ART FAIRS: Platforms Project 2023 Parallel Program
Platforms Project is an international exhibition which has always aimed to present the independent art scene through artists’ group initiatives. The Platforms Project contributes continuously to the shared search for solutions to contemporary questions of art and the indicative mapping of artistic activity as it is produced today in the framework of group initiatives of young artists in the international art environment.
During the exhibition of the Platforms Project 2023, a parallel program of talks, performances and workshops will take place. The Platforms Project is not an impersonal event but an artistic community full of energy and freshness, giving time and space to an alternative art that could not be expressed anywhere else.
The 40 performances will be presented by the participating platforms in the exhibition space and in the Central Courtyard.
A very important part of the Platforms Project is the KIDS LAB educational programme for children aged 4-16 years old. Pow Wow’s educational programme “How do you feel today?” is designed for children and beyond. It is a collective work based on the work of Swedish artist Jeppe Hein | Your Journey. The final result will be an interactive large scale mural-collage created with the active participation of the public (children). Children will be asked to draw a person in relation to their feelings at that particular moment, with an emphasis on the moment, the now, the present. The final mural – a collage – aims to showcase the children’s intense creativity, free expression and sincerity.
music, architecture and design, extending the international network that has already been established over the last 10 years and bringing them into synergy with the visual arts.
Design-Architecture:
In the INNOVATHENS building, four architecture platforms will be presented: ARCH-EAST (Athens), grad review (Athens), Kapa26art team (Thessaloniki), PEOPLE NOT GATHERED – LONELINESS (Athens)
Music:
Nepenthe presents a musical journey exploring the evolution of the electronic music scene through the artists – DJs – who have shaped it from the 80s to today. A different interactive experience every day, giving the audience the chance to be a DJ for a day!
Performances – Theatre performances:
The Ginger Creepers Theatre Band (Grigoris Hatzakis – Christos Kapenis) presents the alternative theatrical concert JINX, a performance inspired by the parable of the Dead Brother.
The performing arts group galleria pemuvia presents the performance Anonymous, directed by Lysandros Spetsieris, in conversation with the interactive VR world of sculptor Nikos Papadopoulos at the New Retorts building on Friday 27/10 and Saturday 28/10 at 21:30. Inspired by the Octana of Andreas Embirikos.
The performance group Re-transform will present an interactive performance on the theme of transforming from one state to another at Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert” , on Friday 27 October at 20:30 – 21:30 and on Saturday 28 October at 21:00 – 22:00.
The Art March to Prespes will activate a silent nomadic walking body of seven people on Saturday 28th October. It will follow a path of chance to discover art in the everyday lived and contrasted space.
26 & 27 October, 22:00 – 23:00, (Ginger Creepers Theater Band, Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert” )
28 & 29 October, 21:30 – 22:00, (galleria pemuvia, New Retort
27th October 20:30-21:30 & 28th October, 21:00 – 22:00, (Re-transform, Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert” )
28th October (Visual March to Prespes)
Musical events:
Friday 27th October to Sunday 29th October, 18.00 – 00.00 (Nepenthe)
TALKS:
Thursday 26th of October
Building Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert”:
19:00 – 20:30 “In the beginning was the image : A discussion about the theater” Speech and open discussion curated by the actor-director Lysandros Spetsieris, actor, theater director, founder of icaro c.a.g.a.
Coordinator: Kostas Laskaratos, journalist, author Rapporteurs:
Dimitris Dimitriadis, author, playwright, translator
Matina Kaltaki, Historian, theatrologist (MA), theater critic Pantelis Makkas, visual artist, video designer
Periklis Moustakis, actor, theater director
Elli papakonstantinou, theater director, playwright, visual artist Giannis Skourletis, theater director, scenographer
Violet Luise (Louisa Kostoula), theater director, performer, musician, video artist
Friday 27th of October
Building Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert”:
13:30 – 14:30 Presentation of the Culture Action Europe (CAE) activity and membership plans
Rapporteurs:
Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Artist, Founder and Senior Managing Director of ACEY Europe Arts & Culture Community
Andrew Greenwood, Choreographer, Health & Well Being Instructor CAE members
14:30 – 15:00 Art talk about “the Architecture of a Flower”
ACEY Europe – Arts & Culture Community Rapporteurs:
Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Artist, Founder and Senior Managing Director of ACEY Europe Arts & Culture Community
Dr Lina Tsikouta, Art Historian and Curator of the National Gallery of Greece
15:30 – 18:30 Conference Programme “Art and Artificial Intelligence” 15:30 – 16:45 First section
Speeches and rapporteurs:
“the end of Art ?”, Rapporteur-moderator: Moutsopoulos Thanasis, Art Historian
“the Agelast”, Rapporteur: Melanitis Iannis, visual artist, Associate professor of ASFA, Vice-rector
“Αrt-efficial”, Rapporteur: Betsou Vicky, visual artist, Assistant professor ASFA
“AI Ragdoll Rollercoaster”, Rapporteur: Agathopoulos Dimitris, media artist, lecturer at MA program in Digital Arts – ASFA and academic fellow at the Department of Interior Architecture at the School of Applied Arts and Culture at the University of West Attica “ΑΙ: tool for or manipulation of Art”, Rapporteur: Samaras Nikos, visual artist, Cask founder
17:00 – 18:15 Second section
Speeches and rapporteurs:
“The Concept of Technological Sublime in Greek Digital Art”, Rapporteur-moderator: Faye Tzanetoulakou Dr History of Art. Adjunct Lecturer University of West Attica, Post Doc Researcher University of Thessaly. General Secretary AICA Hellas (συντονίστρια) “Techno-intelligence”, Rapporteur: Tiligadis Konstantinos, visual artist, Professor at ADVARTS, Ionion University
“The banality of image making”, Rapporteur: Moraitis Fanouris, visual artist and Computer engineer, Assistant professor at ASFA
“10 things that Machine Learning taught me about life and art”, Rapporteur: Lida Zacharopoulou, Data Analytics Engineer, Ιnterdiscicplinary Artist, Postgraduate student of MA in Digitals Arts – ASFA
Saturday 28th of October
Building Gasholder 1 – Auditorium “Miltiadis Evert”:
15:00 – 16:30 Conference Programme “nature, nature, nature!!! Nature is bleeding (!) Are we going deaf (?)”
Moderator: Maria Stamati Rapporteurs:
Efi Michalarou, Journalist- Art Critic, Independent Curator, Director of online art magazine www.dreamideamachine.com
Maria Stamati, Visual Artist
Thursday 26/10, Friday 27/10, Saturday 28/10 18:00-23:00. This journey will be completed with a musical party episode, where DJs from various backgrounds and musical influences of the house scene will invite the entire audience to have fun together, closing the Platform Project on Sunday 29/10/23, from 6:00 – to 00:00 pm, in the Central Courtyard of the Technopolis City of Athens.