Art Athina 2014

Humor Me

Platform SKOUZE3 attempts to deal with concepts such as subversion, irony, detachment and sarcasm. The ambiguous vocabulary of body language and verbal language is the main axis of interest. With a series of performances and lecture performances artists and theorists will converse with the unclear boundaries of human communication which moves between truth and falsehood.

Curated by Eva Marathaki

Nikos Mykoniatis
From Art Lascaux to Art Athina, lecture performance: 15'

A tour from the first art "market" up to its contemporary versions in Europe and elsewhere. How do these markets operate and how do they present art to the public?

Group Suppose: Vivian Emmanouilidou, Fani Bitou, Io Chaviara
No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal, lecture performance: 25'

Expectation, Pride, Sacrifice, Responsibility, Punishment, Reward, Patience. Some of the words that refer to the Mother-Child relation. A narration that unravels through an experimental, exploratory, scientific, empirical and collective scope concerning this significant relationship.

Lito Kattou & Leontios Toumpouris
Scenarios for a performance, 2012-2014 / reading chapters #04 and #09", performance: 10'

In Scenarios for a performance each of the two artists react to the verbal (audio recorded) narration of a familiar memory of the other. The one tries to perceive and convey the experience of the other into written speech. The initially unfamiliar experience of the other is transformed into a familiar one through the personal written record of the incident.

Virginia Mastrogiannaki
Savoir vivre, a performance in three parts: 30'

An action in three parts evolves based on books-symbols respectively related to social, sexual and religious/spiritual rules of conduct. The book itself is the object on which every action is "depicted".

Doukas Kapantais
Modesty, the opium of the people, lecture performance: 30'

I grew up in the 80s. I was trained to think that antiheroes are the real deal. Together with my school teacher we burned my war games. My totem back then was the Dove of Peace. I did not help me much, but I'm still trying. Doukas Kapantais will try to convince me that it is too late.

Vrissiida Solomou, Fotini Papachristopoulou
BIO-TECHNI-A, performance: 15'

BIO-TECHNI-A deals with the recent conference of the Greek Minister of Culture in MEGARON, the Athens Music Hall, on art and entrepreneurship or otherwise the blatant undermining of art.

Kostantinos Argianas
From Vienna to Shanghai. Use and abuse of an image, lecture performance: 20'

The subject of this lecture is the use and abuse of a painting of the 19th century in the era of globalization. The portrait of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, created in 1865, appears everywhere: as a hero comic, caricature for magazine cover, advertisement for the Austrian IKEA, stamp in World Fair Expo in Shanghai... What is actually going on with that image?

Evangelia Ledaki
Giannis Skarimpas / Jean Tinguely: comparative reading, lecture performance: 15'

Disguises, mannequins, in between entities, solipsistic fears, short-circuits, components, the Automaton, the elusive Other, fragments, parts, metamechanical poetics, prosthetics, disassemblies, animations, spirits, manipulations of a mechanical membrane, the wax figure, the glass man, springs, simulative love and cybernetics, love crossways of species, darwinian yearning, rousseauian frustrations, nietzschean tremor.

Marianna Trontsiou
In time we trust, performance: 12'

The body is perceived as a primary medium by which we experience the world, it has its own measuring scales and through them it understands and converses with its surroundings. This performance is an attempt to coordinate with the social rhythms, by reprogramming and regulating the perception of time.

Performances Schedule

Thursday 15th of May

18:00 – 18:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

20.00, Μetapolis (P23), Evaggelos Geralexis, fade out

20:00 – 20:40 ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

21.00 Out Of The Box Intermedia (P7), George Papadopoulos, 20 years of reinventing the art market

20:00-20:30 SKOUZE3 (P20), Virginia Mastrogiannaki, SAVOIR VIVRE, a performance in three parts, 30'

Friday 16th of May

12:00 – 21:00 ABC (P25), The DEMOCRACY is performance in the installation by Sara Rees (UK) with assistants.

16:00 Margaris Foundation / les yper yper (P40), Bigert & Bergström in collaboration with les yper yper, Explosion of Speech

16:40-16:52 SKOUZE3 (P20), Marianna Trontsiou, "In time we trust", performance 12'

17:30 – 17:45 SKOUZE3 (P20), Nikos Mykoniatis, "From Art Lascaux to Art Athina", lecture performance 15

18:00- 18:25 SKOUZE3 (P20), Group Suppose: Vivian Emmanouilidou, Fani Bitou, Io Chaviara, "No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal",lecture performance: 25'

19.00, Orizontas Gegonoton (P9), "Fishing in αν invisible sea''

19:00-19:10 SKOUZE3 (P20), Lito Kattou & Leontios Toumpouris, "Scenarios for a performance, 2012-2014 / reading chapters #04 and #09", performance: 10'

20:00-20:30 SKOUZE3 (P20), Doukas Kapantais, "Modesty, the opium of the people", lecture performance: 30'

Saturday 17th of May

13:00 – 13:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

13:30-13:45 SKOUZE3 (P20), Vrissiida Solomou, Fotini Papachristopoulou, "BIO-TECHNI-A", performance: 15'

16:00 – 16:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

17:00-17:10 SKOUZE3 (P20), Lito Katou & Leontios Toumpouris, "Scenarios for a performance, 2012-2014 / reading chapters #04 and #09", performance: 10'

17:30-17:45 SKOUZE3 (P20), Nikos Mykoniatis, "From Art Lascaux to Art Athina ", lecture performance: 15 '

18:00 – 18:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

18:00-18:12 SKOUZE3 (P20), Marianna Trontsiou, "In time we trust", performance: 12'

18:30-18:50 SKOUZE3 (P20), Kostantinos Argianas, "From Vienna to Shanghai. Use and abuse of an image", lecture performance: 20'

19:30-19:55 SKOUZE3 (P20), Group Suppose: Vivian Emmanouilidou, Fani Bitou, Io Chaviara, "No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal", performance : 25'

20:00 – 20:40 ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

20:00-20:30 SKOUZE3 (P20), Doukas Kapantais, "Modesty, the opium of the people", lecture performance: 30'

Sunday 18th of May

13:00-13:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

14:00-14:30 SKOUZE3 (P20), Doukas Kapantais,"Modesty, the opium of the people", lecture performance: 30'

15:00-15:25 SKOUZE3 (P20), Group Suppose: Vivian Emmanouilidou, Fani Bitou, Io Chaviara, "No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal",performance : 25'

16:00-16:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

17:00-17:12 SKOUZE3 (P20), Marianna Trontsiou, "In time we trust", performance: 12'

17:30-17:45 SKOUZE3 (P20), Evangelia Ledaki, Giannis Skarimpas / Jean Tinguely: comparative reading lecture performance: 15'

18:00-18:40, ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

18:00-18:10 SKOUZE3 (P20), Lito Kattou & Leontios Toumpouris, "Scenarios for a performance, 2012-2014 / reading chapters #04 and #09", performance: 10'

18:45-19:00 SKOUZE3 (P20), Nikos Mykoniatis, "From Art Lascaux to Art Athina", lecture performance: 15 '

19:10-19:30 SKOUZE3 (P20), Kostantinos Argianas, "From Vienna to Shanghai. Use and abuse of an image", lecture performance: 20'

20:00-20:40 ABC (P25), OBJECTIVE POINT OF VIEW is live performance by Michikazu Matsune (Japan) and Maxim Ilyukhin (Russia)

20:00-20:15 SKOUZE3 (P20), Vrissiida Solomou, Fotini Papachristopoulou , "BIO-TECHNI-A", performance: 15'