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“SPACE REVOLUTION” micro-conference at Athens Biennale Synapse 2”
Tuesday 31st May, 17:00 – 18:30
“Space revolution” developed as a theme that explores the notion of empty and unused space in the city of Athens as well as its potential uses as sources of rejuvenation or that of an inspiration of a greater narrative for the city.”
This is an opportunity to imagine the city in the near or far future through the lens of its spatial poetics, politics, real estate and art.
Coming from different professional and working backgrounds the participants of this micro-conference will give us an insight of their experience and understanding of our built environment as they talk about the specific relationships, possible contradictions and potentials that emerge from existing and working within it.
The conference aims to create direct and indirect, ambiguous and concrete associations between disparate concepts and ideas that on that day hopefully will over arch and conspire towards a Space Revolution.
The conference will result in short texts that will be become available online. Presentations are roughly if not specifically based on these original texts.
Space revolution is an ad hoc micro conference initiated by artist Augustus Veinoglou for the Athens Biennale within the framework of Synapse 2.
PARTICIPANTS
A – DASH
As a group they came together over the course of a year and particularly in Spring 2016 in order to search for a space in which to house their project space and studios A – DASH. The search threw up many possibilities of empty spaces around Kypseli, Exarchia and Pedion areos, from disused shops, and carparks, to abandoned inter-war mansions and crumbling neo-classical houses. Of all the many kinds of empty spaces, many different identities and possibilities for the project would have emerged. Finally the group chose a neo-classical house in Neapoli (Exarchia) which is large enough to provide them with flexible studio / project space, and small enough to be achievable within a small cohesive group. Now they face the many possibilities and questions regarding the space and the future that it might reveal.
Members of A-DASH:
Noemi Niederhauser Lives in Lausanne (Switzerland) and Athens (Greece) www.noemi-niederhauser.ch
Eva Isleifsdottir Lives in Reykjavik (Iceland) and Athens (Greece)
www.evaisleifsdottir.com
Catriona Gallagher Lives in Athens (Greece)
www.catrionagallagher.com
Zoé Hatziyannaki Lives in Athens (Greece)
www.zoehatziyannaki.com
Benjamin Cohen Lives in London (UK)
www.benjamincohenstudio.com
Brynjar Helgason Lives in Reykjavik (Iceland)
Website www.a-dash.space (currently in the making)
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/adashspace/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/A-DASH
Becky Campbell 10′, visual artist & curator
Becky Campbell is a Scottish artist and curator based in Athens. Following her Artist’s Residency at Snehta in April/May 2012 she left Edinburgh to move to Athens, where she is developing curatorial and artistic projects. Her research interest is working with artists who respond to materials in a way that reaches beyond language. Her own practice is focused on beautifying found and sourced materials as a way of speaking out against resigning to the inevitability and hopelessness of societal issues.
Korina Gialidou 10′ , photographer & real estate agent
Born in Athens, studied film directing at Stravrakos School. She has worked in film and documentary productions. In recent years, her passion for photography has taken over any other professional activity. She has taken part in numerous group photography exhibitions, the Image Gallery, 5 biennale Thessaloniki with the Depression era collective.
Myrto Katsimicha 10′ curator
Myrto Katsimicha (b. 1991, Greece) is a curator based in Athens. She holds a
BA in Media, Communication and Culture from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (2012) and a MA in Curating the Contemporary from London Metropolitan University and the Whitechapel Gallery (2014). Her latest curated exhibitions include Of other places, a series of film screenings at State of Concept, Athens (2015) and EXOTICA and 4 other cases of the self, co- curated with Nina Borel and Elisabetta Rabajoli at me Collectors room, Berlin (2014). She is currently working as Gallery Manager at State of Concept, Athens.
Natassa Sideri 10′, writer
Maaike Stuterheim 10′, visual artist
Maaike stutterheim has been involved in the fields of art, culture, theatre, and performance for many years. she began her career working as an actress in theatre and television, as well as DJing and engaging in other forms of performance work. Eventually she wanted to focus on her own work and began working with the mediums of photography and film, sitespecific installation work and working across disciplines. In addition to her own artistic practice she ran a gallery at OT301 in Amsterdam called AWA (Artists With Attitude) for five years (2008-2013). Since 3 years she is based half half in Athens/ Amsterdam. Her latest project started together with Niels Vis in 2015, they are forming a new group, “Future Scenarios”, consisting of 10 Artist, half of them based in Amsterdam and half of them in Athens. They have just had their second collaborative installation, “The Artefact Time Machine, A Prologue” at Art-Atina.
Augustus Veinoglou – Introduction text 10′, visual artist
Augustus Veinoglou is a Greek born artist based in Athens. He is the founding Director of Snehta artist residency; a project devoted on expanding artistic activity and research in the City. In 2014 he became a board member at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (artistic committee).
Veinoglou’s work is concerned with ideas of entrapment, sanctity and melancholy as the means of instigating desire, imagination and sensuality within poetically designed space. Veinoglou’s immersive installation work stems from the re-appropriation of energy, material and architectural elements that describe the transitory state of situations and spaces. Veinoglou explores how these elements can be re-arranged or re enacted to newly impact our experience and perception in space.
http://www.augustusveinoglou.com
Giorgos Veinoglou 10′, real estate evaluator
Giorgos Veinoglou is an economist by education with studies in the UK. He is a professional in the real estate sector providing investment advisory, valuation and market research services for firms, developers, banks, and individuals. He is working for a real estate advisory firm.
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