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The Musicians

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The  installation “the Musicians” shown in Loutraki, Greece in August 2017 during the first TILT PLATFORM event called: “Nameless”

TILT PLATFORM Exhibition Nameless

PRESS RELEASE

Opening: 4 August 2017 at 20.00
Duration: 4 – 20 August 2017
Opening hours: Mon – Sun: 19.30 – 24.00 Venue: Building Beau Rivage, Loutraki seaside

The exhibition Nameless is the first exhibition of the newly founded TILT platform*. The exhibition aims to present works from contemporary Greek and international artists reflecting on contemporary challenges and experiences.

The constant changes of our time create a state of uncertainty where human beings are often watching as external observers. The changes in political and social mechanisms, the promises of a constantly evolving technology, the new rules and the new ways of survival generate a frenetic atmosphere in which we need to adapt. Our daily experiences seem to be constrained following a restless trajectory and the task of assigning meaning to them is not an easy one. In this context of precariousness and speed, the terms of the game are ceaselessly redefined, leaving usually little room for any act of reaction.

Thus the exhibition Nameless aims:

Firstly, through the works on view, to present an extensive reference to situations and experiences responding to this changing reality as well as the unexplored reactions of human beings towards it.

Secondly, to highlight the act of naming. An act that primarily consists of our ability to literally assign names to phenomena, thus shaping the qualities they already have or the qualities we attribute to them. This act is indeed powerful since we create a better way to communicate with one another while at the same time we organize the symbolic systems that shape our perception and upon which our life is dependent.

23 Greek and international artists set their own questions and propose their narratives through sound works, video, installations, and performance.

Participating artists: Babis Venetopoulos, Lina Theodorou, Eva Papamargariti, Nektarios Pappas, Yioula Chatzigeorgiou, Janis Rafailidou, Medea Electronique, Tony Maslic, Yiannis Isidorou, Kalliopi Lemos, Mika Rottenberg, Stelios Dexis & Myrto Vounatsou, Nikos Arvanitis, Alex Papaioannou, Danai Simou.

We are happy to host two artistic platforms, namely festival Miden represented by the curator Gioula Papadopoulou and the artists IP Yuk-Yiu, Ullrich Klose, Jeroen Cluckers, Sandrine Deumier & Philippe Lamy, and the Museum of Forgetting (Sweden) represented by artists: Konstantin Economou and Klitsa Antoniou.

Curated by: Takis Zerdevas, Makis Faros, Katerina Gkoutziouli

Events during the Exhibition Opening (Aug 4):
21.00 | Yioula Chatzigeorgiou: Happy Birthday, performance
21.30 | Lina Theodorou: Pawnshop: a financial board game inspired by the contemporary Greek reality

Digital Platform Vibration code
The platform Vcode parasitizes and spreads in the public space. A real but also conceptual connection of physical space to the Internet. Site-specific images, videos and music will come up to your mobile or tablet screen via a custom designed application. A drop of the uncanny in the daily life of the city. The first experimental Vcode is realized with the collaboration of the Focus School students: Eirini Aggelidi, Lea Abatzoglou, Stella Anastasopoulou, Panos Mazarakis, Eva Besleme, Nadia Panagopoulou, Rita Tsela, Fillipos Ferentinos and our artist friends: music band Sister, Gioula Papadopoulou, M.F., Yasemi Rapti, among others.

INFO
*TILT PLATFORM
TILT is a platform of creative people including artists, researchers and theorists. The TILT platform creates and presents art projects; it explores and intervenes in the public space and on the Internet. Its main goal is to research, identify and highlight the new processes and phenomena that have begun to emerge and dominate our lives. Through art and technology, the TILT platform aims to create conceptual tools or at least a framework and the conditions that these tools can be born and transmitted. The TILT platform is a transmitter of enquiries, an open research lab, a survival workshop.

The TILT platform consists of: Zoi Pirini, Takis Zerdevas, Makis Faros, Katerina Gkoutziouli. The TILT platform is constantly expanding.

