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Fitness Condition: Artist
Come hike with us! It’s noon, our feet hurt and there is no water left on the island called Hydra.... Artikel ansehen
Come hike with us! It’s noon, our feet hurt and there is no water left on the island called Hydra. Going backwards in a loop around the coast we’re getting bitten by the sun. So, we invent: a sunscreen workshop, a muddy workshop, picking bitter oranges and candying them to eat with handmade Halva. We brought some bedbugs from the hotel, nesting in wool blankets and blue sheets. It’s getting late if we want to see the sun set but I will tell you my favorite story when we meet for the first time.
The three-year exchange program ‘postdocumenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies’ is coming to an end. After spending two years in lockdown the participating artists finally meet each other on the island Hydra under the theme of cooking listening walking. The event in Circuits + Currents is an experiment to visualize this one week of being together, where we discovered artistic processes of interconnection and social practices as a counter position to the “survival of the fittest” in art industries
Fitness Condition: Artist
wip exhibition and open studios by
p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies
Friday, June 3
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Circuits + Currents
13 Notara Str.
10683 Athens
Artists:
Eva Andronikidou, Eva Angelaka, Morten Bierre, Nasia Drimousi, Alicia Franzke, Markus Heller, Kevin Koen, Fabian Lehmann, Snow Paik, Sophie Constanze Polheim, Yashar Shirdel, Oliver Schulz, Apostolos Tsorfolias, Despoina Vaxevanidi, Fiete Worreschk, Maria Zervoudaki, Magdalena Zotou
Are We Not Plunging Continually?
Zurück Weiter p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies was conceived and designed as an educational and... Artikel ansehen
p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies was conceived and designed as an educational and artistic research program of intercultural exchange among students and academic staff from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Athens School of Fine Arts. The program started in early 2020, during the months that the covid pandemic broke out, and has been operating under health and safety restrictions of social distancing up until now. Its core aim to foster collaborative artistic praxis in between two different cities was therefore met with unprecedented challenges from the very beginning.
In this framework, the two partite exhibition Are we not plunging continually? is essentially a celebration of our first coming together. Not an actual physical encounter, but an encounter through artworks, raw ideas and quests for new perspectives that is yet to be fulfilled. The project connects the independent art space nyg|west and the LindeNOW Festival of art spaces in West Leipzig with Circuits + Currents, the project space of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Participating artists from both schools present new projects that developed through workshops with artists Mylasher (Leipzig) and Hypercomf (Athens), including individual artworks with shared approaches. Appropriating a quote by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as expressing our common current condition, Are we not plunging continually? reflects an exploratory process that looks for tensions, affinities and connections between art practices that are separated by some 2,000 km, at a time where uncertainty has become the new normal.
Are we not plunging continually?
An exhibition in two parts by
p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies
Artists:
Eva Andronikidou, Eva Angelaka, Ronny Aviram, Lennard Bernd Becker, Katerina Chatzikosti, Nasia Drimousi, FELL, Christos Fousekis, Evgenia Fragkolia, Leon Galli, Julia Gerke, Lara Hampe, Julie Hart, Yannick Harter, Lisa Kirchhoff, Franziska Koch, Koa Koppenhöfer, Philine Kuhn & Jonathan McNaughton, Fabian Lehmann, Tianxu Liu, Triantafyllia Ntouroupi, Snow Paik, Sophie Constanze Polheim, Kay Lotte Pommer, Lucie Reichmayr, Natalia Sopidi, Phil Stahlhut, Neam Tarek, Apostolos Tsorfolias, Despoina Vaxevanidi, Victoria Welsh, Fiete Worreschk, Maria Zervoudaki & Magdalena Zotou
Leipzig
1/10 – 3/10
LindeNOW #17 festival
nyg|west
Georg-Schwarz-Straße 8
04177
Leipzig Opening hours during the LindeNOW #17 festival:
Friday 1/10
6 – 11 pm
Saturday 2/10
6 – 10 pm
Sunday 3/10
3 – 8 pm
Athens 1
4/10 – 30/10
Circuits + Currents
13 Notara Str.
10683
Athens Opening hours: Thursday & Friday
6 – 9 pm
Saturday
12 – 4 pm
and by appointment at:
post@postdocumenta.net
The program p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies presents an exhibition in two parts in Leipzig and Athens. Titled Are we not plunging continually?, the project connects the independent art space nyg|west and the LindeNOW#17 Festival of independent art spaces in West Leipzig with Circuits & Currents, the project space of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Participating emerging artists from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the ASFA in Athens present works that developed through workshops with artists Mylasher (Leipzig) and Hypercomf (Athens), together with other individual projects. They investigate the fragile structures of the post-pandemic context, both in the urban space and in the natural surroundings of Leipzig and Athens, in an attempt to explore the conditions of extended artistic practices in two different places and to develop affinities and connections.
p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies is an educational and artistic research program by the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) and the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), and a DAAD project in the funding program „University Partnerships with Greece from 2020 – 2022“.
