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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">XYZ Projects are happy to announce their collaboration with the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 as a Partner Platform. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">The Future Generation Art Prize, funded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Ukraine, <b>is open to any artist around the world up to the age of 35</b>. The Main Prize will be awarded to one artist who will receive t</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">he amount of US$100,000 (60,000 in cash and 40,000 towards production of new work). An additional $20,000 will be allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for up to five other prize-winners. All shortlisted artists will participate in a group show in Kiev, Ukraine in October 2012.<br /><br />XYZ Projects, as a Partner Platform would like to invite artists up to the age of 35, who live and work in Greece to apply.<br /><br />Please apply for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 <b>online</b> at:<a href="http://www.futuregenerationartprize.org/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">www.futuregenerationartprize.or<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>g</span></a>, where you can also find more information regarding the prize and the application and selection process.<br /><br /><b>Deadline for applications: 6 May 2012</b></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-66644657327871943812011-12-05T03:03:00.001+02:002011-12-05T03:16:46.603+02:00X&Y CURATE! Seminars - Winter 2011/2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">X&Y CURATE!</span> | Organised by </b></span><b>ΑΚΤΟ | Duration: 20 hours, Winter 2011/2012 (December 2011 to January 2012)| Information & Registration: </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: justify;">210 52 30 130 | info@akto.gr | www.akto.gr</span><br />
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On </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday 6 December </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we are presenting, in conjunction with the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicolas Vass’ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Re-constructing Hasil</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: a performance by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Re-constructing Hasil: a performance by</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Re-constructing Hasil </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a tribute to Hasil Adkins (193? – 2005), a one man band who began performing in the Southern USA in the 1950s. Born in West Virginia during the Great Depression, Adkins’ performance style, where all instruments and vocals are played by him alone, is based on a mistake he made as a young boy when he thought that the music he heard on the radio was performed by a lone musician. The motif of people traveling across the U.S. carrying their very few worldly possessions on their back, characteristic of the Depression period as narrated in books like Steinbeck’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grapes of Wrath</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, recurs in Adkins’ self-schooled, self-made and self-reliant form of musical performance. Arms, legs, vocal melodies, harmonies, beats, guitar riffs and harmonica croons emerge energetically from the performance of a single man.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble’s re-enactment of Adkins’ one man band began in 2007, and has continued through a recession that repeatedly references the stock market crash of 1929. Where Adkins may be seen as the quintessential example of the self-made man that is at the heart of the American Dream, the Ensemble's performance is not intended as fuel for the myth we currently hear from governments trying to flog austerity programmes and so-called 'creative economies': that in times of hardship superior forms of individual creativity emerge. Rather, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Re-construcing Hasil</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is performed as a tribute to the pains and the actions of the hyper, multi-tasking, infinitely flexible, auto-didact and excessively self-reliant individual touted as the ideal type of the contemporary worker and survivor of a dismantled welfare state. Furthermore, the Ensemble performing within the realm of contemporary art highlights the relationship between this virtuosic, self-propelling and self-organising worker and the contemporary artist who is in many ways its prototype.</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicolas Vass is an Argentinian artist born in Buenos Aires in 1977 and currently lives and works in London. His work is performance, drawing and text based, investigating the dynamics, tensions and politics between individual and collaborative work. In the past few years he has been working with several collectives.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-35732382427601609202011-12-05T01:27:00.001+02:002011-12-05T01:41:18.101+02:00XYZ OUTLET #22: Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis and a Group of tutors and students from the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly // DE HOMINIS APPARATUS // Tuesday 22 November<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XYZ Outlet continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. On </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday 22 November </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we are presenting, in conjunction with the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the performance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> DE HOMINIS APPARATUS </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis and a group of tutors and students from the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at XYZ Outlet #22.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This action was triggered by the department’s recent workshop </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is an Apparatus?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - drawing from the book of the same name by Giorgio Agamben. The concept of the “apparatus” allowed the workshop to trace what binds together contemporary architecture with art practices and with what we mean when we talk today - at a time of acute crisis - about biopolitical and humane communities. Moreover, during the workshop, the participants encouraged reflection upon the way we understand the world, relationships, behaviours and objects, in real time.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The presentation of the book </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notes Towards a Critique of Money</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> constitutes the first in a cycle of four talks moderated by Giorgos Papadopoulos, examining the subject of social economy and alternative exchange systems (Local Exchange Trading Systems – LETS) both as viable alternatives of goods and services distribution and as political actions of resistance to the logic of the “free” market and monetary relationships. The other three talks will be presented as sessions of The Public School in Athens (</span><a href="http://thepublicschoolinathens.net/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://thepublicschoolinathens.net/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), part of the projec Word of Mouth, curated by KERNEL, and currently showing in MONODROME. