Tuesday, May 28, 2019

OUT SCORE



Partitur2018 
Cement rock, wood, rope, paper tape, acrylic, paper, cardboard, ceramic 
21 x 50 x 18


OUT SCORE: Χω/ορικές Σημειογραφίες I is a research program that generates encounters between dance, sound, performance and the visual arts in relation to the complex notions of notation and score, and the ways scoring elasticity can be conceived in the second decade of the century. 

Developed for the Onassis Foundation by art historian Dr Sozita Goudouna the first edition of the program consists of a performance choreographed by Maria Hassabi and a group exhibition at Aixoni Sculpted Theatre and Exhibition Space designed by Nella Golanda at Aixoni in Glyfada and will be launched on the 28th of May at 7pm. The second edition of the project will be presented at 'T' Space Rhineberg New York designed by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Dimitra & Eirini Tsachrelia and Nicholas Karytinos (Tacet Creations).

With the participation of artists Maria Hassabi, Kelly Nipper, Michael Portnoy, Duke Riley, Alexandros Georgiou, Delia Gonzalez, Eleni Kamma, Kostis Velonis, Raymond Pettibon, Erlea Maneros Zabala, Ilan Manouach, Christian Wassmann, Vassilis Salpistis and Marie Voignier, Dionysis Kavalieratos, Maria Georgoula, Nikos Charalambidis, Olga Venetsianou, Angela Svoronou, Sotiris Karamanis and Mark Aerial Waller the project presents methods of translating three-dimensional work into a two-dimensional format and the ways an elastic movement and sound score can define the future of architecture, engineering and our build environment.

Choreographer's renderings, compositional methods, interpretive actions, movement vocabulary and pedagogical tools are gathered together to show the historical shifts in practices and discourses on these issues.

The project that Dr Sozita Goudouna developed originally in 2016 as the inaugural Andrew W. Curatorial Fellow at Performa in New York investigates the ways movement organically changes over space and the ways our actual environment, live space, and surroundings can be adjusted by movement. It also examines the distance between the printed material and the actual experience of the performance, as well as the ways that contemporary performance can form a specific 'body language' with its own signs and connotations that can define another discipline such as architecture and sustainable engineering.

'T' Space, designed by architect Steven Holl, aims to synthesize the arts and present original works in the Hudson Valley, while the sculpted theatre of Aixoni in Attica, Greece has emerged out of a particular social and historical context but is currently inaccessible.

OUT SCORE was first presented at the NOTATE, DOCUMENT, SCORE: BODY CULTURE & VISUAL CULTURE session governed by Paisid Aramphongphan (De Montfort University) and Hyewon Yoon (University of New Hampshire The Association for Art History) at the 2019 Annual Conference on the 4 - 6 April 2019 at the University of Brighton:
https://forarthistory.org.uk/our-work/conference/2019-annual-conference/notate-document-score-body-culture-visual-culture-from-laban-to-judson-and-beyond/

With the participation of artists Maria Hassabi, Kelly Nipper, Michael Portnoy, Duke Riley, Alexandros Georgiou, Delia Gonzalez, Eleni Kamma, Kostis Velonis, Raymond Pettibon, Erlea Maneros Zabala, Ilan Manouach, Christian Wassmann, Vassilis Salpistis and Marie Voignier, Dionysis Kavalieratos, Maria Georgoula, Nikos Charalambidis, Olga Venetsianou, Angela Svoronou, Sotiris Karamanis and Mark Aerial Waller the project presents methods of translating three-dimensional work into a two-dimensional format and the ways an elastic movement and sound score can define the future of architecture, engineering and our build environment.

This session examined the intersections of body culture and visual culture across time, encompassing notation, performance and experimental scores, photographic documentation, film, and other archival sources.

Rather than focusing on rubrics traditionally understood as dance, such as choreography and performance designed for time-limited showings, the papers examine body and movement as an expanded field of practice, and how that fits within, emerges out of, and/or shapes a particular social and historical context.

OUT SCORE will be also presented at the Performance Studies International PSi #25 2019 Conference on "Elasticity" at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary in Canada on the 4th until the 7th of July 2019:
https://www.psi2019calgary.com

Elasticity involves the ability to be shaped by an external force and to return to an original configuration if that force is removed.

