Part 8: The Royal Race for Nature
15 years ago
Monday, 19 September 2011
Friday, 16 September 2011
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/
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/
Monday, 12 September 2011
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
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
Sunday, 11 September 2011
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
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
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