Benaki Museum, Photo as Performance, Athens Photo Festival 2015
"Swinging on the horizontal axis"
"Swinging on the horizontal axis"
BBB, ( Berlin-Besancon-Beton 7) Athens 2015
Creating Commons• the case of Artemis Agrotera, Mets. Microgeographies του WorldWide Storefront (WWSf)NY,Athens
Rise
This project was conducted in 2014 in the ancient temple of Artemis Agrotera in Athens under the auspices of Creating Commons • the case of Artemis Agrotera, Mets. Microgeographies of WorldWide Storefront (WWSf) NY, Athens. The title of the project is Rise. The project is interactive with the audience and performed the day of the marathon. The plot at the Agrotera (street Ardittou opposite the Temple of Olympian Zeus) is a collision point between the land owner (owners-political ally archaeological service) and local residents. A metal screen on the perimeter of the site degrades-hides from the Athenians the existence of the temple. Constructing a crane lifts viewers-passers in a metal net on top of the metal screen. Viewers - performers hovered between the Parthenon and the actual level of the temple of Artemis Agrotera. The performative fans were viewing the temple.
Walk
This project is a performance held in BETON 7 in Athens under V_IDEAS, EPITELESEIS. Project Title Walk. The project deals with the solution of socio-political impasse of people experiencing the harshness of economic crisis. The effector featured a monocoque white workwear; Counter Terrorism service; ....... carries his house-cell like Jesus who were carrying the cross and the periphery on the road with a final destination where a tree is raised and suspended ... ..
Machine π
"Freedom" Athens Photo Festival 2013, Technopolis ,Athens
Freedom
The performance took place in the context of the photography festival of Athens in 2013 . A group of performers, consisting of three girls dressed in the typical way of three political ideologies and a man as arranger. The performer lead and instructed the girls who worked as a team. The girls accordinaly with their characteristic attire, handed to the festival's public flyers suggesting the release of three current political entities (Kostas Sakkas - Anarchist ideology, Akis Tsochantzopoulos - governmental, Nikos Michalioiakos - Nazi ideology). The public reactions were four. Statistically, 20% objurgated those who did not react, another 20% had no knowledge about the specific political figures and asked about who they were, 59% did not react at all, simply shocked and could not comprehend what was happening before their eyes, finally the remaining 1% countered the performers, demanding an explanation.
"come out" 2013, school of Fine Arts Athens
Come Out
A performance held in the photography exhibition of Athens School of Fine Arts (June 2013).
I created a separated space within the exhibition room, which communicated with the rest of the exhibition and its visitors via two glasses. Two performers were attending to the visitors of the exhibition by inviting them calling “come out”. This way we were questioning their perception that they were already “out”, when the performers were “in” the space.
The visitors, during their contact with the performers, they were letting their prints on the glasses while they were “coming out”, and from observers they were turning into subjects and vise versa. Some visitors were reacting with reservation; however, most of them finally questioned if they were inside or outside.
This performance aimed to point out the stiff social-political conceptual frameworks that are established, which cannot be easily questioned by people, let alone to be objected.
A performance held in the photography exhibition of Athens School of Fine Arts (June 2013).
I created a separated space within the exhibition room, which communicated with the rest of the exhibition and its visitors via two glasses. Two performers were attending to the visitors of the exhibition by inviting them calling “come out”. This way we were questioning their perception that they were already “out”, when the performers were “in” the space.
The visitors, during their contact with the performers, they were letting their prints on the glasses while they were “coming out”, and from observers they were turning into subjects and vise versa. Some visitors were reacting with reservation; however, most of them finally questioned if they were inside or outside.
This performance aimed to point out the stiff social-political conceptual frameworks that are established, which cannot be easily questioned by people, let alone to be objected.
"Photo as Performance" Athens Photo Festival 2012, Technopolis ,Athens
Team works
"Photo as Performance" Athens Photo Festival , Technopolis ,Athens
"white market"
The Athens Photo Festival hosted a series of performances "Photography as Performance" from 19 to 28 October at Technopolis, where the fairgrounds were converted into a live-action platform . This year's edition has been edited by Demosthenes Agrafiotis in collaboration with Andrea Pasha as an attempt coupling of photography with the art of performance. When the frames and definitions of art species interbreed, creating a hybrid form of expression. Therefore, the ways in which the public is confronted with a two-dimensional photograph affected dynamically dimension / intervention of live action.
The festival began with group Performance "Barriers" , where all artists attempted to amend the exhibition space through live action and change the way recruitment of photographs from the public.
The second part of the series of actions "Photography as Performance" began with Performance team"The First Supper" where the public had the opportunity to attend a symposium among participants. The exchange offer and the food was a spectacle to observe and record through the photographic lens.
Inspired by the new twist that takes the middle class in Greece, Nikos Stathopoulos as a modern "Aspragoreitis" "White market" came into contact with the public through a transaction counter valuables.
The festival began with group Performance "Barriers" , where all artists attempted to amend the exhibition space through live action and change the way recruitment of photographs from the public.
The second part of the series of actions "Photography as Performance" began with Performance team"The First Supper" where the public had the opportunity to attend a symposium among participants. The exchange offer and the food was a spectacle to observe and record through the photographic lens.
Inspired by the new twist that takes the middle class in Greece, Nikos Stathopoulos as a modern "Aspragoreitis" "White market" came into contact with the public through a transaction counter valuables.