Design:
Carla Selva und Paul Zech
WFH/The Domestication Theory/Working like a dog
Hypercomf, Part of staged set used for filming in polycelium.net, 2020. Courtesy of the artists Hypercomf share a live stereoscopy and... Artikel ansehen
Hypercomf share a live stereoscopy and audio performance lecture, which will see objects and quotes from inside and outside the domestication process and the Domestication Theory placed under the magnifying lens of the stereoscope.
The session examines material and factual remnants from the fetishization of the biological versus the fetishization of the digital, in the arena of “pre-” and “post-now” importance. Blurring and refocusing, introducing sensory calibration to the single-focus surface of the computer screen. Technical difficulties, high-definition and full-spectrum mechanical misunderstandings.
The quotidian of the digital homestead. Working from home, working like a dog, like a machine, like a bird, like a fish, like a parasite.
WFH/The Domestication Theory/Working like a dog
Lecture Performance by Hypercomf in the frame of the Virtual-Live Event „Rundgang 2021″of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Thursday, June 3 at 19:00 (Leipzig) / 20:00 (Athens), online
Hypercomf is a multidisciplinary conceptual design artist identity, researching the relationship between nature and culture, domestication, industry, and science. This identity first materialized as a fictitious company profile in Athens in 2017. Hypercomf’s practice is both research and production driven; each subject informs a continuously developing narrative starring organic and inorganic protagonists, which manifests through interdisciplinary collaborations, space activations, multimedia artworks and sustainable design objects.
KANNAZUKI The Month Without Gods
In the video essay »KANNAZUKI: The Month Without Gods«, I focus on two trips I took in September and October... Artikel ansehen
This event has now ended (arrest 15 Nov. 2016)
This event has now ended (arrest Nov. 15, 2016) is based on a found 42-second video, shot by a mobile... Artikel ansehen
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 the neighborhood of Exarchia, 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.
The found video has been converted to text, following the structure of a cinematic decoupage that is often used in the preparation of the shooting of a film. The 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 text that came out of this process becomes the central element of the new video. It runs vertically over a still image, depicting the interior of a squat in Exarchia that was evacuated by police in 2019.
– Vangelis Vlahos
Vangelis Vlahos, This event has now ended (arrest Nov. 15, 2016), 2021.
Video, 5:48”. Courtesy of the artist. Produced in the frame of the project p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies.
Related event: Waste/d / No event for Thursday, Nov 7, 2019, with curator Elpida Karaba and artist Vangelis Vlahos, members of the Temporary Academy of Arts, and political theorist Elena Loizidou, Reader in Law and Political Theory at the School of Law, Birkbeck College.
Tuesday, April 6 2021 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens, online
museumfuernaturkun.de
Screenshot:
digital exhibition project www.museumfuernaturkun.de
The space of the natural history museum shows in different ways the forms of survival and adaptation in the animal, plant and human world, which often decide over life and death. Institutions such as museums, galleries and actors in the art world are also forced to deal with the current crisis and its effects: They expand their offers to the virtual space of experience. The resulting short-term oversupply of digital artefacts seems to overlay the already endangered enjoyment of art even more. It is now becoming more obvious how these institutions and their producers, namely the artists, seem to submit to the exploitation strategies of fewer online companies. Regarding this, with this project we are questioning how a „digital Institutional Critique“ can be formulated.
The saying „Survival of the Fittest“ (Herbert Spencer) is symbolic of the current struggle for attention and the resulting reflexive approach to art. At the same time, the process of digitalization is releasing countless resources that are to serve here as inspiration for our own artistic practice and in which we want to intervene digitally, taking the example of the Museum of Natural History Berlin as a concrete example. Beyond the artistic appropriation of its digital resources, this project also reflects on the museums narrative of natural history: a top-down narrative with the help of dead subjects.
participants
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Several Jagged Lines through Space
The video essay “Several Jagged Lines through Space,” compiles source material, artworks, and research that responds to my ongoing research... Artikel ansehen
Necessary alliances
(for a collective imagination)
Levasseur presented some of her recent works, addressing Rosi Braidotti’s notion of posthumanism, Donna Haraway’s speculative fabulation, everything combined in... Artikel ansehen
Climate Propagandas,
Video Study (2020)
The work Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020, HD video, color, sound, 16′), explores how the climate crisis is interpreted and... Artikel ansehen
The work Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020, HD video, color, sound, 16′), explores how the climate crisis is interpreted and weaponized within various ideological discourses.
While liberal climate propaganda argues that ecological collapse is the responsibility of human individuals, rather than extractivist corporations, libertarian climate propaganda considers the climate breakdown as a new resource for geomarkets and interplanetary colonization. And while conspiracist climate propaganda claims climate change is nothing but a hoax to enforce population control, eco-fascist climate propaganda takes it as an opportunity to double down on the question who, in ecosystem collapse, has the racial right to survive and who does not.
Through examples of popular and political culture, from the nature documentaries of David Attenborough to the Marvel superhero franchise, Staal attempts to dissect the conflicting realities each of these climate propagandas brings about.
Online Screening: Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 18:00 Leipzig / 19:00 Athens, as part of the Artist Talk with Jonas Staal
Climate Propagandas, Video Study (2020) was produced in the frame of p o s t documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies
