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Waste/d / No event for Thursday, Nov 7, 2019
Vangelis Vlahos, „This event has now ended (arrest Nov. 15, 2016)“, 2021. Video still. Courtesy of the artist. Waste/d /... Artikel ansehen

Waste/d / No event for Thursday, Nov 7, 2019 is a discursive event and screening with and by the Temporary Academy of Arts (Elpida Karaba, Despina Zefkili, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos). It is part of Waste/d, an ongoing art and pedagogy research project on social and artistic potential in times of extended crisis.
During this online gathering, art theorist and curator Elpida Karaba will introduce us to the Temporary Academy of Arts, which she established in 2014. PAT (short for Προσωρινή Ακαδημία Τεχνών / ΠΑΤ), is a multidisciplinary project that explores the expanded field of art making, curating and education through collective, research-based, and experimental practices.
Artist and PAT member Vangelis Vlahos will introduce his most recent video works, Objects to relate to a trial (the door) (2020) and This event has now ended (arrest Nov. 15, 2016) (2021), which will also be screened during the session. The first video project is about Aggeliki Spyropoulou, a university student sentenced to 28 years in prison for her involvement in a 2015 attempt to blow up part of Korydallos Prison in Athens and free the imprisoned members of the urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. The project appropriates a found video, recorded by security cameras in late 2014. The short video shows Aggeliki visiting the offices of a chemical company to purchase a large quantity of nitromethane, a fuel used frequently in motorsports and by model hobbyists, but which can also be combined with other chemicals to make bombs. The second project, This event has now ended (arrest Nov. 15, 2016), is based on a found 42-second video, shot by a mobile phone, which records an arrest in Exarchia neighborhood in Athens, during violent incidents between police and anti-authoritarians on the occasion of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Athens on November 15, 2016.
In both cases, the found videos have been converted to text, following the structure of a cinematic decoupage that is often used in the preparation of the shooting of a film. Each text analyzes the narrative action of the corresponding found video, including also information about the shooting angle, the position of the camera, the size of the shot and the sound. The texts that came out of this process become the central element of two new videos. In each video, the respective text runs vertically over a still image, depicting, on the first case, the interior of a squat in Exarchia that had been evacuated by police in 2019, and on the second case a close-up of Aggeliki Spyropoulou’s head, as she appears disguised in the photo of a fake ID found by the police.
After the screenings, political theorist Elena Loizidou will contribute her timely reflections on Politics, Art, Mutual Aid – issues she deals with in her most recent work. Drawing from Peter Kropotkin’s 1902 book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (2009), she traces connections with the artistic practice of Vangelis Vlahos and the rise of mutual aid initiatives during the pandemic, which challenge the foundations of disciplinary and bio-political power and provide us with hope that perhaps another world is possible.
Waste/d / No event for Thursday, Nov 7, 2019
An event with the Temporary Academy of Arts (Elpida Karaba, Despina Zefkili, Yota Ioannidou, Vangelis Vlahos) and political theorist Elena Loizidou, Reader in Law and Political Theory at the School of Law, Birkbeck College
& screening of two video works by Vangelis Vlahos, This event has now ended (arrest Nov. 15, 2016) (2021) and Objects to relate to a trial (the door) (2020).
Tuesday, April 6 2021 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens, online
To attend please send an email to post@postdocumenta.net
A video recording of this event will be published here soon
Suggested bibliography:
Elena Loizidou, “A Parallel Art of Living”, in P. Hesselberth and J.de Bloois (Eds.), Towards a Politics of Withdrawal (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
Elena Loizidou, “Dance, Anarchism and Mutual Aid”, in K. Paramana, A. Gonzales (Eds.), Dance and Political Economy (London: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2021)
Elena Loizidou, “From Exchange to Freedom, No Guarantees”, in K. Paramana, A. Gonzales (Eds.), Dance and Political Economy (London: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2021)
Art & the global environmental crisis: a discussion
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Artist Talk
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Artist talk with Eirene Efstathiou & screening of the video-essay Several Jagged Lines through Space (2021)
Tuesday, February 2, 2021, at 18:00 Leipzig /19:00 Athens, online
Athens-based artist Eirene Efstathiou discusses her practice and presents the video essay Several Jagged Lines through Space, produced for p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies.
Through a psychogeographic and participant-observer approach to the Athenian neighborhood of Exarcheia, Eirene Efstathiou’s artistic research takes the form of interviews, archival research of media images to re-narrate minor histories, and on-site recordings in video, sound, and analog photography. In her video essay Several Jagged Lines through Space (2020, color, sound, 12 min), Efstathiou compiles source material, artworks, and research that responds to her ongoing research question: is Exarcheia an island?
Eirene Efstathiou is a visual artist working in a variety of different media, from painting and printmaking to performance, to small scale installations. Her practice investigates collective and archival memory, sentiment, affect, and how these function in the public sphere. Efstathiou has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Politics of Listening: Soundscapes from Ramallah Palestine
In the two 20-minute episodes of my soundpaper, I will try to talk about and approach the politics of listening... Artikel ansehen