Web: www.tiltplatform.com
FB: www.facebook.com/tiltplatform Email: info@tiltplatform.com

Screening ‘Hotspot’ with artist talk

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On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 7:30pm, NeMe invites you to (b)orders, a screening of two short videos by Tony Maslic and Aron Rossman-Kiss followed by artist talks, discussion, and drinks at the NeMe Arts Centre.

(b)orders is a one evening event which explores the relationship between the present shifting political geography instigated by countries constructing border fences and the migrants and refugees who now mainly live their lives suspended in demarcated zones in a precarious state of survival or even violently displaced within their own country. According to researcher, Elisabeth Vallet, from Quebec University in Montreal, there are currently seventy walls placed around the world to protect national borders, compared with twelve in 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down. The Ukraine, Estonia, Austria and Slovenia have either commenced constructing a border fence or are considering building one. Greece, Bulgaria, Britain (Calais), Turkey and Hungary have already completed their border fences. The dream of an open united Europe is collapsing and its border-control-free Schengen Area is in practise, no longer legitimate. We are now living in times where goods can travel more freely than people, and mega corporations dictate state policies and border controls.

Responding to these concerns, NeMe is presenting two artists whose work examines the present issues of national borders and refugees.

Tony Maslic will speak about his work, HotSpot. Filmed over a period of three months at the edge of central Athens, the video is a modest witness of how international and local authorities are failing to solve the humanitarian and economic crisis. The unacceptable situation in the refugee accommodation centre appears as if the EU is maintaining these conditions to either intentionally deter more refugees from arriving, or simply because of incompetence due to a lack of will to find a humanitarian solution. Both reasons are alarming, revealing a crisis of ideology rather than a crisis of finance, where people are instrumentalised into political tools, with the demise of human rights. Open borders are transforming into high voltage charged fences protecting xenophobia, isolationism, corporate colonialism and exploitation, all within the constitutional framework of an increasingly divided European Union.

In the course of the past three years, Aron Rossman-Kiss has undertaken a series of field trips along Europe’s borders and refugee routes, creating a body of work incorporating the voices and experiences collected during these journeys. Drawing upon his experience, he will evoke the artistic and ethical questions that can arise when working in such situations and the challenges one can face when working with themes already saturating mainstream media.

The talks will be delivered in English and entrance is free.

more information at: NeMe

 

 

nEUROsis

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nEUROsis

The global financial crisis of the past eight years is heavily impacting most European Mediterranean countries, destabilising not only the symbolic structures of Europe expressed in its initial agreements as unity, stability and equality but also the idea of what the EU is and what it could or should be. There is an observable division within Europe, not only between the Balkan countries and the west but also between north and south, where so called equality amongst nations is resulting in policy decisions which could be argued, favour industrialised members and do not take into account the administrative, financial and specific cultural features of individual European member states. These divides and the contemporary political and theoretical debates around them, form the context for this project, nEUROsis takes a critical look, through art that reflects politically on its own social relevance and engagement at the contradicting values of the EU.

nEUROsis consists of 3 events in Limassol, Cyprus:

  1. A series of workshops at the Cyprus University of Technology; 16-18 November 2016 at 2:30pm-6:30pm
  2. A seminar at the Cyprus University of Technology; Saturday, 19 November 2016, 5:00pm-8:00pm
  3. An exhibition at NeMe Arts Centre, opening on Saturday, 19 November 2016, at 8:30pm

Participating artists: Lanfranco Aceti, Bill Balaskas, Paolo Cirio, Salvatore Iaconesi, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša,Tony Maslić, Jonathan Munro, Ioakim Mylonas, Oriana Persico, Evi Tselika, and Stelios Tzivas.
Exhibition curator: Yiannis Colakides

Seminar speakers: Lanfranco Aceti, Salvatore Iaconesi, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Chrystalleni Loizidou, Jonathan Munro, Oriana Persico and Evi Tselika.

The seminar will be in English.

Exhibition duration:
19 November 2016 – 18 December 2016
Opening Days/Times:
Tuesday-Friday: 5:30pm-8:30pm, Saturday: 10:00am-1:00pm

Leonardo Electronic Almanac will devote an issue based on the central concerns of this project.