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.2968633845448494" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XYZ Outlet continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. On </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday 25 October </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we are presenting, and in parallel with the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the installation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Im-pressions </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panayiotis Koulouras</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During September and October XYZ Outlet’s projects are presented within the framework of the international contemporary art platform </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ReMap 3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Im-pressions</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2011: constant, overwhelming and contradictory, the news contribute towards a climate of instability. Panayiotis Koulouras collects images - symbols from the news, and prints them on pieces of broken marble he collects from the streets. Bin Laden, Gaddafi, Julien Assanz and Lady Gaga, amongst others, are made into stamps and impressed en masse, in red colour, on the surface of the broken marble - a material heavily associated with the notion of “greekness”, and, on occasion, used as a weapon, as demonstrated by recent events.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Impressions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> transforms the perception of a reality filtered via the Mass Media - “news” that formulate the collective consciousness - into an unstable ground, strewn with the fragments of a memorial that never arises.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Koulouras observes and records on the stone. He formulates and reconstructs an image, an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">impression</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and at the same time challenges the way we perceive a defunct memorial, a memorial installed as ruins, a memorial of amnesia and of the ephemeral. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Panayiotis Koulouras</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 9pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panayiotis Koulouras was born in Kalamata in 1973. He graduated from the Painting Department of the Fine Art School of Athens in 2007, where he studied under Professor Chronis Botsoglou.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He worked with the artist Vlassis Caniaris from 2004 to 2011. In 2010 he participated in the exhibition </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Time people and their stories</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> curated by Manos Stefanidis in Benaki Museum, and he also presented his work </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ephemeral Memorials”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the Siakos-Hannape gallery.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-12656208366118715992011-10-07T13:34:00.001+03:002011-10-07T13:36:16.330+03:00XYZ OUTLET #19: Lakis and Aris Ionas / The Callas | “WALKING IN THE DARK / LOOKING FOR YOUR TOY”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.07780864089727402" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XYZ Outlet continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. On </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tuesday 11 October </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we are presenting </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“WALKING IN THE DARK / LOOKING FOR YOUR TOY” </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lakis and Aris Ionas / The Callas</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During September and October XYZ Outlet’s projects are presented within the framework of the international contemporary art platform ReMap 3.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About “WALKING IN THE DARK / LOOKING FOR YOUR TOY”</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lakis and Aris Ionas / The Callas will present at XYZ Outlet </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“WALKING IN THE DARK / LOOKING FOR YOUR TOY” *</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Photographs, objects and small sculptures comprise remnants of a punk, sacred route connecting two spaces, XYZ Outlet and ATOPOS CVC.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking as a starting point the installation at XYZ Outlet, a procession will follow through the streets of Metaxourgeio, inviting visitors to discover one-by-one elements that make up The Callas’ practice. The procession will end at ATOPOS CVC with a performance, concluding the route. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A scented iconostasis, colours and flavours, alcohol, rock ’n’ roll, DIY porn; the whole of The Callas world combined in a religious party en route.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* lyric from the latest 7” single by The Callas - Peepee</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Lakis and Aris Ionas / The Callas</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Callas are brothers and artistic collaborators Lakis and Aris Ionas. Using traditional folk-art practices and DIY messthetics The Callas create an atmosphere of magic, lust, alchemy and dark “joie de vivre”. Inspired by the eccentricity of The Fall, and via Fluxus performances, the No Wave movement, and Constructivist artists, The Callas deliver their Lo-Fi Geometry dogma.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past years they have exhibited their artwork at spaces such as ATOPOS CVC, Faggionato Fine Art (curated by Nadja Argyropoulou), AMP Gallery, The DESTE foundation, 2nd Athens Biennale 2009, HEAVEN (curated by Chus Martinez), the Yinka Shonibare Space, The Breeder gallery.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have performed gigs all over Europe including at: Indietracks Festival (Derbyshire, UK), The Great Escape Festival (Brighton, UK) Artrocker Magazine (London,UK), The Fly (London,UK), Club Fandango at The Monarch (London,UK), Barfly (London,UK), Sala Apolo in Barcelona, Taktfrei fest (Berlin), De Roode Bioscoop,(Amsterdam, Netherlands). Also, in churches, flats, boats, mountains, toilets and with bands such as Au Revoir Simone, You Say Party! We Say Die!, The Wedding Present, Television Personalities, Stereo Total and The Victorian English Gentlemens Club.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the past few months The Callas have shown work at Faggionato Fine Art (London, UK), have supported Grinderman in Athens after a Jim Sclavunos invitation and also released a split flexi single with The Victorian English Gentlemens Club (This is Fake DIY records).</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.thecallas.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.thecallas.com</span></a></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-9216649938819897752011-09-22T19:18:00.001+03:002011-09-22T19:23:11.105+03:00XYZ Outlet #18: KERNEL | Index of Potential<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">XYZ Outlet #18: KERNEL | Index of Potential | Tuesday September 27th from 20:00 to 21:00 strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio, 104 36, Athens </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bordellos resemble train stations; full of carriages. You come and unload all that weighs you down. The carriages crackle. Trains pass by. Boys pass by. Some of them, you long for, you get off with them, yet, you do not reveal this. Never reveal that you want them. Never think they may want you back.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poka-Yio is a visual artist. He is also a contemporary art curator, member of the XYZ curatorial trio and the co-artistic director of the Athens Biennale. His work examines the attraction/repulsion bipolarity and its transfer from the sphere of personal to the political.