Macklin Kowal collaborates with Automatic Transmission in the frame of its ongoing group show “Playing Ground”. On Wednesday, December the 4th, at 20:30 Kowal contributes to the research platform with his lecture performance and workshop, titled: “Playtime” creating a temporary ground to host his practice in the exhibition space and time. Like any word, “play” can mean many things. The lecture-performance explores the polysemy of the word “play,” playing with word-play, playing itself, in an attempt to expose some juncture of mechanics and poetics where, indeed, play might emerge. At once dizzying and soothing, the performance theorizes the time of play, its temporality, what it is to play in time, what time might be as subject to play: playtime. (Kowal, M.) On Saturday December the 7th, from 15:00-18:00, Kowal offers a workshop that extends, through practice, the themes of his performance. Departing from ideas of play and temporality, the workshop combines reading, discussion, writing--maybe even some mischievous games. Workshop Fee: 10 euros Macklin Kowal is Founding Director of Sub Rosa Space, an independent platform for performance in central Athens. He is additionally a PhD candidate in Political Theory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His practice sits at the juncture of writing, curation, research, and pedagogy. Kowal’s work typically focuses on the discursive limits of political reality, particularly within current cultures of populism.