STIMONI
concept & curation Stefania Orfanidou

Texts, as a daily practice, creation and discovery, construct the memory of the city in the present. They are constantly knitted and unknitted as if the threads of a warp (stimoni in Greek), over and under which other threads are passed to make cloth. STIMONI exhibition is an articulation of nine artistic multimedia projects and performances by eleven artists. The works, chosen for the different practices they incorporate, write with their different gazes and media the text of their own experiences of Athens. Woven with the personal warp of each artist, they compose narratives, and form new writings. They weld their matter in space, surrendering to the act of looking, inviting one to wander and discover diverse spatio-temporal experiences. Like shells, or scraps of personal or collective memories, they preserve part of the city’s whole. In STIMONI, the text unfolds in all its parts; as construction, as weaving, as an acoustic composition, and finally, or primarily, as fallen matter lying on the ground.

ARTISTS
Myrto Xanthopoulou
Antonis Theodoridis
Stelios Papagrigoriou
Collectif MASI
Yannis Stournas
Yorgos Karailias
Filippos Vasiliou
Alexandros Mistriotis
Giorgos Varoutas
Anna Linardou

Graphic design:
Blind Studio

Exhibition duration:
Thursday 23 November – Sunday 10 December 2023
Opening: Thursday 23 November 2023, at 19:00

PERFORMANCES*

Sunday 26 November 2023 / at 18:00 / TO SYGGROUOMENO / Falirou 57 str., Athens 11742
THE WHALE AND THE CITY – presentation of a photobook mockup by Yorgos Karailias

Saturday 2 December 2023 / at 18:00 / Square / Falirou & Botsari corner, Athens 11742
INAUGURATION TO THE OTHER – performance by Filippos Vasiliou

Friday 8 December 2023 / at 20:00 / MISC Athens / Tousa Botsari 20, Athens 11741
HEAR YOU ATHENS – poem reading by Alexandros Mistriotis

Saturday 9 December 2023 / at 18:30 / UNDERFLOW / Kallirrois 39, Athens 11743
SAITA – experimental musical interaction by Anna Linardou & Giorgos Varoutas

* An hour before the start of each performance the curator will give a guided tour at the exhibition space at MISC Athens.

STIMONI exhibition is being held with the financial support by the Greek Ministry of Culture and MeMSéA.