Thursday, October 18, 2012

mobility & identity

Re-Culture/
Contemporary Art as a way of perceiving European Identity"/
October 20 - November 25
Agora Argyri - 14 Ag. Andreou, Patra, Greece
Opening: October 20, 19:00

Participants:
Sonia Almeida
Thorbjørn Andersen
Nikos Arvanitis
Daniele Genadry
Maria Glyka
Jim Hobbs
Karem Ibrahim
Maria Kavalaraki
Lisa Peachey
Ellie Reid
Evi Renieri
Yiannis Skaltsas
Jedsada Tangtrakulwong
Vassilis Vlastaras
Antonis Vaos
Dimitris Zouroudis

Our contemporary societies are constructed around flows: flows of citizens(physical movements or between classes, occupations etc), flows of information, of data, of capital, of symbols, images and sounds.
Every time we move or make a movement we can leave traces with or without our knowledge. Either experiencing the above or observing it, movements of people, cars, devices, data refer to something that is the opposite of static. The location might change geospatially, civilly or descriptively.
This mobility can leave traces both horizontally (e.g. movements between groups) and vertically (higher or lower scale) and define the identity of the subjects, of their spaces and their "investigators".
For some it's about controlling the movements that form the identity and for others it's about researching the diversity and the sources that create it.
http://www.artinprogress.eu/

Friday, October 05, 2012

To the limits of “togetherness” / Στα όρια του μαζί

Άμφισσα, 6 – 21 Οκτωβρίου 2012
Επιμέλεια: Κωστής Σταφυλάκης /
παραγωγή: The Symptom Projects
Εγκαίνια: 6 Οκτωβρίου 2012 | 20.00
Διάρκεια έκθεσης: 6 - 21 Οκτωβρίου, 2012
Ώρες λειτουργίας της έκθεσης: καθημερινά 5-10μμ, στο χώρο του παλαιού νοσοκομείου της Άμφισσας.


Συμμετέχοντες καλλιτέχνες:
Ομάδα Φιλοπάππου, Γιάννης Θεοδωρόπουλος, Βασιλεία Στυλιανίδου, Βασίλης Βλασταράς, Μαρία Γλύκα, Γιάννης Γρηγοριάδης, Γιάννης Ισιδώρου, Γιώργος Γυπαράκης, Δέσποινα Μεϊμάρογλου, Μαίρη Ζυγούρη, Μαρία Πασχαλίδου, Άννα Λάσκαρη, Δημήτρης Ντοκατζής, Poka Yio, Γιάννης Σκαλτσάς, Γιάννης Σινιόρογλου, Τάσος Παπατσώρης, De-Regulators (Πάνος Κομπατσιάρης / Υπατία Βουρλούμη / Μάριος Χατζηπροκοπίου, Μαίρη Ζυγούρη)

Η έκθεση πλαισιώνεται με δύο συναντήσεις συγγραφέων που θα επιχειρήσουν να προσεγγίσουν αυτό το «σκάνδαλο» του συλλογικού μέσω των συγγραφικών και κοινωνικών εμπειριών τους από το λογοτεχνικό πεδίο. Η πρώτη συνάντηση, που επιμελείται ο συγγραφέας Χρήστος Χρυσόπουλος, και συμμετέχουν οι Χρήστος Αστερίου, Ηλίας Μαγκλίνης και Χρήστος Οικονόμου, θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 13 Οκτωβρίου και η δεύτερη συνάντηση, που θα είναι ένας κύκλος αναγνώσεων με νέους συγγραφείς, και επιμελείται ο ποιητής Δημήτρης Αθηνάκης, θα πραγματοποιηθεί το Σάββατο 20 Οκτωβρίου.
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες  για την έκθεση μπορείτε να βρείτε στο:
http://www.thesymptomprojects.gr/
http://the-symptom-projects.blogspot.com/




To the limits of “togetherness”
Kostis Stafylakis

 The idol of this age is community. As compensation for the hardness and staleness of our life, this idea has compressed all sweetness into mawkishness, tenderness into weakness, and flexibility into the loss of dignity. Molded by this idea, what is repressed pushes the phantom of an overstrained heart under a gruesome cruelness. An immeasurable chilling of human relationships by mechanical, commercial, and political abstractions conditions an immeasurable reaction in the ideal of a shimmering community overflowing through all of its supporters.[1]  
Helmuth Plessner, The limits of community: A critique of social radicalism, 1924.

During the last years the Greek society experiences a revival of collectivities, collective forms of protest, self-organization and participation projects. Especially in the past one and a half years one observes an intense collectivization of life. Interpretations of its causes abound: the growing deficit of representation in the experienced parliamentary democracy, the need of supplementing the forced isolation of a difficult everyday life – supplements for the alienating pace of life, the demolition-loss of familiar spaces of gatherings/meetings/socialization, the loss of working space, the recession of entertainment and the repulsion towards forms of entertainment/relief that dominated over decades; and the Dionysian seduction of the collective protest, the glamour of “autogestion”, the ideological dominance of intellectual schemes for a post-anarchical micro-utopian radicalism, the ritual anathema upon the recent political history, the devaluation of parliamentarism, the “alternative way of life” culture with its oriental extremities verging on and submerging in paths of “wisdom”, the alternative vacations trend posed as anti-consumerism, the abrupt proliferation of electronic social networks, and the “exit” towards rural life. more here