Invitation to Onassis AiR Open Day #7

Friday 30.06.2023 | Onassis AiR (Leontiou 5, Neos Kosmos) | 19:00 – 22:00

On Friday, June 30, 2023, we are excited to invite you to the 7th Open Day of the Onassis AiR Tailor-made Fellowships program. This is the last Open Day before our summer break and it will include video works and installations, live readings, discussions, food tastings, and presentations that will unfold throughout the evening with the participation of our current Fellows Noor Abed, Orestis Athanasopoulos, Stavros Chrysafidis, Victor Ehikhamenor, Arshia Fatima Haq, Stella Ioannidou, Laure Jaffuel, Christina Kotsilelou, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Will Rawls, Nikolas Ventourakis, Latent Community and Kate Marsh & Aristide Rontini.

Join us to celebrate the closing of this season and to meet and exchange with our Fellows!

PROGRAM 

19:00-22:00 {presented in loop}:

Orestis Athanasopoulos, Latent Community, Stavros Chrysafidis, Victor Ehikhamenor, Arshia Fatima Haq, Stella Ioannidou, Laure Jaffuel, Christina Kotsilelou, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Will Rawls, Nikolas Ventourakis

20:00-20:30: Nikolas Ventourakis | Presentation w/ Q&A 

20:30-21:00: Kate Marsh & Aristide Rontini | Presentation

21:00-21:30: Will Rawls | Live reading  

21:30-22:00: Noor Abed w/ Niki Dimopoulou | Discussion w/ Q&A

PARTICIPATING RESEARCH PROJECTS

Noor Abed | Historical and urban mythologies between the island of Crete and Palestine - research presentation and a conversation, together with Niki Dimopoulou.
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Orestis Athanasopoulos | Using a story about the invention of Greek pitta bread as a starting point, Orestis will present his ongoing research on pitta and similar flatbreads through a split-screen video with material gathered during a recent trip around the Eastern Mediterranean. > READ MORE

Stavros Chrysafidis | In the context of his research on locality of food production, Stavros Chrysafidis will collaborate with Orestis Athanasopoulos to showcase ingredients sourced in local communities’ markets of Athens using as the basis the traditional pitta bread. > READ MORE

Victor Ehikhamenor | Preliminary materials of the research project Why the gods are not to blame. A visual exploration of collective memories through the lens of Ola Rotimi’s, “The Gods Are Not To Blame”, an adaptation of the Greek classic, Oedipus Rex. Ehikhamenor will be interrogating memories and fates about past lives and artefacts that will create a tapestry for how memories are built. 
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Arshia Fatima Haq | A work-in-progress for Archive of the Unsung, this approx. 10-minute video is a sketch towards a multi-channel immersive installation. The piece will be composed as an exquisite corpse based on testimonies of Afghan and Pakistani refugees and migrants, and chronicles that which is both remembered and unremembered. 
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Stella Ioannidou | Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror [pt 2] is a short meditation on an imagined city in the form of a text and visual essay. Composed of film footage taken in Athens, Alexandria, and Marseille, it draws a fragmentary cartography of desires and experiences, contradictions and symbiosis that arise from urban landscapes. 
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Laure Jaffuel | Gardens being not only a living collection of living plants, but also a cultural, environmental, architectural, social, and public space, the project explores specifically the vernacular urban garden and its position today in the city of Athens within the critical context of mediterranean climate. During the evening, a short sound-piece (approx. 15min) will present the early stage of the research around Mediterranean Urban Garden including interview’s extracts, musical tracks, text reading, and field recordings. 
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Christina Kotsilelou | Exploring the therapeutic properties of herbs and plants, Christina will offer some edible herbal experiments, a herbaceous non- alcoholic drink, along with a presentation of  plant specimens and recipes from her research in folk medicine and specifically, the practical doctors of the Vikos area in northern Greece. 
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Vishal Kumaraswamy | In continuing with Vishal's ongoing research around the hierarchies of food culture within the South Asian Socio-Cultural context, Foxtail looks at the history of Millets as heirlooms for Dalit & Adivasi communities across South Asia and its presence and relevance to South Asian communities in Athens. In extending his research into the context of Athens, threads are drawn between in-development audio works, photographs, field recordings, and texts that illustrate the interlinked history of migration, the import of social structures from another continent as these communities establish a presence in modern day Greece. 
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Will Raws | Will Rawls will read excerpts of new and old writing about the erotics of the kouroi. He will also loop an excerpt from a parallel film project about queer calisthenics at an abandoned military gym. 
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Nikolas Ventourakis | Hard Hat is a video installation produced during the research for Rituals for our Safety Pt.III. The hard hat is a safety gear worn by workers in hazardous environments (usually in construction). Kafka was erroneously being connected to the development of an early version. 
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Latent Community  | Latent Community will present a video related to their research at Avato. The video is based on field notes, and acts like an audio-visual research diary from their fieldwork on a melting pot of ethnic, cultural, and religious identities, reflecting the real and imagined routes between past and present that shaped Avato. Focusing on the opacity and discontinuity of a multilayered and fragmented narrative that goes back to the Ottoman slave trade.
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Kate Marsh & Aristide Rontini | Aristide Rontini and Kate Marsh will share the beginnings of emerging conversations – connecting their lived experience of disability and artistic work through dialogue and practice. Together they have explored what it means to be in their crip bodies together unmediated by non-disabled bodies, how they can stay open and curious to their own physicality and experience also being curious about their sameness and differences as humans with bodies that mirror each other through proximal disabilities. Both artists are here busy processing what it is like to move and make dance work that is true to their own bodies and the unique movement vocabulary they are developing through ongoing practice and exploration. > READ ABOUT MARSH & RONTINI

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