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Marina Vranopoulou</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marina Vranopoulou is an art historian, a PhD Research Candidate for Goldsmiths College in London, the Project Coordinator of DESTE Foundation’s Project Space </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Τhe Slaughterhouse</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Hydra, and the Curator of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is to Be Done?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> program at the Cycladic Museum. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About XYZ Outlet</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">XYZ Outlet is part of the wider practice of the curatorial team XYZ, composed of Poka-Yio, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Augustine Zenakos.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During its twelve months of existence and through a rolling bi-weekly program, it operates as an "anxiety indicator" and as an “outlet” for depositing views in relation to exhibition production and artistic practice.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #262626; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">47, Iassonos Street, Metaxourgeio, 104 36, Athens quite close to the Metaxourgeio Metro Station.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DURATION</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12/9-30/10/2011</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">WORKING HOURS</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12/9-18/9 </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening: Monday, 12/9, 17:00-22:00</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tue-Fri: 17:00-20:30</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sat-Sun: 12:00-20:30</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21/9-23/10</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wed-Fri: 17:00-20:30</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sat-Sun: 12:00-20:30</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24/10-30/10 </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mon-Fri: 17:00-20:30</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sat-Sun: 12:00-20:30</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further information regarding </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bordello Nacional</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> please visit</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://www.xyzprojects.org/">www.xyzprojects.org</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, <a href="http://www.remapkm.org/">www.remapkm.org</a> or contact Elina Kakourou, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T: +30 6978696342 Ε: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">officepokayio@gmail.com</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-30936488053548464652011-09-05T17:48:00.000+03:002011-09-05T17:54:52.760+03:00XYZ Outlet #17: Georgia Sagri | Antigone ModelXYZ Outlet #17: Georgia Sagri | Antigone Model | Tuesday September 13th from 20:00 to 21:00 strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio, 104 36, Athens
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XYZ Outlet re-opens and continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. On Tuesday 13 September we are presenting the performance<br />
<i>Antigone Model</i> by Georgia Sagri.<br />
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XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00. <br />
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About <i>Antigone Model</i><br />
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For this performance, Georgia Sagri visits Sophocles’ play Antigone and draws upon its seminal tragic figure, a character fiercely consistent with her actions and morals whose choices defy the power of governance and state control.<br />
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Sagri approaches the Greek tragedy also via its translation by Friedrich Hölderlin (1804) and its adaptation by Bertolt Brecht, ANTIGONEMODELL (1948), set in 1945s Berlin.These three texts act as forces compelling the body to produce fundamental modules of sentiment (cry, laughter, facial expressions) that are repeated and are re-used.<br />
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By recording and sampling sound during the hour-long performance, Sagri creates live a repetitive sound-space that turns into movement. The notions of space, gender and parrhesia – bold, fearless speech – are disturbed and re-evaluated again and again. The performer and the viewer share the topos and the time of the tragedy, blurring the boundaries between performance and spectacle.<br />
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About <i>Georgia Sagri</i><br />
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Georgia Sagri was born in Athens in 1979 and lives and works in New York. Her performances examine identity, language and the investigation and catalysis of existing structures. Often her works involve repetition and extended duration. A common thread of her practice is the formal study of what constitutes a performance and the re-assessment of the performer in relation to the audience, stage and historicity.<br />
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<a href="http://georgiasagri.blogspot.com/">http://georgiasagri.blogspot.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-47108092908212462252011-07-22T15:39:00.003+03:002011-07-22T15:48:34.479+03:00XYZ Outlet #16: Jimmy Efthimiou & Orizontas Gegonoton (Event Horizon) // "Eros or Nothing"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7R8nLkFZgfNg6wKzf7b6dpHPL3S59nAL6gqDUwZDM_ggHmUqCVFwCh-LRLI3UN8RCZXkjd5sYIw1RJBZYqGAx5RqS9Y4wzReXeF_gflRojTVKhEGFL96BaQXTp8xhE_2_ous6i4h3VXKv/s1600/Erotas_Tipota.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7R8nLkFZgfNg6wKzf7b6dpHPL3S59nAL6gqDUwZDM_ggHmUqCVFwCh-LRLI3UN8RCZXkjd5sYIw1RJBZYqGAx5RqS9Y4wzReXeF_gflRojTVKhEGFL96BaQXTp8xhE_2_ous6i4h3VXKv/s200/Erotas_Tipota.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632155970677332306" /></a><br /><br />XYZ Outlet #16: Jimmy Efthimiou & Orizontas Gegonoton | Eros or Nothing | Tuesday July 16th from 20:00 to 21:00 strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio, 104 36, Athens<br /><br />XYZ Outlet continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. For the last XYZ Outlet of the summer on Tuesday 26 July we are presenting the intervention “Eros or Nothing” by Athens-based artist Jimmy Efthimiou of the collective Orizontas Gegonoton (Event Horizon).<br /><br />XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00. <a name='more'></a><br /><br />About the intervention “Eros or Nothing”<br /><br />Jimmy Efthimiou of the collective Orizontas Gegonoton (Event Horizon) invites the public to ponder on the notions of Eros and Nothing, particularly during a time of financial and social crisis. “Eros or Nothing” starts as a questionnaire addressed to the audience, and develops into a multifaceted intervention which includes a projection of images, a dance performance and a few radio-controlled helicopters - a quirky reference to the former president of Argentina, Fernando de la Rua, who fled the Government House by helicopter when the country declared bankruptcy in 2001.<br /> <br />The questionnaire is included below and you may fill it out in advance and bring along or complete on the spot at XYZ Outlet. The answers are marked as follows: 1st question - 1 point, 2nd Question - 2 points and so on. The winner will be decided arbitrarily. The prize is a radio controlled helicopter. The audience is also invited to bring along their own radio controlled helicopters.<br /><br />“Eros or Nothing”<br /><br />A) Can naivety mobilise History?<br /><br />1. No. This is a job exclusively for the technicians of power.<br />2.It has sufficient capacity to do so.<br />3. It has to.<br />4. It should.<br />5. That is an interesting question.<br /><br />B) OUST! Define. Is it:<br /><br />1.A vulgar, populist expression of relief.<br />2. A political message with various interpretations.