Double Exposures / Manuel Vason
Tuesday 9 June 2015
19:00
Athens School of Fine Arts
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st. (Γυμνό νυκτός)
I see my practice as a constant battle against the impossibility of reaching ‘presence’.
For years I have been trying hard to bridge photography and performance, and everyday I live the illusion of having fulfilled my ambition.
In the core of my practice lies an exchange; between myself and another artist, between the work and the viewer.
I see myself reflected in all the artists I have met, collaborated and fallen in love with…Can art be a relationship?
Working with different minds and bodies allows me to discover every day something new about my own mind and body.
I’ve always wanted to be a sculptor although I’ve been using photography as my main medium.
Surface is my material.
Surface is my biggest enemy.
Maybe curiosity is eating me up inside, but so far it tastes pretty good.
19:00
Athens School of Fine Arts
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st. (Γυμνό νυκτός)
I see my practice as a constant battle against the impossibility of reaching ‘presence’.
For years I have been trying hard to bridge photography and performance, and everyday I live the illusion of having fulfilled my ambition.
In the core of my practice lies an exchange; between myself and another artist, between the work and the viewer.
I see myself reflected in all the artists I have met, collaborated and fallen in love with…Can art be a relationship?
Working with different minds and bodies allows me to discover every day something new about my own mind and body.
I’ve always wanted to be a sculptor although I’ve been using photography as my main medium.
Surface is my material.
Surface is my biggest enemy.
Maybe curiosity is eating me up inside, but so far it tastes pretty good.
Performing Your Identity: Representations of the body through social media / Elena Poughia
Elena Poughia/ Georges Jacotey/ Natasha Papadopoulou in
Performing Your Identity: Representations of the body through social media
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st.
(αίθουσα γυμνού νυκτός)
21:30, Saturday, June 6, 2015
Elena Poughia/ Georges Jacotey/ Natasha Papadopoulou
With works by Amalia Ulman, erica Scourti and Laturbo Avedon
A panel discussion about the fluid potentiality of the virtual in the digital era. We will talk about performing ones identity online, the adaptation of social identities, the expression of the personal in the online sphere, and the reappropriation of normativity in embodying and performing stereotypes and archetypes. The panel will examine artistic practices that have been exploring embodiment prospectivity either through the creation of multiple, imaginary, virtual identities or through the expression of the personal/political and individual/communal experience using social media.
Artists such as Erica Scourti and Amalia Ulman expose themselves through social media and make a commentary on surveillance, female and body stereotypes. Erica Scourti performs herself with a dose of self-satire and an attitude of ‘serious play’ (Haraway, 1985) whereas Amalia Ulman assumes different identities to perform popular female stereotypes in order to uncover dynamics and power structures. LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar and her practice explores the architectural and social possibility of existing solely virtually.
Georges Jacotey and Natasha Papadopoulou will discuss their work in relationship to the subject: Georges’ online performances and his facebook online gallery and Natasha’s video and instagram performances will be discussed extensively among other topics and issues. When one can see the possibility of pixelated self, what happens to the flesh?
Performing Your Identity: Representations of the body through social media
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st.
(αίθουσα γυμνού νυκτός)
21:30, Saturday, June 6, 2015
Elena Poughia/ Georges Jacotey/ Natasha Papadopoulou
With works by Amalia Ulman, erica Scourti and Laturbo Avedon
A panel discussion about the fluid potentiality of the virtual in the digital era. We will talk about performing ones identity online, the adaptation of social identities, the expression of the personal in the online sphere, and the reappropriation of normativity in embodying and performing stereotypes and archetypes. The panel will examine artistic practices that have been exploring embodiment prospectivity either through the creation of multiple, imaginary, virtual identities or through the expression of the personal/political and individual/communal experience using social media.
Artists such as Erica Scourti and Amalia Ulman expose themselves through social media and make a commentary on surveillance, female and body stereotypes. Erica Scourti performs herself with a dose of self-satire and an attitude of ‘serious play’ (Haraway, 1985) whereas Amalia Ulman assumes different identities to perform popular female stereotypes in order to uncover dynamics and power structures. LaTurbo Avedon is an avatar and her practice explores the architectural and social possibility of existing solely virtually.
Georges Jacotey and Natasha Papadopoulou will discuss their work in relationship to the subject: Georges’ online performances and his facebook online gallery and Natasha’s video and instagram performances will be discussed extensively among other topics and issues. When one can see the possibility of pixelated self, what happens to the flesh?
ABOUTLOVE / Francesco Kiais
ABOUTLOVE by Francesco Kiais
Free thoughts on Ritual-Body / Political Body
for the 2nd Venice International Performance Art Week
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st. (Γυμνό νυκτός)
Tuesday 9/6, 20:00
Duration of lecture about 20-30 minutes
When the ideal contact between the Institutions, the Law, the Economy, the Politics and the human factor is missing, the society loses its basic principles and becoming inhuman. Following a path traced by images, artworks and thoughts, we try to mark the evolving of this searching for the vital contact to the environment in which we live, between natural/universal and artificial/urban space. Through history, from the prehistoric rock paintings, until contemporary art, it is possible to see how the artist cyclically tries to remark this connection to the whole in which he lives
Free thoughts on Ritual-Body / Political Body
for the 2nd Venice International Performance Art Week
design hall of ASFA, 256 Peiraios st. (Γυμνό νυκτός)
Tuesday 9/6, 20:00
Duration of lecture about 20-30 minutes
When the ideal contact between the Institutions, the Law, the Economy, the Politics and the human factor is missing, the society loses its basic principles and becoming inhuman. Following a path traced by images, artworks and thoughts, we try to mark the evolving of this searching for the vital contact to the environment in which we live, between natural/universal and artificial/urban space. Through history, from the prehistoric rock paintings, until contemporary art, it is possible to see how the artist cyclically tries to remark this connection to the whole in which he lives