Greecis #6
Lecture Εva Stefani: “Idleness”
23/11/2011, 21.00, DArch Amphitheater
Biography
Born in 1964. Studied political sciences at the University of Athens (1981-1987), documentary at VARAN in Paris (1989), cinema studies and ethnographic film at New York University (MA), (1989-1991). She then followed a 4 year documentary course at the National film and TV School in England (1991-1995). At 1997 she obtained her Ph.D from Panteion University, Dept of Media Studies. Since 2000 she teaches cinema studies at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens, She works as a freelance documentary film director and video artist.
Selected Filmography
1987 Gutters,11min
1989 La vie en vert, 16min
1993 Paschalis, 17 min
1995 Athene, 36min
1995 Letters From Albatross 26min
1998 Inner Spaces , 8 x 26’
2001 Prison Leave 28’
2001 Akropolis 46’
2000 Reveille 3’
2001 Avraam and Iakovos 28’
2004 The Box 11’
2006 “The hole”,3’
2006 “Mr N.S.P”, 1,5’
2007 “The kiss 1,5’
2007 What time is it? 26’
2007 ”National Anthem”,1’
2008 Bathers,46’
On Tuesday 22 November, XYZ Outlet in conjunction with the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME, presenting, the performance DE HOMINIS APPARATUS by a group of tutors and students from the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly.
The structure of the performance DE HOMINIS APPARATUS, is a type of a labyrinth with no ‘outside’, where each person’s narratives and research start from a different concept each time (such as Dispositif, Eco-nomy, Biopolitics, Sovereignty, Desecration, Law, Body, Knowledge, Desire,Fear, Dignity, Subject, Object, Thing, Disaster etc, concepts described by Giorgio Agamben) , to be led back into the same centre, the Apparatus. During the performance a type of an archive will be compiled from online resources and a printer will become the “nightmare of documentation”.
The performance will attempt, in this way, to communicate another type of speech, “hypertautological”, based on the psychoanalytic tactic of hyperidentification. In this way a linear and hierarchical narrative character will be prevented, creating the impression of a claustrophobic atmosphere, a type of inverted Kafkik tower, where any attempt of exiting the Apparatus, draws the subjects back inside.
This action was triggered by the department’s recent workshop What is an Apparatus? - drawing from the book of the same name by Giorgio Agamben. The concept of the “apparatus” allowed the workshop to trace what binds together contemporary architecture with art practices and with what we mean when we talk today - at a time of acute crisis - about biopolitical and humane communities. Moreover, during the workshop, the participants encouraged reflection upon the way we understand the world, relationships, behaviours and objects, in real time.
The term "apparatus" ("dispositif " in French - a mechanism ) is a key term introduced by Michel Foucault, and is widely used to refer to an unspecified order of techniques that encircle, limit and, finally, define the human subject. Agamben traces the origins of the term within the territory of economics - by recognising the same conceptual genealogy to that of the science of economics. The author supports that our lives depend entirely on a set of "apparatus" that we are unable to “destroy”, or even to transform into a fascinating, radical privilege.
The workshop explored and evaluated “wild thinking” and the practices of everyday social relationships and exchanges, or rather, every possible or latent forms of personal and social creativity, as apparent in atypical behaviours and do-it-yourself practices.
Tutors:
Nadia Kalara, Maria Papadimitriou, Lois Papadopoulos, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis.
Co-ordinator:
Yorgos Rimenidis.
Students:
Danae Avaraki, Despoina Georgiadou, Aggelina Dagka, Avrokomi Zavitsanou, Maria Kotoula, Aggeliki Meli, Yiorgos Berdos, Chrysa Daflouka, Chara Stergiou, Grigoris Tsantilas.
Greesis #5
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Tuesday 22 November 2011, 21.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
Dimitris Papanikolaou is university lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, and Fellow of St Cross College, at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on Greek cultural studies, gender and queer theory. His monograph Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece, was published in 2007 by in the British Comparative Literature Association series (Legenda).
22/11/11, 15:00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
This presentation considers the definition of soundscape and the problematic concerning the cultural study of sound in the urban space. It will focus on the method of soundwalk and its application in the research of acoustic experience and the representation of sound worlds in the urban environment.
Daphne Tragaki studied Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths College (University of London) under the supervision of professor John Baily. Her Phd thesis on Rebetiko Worlds. Ethnomusicology and Ethnography in the City has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006. Research interests: ethnographic representation of music, music culture and the urban space. Since 2004, she teaches at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA) of the University of Thessaly. Tvolume he last three years her research interests focus on music spectacle policies and she has edited the collective Spectacle and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (under publication by Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities, Scarecrow Press).
21/11/11, 20:00, DArch Amphitheatre
Bio
Johan Bettum is professor and programme director of the Städelschule Architecture Class. His practice, ArchiGlobe, engages with experimental approaches to architectural design. Bettum's research interests and PhD focus on advanced architectural design strategies and the potential that fibrous and textile systems present for architecture. He has taught and lectured at a range of schools, including the Architectural Association (AA), UCLA, the Berlage Institute and the EPFL in Lausanne. Bettum studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London after gaining a Bachelor of Arts with a major in biology from Princeton University.
Α Walk in Mavrovouni (Agiokampos), Thessaly.
Bio
Thanasis Totsikas is a visual Artist living and working in Nikaia and Mavrovouni (Agiokampos) in Thessaly. He studied in the Athens School of Fine Arts (1967) and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1970). His work has been exhibited in various exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Greesis #3
Alexandros Kioupkiolis
The authoritarian integration of Neolibaralism
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Time: 9.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Alexandros Kioupkiolis was born in Athens in 1975. He studied Greek Literature at the University of Athens and Political Theory at the University of Essex and Oxford, where he completed his Phd research. He has taught political theory at Oxford University and the University of Cyprus. Since 2010 he is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His book "Freedom after the critique of foundations: Marx, liberalism and agonistic autonomy", is under publication by Palgrave Macmillan publisher.
Greesis #2
Stephanos Rozanis
The crisis examined within the frame of late consumerist capitalism.
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Time: 21.00
Lecture Hall, Department of Architecture, Pedion Areos, Volos
CV
Stephanos Rozanis was born in Karystos in 1942. He is an author and a poet. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal ‘Simioseis’. He has been working for Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) and the New Philosophy Society of the University of Edinburgh. His main field of research is Romantic Literary Theory.
GREESIS
Identity as Action
Lecture Series, Department of Architecture University of Thessaly, 2011
Editors: Phoebe Giannisi, Iris Lykourioti, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis
The effects of the economic crisis in Greece introduced a rupture in the stability of everyday life, bringing us under a state of emergency.
Highlighting and examining this new condition, we invite a series of actions undertaken by political scientists, writers, architects and artists under the title GREESIS. (GREECE+CRISIS=GREECE IS).
Praxis(action) is the root of the word πραγματικότητα(pragmatikotita) in greek, meaning reality. Reality is being formed constantly through the actions of people. Identity in this light is a political entity and corresponds to the way someone acts within the sphere of community.
Taking as a point of reference Hannah Arendt’s book Vita Activa, we are interested to address issues regarding geopolitics, biopolitics, the role of agricultural production, philhellenism, the greek cultural dilhemma between the east and the west and immigration, in order to understand better the connection between Greece and the global economic crisis through its impact in space and social structure.