<br />3. The operative word to shoo away a dog.<br />4. A brand of air-freshener, cleaning products etc.<br />5. An encoded message (acronym) of post - post-modern transgression.<br /><br />C) If action replaces tears, what does teargas replace?<br /><br />1. Don’t know/Don’t want to answer<br />2. The reversal of reversal.<br />3. The Stockholm Syndrome<br />4. Good company.<br />5. The ghost of liberty.<br /><br />D)”Eros or Nothing”. Discuss.<br /><br /><br />About Jimmy Efthimiou and Orizontas Gegonoton (Event Horizon)<br /><br />Jimmy Efthimiou<br /><br />Born in 1961, he studied Mathematics and Art. He is involved with Art as he never had the will or the courage to excel in scuba diving or mountain climbing. His recent work comprises of details of gigantic works (of his).<br /><br />Orizontas Gegonoton (Event Horizon) collective<br /><br />An initiative by people working in culture and education, aiming to infuse everyday life with art and researching the contradictions that appear in the transitory era we live in. The collective comprises of more than 300 artists, photographers, architects, sculptors, writers, musicians etc. It is a Non - Profit Organisation founded in 2006 in Ilia, Greece, and has produced cultural activities throughout Greece and abroad. They are in the process of opening an interdisciplinary art space in Athens, at Keramikos Street 88, in the inner-city area of Keramikos.<br /><br />http://orizontasgegonotwn.blogspot.com/Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-24744332342924471992011-07-08T20:45:00.004+03:002011-07-08T21:02:59.588+03:00XYZ Outlet #15: Andreas Angelidakis//The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)- A talkXYZ Outlet #15: Andreas Angelidakis | The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)- A talk | Tuesday July 12th from 20:00 to 21:00 strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAqU41rTQLuQtA60V1rUvON41qyIuOlJlsRdHJLD54e21Dn1lS56N4ukoif9oak26EjA_jeglm5sYa7BQzvJ1ZP-K7Gl7QqPdEJ8x-uHVAv6UkiwNym0afDUhIPvrsdontH0RU19udetO/s1600/NetworkedRuin_Angelidakis_web.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAqU41rTQLuQtA60V1rUvON41qyIuOlJlsRdHJLD54e21Dn1lS56N4ukoif9oak26EjA_jeglm5sYa7BQzvJ1ZP-K7Gl7QqPdEJ8x-uHVAv6UkiwNym0afDUhIPvrsdontH0RU19udetO/s200/NetworkedRuin_Angelidakis_web.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627042004669619010" /></a><br /><br /><br />On Tuesday July 12th we are presenting the talk <span style="font-style:italic;">The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)</span> about the Casino Mont Parnes (located on Mount Parnitha, 30km north of Athens) , based on an idea, and organised by architect Andreas Angelidakis. The talk will include the artist Kostis Velonis and the architects Agapi Proimou, Memos Phillipides, Giorgos Tzirtzilakis and Aristide Antonas.<a name='more'></a><br /><br /><br />About the talk <span style="font-style:italic;">The Building that went to the Mountain (Demo of a study for a dying building)</span><br /><br />A wounded building is lying on a mountain, overlooking a city slowly sinking in crisis. A network of pipes, cables and work-site units are choking the building, like machines trying to keep it alive. Or maybe the opposite is happening – maybe this network is sucking the last breath of life from the cabled carcass. If you look closely you can see that the cables do not stop at the machines surrounding the building; they extend down the side of the mountain, reaching down all the way to the city.<br /><br />The Mont Parnes hotel, designed by the architect Pavlos Mylonas (1915 – 2005), is a prime example of Greek Modernism.<br /><br />In ‘70s Athens, when you said “I'm going to the Mountain” it meant that you were going to gamble at the Casino of Mont Parnes. In order to get in the Casino, it was enough for you to wear a tie and to have with you a tax return form proving your wealth. Today, after a series of failed renovations and partially destroyed from fire and time, the Casino is under a peculiar temporary demolition state, aiming to replace the building with a new casino, one which will “bring back to life the spirit of post-war modernism”. The talk will touch upon issues such as the operation of the Casino in a time of bankruptcy, its upcoming “Chinese style” reconstruction ,and also the possibility that works of the Modern Movement in architecture are overrated.<br /><br />Related links<br />http://andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com/2011/04/networked-ruin-of-mont-parnes.html<br />http://andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com/2010/04/adbusted.html<br />http://www.sansimera.gr/articles/401<br />http://www.ered.gr/gr/articlesInside.php?art=15640<br />http://www.arxaiologia.gr/site/content.php?artid=7882<br /><br />About Andreas Angelidakis<br /><br />Andreas Angelidakis is an architect who investigates the idea of Mountains, Clouds and Websites as much as buildings and trees and people's behaviour. He maintains an experimental practice in Athens, Greece, a studio involved in building, designing and speculating the contemporary ecosystem of screens and landscapes. He usually operates at the intersection of binary systems: Art and Architecture, Virtual and Real, Building and Nature, Ruin and Construction. The medium Angelidakis uses is habitation: of buildings, clouds, spaces, furniture, videos, online communities or exhibition spaces (Athens Biennial, MUSAC, Fargfabriken), while writing, blogging and teaching. In 2009 he designed the 2nd Athens Biennale, HEAVEN.<br /><br />www.angelidakis.com<br />www.andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com<br />http://andreasangelidakis.tumblr.com/<br />http://twitter.com/#!/@aangelidakisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-50694717019889402362011-06-23T14:15:00.003+03:002011-06-23T14:23:08.854+03:00XYZ Outlet #14: Elisavet Kapogianni // Are you enjoying an intercontinental life?XYZ Outlet #14: Elisavet Kapogianni | Are you enjoying an intercontinental life? | Tuesday June 28th from 20:00 to 21:00 strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIgUZdOLxj5nxgCyjTND_ZNXoMcq0bem233-TYBLZcpZb22BHcFLh6uypcf397qtqNtIO9vi0uxk3fe8FZlspFk5s5ZwoVk1IJY1ue_8sd_aZ7ZfKjTeun56v17LAHjBclDyirozMiogh/s1600/EK.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIgUZdOLxj5nxgCyjTND_ZNXoMcq0bem233-TYBLZcpZb22BHcFLh6uypcf397qtqNtIO9vi0uxk3fe8FZlspFk5s5ZwoVk1IJY1ue_8sd_aZ7ZfKjTeun56v17LAHjBclDyirozMiogh/s200/EK.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621373173241333538" /></a><br /><br />On Tuesday June 28th XYZ Outlet presents the installation <span style="font-style:italic;">Are you enjoying an intercontinental life?</span> by Athens- based fashion designer Elisavet Kapogianni.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Are you enjoying an intercontinental life?</span> aspires to create an immersive environment, highlighting the dark side of fashion; a side we consciously or unconsciously ignore. The title of the work itself poses a sarcastic question to both the workers and the consumers of the contemporary world, making the work’s intentions clear from the outset.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The ready-made and easily accessible clothes we enjoy today are part of a production chain involving many and varied departments, some directly connected with manual labour, and without the added value included in their design and promotion. The process of clothes-making has become remote and detached from their consumption, hidden in ateliers and manufacturing plants, often in sweatshops usually in places where the economic, political and cultural conditions allow it, labour rights are mostly nonexistent and child labour accepted.<br /><br />The new conditions set by the financial crisis along with the inadequate political solutions posed to deal with it, allow for harsher work conditions (e.g. the abolition of collective agreements and of overtime), leading to the further disintegration of production units and commerce. What remains are abandoned, decadent spaces and bandaged creators.