It refers to the adaptability and plasticity of networked connections, and although elastic tissue has a snapping point, it is far more resilient than inflexible materials.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Goat Song




Goat Song (detail), 2019  #NurseriesoftheUnconscious is the second episode of A Hollow Place.The second chapter is taking place on Wednesday 22nd from 6.30pm to 11pm, Kimeon 1, 11851 Athens 

"Is there any way you could get her to come out to see us and hear the sound of our words spoken in comfort? — If only she would somehow put aside her deeply felt anger and distemper, I am eager to help those dear to me. — But please go in and bring her here out of the house. Repeat our words. They are spoken from the heart. Hurry before she hurts anyone inside. Her grief is stirred up to such a pitch."

Nurseries of the unconscious



Nurseries of the unconscious. Desiring-productions and group fantasies’ curated by Christian Oxenius and Nikolas Ventourakis

A site-specific project in four chapters and an epilogue
which will take place at A Hollow Place and Yellow Brick
(please scroll down for details)

Yellow Brick presents 'Nurseries of the unconscious. Desiring-productions and group fantasies', the second episode of A Hollow Place. This unique project, curated by Christian Oxenius and #NikolasVentourakis, invites four internationally acclaimed artists to inhabit, with a site-specific and original project, the space of a natural cave in the centre of Athens for one day. In its second edition the works will then be presented as a collective exhibition hosted by Yellow Brick for an entire week, where the artists will have the occasion to unfold additional reflections on their topics.

For this episode, Hera Buyuktasciyan (TR), Viktorija Rybakova (LT), Augustus Veinoglou (GR) and Kostis Velonis(GR) were asked to engage with the concept of a nursery. This image serves as a reflection on a complex space where, as new-borns, we encounter a non-familiar life and face the institutions and their bio-power for the first time. Simultaneously, however, these are spaces where we construct collective fantasies about new life and the infinite possibilities entailed therein, thus becoming an epitome of desires. The cave, as a space set aside from our everyday experiences, serves as a machine for the production and reflection on that same unconscious, that starts to develop from those very first days of life. It further aids to highlight contradictions and conflicts within the bio-power apparatus of our nation-sates.

Supported by Outset Contemporary Art Fund, NEON

May 15th, 6.30pm – 11pm, Augustus Veinoglou 'The house father built'
May 22nd, 6.30pm – 11pm Kostis Velonis 'Goat Song'
May 29th, 6.30pm – 11pm, Hera Buyuktasciyan 'Seismic Canopy'
June 5th, 6.30pm – 11pm, Viktorija Rybakova '⌇'

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

100 years BAUHAUS



Dirty Country Boy (Bauhaus Is Not Our House Series)  2004
Wood, plywood, acrylic, wax candle
94 x 170 x 40 cm 
Installation view, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

16 May @ 18.00, a lecture about Bauhaus and its relationship to the ethics of Christianity, especially Protestantism through the values of hard work, accumulation ( easthetics of stinginess) and asceticism. 

100 years BAUHAUS – a series of events, co-organized by the School of Architecture Engineers of the Technical University of Crete, the Goethe-Zentrum Chania and the Regional Unity of Chania, with scientific and organizational supervision by Amalia Kotsaki, Associate Professor at the Architecture School of the Technical University of Crete.
The 
entrance is free and there will be simultaneous translation in Greek.
WHERE: Cultural Center, Chania 
The BAUHAUS 100-year event will take place from 13 to 16 May at the Cultural Center of Chania and includes a conference with lectures, Bauhaus research presentations, film screenings, exhibitions and workshops for children.Beginning: on Monday 13th May at 17.00 with a workshop for children.
– 
Tuesday 14th 19.30  event on “Why the Bauhaus today? Art and everyday life “.
 Wednesday 15th May  18.00: a screening
 
Thursday 16th May  17.00  keynote speech by Dr. Regina Bittner, Director of the Bauhaus International Program at Dessau and Vice President of the Bauhaus – Dessau Foundation.
Also at 7.20 pm will be inaugurated.
The character of the events is international and is part of the larger event cycle entitled “100 Jahre BAUHAUS”
coordinated by BAUHAUS Architecture School in Dessau.