In the two 20-minute episodes of my soundpaper, I will try to talk about and approach the politics of listening using as examples soundscapes from Ramallah in Palestine.
My soundpaper is based on my research on the politics of listening and on my audio work “Soundscapes from Ramallah, Palestine.” A research that started by chance when I organized together with prof. Nathalie Singer a workshop about listening in Ramallah, in the frame of the festival Radionists by the Goethe-Institute, which and ended up as a 51-minute audio piece. In the piece, processed and raw field recordings, together with interviews by people who are living or once lived in the city of Ramallah, were composed together into a hybrid between radio feature and soundscape composition. Thus, in this soundpaper I am trying to describe and define what are the politics of listening, what is a soundscape, how it can constitute speech, how someone can interpret a soundscape, and what are the possibilities of a practice like that in the end.
In order to do so, inevitably I face the discourse about the difference of hearing and listening, the connotation of Muslim prayer in the soundscape of Arabic cities, the sound of the border and how a border is being defined, the sound of bombs and bullets, and the sound of the curfew where relative silence and loudness are shifting their meanings. The unified, naturally well-tuned, detailed Arabic night soundscape of the city is being interrupted by a car crossing the border and its noisy sound. A voice by an Israeli soldier signifies the slit on the landscape of the area. The dynamic soundscape of the border, which I recorded and composed with the privilege of a traveller, works as a passage to the soundscape of a crisis, the recent past where earwitnesses, Palestinians living or having lived in Ramallah, narrate the imprint of this specific soundscape in their memory.
In the soundpaper, I am trying to explain why a soundscape of a city is not just a sonic environment, but the dynamic imprint and an evidence of the social and political daily changes of our world and the way we listen to it. By acknowledging the politics of listening, it could possibly be a way to redefine our view on power structures and who and what is being heard.
– Eleftherios Krysalis
Eleftherios Krysalis completed his Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Theory at the Athens School of Fine Arts and his M.F.A in Media Arts and Design at Bauhaus-University, Weimar, on the chair of experimental radio and electroacoustic music. From 2018 until 2020, he was a DAAD scholarship holder. His master thesis was on the topics of Politics of Listening: Soundscapes from Ramallah, Palestine. He currently has a teaching position at Bauhaus-University, Weimar. His work consists of experimental radio formats and electroacoustic musical elements.
Related event: Artist talk with Eleftherios Krysalis & presentation of the soundpaper „Politics of Listening: Soundscapes from Ramallah, Palestine“
Tuesday 26 January 2021 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens, online
Artist Talk
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Athens, Berlin, Leipzig –
Who Owns the City?
A Critical Mapping Workshop
The story is well known. Artists move into cheap flats in unrenovated neighborhoods that are close to the center but... Artikel ansehen

The story is well known. Artists move into cheap flats in unrenovated neighborhoods that are close to the center but not very popular among the middle class. Galleries, later cafés and bars open. Other young people move into the district, then the well-off. Rents are rising. The artists finally move to the next neighborhood and the cycle starts again.
But does this simple narrative really tell the story of gentrification and the relationship between art and urban development? It is a complex process with many actors – the municipality, planers, residents, investors etc. The city as a central space for social interaction is desired, not only by the people. Real estate is an internationally sought-after investment property. It is not primarily a question of the building structures but rather a land question. The ownership remains invisible for people passing by.
Urban planning should ensure the protection of the weak and the right to the city for everybody. So what is the status quo of our own cities? During the workshop we will try to find out more about the changes on our doorsteps. Due to the process of critical mapping we will detect, organize and discuss spatial information.
Henri Lefebvre: “The right to the city cannot be conceived of as a simple visiting right or as a return to traditional cities. It can only be formulated as a transformed and renewed right to urban life. It does not matter whether the urban fabric encloses the countryside and what survives of peasant life, as long as the ‘urban’, place of encounter, priority of use value, inscription in space of a time promoted to the rank of a supreme resource among all resources, finds its morphological base and its practico-material realization. Which presumes an integrated theory of the city and urban society, using the resources of science and art. Only the working class can become the agent, the social carrier or support of this realization.”

Diana Felber is a practicing architect and part of transit – Architectural Collective Leipzig. Since 2015, she has been teaching architecture and urban design at several universities, e.g. TU Braunschweig, TU Dresden, and BTU Cottbus. In her research she is focusing on the housing question with a special interest in housing typology. She is also an active member of the contemporary art collective (Kunstverein) KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.
LITERATURE:
Harvey, David. The Right to the City. In: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, 3-25. New York: Verso, 2012.
Holm, Andrej. Berlin’s Gentrification Mainstream. In: The Berlin Reader. A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2013.
Lefebvre, Henri. The Right to the City. In: Writings on Cities, trans. Eleonore Kofman and Elizabeth Lebas. 63-184. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1996 [1968].
Lynch, Kevin. The City Image and its Elements. In: The Image of the City, 46-90. Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990 [1960].
ONLINE RESOURCES:
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