<br /><br /><br />Elisavet Kapogianni is a fashion designer. She studied at the University of Derby (UK). Upon graduation in 2002 she presented her first womens-wear collection at Graduate Fashion Week in London.She has worked for the London- based experimental brand Vexed Generation and has been involved with various cross-disciplinary design projects and exhibitions. She worked for seven years for a leading Greek womens-wear brand and in May 2010 she founded the Elisavet Kapogianni Design Studio in Athens. The Studio aims to be a creative workshop, exploring and crossing over ideas from various disciplines, operating as a resourceful fashion platform, responding creatively to design problems, but also communicating different ideas and notions beyond dress-making.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-37758373917340581492011-06-11T21:02:00.002+03:002011-06-11T21:06:05.970+03:00XYZ Outlet #13: YELP danceco.//no end, then/parergon 2XYZ Outlet #13: YELP danceco. | no end, then/parergon 2 | Tuesday June 14th, 2011 from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1VHO30yVed2B6m2fcKSUTdXu_mpHlGCW9VEDOZo2olcLZHBNXzRjt4I7FaKiSLDL3eX1zMZ5D8Z-se5q1BI26b_nE17Zj9JXR-4TFjlMq1WhdTXnxzXVI5oMQTCjLprEslxsaIzneSKK/s1600/YELP-+no+end%252Cthen1photo-mirto+apostolidou.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje1VHO30yVed2B6m2fcKSUTdXu_mpHlGCW9VEDOZo2olcLZHBNXzRjt4I7FaKiSLDL3eX1zMZ5D8Z-se5q1BI26b_nE17Zj9JXR-4TFjlMq1WhdTXnxzXVI5oMQTCjLprEslxsaIzneSKK/s200/YELP-+no+end%252Cthen1photo-mirto+apostolidou.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617024172895968146" /></a><br /><br />On Tuesday June 14th, XYZ Outlet presents the performance no end,then/parergon 2 by Athens- based dance company YELP danceco.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The dance company YELP danceco. presents their new production, no end, then/parergon 2, a solo dance performed by Katerina Bella. The piece juxtaposes linear and circular considerations of time, relating to man - from birth to death - and nature where beginning and end merge into an endless time cycle.<br /><br />no end, then/parergon 2, transposes us within nature’s life cycle. Place: a lake and a mountain (possibly a volcano). Time: no end, no limits, no pause but an eternal transformation.<br /><br />Choreography: Mariela Nestora<br />Performer: Katerina Bella<br />Music: ILIOS<br />Costumes: Antonis Volanakis<br />Video: Louizos Aslanides<br />Lighting: Valentina Tamiolaki<br /><br />YELP danceco. was founded in London (UK) by choreographer Mariela Nestora. Under her artistic direction, the company has performed in Greece and abroad and has collaborated with dancers from various European countries. In 2001 the company moved to Athens. They have been sponsored by companies such as Papastratos, Kraft-Jacobs-Suchard, METAXA, TSANTILIS and H2O and have received support by Oxford Metrics, the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, and the Robin Howard Foundation, London. YELP danceco. participated in the research project Choreodrome at The Place in London and has been funded by the European Union Kaleidoscope, The Place Commissions and Video Place for Videodance. Commissions include among others: Plesna Isba (Slovenia), Patra Cultural Capital 2006 (Greece) and Centre George Apostu (Romania).<br /><br />http://www.yelpdanceco.gr/<br /><br />Choreographer Mariella Nestora (born in Athens), holds a BSc Biology degree from Queen Mary and Westfield College, London and a MSc Human Molecular Genetics from St.Mary’s Medical School, Imperial College, London. She went on to study contemporary dance and choreography at the London Contemporary Dance School, and Visual Design for Dance at Laban Centre, London. She has danced with Allmouth.co., Hanna Gillgren co. and Snjezana Premus and has also worked as a lighting designer for various dance companies. She went on to form YELP danceco. After ten years in London she moved to Athens. Mariella Nestora presents one production per year with YELP. She works independently in theatre as a movement director, and as a choreographer for films and videos. Throughout the years she has collaborated with several theatre directors for works presented at the National Theatre of Greece, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Municipal Theatre of Patras, The Epidaurus Festival and the Greek Festival.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-50699527903441231832011-06-11T20:54:00.003+03:002011-06-11T21:01:33.056+03:00XYZ Outlet #12: HOPE//I WANT TO HEAR NEW WARXYZ Outlet #12: HOPE | I WANT TO HEAR NEW WAR | Tuesday May 31st, 2011 from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuzonSeo1KrYAhc7FS3l9_3M62wZSK0tNvsw8EDcIzaqibYR1QnIbUWU0vl3uDOzgktxH5HpWaowhH8povcDNH3-NrlMrj7jy4DRbCVSeZc1wMstrYd-TJXH7u9AFQEOC1QyGSMSzuKyl/s1600/HOPE.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuzonSeo1KrYAhc7FS3l9_3M62wZSK0tNvsw8EDcIzaqibYR1QnIbUWU0vl3uDOzgktxH5HpWaowhH8povcDNH3-NrlMrj7jy4DRbCVSeZc1wMstrYd-TJXH7u9AFQEOC1QyGSMSzuKyl/s200/HOPE.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5617023077417072706" /></a><br /><br />On Tuesday May 31st, XYZ Outlet presents the performance I WANT TO HEAR NEW WAR by Athens- based artist HOPE.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The performance I WANT TO HEAR NEW WAR aims to build a temple for our fears. Drawing from such feelings as the tension caused by the unseen, and the unconscious desire for the harmful, the artist investigates how they could operate as a relief. The pre-knowledge of the unhappy and probably painful end of an event acts as some kind of healing, like the fire alarm that makes you want to hear of a fire; the crisis that makes you want to hear of the end of the economy; the war drums that make you crave to hear the news of a new war. <br /><br />The costumes for I WANT TO HEAR NEW WAR are designed by Digitaria.<br /><br />About the artists<br /><br />HOPE started as a street artist. His posters are a mixture of uneasy images and voyeuristic observations, masked by a facade of mythological symbolism. Combining public performance, installation, drawings, collage, posters and video projections, HOPE aims to introduce his personal vocabulary within an art context.<br /><br />HOPE studied in the Law School of Athens. <br />Solo exhibitions include : The sun may not shine tomorrow, so suck my dick, 2008, K44, Athens, Next Exhibition, 2008, Starter Gallery, Dresden, Τhe house of Phoenix, 2010, (installation and performance with Michele Valley), KNOT Gallery, Athens and MOUNTAIN/HOPE, 2010, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens. <br />Group exhibitions include: Free for Wall Pt 3, 2008, Brick Lane Gallery, London, 3 Velvet Days in Heaven project, 2nd Athens Biennale, HEAVEN, Photography as a Performance, Athens Photo Festival, 2009, Athens, Illustration – LIFO exhibition, 2010, Benaki Museum, Athens, in the international exhibition of contemporary art OSTRALE '10, Dresden, 5th annual NY Art Book Fair, 2009, MoMA, New York, with his publication “thesewarsareoutburstofhypnosisonlythemasksareforreal” as part of the “Journal of Aesthetics and Protest” curated selection, Mind over Matter, 2011, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens and Sygxroni Ellinida, 2011, HUB, Athens. <br />He has formed the online bands A Glepner For Fenrir and Dokurogumo. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Greek Graphic Design & Illustration award for Best Cover Illustration.