Tuesday 8 October 2013

info and installation shots of Towards the production of Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other Precious Materials, 2013 from AGORA, 4th Athens Biennale



AGORA Guide text:


The video installation “Towards the production of Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other Precious Materials” has as a starting point of reference Bertolt Brecht's The Messingkauf Dialogues, a theoretical work in a dialectical form that dates back to 1939 and was written in four different versions in a period of four years but remained incomplete.The work situates a re-interpreted version of Brecht’s work, connected to the socio-economic circumstances regarding contemporary society and the implications that these may cause, in the structures of a monetary policy, and its reverberations in the cultural sphere.
Based on Brecht’s four nights’ structure the artist aims to provoke correlations regarding two structures, the structure of politics and the structure of finance using their architectural form and specificities as a visual starting point. The work motivates the viewer to contemplate all the above elements in a manner that the aesthetic experience of viewing it produces a platform for the critical engagement of the spectator with the socio-political signifiers that are presented.
Theo Prodromidis’s video installation has a specific social context, to collective and private experiences as a consequence of politico-economic and political-cultural locations that are densified in a narrativized, critical and poetic process.


-Katerina Nikou




© courtesy of the artist and Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, 2013


Theo Prodromidis
Towards the production of Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other Precious Materials
2013
4 screen synchronised HD video installation, surround sound, 16min.
copper, metal, wood.

actress PINELOPI TSILIKA
actor ANDREAS KONSTANTINOU
dramaturg NIKOLAS HANAKOULAS
philosopher SPYROS TEGOS As Himself
electrician ALEXANDROS MAVROPOULOS

writer-director THEO PRODROMIDIS
director of photography KONSTANTINOS KOUKOULIOS
editor ARTEMIS ANASTASIADOU
sound supervisor NIKOLAS KONSTANTINOU
sound recordists CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS NIKOLAS KONSTANTINOU
first assistant director MARIA LAINAS
second assistant director ALKI POLITI
associate producer KATERINA NIKOU
producer THEO PRODROMIDIS
production manager CHRYSOSTOMOS THEODOROUDIS
1st assistant camera STAMATIS KOUROS
set designer-costume designer KATERINA TSAKOTA
hair and makeup IOANNA LYGIZOU
set photographer PETROS NIKOLTSOS
production assistants DIMITRIS OMORFOS SAVVAS PARASKEVAS
LEFTERIS STEFANIDIS LEFTERIS THEODOROUDIS
audio post-production NIKOLAS KONSTANTINOU
post-production AUTHORWAVE
post-production manager PANOS BISDAS
colorist ALEXANDROS KAPIDAKIS
subtitles PANAGIOTIS KARAHALIOS
camera BLACK MAGIC CINEMA CAMERA
lenses CARL ZEISS COMPACT PRIMES

original score composer THOMAS BAKALAKOS
"After Our Darkness" 2013
Inspired by Anne Clarke's "Our Darkness" and Bertolt Brecht's "The Messingkauf Dialogues"
a study in brass sound by THOMAS BAKALAKOS for a brass octet, 2 bassoon, drums and percussion
arrangement for concert band DIMITRIS MICHAS
lyrics adaptation THEO PRODROMIDIS
performed by PINELOPI TSILIKA and recorded at TONE STUDIO ATHENS
score performed by ATHENS MUNICIPALITY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
conductor DIMITRIS MICHAS
recorded by VASILIS EFRAIMIDIS

shot in location at
COMMUNIST PARTY OF GREECE
ATHENS STOCK EXCHANGE
NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE BUILDINGS AT SOFOKLEOUS AND PESMATZOGLOU
EMPOROCHALKO
COLOMBOS METALS
BIOS

co-produced by
THEO PRODROMIDIS STUDIO
PARASOL PRODUCTIONS
AUTHORWAVE

© THEO PRODROMIDIS / THEO PRODROMIDIS STUDIO 2013

installation design and supervision MARIA MANETA
artist's assistant KONSTANTINOS KOTSIS

many thanks to
GIANNIS ANAGNOSTOU, KLIMIS ASIKOGLOU, YIORGOS BAKALAKOS, DR. RUDIGER BOLZ, VASILIS CHARALAMPIDIS, KOSTIS CHRISTOPOULOS, YIANNIS EXINTARIS, NIKOLETA FILOSOGLOU, ANGELOS FRANTZIS, BABIS GALIATSATOS, SOFIA GEORGOVASSILI, ALKISTIS GIANNAKOURA, KATIA GOULIONI, AKIS GOURZOULIDIS, ALEXANDRA GRISPOU, ANJA KIRSCHNER, ELINA KOUNTOURI, KOSTAS KOUTSOSPYROS, AMANDA LIVANOU, KOSTAS MAGLARAS, SOFIA MOYSIDOU, DAVID PANOS, NELLY PAPACHELA, EVGENIA PAPAPANOU, KATERINA PERRATI, ARIS PRODROMIDIS, STAVROS RAPTIS, STRATOS SARANTIDIS, VAIA SKANDALI, KOSTAS STAMATOPOULOS, GIORGOS SYMEONIDIS, MARIANNA THEODORIDOU, ILEANA TOUNTA, KATERINA TSELOU, NIKOS VAVOURIS, NIKOLAOS VERGOPOULOS, MARIA VERGOPOULOU, CHRYSA VLACHOPOULOU, ALEX ZIKA, MARIA ZOURARI-BOLZ.

