address:
27 Thermopylon,
Metaxourgeio



The show PLACEMENTS – REPLACEMENTS – MISPLACEMENTS: Towards a New Remapping deals with the idea of relocation (social, national, economic, political) and focuses on the exploration of this notion through the works of 8 emerging Greek and international artists. The Remap project and the location of the exhibition in Metaxourgeio, one of the most historic, diverse, arresting and yet deprived, areas of Athens functions as a case study in itself demonstrating through the works of visual artists the dynamics and problematics of such a remapping. The works bring up issues of emigration, immigration, warfare, human rights abuse, social exclusion, inequality, marginalization,xenophobia, as well as utopian dreaming, multiculturalism, diversity, hope and rebirth.



The artists work on a variety of media such as sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, video and performance. Augusta Atla’s photographic collages combine elements from her performances, popular magazines, anatomic books and folkloric Greek costumes to create peculiar works that touch on issues of femininity, motherhood and the suffering female body. Maro Fassouli’s sculptures draw attention to issues of encapsulation and social exclusion, exploring ideas of the hidden and the visible, inner and outer space, the familiar and the foreign. Alana Kakoyiannis’ poetic documentary film reflects on the notion of home through the lens of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriotdisplacement on the divided island of Cyprus and captures the potency of the political conflict through personal perspectives. Alexandros Laios’ works comment on the inability of the west to accommodate and effort to accumulate immigrants into the states and societies, as well as the permanent state of“transit” those people are forced to stay. Maria Polyzoidou paints an imaginary world, a picturesque landscape that falls apart, like a miniature of the world we have dreamt of. Theo Prodromidis envisages a utopian structure upon the remains of an architectural plan that was never built, Dimitris Foutris intervenes on the exterior of the building to observe on its use, function and history within society and finally, Anastassis Stratakis presents a segment of his photographic series Strange Fruit to comment on the way history repeats itself by the use of violence, obscurantism and exclusion from the time when witch hunting was performed, up to the assaults triggered by xenophobia performed in the present day.


AD gallery
3, Pallados str.
Psirri 105 54
Athens, Greece
Tel. +30 210 322 8785
E-mail: ad@otenet.gr
www.adgallery.gr

meteorite unit research

http://antonas.blogspot.com/2011/03/meteorite-unit.htmlhttp://antonas.blogspot.com/2011/03/meteorite-unit.html

PLEASURE, curated by Margarita Kataga at ABOUT:

PLEASURE

Thursday 16th of June - 9th of July 2011 

at

ABOUT: 

www.about-art.gr

Participants

Yannis Malegiannakis // Nikos Papadopoulos // Tereza Papamichali // Lila Polenaki // Theo Prodromidis // Daphni Rokou // Vassileia Stylianidou

Opening: Thursday, 16th of June 2011, at 20.00
Opening hours: Wednesday – Friday 17.00 – 21.00, Saturday 12.00 – 16.00

Curator: Margarita Kataga

An essay by the Italian philosopher Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), entitled The Theory of Pleasure, inspired the idea of a project for recording and studying the concept of “pleasure”, which for many centuries was a central issue for the human psyche. However, the excesses related to pleasure and its two-fold nature may turn it into a trap for human nature.

Leopardi writes with a prophetic pen, raising issues that are still of interest:
“In this life, the most certain pleasure is the futile pleasure of illusions”. And in another passage he states: “Illusions, though degraded and denounced by reason, still exist in this world and constitute the biggest part of life”.

Since in today’s consumerist society reality is defined by simulacra –described by French philosopher, J.Baudrillard, as the conjunction of reality and its image- how real can pleasure be? How is it defined? And in which degree can subjectivity support its manifestations?

Seven visual artists present and critically review the “masks” of pleasure and the boundaries between its essential meaning and the theatricality that sometimes accompanies its manifestations.

At the same time, drawing from humans’ relation to nature and the notion of collectivity within a societal context, the artists juxtapose their counter-suggestions regarding pleasure’s fake existence.

The associations and interrelations created among the presented works, raise important issues regarding enjoyment and the subjective dimension of pleasure.

installation views of

SERENADE TO SPECTACLE, 2006,16mm to DVCAM,stereo,6’30”

Farewell at Kunsthalle Athena documentation

524 books on the Left
524 new sentences produced
a collaboration between Aggeliki Papoulia and Theo Prodromidis 

ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ ΠΑΠΟΥΛΙΑ
ΘΟΔΩΡΗΣ ΠΡΟΔΡΟΜΙΔΗΣ
AGGELIKI PAPOULIA
THEO PRODROMIDIS

Goodbye Mr. Socialism,
Έτσι μεγάλωσα και έγινα κομμουνιστής
Qu’ est-ce que le communisme?
Μεγάλη Σοβιετική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια
Το Κεφάλαιο
Σύντομο Κοινωνικοπολιτικό Λεξικό
Ανατομία του Κομμουνισμού
Η Ρωσία όπως την έιδα
Ο «Αριστερισμός» παιδική αρρώστια του κομμουνισμού
Big History and the future of humanity
Το λυκόφως των κοινωνικών θεών
Περί του ορισμού της τρομοκρατίας
Ένα  βήμα μπρός, δύο βήματα πίσω
Το επαναστατικό πρόβλημα σήμερα
Για την ορθή λύση των αντιθέσεων
Η εποχή των άκρων
First as tragedy, then as farce
Ο κόσμος που είδα ανατολικά
Η επανάσταση ως υποκείμενο και ως αναπαράσταση
Κριτική της “αντιαυταρχικής” αγωγής
,etc

2011
performance
books (variable amount), 5 actors, 1 slide projector, 1 overhead projector, 1 video projector, 1 laptop, 1 printer, sound, duration variable

above photos by Spyros Staveris

http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/event53-apoxairetismos---farewell.htm
http://www.kunsthalleathena.org/ehibitions-and-projects.php?id=167