<br />http://hope-epoh.tumblr.com/<br /><br />Digitaria is Athens-based designer Eleftheria Arapoglou. http://www.digitaria.gr/Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-19262909006412439762011-05-13T22:43:00.003+03:002011-06-09T15:54:55.784+03:00XYZ Outlet #11: Irini Karayannopoulou & XYSM LiveXYZ Outlet #11: Irini Karayannopoulou & XYSM Live | Tuesday May 17th, 2011 from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEwdWJ5H-2Hv1RaI8aKRrgy2cuZ2txAB-O3MUv836jbWlYE_wCd6gNS6WeY_xssxukXg5uxmzqc03zm1Vi14vKzx9eGamQ0HPe2DGjr60ogG-li2JQqOwn5ZZoSYUE-f3LuxwHqT1KeZZ/s1600/out+of+tune1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEwdWJ5H-2Hv1RaI8aKRrgy2cuZ2txAB-O3MUv836jbWlYE_wCd6gNS6WeY_xssxukXg5uxmzqc03zm1Vi14vKzx9eGamQ0HPe2DGjr60ogG-li2JQqOwn5ZZoSYUE-f3LuxwHqT1KeZZ/s200/out+of+tune1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606289351804344882" /></a><br /><br />On Tuesday May 17th, we are presenting a live performance by Athens-based artist Irini Karayannopoulou and music band XYSM.<br /><br />XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.<br /><br />Can image become sonified? Can sound become visualised? <a name='more'></a> Irini Karayannopoulou draws while XYSM play music. Sketches and sounds unravel, interweave, compete and collaborate with each other xenobiotically in a live performance primarily based on automatic writing, improvisation and DIY techniques. Music and the visual combine via the motor-tactile action of drawing - a symbiotic relationship emerges and media collide, bringing into question perception and coexistence. Who is following who?<br /><br />A collective, hybrid experiment with an uncertain outcome.<br /><br /><br />About the artists<br /><br />Irini Karayannopoulou (1973) studied at the Fine Art School of Saint Etienne in France. Her work – painting, drawing, animation and sound– has been exhibited in 14 solo shows worldwide, while her films have been projected in places such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the DESTE foundation in Athens.<br />She currently lives and works in Athens.<br /><br />Irini Karayannopoulou is represented by Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens and Lola Nikolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.art-tounta.gr/">http://www.art-tounta.gr/</a><br /><a href="http://aglimpseof.net/">http://aglimpseof.net/</a><br /><br /><br />XYSM formed in October 2009 in Athens by Chris Chondropoulos (drums/electronics), Yannis Saxonis (bass, guitar, keyboards & electronics), Sebastien Marteau (saxophones, guitar, devices) & Manolis Chatzidakis (bass, organ, trumpet & electronics). They have appeared live three times so far: at a public square, a record store and a gallery space.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/xysmath">http://www.myspace.com/xysmath</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-84917453952437464242011-05-02T19:48:00.004+03:002011-05-02T20:07:53.630+03:00XYZ Outlet #10: Stelios Karamanolis & Toula Ploumis // "The Collection"XYZ Outlet #10: Stelios Karamanolis & Toula Ploumis | "The Collection" | Tuesday May 3rd, 2011 from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTKrtrFg6tgrQQSuSEOjUc6tob7ZMwsXOeiHfUFQza6c-h4pOuUv6tsJFhVFnD_tis2Xc9_gXcu2HlABHNqC4Zmf1TXz6uYNEO6X80PqTDNmkNConoYX2fb11zqpWYn3hXkXYq-pHxipK/s1600/XYZ+Outlet10.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTKrtrFg6tgrQQSuSEOjUc6tob7ZMwsXOeiHfUFQza6c-h4pOuUv6tsJFhVFnD_tis2Xc9_gXcu2HlABHNqC4Zmf1TXz6uYNEO6X80PqTDNmkNConoYX2fb11zqpWYn3hXkXYq-pHxipK/s200/XYZ+Outlet10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602165137399002434" /></a><br />On Tuesday May 3rd, we are presenting the project-group exhibition, "The Collection", by Greek artists Stelios Karamanolis and Toula Ploumis.<br /><br />XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.<br /><br />About the project<br /><br />"The Collection", is both a project and a group exhibition showcasing paintings, photographs, engravings and sculptures by twenty one artists. Since 2002 Stelios Karamanolis and Toula Ploumis decided to place works they had acquired through exchanges with fellow artists or as gifts under the umbrella of a collection –one still growing.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />On the occasion of the XYZ Outlet show, where the works are presented together for the first time in the context of an exhibition and as a collection, Karamanolis and Ploumis morph from artists to art collectors to curators. At the same time, the artworks are defined by their collectible value and their status as property, as an exchangeable object and as a gift – as a commodity, momentarily transforming XYZ Outlet into a museum.<br /><br />"The Collection" and its exhibition aim towards expanding the boundaries of concepts and roles within the world of contemporary art, and to comment on the work of art as an object of value, through a gesture of grandeur.<br /><br />Participating Artists: Polydoras Abatzis (1977) / Margarita Bofiliou (1979) / Nikolas Diamantidis (1978) / Alekos Fasianos (1935) / Dimitra Giannakakou - Razelou (1981)/ George Giannopoulos (1953)/ George Grekas (1977) / George Kakanakis (1970)/ Adamantios Kafetzis (1977)/ Sifis Lykakis (1977)/ Nini (1966)/ Nikos Papadimitriou (1971)/ Kostas Sahpazis (1977) / Yorgos Stamkopoulos (1983) / Sofia Touboura (1977) / George Tourlas (1977) / Nikos Tranos (1957)/ Panagis Travlos (1977)/ Pavlos Tsakonas (1984)/ Caesar Vrettos (1980) / Paul Zografakis (1974).<br /><br />About the 'Collectors'<br /><br />Stelios Karamanolis was born in 1977 in Athens where he lives and works. He has been a student of the Fine Art School of Athens since 2004 studying mainly engraving under Michalis Arfaras and sculputure in the workshop of Nikos Tranos. In 2006 he studied at the University of Hildesheim in Germany. He has taken part in various group shows including: Rooms 2010, Kapatos, Oraioi San Amerikanoi , Kafeneon 2008, Pedio Drasis Kodra ,2005. At the same time he has been working with Toula Ploumis on collaborative projects.<br /><a href="http://stelioskaramanolis.blogspot.com/">http://stelioskaramanolis.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />Toula Ploumi was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1980 and lives and works in Athens. She studied at the Fine Art School of Athens between 2003-2008 under Marios Spiliopoulos and Rena Papaspyrou and at the University of Hildesheim in Germany between 2006-2007. She has taken part in various group shows mainly in Athens and Thessaloniki in galleries and project spaces and she also works with Stelios Karamanolis on collaborative projects. <a href="http://tulaplumi.blogspot.com/">http://tulaplumi.blogspot.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-62391467486099170092011-04-28T17:05:00.003+03:002011-04-28T17:15:06.226+03:00XYZ Outlet #9: Ciprian MureşanXYZ Outlet #9: Ciprian Mureşan | Tuesday April 12, 2011, from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipg-sMWUrrogh31LAEG3NOkRE2DcQjZ6TgLSxwMuC9ycqRrRIWKW5IJdEuP2_xM32XffN6YoDl9K7ga74BoHBTGmmbStwubI48gJMA9tHS0kkC8eqCqyY8-K4zeut902QKx_9uOPxYRbQF/s1600/garbage_muresan.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipg-sMWUrrogh31LAEG3NOkRE2DcQjZ6TgLSxwMuC9ycqRrRIWKW5IJdEuP2_xM32XffN6YoDl9K7ga74BoHBTGmmbStwubI48gJMA9tHS0kkC8eqCqyY8-K4zeut902QKx_9uOPxYRbQF/s200/garbage_muresan.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600636368760810594" /></a><br /><br />On Tuesday April 12th, XYZ Outlet presents the animation film <span style="font-style:italic;">Garbage (2007)</span> and the video <span style="font-style:italic;">Dog Luv (2009)</span> by Romanian artist Ciprian Mureşan. <br /><br />XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00. <span style="font-style:italic;">Dog Luv</span> (duration 30:56’) will be screened twice while <span style="font-style:italic;">Garbage</span> (duration 0:51’) will be shown on a loop.