7 performances & a conversation

Exhibitions,

Talks

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Mary Zygouri, Hacking Reality, Wednesday 18/5/05 22.30, Theatrou Square, Psirri
Yorgos Sapountzis, Tuesday 17/5/05, 01.00 (after midnight), 20 Amalias Str.
Yorgos Sapountzis, Tuesday 17/5/05, 01.00 (after midnight), 20 Amalias Str.
Poka-Yio, Return From A-B Grave, Saturday 7/5/05. 20.00, 290 Kifisias Str.
Poka-Yio, Return From A-B Grave, Saturday 7/5/05. 20.00, 290 Kifisias Str.
Evangelia Basdeki, Sunday, 15/5/05 13.30, 89 Mihalakopoulou Str.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, The Irrational As a Basic Axiom to Completeness, Thursday 12/05/05, 13.00, 50 Akadimias Str
Mary Zygouri, Hacking Reality, Wednesday 18/5/05 22.30, Theatrou Square, Psirri
Mary Zygouri, Hacking Reality, Wednesday 18/5/05 22.30, Theatrou Square, Psirri
Yorgos Sapountzis, Tuesday 17/5/05, 01.00 (after midnight), 20 Amalias Str.
Yorgos Sapountzis, Tuesday 17/5/05, 01.00 (after midnight), 20 Amalias Str.
Poka-Yio, Return From A-B Grave, Saturday 7/5/05. 20.00, 290 Kifisias Str.
Poka-Yio, Return From A-B Grave, Saturday 7/5/05. 20.00, 290 Kifisias Str.
Evangelia Basdeki, Sunday, 15/5/05 13.30, 89 Mihalakopoulou Str.
Aliki Panagiotopoulou, The Irrational As a Basic Axiom to Completeness, Thursday 12/05/05, 13.00, 50 Akadimias Str

Contributors

Evangelia Basdeki, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Georgia Sagri, Yorgos Sapountzis, Fani Sofologi, Poka-Yio, Mary Zygouri

Curated by:

Maria-Thalia Carras 
& 
Sophia Tournikioti

Dates:

01.05.05-31.05.05

The city of Athens and the human body are the focal points of 7 performances & A Conversation. The artists taking part in this exhibition are part of a new generation of Greek artists that use Athens and its contradictions as a starting point for investigating their relationship with the city through performance. The artists’ taking part are Evangelia Basdeki, Poka–Yio, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Yorgos Sapountzis, Fani Sofologi and Mary Zygouri.

These performances will take place over the course of two weeks and take the form of an open-ended exhibition that develops within the streets of Athens as opposed to the closed confines of an established exhibition space.

There has been a resurgence of interest in performance as a medium of expression, where everyone is a participant and the roles of transmitter-artist and receiver-viewer are either reciprocal, suspended or even reversed.

A map of Athens will be drafted for 7 performances & A Conversation marking the times and sites of the performances. The exhibition will culminate in a discussion about these performances in a typical space for Athenian debates – a coffee shop. The artist’s archive material and research documents will be displayed in this space.

photo: Yiannis Hadjiaslanis and Maria Boucaouri