The meetings at TWIXTlab continue on February, with a discussion on "Tourism, economy and artistic practices: on art residencies", organised by Dimitra Kondylatou. The second meeting, on Monday 26/2, will be on the politics and poetics of art residencies. Our guests are organisers in such projects, located in different areas in Greece, from big centres to isolated peripheries. Most of these areas are attractive tourist destinations, for contemporary artists as well. This fact may partly explain the big presence and the sustainability of such structures in Greek rural areas. During the discussion we will focus on different aspects of art residencies, such as their relationship with the places where they are located, the economies around such projects and their content and activities. More precisely we will discuss how the different conditions of the centre and the periphery form and influence the content and the functions of the art residencies, to which audience they address, what is their connection to the international art scene and to the local community, what are their economic tactics and how they position themselves within an international artistic economy and finally what do they contribute to the artistic production, thought and discourse.

The discussion will happen between: Augustus Veinoglou (Snehta Residency), Giannis Kotsonis (Syros Sound Meetings, And Syros), Aggeliki Sigourou and Ariadni Psychogiopoulou (Akropoditi Dance Centre), Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki (Yellow Brick, Athens), Konstantinos Tsetsos (Dio Horia, Mykonos) and Greg Haji Joannides (Sterna Art Project, Nisyros).

The discussion will be initiated by Dimitra Kondylatou (The island - resignified, Lefkada) and co-ordinated by Katerina Konstantinou.

The discussion will take place in greek.
(Smoking is not allowed in the space.)