<a name='more'></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">About the works</span><br /><br />Based on the play of the same name by Romanian writer Saviana Stanescu, <span style="font-style:italic;">Dog Luv (2009)</span> depicts a pack of black puppet dogs who, encouraged by their leader Maddog (an angry and psychologically unbalanced dog), recite different methods of torture that have been practiced by humans throughout history. In spite of looking like a shadowy puppet show, the video is a dark commentary on human nature and the rituals of acceptance and exclusion in communities and societies. Dog Luv premiered at the Romanian Pavilion in the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 <span style="font-style:italic;">(The Seductiveness of the Interval</span>, artists: Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, Ciprian Muresan, curator: Alina Serban) <br /><br />In <span style="font-style:italic;">Garbage (2007)</span> an adult is searching for food in a garbage bin. This more and more familiar scene of everyday life, presents the brutal reality of a world in transformation. Garbage is also characteristic of Muresan’s artistic process: he starts from some drawings that are later filmed sheet by sheet and turned into animated short films. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">About the artist </span><br /><br />Ciprian Mureşan works with a variety of media and symbols, creating rich and hypnotically attractive works that are firmly grounded to the perpetual present. His critical, caustic and yet humorous approach to history and belief systems like religion, communism, capitalism, offers a razor-sharp commentary on the relationship between the individual and the collective and highlights the dangers and possibilities of rising up against repressive identities.<br /><br />Ciprian Mureşan (b.1977) lives and works in Cluj, Romania. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca. He is co-editor of artist-run magazine VERSION and since 2005, the editor of IDEA art + society magazine (www.ideamagazine.ro). Selected exhibitions include: <span style="font-style:italic;">Loophole to Happiness</span>, Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, (2011), <span style="font-style:italic;">Ciprian Mureşan</span> , NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2010), <span style="font-style:italic;">The Seductiveness of the Interval</span>, Romanian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, (2009) and 1st Athens Biennale 2007, <span style="font-style:italic;">Destroy Athens</span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-4750000219276523142011-03-28T15:35:00.005+03:002011-03-28T16:04:08.505+03:00XYZ Outlet #8: George - Icaros Babassakis | DDD [Debord Dérive Détournement]: Guy Debord and the City as a Playground<span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" >XYZ Outlet #8: George - Icaros Babassakis | Tuesday March 29, 2011, from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">For its 8th edition XYZ Outlet is presenting the talk/event DDD [Debord Dérive Détournement]: Guy Debord and the City as a Playground by Greek poet and writer George - Icaros Babassakis.</span><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">An homage to the 80 years from the birth of Guy Debord (1931 - 1994), the talk/event DDD presents the French thinker’s and revolutionary’s theories on the city as a playground. “Poetry”, notes Babassakis, “now becomes an adventure within the labyrinth of the metropolis, a drifting (dérive); Art evolves into a cartography of chaos, a redefinition of its history through successive collages and montage (détournement)”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: courier new;">George - Icaros Babassakis was born in April 1960. A poet, translator and writer, he has published acclaimed books on William S. Burroughs, the International Situationniste, Guy Debord and May ‘68. He has worked on Greek radio, namely Deftero Programma, ERA4, En Lefko, Sto Kokkino 105,5, and Kanali 1 Pireaus 90,4. Currently, he is a Guest Lecturer on the postgraduate programme of the Athens School of Fine Arts.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-38655823272470684922011-03-11T14:27:00.012+02:002011-03-11T16:34:36.532+02:00XYZ Outlet #7: Panayiotis Loukas | "D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYakTJFdDpPEZRChyphenhyphen_z0FkMTDivbIzVKYbN2ZlRJPODQkyXYeghasjcdlwpuJtgmiu46W2L_8tmmBLQWBXQv30vaz2QAr9u8uJwYYyo6XQq_cszFa19E6fhGfl7MrB5Q7bHwgl58M5zkuh/s1600/ploukas.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYakTJFdDpPEZRChyphenhyphen_z0FkMTDivbIzVKYbN2ZlRJPODQkyXYeghasjcdlwpuJtgmiu46W2L_8tmmBLQWBXQv30vaz2QAr9u8uJwYYyo6XQq_cszFa19E6fhGfl7MrB5Q7bHwgl58M5zkuh/s200/ploukas.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582814750216230258" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.14914443771346253"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">XYZ Outlet #7: Panayiotis Loukas | "D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent" | Tuesday 15 March|8pm| Perdika 8 & Achilleos, Metaxourgeio</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For its 7th edition XYZ Outlet is presenting the installation "D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent" by Greek artist Panayiotis Loukas.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only between 20:00 and 21:00.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that behind every living person stand thirty deceased, as this is the ratio between the dead and the living. <a name='more'></a> But what makes a ghost noteworthy? Is it the mere fact that apparitions are somewhere else? Or that their appearances are exceptionally rare? If ghosts do indeed inhabit another world, why then appear in this one? If they remain here then how does one define what a ghost is? Why are they hiding? And if they are meant to hide why do they appear? Do they know they are ghosts or are they in denial? Could it be possible that they believe they are still some of us? How should ghosts act? Maybe it is a matter of race or of a previous life. Or is it a matter of a residence permit?</span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: courier new; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About Panayiotis Loukas</span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The works function as an ethology of the singular, similar to religious iconography, the difference being that herein there lies no promise of praise. They could act as decorations of the church of Nil. It is the realization that Jean-Honoré Fragonard and James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor could actually be the same person. An insidious decor against the faith of the others.</span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><p style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Panayiotis Loukas lives in Athens. He graduated from the Fine Art School of Athens in 2000. Since then he has participated in the 2nd Athens Biennial 2009, Heaven, in the section curated by Christopher Marinos, in Paint-Id (2009) at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki curated by Sotiris Bachtsetzis and several other exhibitions. In 2007 he received the AICA award for young artists. He is a regular contributor to kaput. online art magazine.</span></p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-44311789440961178192011-02-27T14:48:00.004+02:002011-02-27T15:07:29.117+02:00XYZ Outlet #6: Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter | "Ten Weyngaert"<b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;" lang="EN-GB">XYZ Outlet #6: “Ten Weyngaert" | A video by Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter, 2007 (Duration: 20 min) | Tuesday 1 March, three screenings at 20.00, 20.20 & 20:40 | Perdika 8 & Achilleos, Metaxourgeio</span></b><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ou79egGSt4PFUZm40QASgzzMCs3JBwcNZI3OTcJBYZZdZRKC3STdeJOC4mLkeMUDKoRMPOGB8xxF3kbwJTRcLSqUJIt_irmCnI6QwYN6IlCwPfqJJP4YEa4i-F_-e2OIFBcdnBlpMNDq/s1600/tim%2526tom.