dedicated to the work and in memory of DR JACKIE HATFIELD

with the support of
OUTSET. GREECE

with the contribution of
HELLENIC COPPER DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, COPPER ALLIANCE
and SOFIA MED

in cooperation with
ATHENS MUNICIPALITY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
and OPAN (ATHENS MUNICIPALITY CULTURAL, SPORTS AND YOUTH ORGANIZATION)

Towards the production of Dialogues On The Market Of Bronze and Other Precious Materials, 2013 is kindly supported by Outset Greece

Thursday 3 October 2013

New work for AGORA, 4th Athens Biennale, 29.09.13 - 01.12.13












































Now what?
Modeled on the ancient agora, a place of assembly, conciliation and a collaborative production of political and social work, the 4th Athens Biennale aspires to be a breeding ground for discourse at the same time that it tackles an array of common concerns and probes both the possibilities and limitations of participation and collectivity.
The curatorial team of AGORA welcomes in this experiment the participating artists, professionals of different disciplines, collaborative initiatives and civic groups and invites the public to meet them and join them at the 4th Athens Biennale 2013 AGORA.

Participants and Projects:

A Whale‘s Architects, Abbas Akhavan, ABROAD, Activist group of the Theatre of the Oppressed, David Adler, AGORA Kyklos, Ianna Andreadis, Dimitris Antoniou, Arbit City Group, Art & Economics Group (Tanja Ostojic, Dimitri Kleiner, David Rych), Art as a Change Maker, Artbank, Anestis Azas, Manolis Baboussis, Bertille Bak, Erica Baum, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Dave Beech, Matei Bejenaru, Blitz, Iain Boal, Irina Botea, Tania Bruguera, Campus Novel, Charley Case, Center for Research and Dissemination of Music Scheming, Giuseppe Chico & Barbara Matijević, Katerina Christidi, Creative alternatives to the state of bankruptcy, Neil Cummings, Dashndem, Anthony Davies, Design 99, Dimitris Dokatzis, Sam Durant, Economic Forum, Erect like a Country, Charles Esche, Event as Process, Fallen Fruit, Heiner Flessbeck, FYTA, Rainer Ganahl, Nikolaus Gansterer & Emma Cocker, Fernando Garcia–Dory, Bruce Gilbert and BAW, Fotini Gouseti & Taxideftes Politismou, Grupo Etcetera, Nuria Guell, Severin Guelpa, Jan Peter Hammer, Paul Handley, George Harvalias, David Harvey, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Yota Ioannidou, It Takes Two to Tango, Nazima Kadir, Yannis Kalaitzis, Valentina Karga & Pieterjan Grandry, Gareth Kennedy & Sarah Browne, Soo–Young Kim, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Anna Kleberg, Ika Knezevic, Maria Konti, Zissis Kotionis, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Gabriel Kuri, Kyklos Ensemble, Mara Maglione, Gosalyn Mallard, Paolo Manasse, Jenny Marketou, Gabriel Mascaro, Konstantinos Mihos, Never the Same, The New Parthenon, Vladimir Nikolic, Nomadic Kitchen / Shedia, The Non–Serious Lectures, Navid Nuur, OKK Actiongroup, Boris Ondreicka, Geof Oppenheimer, Georgia Paizi, Leda Papaconstantinou, Yorgos Papadakis, Panos Papadopoulos, Elias Papaioannou, Ester Partegas, The 'peculiarity' of the Greek case vis–a–vis European 'normality', Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Adrian Piper, Antonis Pittas, Vito Polito, Sally Potter, Thomas Poulsen/FOS,! Pre – Institutional Critique Workshop, Theo Prodromidis, Anja Puntari, Qualia, Radio Materiality, Gene Ray, Raymondos, Lucrezia Reichlin, Steve Reinke, Oliver Ressler, Juan Carlos Romero, Romvos, Frances Ruane, Salinas / Bergman, Salon de Vortex, Marinella Senatore, Roman Signer, Laurie Simmons, Deb Sokolow, Aspa Stassinopoulou, Yannis Stavrakakis, Hito Steyerl, Subversive affirmation and overidentification, Superstudio, Amund Sjolie Sveen, Petros Touloudis, Nikos Tranos, Kostas Tsolis, Loukas Tsoukalis, Value, Vital Space, Vassilis Vlastaras, Peter Watkins, Wooloo, Zafos Xagoraris, Mi You & Lisa Bensel.

29.09.13 - 01.12.13

OPENING HOURS

National Bank of Greece Building, 8–10 Sofokleous str.
CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point, 4 Eupolidos & 2 Apellou str.
Tuesday–Friday: 12.00–21.00
Saturday & Sunday: 10.00–22.00