The Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Greek Festival) collects every year the best acts of each art and presents it to the Athenians and the visitors of the city. Theatre, dance, painting and visual arts are combined in one of the best festivals of Greece.
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Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2011
The Ark: Old seeds for new cultures
The Ark is the Greek entry in the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
According to its creators (Phoebe Giannisi, Zissis Kotionis), this installation re-focuses on old seeds and the ideological biodiversity that is at our disposal, but which lies forgotten and on the brink of extinction; while, at the same time, it provides the promise for new cultures of life in the soil.
In the Greek Pavilion, Yannis Isidorou creates a visual and sound installation, producing a simulation environment with the initial agrarian production experience. Kostas Manolidis, with his landscape topologies hints at the capacity to rethink the wealth of the ground through his representations. Maria Papadimitriou in her seed laboratory re-introduces agricultural practices connected with the pleasurable experience of nutrition into the extensive ground of a metropolis. Alexandros Psycholis typesets a guide for aspiring urban life gardener-cultivators. The Ark itself was designed and constructed, bearing the heavy memories of the phytogenetic material from the Greek landscape, while at the same time it travels, along with its visitors, unsuspecting yet familiar inhabitants of a world where collective survival became a condition for the survival of the very world in which we survive. Stimulating the senses; pleasure and hedonism; companionship and cohabitation, as they were experienced by the various collaborators over the five-month experience of completing this collective piece, are settled in the Ark, as a counterweight to the consumerist monasticism of city life.
Commissioners / Curators: Phoebe Giannisi, Zissis Kotionis
Design of the Ark and the Installation: Phoebe Giannisi, Zissis Kotionis
Duration
30/03/2011 - 22/05/2011
Place:
Athens, Greece
Benaki Museum
Pireos Street Annexe
Organization
Hellenic Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climatic Change and University of Thessaly
BARREN ROUTES 2011. A series of archaeological exhibitions
Barren Routes is the name of an archaeological exhibition series organized by the Cycladic Art Museum at its premises in cooperation with the Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism. It mainly includes all remote, inaccessible, small or bigger islands and, in certain cases, extremely remote and unknown areas of Greece, where individuals, whose works and culture are consecutively highlighted by the individual exhibitions, have been born and worked.
The first exhibition in the series will present five Dodecanese islands, starting from the most south-eastern outpost of our country, Kastelorizo, and continuing along the islands between Rhodes and Kos (Symi, Halki, Tilos, Nisyros).
