asfaBBQ 2016 / curatorial team
Vassilis VlastarasVassilis Vlastaras, Artistic Director of asfaBBQ. He is a visual artist and Associate Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Lives and works in Athens, Greece. He creates large-scale site-specific installations and he experiments with various media in painting, drawing, photography, video, real time video and sound performances and computer interactive installations. His artistic practice examines the relationship between artwork and urban space, the notion of the ephemeral, and the interrelation between spatial movement, material and sound. Currently his work investigates the personal and social implications of loss, oblivion, history, memory and the subsequent acts of remembrance/ memorialization and the relationships between the appetite for life and the frenzy of death. He has taken part in many exhibition projects, solo and group shows in Greece and abroad.
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Georgios PapadopoulosGeorgios Papadopoulos, PhD, producer of the festival, curator of the theory program and the parallel projects. Papadopoulos combines economics and philosophical analysis with an exploratory artistic practice. His research gravitates around money and its socioeconomic functions. Between 2008 and 2009 he was Researcher at the Theory Department of the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and in 2012 he received the Vilém Flusser Award for Artistic Research by the transmediale festival and the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. He has published many articles on Economics, Artistic Research, and Philosophy and two books; Notes Towards A Critique of Money, 2011 and Grexit, 2012.
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Eva VaslamatziEva Vaslamatzi, curator. Eva was born in Athens in 1990. She currently lives in Paris where she is accomplishing her Masters in 'Aesthetics and Cultural Studies'. Her research subject is the limits between artistic and common production through the example of photography and the confusion between life and art in the art of performance. During her Bachelor studies in 'Theory and History of Art' in the Athens School of Fine Arts (2010-2014) she co-organised the 'Diverse Universe Performance Festival' in Athens (2014) and , in collaboration with the Fine Art department, the annual exhibition 'Dialogos#5 The day after'. She is also interested in curating and she has co-curated two group exhibitions in Greece and France.
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