Greesis #12
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Amnesia Land
Lecture, 11/1/2012,
21.00,
DArch Lecture Hall.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos (b. 1973) lives between Amsterdam and Athens.
He participated in international art residencies such as the Rijksakademie van beeldenden kunst Amsterdam, Netherlands; Platform Garanti Istanbul, Turkey; IASPIS Stockholm, Sweden; and ISCP NY, USA.
Recent solo shows include The Blind Image, ISCP NY, USA; Amnesialand, Heidelberg Kunstverrein, Germany; The Real The Story The Storyteller Smart Project Space Amsterdam, Netherlands; Lost Monument, Art Forum Berlin, Germany.
Group shows include The Rest is History, Manifesta 8 Murcia, Spain; On Morality-Act III, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Nethrlands; One Giant Leap, BFI Southbank London, UK; Practicing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; And the moral of the story is... APEXARTNew York, USA; Hors Pistes-Un Autre Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou Paris, France;Monitoring, Friedericianum Kunstverein Kassel, Germany; Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece, In Present Tense, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens.
He is recipient of the Golden Cube Award at the 25th edition of the Kasseller Documentary Film Festival in Kassel Germany for his film Untitled (The Remake). He was shortlisted for the 4th edition of the DESTE Prize for Contemporary Art, Athens Greece and the 7th edition of the "Future of Europe" Award.
Greesis #11
Savvas Matsas Michail
Grèce Générale
Tuesday 20 December 2011,
21.00,
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Savvas Michail (Sabetai Ben. Matsas) was born in Athens in 1947. He studied Medicine at the University of Athens and completed his Post Graduate studies in Paris. Since the time of the dictatorship in Greece, his is an active member of the Marxist Left. He has given lectures and courses of Philosophy, Political Economy, Litterature and Theory of Art at the Department of Communication and Mass Media of the University of Athens, at the Department of Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thassaloniki, at the New York University, at the London School of Economics and the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
He has published several books and his essays have been translated and published in English, French, Spanish (Argentina), Portuguese (Brazil), Italian and Russian.
Greesis #10
Nadia Kalara
PlatformSphinx: The Mechanics of Enigma
Wednesday 14 December 2011,
9.00,
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Nadia Kalara leaves and works in Athens, Greece. She studied Fine Arts at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and University of East London (MA). Since 2009 she is a doctorate candidate at the University of Thessaly. Her research focuses on the aesthetics of heterochrony in the work of Robert Smithson as an invention of models of artistic practice based on temporal strategies.
She has been teaching visual arts, since 2003, at the departments of Architecture of the Universities of Thessaly and Patras.
She has participated and taught in international workshops of art and architecture (UIA, Istanbul, KAM, Crete, AOO projects, Athens).
Solo and group shows include the Beton7 Gallery, Athens, the Museum of Freud’s, St Petersburg (2010), the Art Athina, (2009), the 2nd Athens Biennial, (2009), the 7th Architecture Biennial, Sao Paolo, (2007).
Greesis #9
Maria Topali
“Αt the Greek's Tavern”
A German story of our time
Tuesday 13 December 2011,
Time: 9:00,
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
Dinner Space, language and gesture in a contemporary german-speaking narrative for the experience of immigration and intercultural identity, based on the book by Alexandros Stefanidis, «Beim Griechen- Wie mein Vater in unserer Taverne Geschichte schrieb», Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010
will follow at the Meat Tavern ‘Yannis’
Address: 4,22nd May st., N. Ionia, Volos
Read Maria Topali's CV.
The educational trip to the city of Istanbul/Turkey, was realized between the 8th and 11th of December. 45 students participated. The tour into the city include the visit to the area of Sultan Ahmed (AgiaSofia, Blue Mosque, The underground Tank/Kinsterna and a formation of benches between the monuments), a walk towards Eminonu (the jetty in front of the Yeni Chami Mosque, the Egyptian Market (spice market) and the Galata Bridge), a walk through the Isticlal road, a visit to the exhibition “Becoming Istanbul” situated at the old Siniosoglou Building (SALT Beyoglou), the drifting by the Halic Bay, the Ottoman graveyard, the Asian side of Bosporus and a cruise to the Bosporus.
During the tour and the trip there were some short lectures in order to identify the core meaning of concepts such as: the area, the limit, the public square, the crossing, the urban density, the turning point (referring to urban phenomena), the cultural field, history, locality, architecture, topography, horizon, urban identity.
young architects’/researchers’ contribution to Greesis: Identity as Action
Thursady 8 December 2011, 14:00, Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
- Valentina Karga, Machine for Sustainable Living: The Berlin Farm Lab Experiment
Wednesday 21 December 2011, 19:00-22:00, Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
- Elsa Kiourtsoglou, Detecting crisis on a Researcher’s Scrutiny
- Angeliki Sioli, Constructing the Space of Desire
- Christos Kakkalis, Personal and Collective Space under Occupation: The Question of Common Place
- Ermis Chalvatzis / Natasa Lianou, Healing machine
- Anna Vasof, Hansaplast Greesis edition
Detailed programme and speaker's CVs.