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 108px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Ou79egGSt4PFUZm40QASgzzMCs3JBwcNZI3OTcJBYZZdZRKC3STdeJOC4mLkeMUDKoRMPOGB8xxF3kbwJTRcLSqUJIt_irmCnI6QwYN6IlCwPfqJJP4YEa4i-F_-e2OIFBcdnBlpMNDq/s200/tim%2526tom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578352871463415682" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family: courier new;" class="text_exposed_show">For its 6th outing, XYZ Outlet is presenting the video <span style="font-style: italic;">Ten Weyngaert</span> by Belgian artists Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Ten Weyngaert</span> (2007) - “vineyard” in archaic Flemish - is the name of a community/youth centre in Brussels. The video presents the everyday bureaucracy and microcosm of the centre - a would-be utopian and creative haven gone a bit wrong - transposing it into a world ruled by a spider, with robots as intermediaries between the minute monarch and its subjects. Odd situations and hilarity ensue, in a tragicomic, allegorical study of group psychology and dynamics, especially when under pressure.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />The collaborative work of artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys is rooted in a folksy, tragicomic sensibility honed into an experimental dramaturgy. Their video and photographic work use simple, symbolic sets, including the paradigmatic spaces of home, battlefield, urban periphery and community hall. They have engaged a recurring cast of nonprofessional actors as well as invented or adopted personae spanning the forms of puppets, dummies, plush animals, makeshift robots and rejected toys. These characters continually rehearse power dynamics and emotional entanglements, creating worlds not unlike our own, yet more focused, bizarre and bleak.<br /><br />The artists seek ways to confront marginal, incapacitated, lost and alienated subjects without defining these ‘others’ in sociological terms. In this sense, and especially in their novel use of a ghoulish humour, De Gruyter and Thys broaden the scope of reflection on socially produced behaviour.<br /><br />Jos de Gruyter (1965) and Harald Thys (1966) are based in Brussels and have been working together for over 20 years.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-91934546153856846672011-02-26T19:49:00.001+02:002011-02-27T14:48:25.843+02:00XYZ: CURATE!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:13px;" ><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: normal; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><b>XYZ: CURATE! | Organized by </b></span></span><span style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><b>ΑΚΤΟ | Duration: 20 hours, Spring 2011 (March 3rd - April 7th)| Information & Registrations on the <a href="http://www.akto.gr/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;">AKTO website</a></b></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:13px;" ><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></b></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:13px;" ><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;font-family:Courier,monospace;font-size:13px;" ><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">XYZ are repeating last year's successful series of seminars on curating, in AKTO college of art and design. The seminars cover a range of material on contemporary curating. They are held in Greek. More info <a href="http://akto.gr/gr/%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%B4%CE%AD%CF%82/%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1-%28campus-%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%AE%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%82%29/curate.aspx">here</a>.</span></b></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-26077869325318757242011-02-07T17:50:00.005+02:002011-02-07T18:19:17.887+02:00XYZ Outlet #5: Mavros Kyklos<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">XYZ Outlet #5: Mavros Kyklos | Tuesday February 15, 2011, from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /></span></span></b></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_PhhQi7m34FViYSKlU9SkDF-olu3Mw1z3N9yKusG1AG95ik9QoQFxy20by6pnD_2j-kqhO1siAeXtPvTmz9mlSGDd_1X11EsoUBbXiqc2kXIj7DTVpeyWitqmDqF41MtZSZ86asnFvGg/s1600/logo_web.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4_PhhQi7m34FViYSKlU9SkDF-olu3Mw1z3N9yKusG1AG95ik9QoQFxy20by6pnD_2j-kqhO1siAeXtPvTmz9mlSGDd_1X11EsoUBbXiqc2kXIj7DTVpeyWitqmDqF41MtZSZ86asnFvGg/s200/logo_web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570979861124262706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" id="internal-source-marker_0.6935188659860101"><span style="font-family: courier new;">The Black Circle: an answer to a misguided comrade.</span> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Black Circle is the most genuine expression of the N.A. ideology in Greece. As a group of determined autonomists, we fight against the bourgeois state apparatus that compiles Greek parliamentary life. For more than two years, our networks fight against the onslaught of globalization with a single cause: to restore comradery and national autonomy.</span><a name='more'></a><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The institutional guards of the state tremble and fall before our determination to transform the Greek youth into soldiers of fire, soil and blood. The state is trying to corrupt the youth by recruiting it into the organized youths of the bourgeois parties. The parliamentary far-Right is in full compliance with the agenda of global economy and remains faithful to the old disciplinary bourgeois state.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have come to realize that our counter-propaganda machine has to endorse the structures of the art field in order to reach the most radical audiences of the social specter. Art has to overcome its glamorous status and reclaim the force of ideological density. Therefore we welcome the invitation by XYZ to present ourselves to the art public. On the 15th of February, The Black Circle will officially reply to an old friend, a misguided comrade who has lost track of the true meaning of autonomy. We want YOU there!!”</span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: courier new; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The soldierly spirit is an attitude of mind which by no means needs to be connected with the use of weapons.” E.R.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span></b></span><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1427953429980459210.post-17209180951254817942011-01-27T21:47:00.011+02:002011-01-28T02:09:11.724+02:00XYZ Outlet #4: Yiorgos Veltsos - Talk<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">XYZ Outlet #4: Yiorgos Veltsos - Talk | Tuesday February 1st 2011, from 20.00 to 21.00, strictly | Perdika 8 & Achileos, Metaxourgeio<br /><br /></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">For its fourth instalment XYZ Outlet is delighted to present a talk by Yiorgos Veltsos, on intellectuals, sexuality and a "gay becoming" in Greece.</span></span><br /><a name='more'></a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><br />"An intellectual is someone who thinks autobiographically." writes Yiorgos Veltsos. "Walter Benjamin, through his memories of Berlin, and “One Way Street”, showed us that he cannot separate theory from biography.<br /><br />In Greece, the one who bares themselves - what Baudelaire called « mis à nu» (baring)- is being associated with Lakis Lazopoulos [comedian and TV personality]. The austerity, insulation of the intellectual caste, wills their presence to allude to purified water, without that pinch of salt, the lack of which makes it unsubstantial.<br /><br />Foucault, in the book “To Mati tis Eksousias” [ed. A 2008 Greek collection of Foucault’s essays by Vanias Publishing], which Alexis Tsipras - president of the Greek left political party Synaspismos - gave to the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, two years ago in a symbolic manner, writes amongst other readings fit for a President, that “sexuality is part of the freedom we have in the world” because sex “is not a destiny but an opportunity for a creative life”. A gay ‘becoming’ - without it meaning gay necessarily - and its consequences, is what is missing from the intellectuals in Greece. So, yes, indeed “we must create a gay way of life.”<br /><br />Yiorgos Veltsos is an academic and a poet.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com