Visions-V_Ideas, Performances

Visions-V_Ideas, Performances

5th Edition

Opening 4th June 2018 | 20.00

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Visions-V_ideas, Performances

The action, almost one festival: "Visions-V_ideas, Performances" celebrates 5 years since its launch at BETON7. In April 2014, it was stated that the set of actions of the festival aimed at exploring the interface between performance and video in the specific frame of the Votanikos neighbourhood - the site of BETON7, Center for the Arts.

A review may be necessary, not in the sense of a conclusion but an assessment for future adjustments. According to a terminology, performance is at the crossroad of the living arts (arts vivants), which rely on the human body as the main tool, in order to found its artistic idiosyncrasy or specificity (dance for example) and the visual arts, where physical elements allow to shape primarily spatial structures (e.g. sculpture). At this crossroad, the video is entering, which is the field, the opportunity to create a new version of what is happening at the aforementioned crossroad from aesthetic and social point of view.

In the five consecutive events (2014-8), artists from different horizons and schools, from different generations and countries (e.g. www.degrafiotis.com/?p=6228 & www.beton7.com) offered their concerns, their works and the gestures to show the numerous video and performance connections (and vice versa) and the inter-involvement difficulties, almost co-engagement the Festival with the Votanikos community. In this spirit, and to show connections, videos that approach the performance were presented (and will be presented), in a more historical perspective, shown (and will be shown) videos produced in the festival or for the festival, as well and videos as essential components of the performances as well. This creates a range of videos from documentation to experimental production of video-art projects, always referring to performance. At the same time, in the realization of the performances, an attempt was made to test various techniques, expressive rhetorical and aesthetic principles that the art of the video conquered - that is, the video functions as an expressive variable and as a field of processing new methods for the exploration of images "in time and in audio ". As to the interaction with the local community, this process in a socio-cultural environment with complex historical context, such as Votanikos, is a matter of apparently long-lasting and innovative effort.

Thanking warmly the artists, technicians and organizers, as well as the institutions which contributed to the realization of all actions at the material level and on the level of ideas and perspectives. As technologies increasingly define the expressions, the scope and the boundaries of the arts, as the demand for the interdisciplinary approach goes hand in hand with the desire to produce interdisciplinary art works or pluridisciplinary art works, and in an internationalized in turbulent and fluid environment, it would not be off to assume that the "five years" experience will be the precursor phase of a major future course for the evolution of the triple: image, video and performance.

This year‘ s programme from 04 to 17 June 2018 includes audio visual installations, performances and video performances, artist talks, exploring forms of dialogue between the video art and the performance in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective.

Curated by: Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Rania Kliari

Artists:

Simon Murray, Wendy Kirkup, Nichola Scrutton, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Patrizio Peterlini & Piero Matarrese, Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis, Emily Harvey Foundation-Archives: Alice Centamore & Agustin Schang, Anna Stereopoulou, Yovanna, female:pressure, Grazia Zattarin, Tugba Varol, KN- Karolina Theleriti & Nikoleta Koutitsa, Elton Petri, Dido Lykoudi, Rania Kapetanaki.

The schedule is as follows:

Opening | 4 June 2018 | 20.00

Exhibition

Video performances

June 4, 2018

20.30

Nichola Scrutton | Performance | When Night Comes

Wendy Kirkup | Short films related to music (Luciano Berio & György Ligeti)

After the screening, Wendy Kirkup will discuss with Simon Murray about her work.

June 5, 2018

20.30

PERFORMING RUINS IN CONVERSATION | Simon Murray will be in conversation with Demosthenes Agrafiotis about the cultural allure of ruins within a 21st century context of social, economic and political ruination across the globe.

09-13 June 2018

SYN | Cymatic Environment© by Anna Stereopoulou [installation-in-progress

Info: https://annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/syn-stereopoulou-beton7-20y-female-pressure-june-2018/

• Video Art works made by members of female:pressure network | http://femalepressure.net/

Also, SYN will be hosting ‘Calice di Vita‘ painting by Italian artist, Grazia Zattarin |http://www.graziazattarin.com and stop-motion video by SergioK | https://vimeo.com/sergioko

SATURDAY 9 June

• 14.00 – 18.00: live_SYN_thesis | Listenings

Live Improvisation and Music selection by Anna Stereopoulou (see: 10 + 12 June)

• 20.00 – 21.00: Artist Talk about her work SYN and the international network female: pressure

• 21.00 – 21.50: Performance

Presentation of the latest poetic work by Yovanna, I Dreamed a Dream (“Όνειρο Είδα” / Oneiro Eida)

Recitation: Yovanna | Live Music: Anna Stereopoulou

info: https://el-gr.facebook.com/YovannaOfficialPage/

* ‘Vakxikon’ Editions | https://ekdoseis.vakxikon.gr/shop/ekdoseis/vakxikon-poetry/oneiro-eida/

SUNDAY 10 June

• 14.00 – 21.00: live_SYN_thesis | Listenings

Live Improvisation and Music selection* by Anna Stereopoulou

* various styles by various artists

note: visitors interested in improvising with Anna are welcome to join

MONDAY 11 June

• 14.00 – 18.00: live_SYN_thesis | Listenings

Live Improvisation and Music selection by Anna Stereopoulou (see: 10 + 12 June)

• 18.00 – 21.00: feelmusic seminar

Feelings’ Techniques: music on ‘image’ | echo ~ phos ~ chroma

Educational & Art series [Lectures /Seminars / Workshops / Soundwalks /Listenings] designed and presented by composer, Anna Stereopoulou, and inspired by her artistic /scientific research on the Human Brain, the Human Psychology and Body Balance, as well as by other Sciences & Art and her work in the field of Film Scoring. | https://annastereoscopic.wordpress.com/feelmusic-rho/

TUESDAY 12 June

• 14.00 – 21.00: live_SYN_thesis | Listenings

Live Improvisation and Music selection* by Anna Stereopoulou

* various styles by various artists

note: visitors interested in improvising with Anna are welcome to join

WEDNESDAY 13 June

• 14.00 – 18.00: live_SYN_thesis | Listenings

Live Improvisation and Music selection by Anna Stereopoulou (see: 10 + 12 June)

• 20.00: Performance

Presentation of poem: “a-alpha” by Demosthenes Agrafiotis – Homage to John Cage |www.dagrafiotis.com

Demonstra(c)tion: Demosthenes Agrafiotis | Live Music: Anna Stereopoulou

June 14-17, 2018

20.30

Tugba Varol | MIRROR, MIRROR TELL ME THE TRUTH

Video – Installation

June 17, 2018

19.00

Rania Kapetanaki | unneeded | Performance

INFO:

Artists:Simon Murray, Wendy Kirkup, Nichola Scrutton, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Patrizio Peterlini & Piero Matarrese, Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis, Emily Harvey Foundation-Archives: Alice Centamore & Agustin Schang, Anna Stereopoulou, Yovanna, female:pressure, Grazia Zattarin, Tugba Varol, KN- Karolina Theleriti & Nikoleta Koutitsa, Elton Petri, Dido Lykoudi, Rania Kapetanaki.

June, 04-17/06/2018

Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 14:00 - 21:00

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