farasi.zine
issue 03 / Winter 2025
Guest editors: Temporary Academy of Arts / PAT (Yota Ioannidou, Elpida Karaba, Vangelis Vlahos, Despina Zefkili)
Graphic design: Stergios George Tsarouchas
Cover image: Katerina Komianou, Rapture, 2024 (detail)
“Pethnos: a new research art project by PAT or the third generation which mourns commits suicide” is part of the new research project “Pethnos” by the Temporary Academy of Arts/PAT (Yota Ioannidou, Elpida Karaba, Vangelis Vlahos, Despina Zefkili).
Participants: Athena Athanasiou, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Theodoros Chiotis, Phoebe Giannisi, Vangelis Karamanolakis, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Katerina Komianou, Iris Lykourioti, Kostis Papaioannou, Chara Stergiou, Elena Tzelepis, Pati Vardhami. Many thanks to all of them for their generous contribution to the making of this issue.
Pethnos: a new research art project by PAT or the third generation which mourns commits suicide
How do we face the multitude of losses and the rhetoric of despair that surround us? How can we manage loss (waste/d) and grief to turn it into "joyful militancy”?
As part of this issue of farasi.zin three meetings-discussions were organised with participants theorists and artists (Athena Athanasiou, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Phoebe Giannisi, Vangelis Karamanolakis, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Iris Lykourioti, Kostis Papaioannou, Elena Tzelepis, Pati Vardhami) which focused on the conept/neologism Pethnos, a challenging association of pethnos (mourning) and ethnos (nation) as a key to open up our contemporary historical condition.
At the same time, three artists (Theodoros Chiotis, Katerina Komianou, Chara Stergiou) were invited to respond to this conversations creating a work especially for this issue.
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PAT (Temporary Academy of Arts, https://temporaryacademy.org/) is para-institution that works alongside the institutions, an artwork, a curatorial and pedagogical programme. Understanding the institution as procedural and critically subverting the term academy, PAT, through visual artworks and discourse production, tests self-institutionalized forms of culture and politics and explores the various methodological articulations and nuances between the institutional and the self-institutional, art and knowledge systems, practice and discourse.
Yota Ioannidou is an artist and researcher working in Athens. Her work focuses on storytelling-performance and the creation of research and performing groups. In her latest projects, Ioannidou explores the performative and dramaturgical aspects that emerge during the formation of documents in historical, political, cultural and institutional contexts, emphasising the ideological apparatus of classification itself.Her work has been presented at Communities in movement, kunsthal 3.14 Bergen (2023), When the Present is History, Museum of Contemporary art, Thessaloniki (2021) and Depo, Istanbul (2019); I’ ll open the door straight, dead straight into the fire, State of Concept, Athens and Gallery Nova, Zagreb (2019); A case of perpetual no, State of Concept, Athens (2018); ‘The kids want communism’ — Notes on division, ΜΟΒΥBat Yam, Ιsrael (2017); No need for references, WUK, Vienna, (2015), 3rd and 4th Athens Biennale a.o.
Elpida Karaba is an Associate Professor at the Department of Culture, New Media and Industries, University of Thessaly, Greece (https://cult.uth.gr/staff/karaba-elpida/). Her work and publications focus on art history and theory, feminist theory, performance, activist art, new media and research based art practices and curating and critical pedagogies. She works at the intersection of public art, critical theory, of art with systems of knowledge and emerging art, political manifestations in the public sphere. She is the founder and research member of the Center for New Media and Feminist Public Practices (CNMFPP), (www.centrefeministmedia.arch.uth) and of the collective Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT), https://temporaryacademy.org/
Vangelis Vlahos, born in Athens in 1971, explores the recent historical past of his country, aiming at a reexamination that may offer alternative narratives. His archives, texts, and videos create a network of references and relationships, testing the possibility of viewing and understanding different moments from the past outside of dominant narratives. His work has been featured in numerous biennials, including Manifesta 5, the 3rd Berlin Biennale, the 27th São Paulo Biennale, the 11th Istanbul Biennial, the 3rd Athens Biennial, and the 7th Thessaloniki Biennial. It has also been exhibited in institutions such as NGBK in Berlin, Witte de With in Rotterdam, Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Centre de la Photographie in Genève, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Depo in Istanbul, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOMus) in Thessaloniki and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. His works are part of collections including Tate Modern in London, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, and Magasin III in Stockholm.
Despina Zefkili is art critic, editor in chief Athinorama, and member of the Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT). She is interested in a critical understanding of art and its structures in a wider sociopolitical context as well as its educational aspects. She has published articles on the Athens art scene in various books and magazines including “On One Side of the Same Water” (Hatje Cantz), “The Way between Belgrade and Pristina” (Stacion Center), Art Papers, Third Text, Ocula, Field Journal, Art Review, Frieze, artnet, Flash Art, Art info, Camera Austria, South Magazine, [φρμκ]. She has co-curated exhibitions, projects and books, such us “Joyful Militancy Live”, “Waste/d Pavilion”, “Agreement Without Principles - Towards a History of Contemporary Greek Art”, 4th Athens Biennale AGORA (The Non-Serious Lectures), «Archaeology of Today?», Local Folk fanzine. The last 10 years she has been curating the art exhibition of the “Routes in Marpissa” festival in Paros.
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Elective Design Studio prêt-à-plier led by Sophia Vyzoviti is featured in the architectural exhibition "Hellenic Light: Nea Paralia Nea Pasarela 10" at the The Folk Life and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace in Thessaloniki. The exhibition includes garments that explored elements of traditional Greek costume, made with recyclable materials, and presented at the event organized by the "Friends of Nea Paralia" at the Sculpture Garden in Nea Paralia, Thessaloniki. Group pret-a-plier identifies with the experimental materiality of pleated surfaces and paper as the main medium of expression. This year we are exploring recycling hands-on by reusing plotter paper from old architectural composition or construction course printouts, rice paper with sketches, as well as aluminum foil, cash register receipts and wrapping paper.
Watch video from this year's event here.
Exhibition Dates: 23/10-27/11/2024
Image credits: Maria Liapi, Yannis Nikas
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Blended Intensive Program (BIP)
Activating the Void! Exploring Transdisciplinary Strategies and Practices for Urban Vacant Land
Lisboa 30/6 - 4/7/25
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