07.12.2011 12.00
lecture
Elia Zenghelis: Athens
The project was addressed to undergraduate students (4th-5th year students). It focused on the time-based design approach for the development of a low rise building complex in Athens. The workshop explored the urban and landscape design of the complex through a three-stages programming of its design deployment. A masterplan with a proposal for the typological evolution of the existing buildings and landscape design were produced from the student groups during the six days of the event.
Greesis #8
Vangelis Vlahos
Remains
Wednesday 30 November 2011, Time: 21.00
Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Vangelis Vlahos (b.1971, Athens) lives and works in Athens. His work has been included in the exhibitions: The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam ;“To the Arts, Citizens!”, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto;tanzimat,Augarten Contemporary, Vienna;11th Istanbul Biennial; After Architecture, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona; ISLANDS+GHETTOS,NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin; Monument to transformation, City Gallery Prague, Prague;“A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own”, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam;27th São Paulo Biennale; Behind Closed Doors, Dundee Centre for Contemporary Arts, Dundee; Manifesta 5, San Sebastian, and the 3rd Berlin Biennial.
Greesis #7
Blitz Theatre Group
Don Quixote
Night March in the City of Volos
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Departure time: 20.00
Point of Departure: Entrance, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
blitz theatre group CV
blitz theatre group was formed in October, 2004 in Athens by Yiorgos Valais, Angeliki Papoulia and Christos Passalis.
Till then, the members of the team had studied drama and had worked in various ensembles.
blitz theatre group was formed, based on the following principles
- the common faith that theatre is a field where people should meet each other in the most essential way and exchange ideas and not a field for virtuosity and ready made truths.
- their need to find an answer to the questions what society asks and needs from art today and what theatre means in the dawn of the 21th century
- the equality of the members as far as conception, writing, direction and dramaturgy are concerned and the belief that everything is under doubt, that nothing must be taken for granted, neither in theatre nor in life.
Their goal, their orientation, their vision is towards a form that could possibly renovate theatre. To do that, they chose the (main) modern stream of combination of arts and crafts in the theatrical field. This was a way that enabled them to search new paths as far as dramaturgy, acting, playwriting, narration, representation are concerned.
In 2006, the group presents the performance ‘motherland’. A performance based on a world map, with elements of interaction between spectators and performers.
In 2007, the group presents Joy Division and New Order. A simulation of a weird game show where the spectators play the part of a jury. The contestants are two divorced couples that try to solve the dead-ends of their relationship, reading each other’s letters in public, dancing, singing, cursing or being violent.
In 2009, blitz co-direct Goethe’s Faust. It’s the first classical text the group is staging, proposing a new reading of Walpurgis Night. Later this year, the group presents ‘The House’. 7 performers meet in real time with around 20 spectators in their real residence in Athens.
In the summer of 2009, blitz present the performance KATERINI. It’s a 5-hour performance that takes place in a two-storey building, and more specifically, in a roof in the centre of Athens and 6 rooms, where the performers meet with the spectators, one by one, by appointment.
In 2010, the group presents Guns! Guns! Guns!. It’s the return of the group in a conventional theatrical stage where a review of the 20th century is taking place. A delirious review based on the idea of revolution and the question how could one change the world.
Later this year, blitz present CINEMASCOPE, a documentary about the last 9 days of the world. This time, the performance takes place out in the street. The spectators wear wireless headphones and are isolated by the spectacle behind a glass wall. They watch the characters of CINEMASCOPE during the last 9 days of their lives along with the real passers-by who participate in the performance, without even knowing it.
At the end of 2010, the group presents GALAXY. A 4-hour performance in a garage with 8 performers and one endless list of persons, ideas, words, movements, objects that have died, that have been lost or forgotten.
Our works invite the spectators to share an experience with us, challenging them to free themselves from the conventional part of a passive voyer. To a certain point, we are covered by the definition of post-dramatic theatre as Lehman has put it. ‘Presence rather than enactment, sharing rather than ready-made experiences, procedure rather than result and stimulus rather than information’, a motto from the Venice Biennale, ‘more ethics, less aesthetics’ and the phrase ‘aesthetics vs. anaesthetics’.
blitz theatre group has presented their works in BIOS Cultural Centre, in National Theatre, in Athens and Epidaurus Festival and in various European festivals.
The group is funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture since their first production. Below is a brief list of the productions the group has conceived, written and directed.
- • motherland bios cultural center, Syros, Herakleion, Giessen, Aix-en-Provence 2006-7
- • Joy Division/ New Order bios cultural center 2007
- • Faust National Theatre 2009
- • The House 30, Agisilaou str. 2009
- • ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΗ Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2009
- • Guns! Guns! Guns! National Theatre 2009-10
- • CINEMASCOPE, a documentary about the end of the world Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2010
- • GALAXY (work in progress) Michael Cacoyiannis Foundation 2010