Aula Intergalactica
AULA INTERGALACTICA is a collaboration between Yota Ioannidou and Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio presented at the Athens Biennale 2011 curated by Kernel as part of the project Word of Mouth, Diplareios School, Athens, Greece, 22 October – 11 December 2011. The ongoing project AULA INTERGALACTICA presents three performative lectures and an archive based on research on three different historical events, the protests by indigenous peoples’ in the Peruvian Amazon which is known as the Bagua massacre of 2009, the 9 hours movement starting in Canada and the UK in the 19th century and the life of Maria Pantazi, a greek anarchist, who was arrested and executed in 1871 in Paris after the “defeat” of La Commune. These events are narrated by two voices, the dead woman and nobody. They will be contextualized in relation to each other but most importantly in relation to their own historical “environment”, that is, the matrix from where they are coming from and therein the relationship between the one and the other. "On the hill one happens to be sitting on”- A tribute to failure
Yota Ioannidou gathers different, fragmented entities of utopian designations (science fiction, art, social and scientific experiments) interlacing them as performative elements in a story telling setting.
Art Workshop 2011 : other possible worlds – dictionary in space/Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, LU
Opening 29th of July 2011 at Centre Emile Hamilius (4th floor).
Artists : Guillaume Aubry, Béatrice Balcou, Nayari Castillo, Hanna Husberg, Yota Ioannidou, Verica Kovacevska, Kuo-Wei Lin, Laura McLean, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Beto Shwafaty.
Workshop leaders: Berit Fischer, Paul di Felice, Dorothee Albrecht En collaboration avec l’Université du Luxembourg, la Ville de Luxembourg et IUEOA asbl. Other possible worlds- Proposals on this side of utopia
July 17- July 31, workshop & exhibition , Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, LU
Archive-Public
Yota Ioannidou participates with the on-going project Restage Radio_A
Re-location project-workshop, about:, Athens
Monday 16th - Thursday 19th of May 2011
Re-Locate project is initiated by Apartment Project - Istanbul, the subject of the project is the compulsory population exchange in Balkans between the two world wars and its consequences expressed through artistic practices (research in situ, discussions, interviews, art works). Having as a point of departure the city of Istanbul, a group of artists creates artistic workshops at station-cities: Plovdiv, Athens, Skopje and Pristina. The aim is to develop a mutual platform for research on common history and to establish an understanding of different cultural aspects through the collaboration with local artists, writers and curators. The workshop in Athens will be realised from 15 to 19 May at the art space ABOUT: with the participation of the artists: Ilgin Seymen, Gokçe Suvari, Gunes Terkol, Mehmet Dere, Selda Asal, Suat Ogut, Sukru Ozgur Erkok, Zeynep Beler, Zeyno Pekunlu, Ha ha vu zu, Yota Ioannidou, Mary Zygouri, Vasilis Noulas, Maria Sarri. At 17th of May an open presentation-discussion will be realized at 19:00 pm at ABOUT:. Taking as a starting point the common shared experience of the historical condition of the compulsory population exchange, subjects of today’s current reality of Greece and Balkans like immigration, nationalism, and new geographies will be discussed. Partners: Apartment Project (Istanbul), Nova Melancholia (Athens) & ABOUT: - Counting Art (Athens) Drachma Speculations on Symbolic Value
March 29 - April 4, 2011: Drachma - Speculation on Symbolic Value, Annex of the Athens School of Fine Art, HYDRA. Participants: Nikos Arvanitis, Robin Bhattacharya, Juliana Borinski, Jack Hernie Fischer, Assaf Gruber, Yota Ioannidou, Mo Y, Georgios Papadopoulos, Amelie Rydqvist, Société Réaliste, Liv Strand, Anna Tsouloufi – Lagiou, Elizabeth Ward.
Dialogues: The Architecture of Poverty and the Stratagem March 23, 2011, 18:30 p.m.: Christophoros Marinos (art historian) discusses with the artists Yanni Grigoriadi and Yota Ioannidou, Institute of Contemporary Greek Art, Athens-Greece.
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