Friday 2 October 2009

OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany
Lectures - Discussions - Films - Interviews, Water Plaza

The 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy', initiated by Joseph Beuys, is a white old Berlin Bus with a golden crown on it. The bus is a mobile artwork and the starting point for debates and thought-provoking impulses. It represents the idea of the Fluxus-group. The Fluxus movement stands for happenings which actively involve the public in a creative open-ended process.

One and a half year after the death of Beuys the first 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' went on tour. Departing from the exhibition of "Documenta 8", it made its way through Germany, stopping at 700 stations. Conforming to Beuys’ ideal, its drivers were looking for the dialogue with people, in order to promote the active forming of the 'social sculpture'.

Aiming to bring about the unity between art and life, the 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' is going on tour through South-eastern Europe where it will stop at each of the Goethe-Institutes in this region. The tour will take up to ten weeks, starting in the second week of September 2009 from Athens, and stopping also in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrad, Bukarest, Sofia, Skopje, Istanbul and Thessaloniki.

At each stop, it will offer its visitors a platform for the fluctuation of thoughts as well as for talking, debating and other activities. By doing so, the bus will function as a panel for interaction between people and at the same time it will be the living metaphor for the concept of an ideal social system. Society becomes a social sculpture, in which anybody may live his or her creativity. According to Beuys, an ideal society, where justice and harmony with nature rule, can only be based on personal freedom and self-determination. In this sense, the journey to Greece will constitute a highlight of a deep symbolic power, as the bus will arrive at the origins of direct democracy as well as to the Athens Biennale whose theme is 'HEAVEN'.

Departure of OMNIBUS

Thursday 1 October 2009

OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany
Lectures - Discussions - Films - Interviews, Water Plaza

The 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy', initiated by Joseph Beuys, is a white old Berlin Bus with a golden crown on it. The bus is a mobile artwork and the starting point for debates and thought-provoking impulses. It represents the idea of the Fluxus-group. The Fluxus movement stands for happenings which actively involve the public in a creative open-ended process.

One and a half year after the death of Beuys the first 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' went on tour. Departing from the exhibition of "Documenta 8", it made its way through Germany, stopping at 700 stations. Conforming to Beuys’ ideal, its drivers were looking for the dialogue with people, in order to promote the active forming of the 'social sculpture'.

Aiming to bring about the unity between art and life, the 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' is going on tour through South-eastern Europe where it will stop at each of the Goethe-Institutes in this region. The tour will take up to ten weeks, starting in the second week of September 2009 and stopping in Athens, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrad, Bukarest, Sofia, Skopje, Istanbul and Thessaloniki.

At each stop, it will offer its visitors a platform for the fluctuation of thoughts as well as for talking, debating and other activities. By doing so, the bus will function as a panel for interaction between people and at the same time it will be the living metaphor for the concept of an ideal social system. Society becomes a social sculpture, in which anybody may live his or her creativity. According to Beuys, an ideal society, where justice and harmony with nature rule, can only be based on personal freedom and self-determination. In this sense, the journey to Greece will constitute a highlight of a deep symbolic power, as the bus will arrive at the origins of direct democracy as well as to the Athens Biennale whose theme is 'HEAVEN'.

Schedule of the day

17.00-22.00: Democracy in Motion "Every human being is an artist" (Joseph Beuys). Athens - the birthplace of democrary
Permanent discussion on the issue of democracy on the OMNIBUS

17.00: The OMNIBUS travels to Istanbul through southeastern Europe
Films and interview on the journey of the OMNIBUS in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Sofia, Skopje, Tetovo and the Biennale of Athens and Thessaloniki
by Konstantinos Toubekis, dekaneafilm

18.00: The extended concept of art, social sculpture, and the issue of democracy for Joseph Beuys
"Art has in its development arrived at a point where it must raise the question about the structure of society. That means that art can no longer confine itself to its usual realm, but must rather see itself as a principle for the structure of society – as something which concerns everyone. Beuys called the search for this form of art ‘social sculpture’. A decisive component of this social sculpture is direct democracy. Another is a new economic order, which means self-managed enterprises, a new credit and price structure, and a state which shrinks itself down to size, to put it in the terms used by Joseph Beuys."
Johannes Stüttgen, Master student of Joseph Beuys and his closest associate, co-founder of the OMNIBUS
Classic Lecture (with blackboard and chalk)

Wednesday 30 September 2009

OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany
Lectures - Discussions - Films - Interviews, Water Plaza

The 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy', initiated by Joseph Beuys, is a white old Berlin Bus with a golden crown on it. The bus is a mobile artwork and the starting point for debates and thought-provoking impulses. It represents the idea of the Fluxus-group. The Fluxus movement stands for happenings which actively involve the public in a creative open-ended process.

One and a half year after the death of Beuys the first 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' went on tour. Departing from the exhibition of "Documenta 8", it made its way through Germany, stopping at 700 stations. Conforming to Beuys’ ideal, its drivers were looking for the dialogue with people, in order to promote the active forming of the 'social sculpture'.

Aiming to bring about the unity between art and life, the 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' is going on tour through South-eastern Europe where it will stop at each of the Goethe-Institutes in this region. The tour will take up to ten weeks, starting in the second week of September 2009 from Athens, and stopping also in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrad, Bukarest, Sofia, Skopje, Istanbul and Thessaloniki.

At each stop, it will offer its visitors a platform for the fluctuation of thoughts as well as for talking, debating and other activities. By doing so, the bus will function as a panel for interaction between people and at the same time it will be the living metaphor for the concept of an ideal social system. Society becomes a social sculpture, in which anybody may live his or her creativity. According to Beuys, an ideal society, where justice and harmony with nature rule, can only be based on personal freedom and self-determination. In this sense, the journey to Greece will constitute a highlight of a deep symbolic power, as the bus will arrive at the origins of direct democracy as well as to the Athens Biennale whose theme is 'HEAVEN'.

Schedule of the day

17.00-22.00: Democracy in Motion "Every human being is an artist" (Joseph Beuys). Athens - the birthplace of democrary
Permanent discussion on the issue of democracy on the OMNIBUS

17.00: The OMNIBUS travels to Istanbul through southeastern Europe
Films and interview on the journey of the OMNIBUS in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Sofia, Skopje, Tetovo and the Biennale of Athens and Thessaloniki
by Konstantinos Toubekis, dekaneafilm

18.00: Joseph Beuys, his struggle for a free educational system, and direct democracy
"Education and democracy can, inasmuch as they depend on freedom for their fulfilment, not be forced by people. This would be a contradiction in terms, which it would be necessary to overcome through art."
Karl-Heinz Tritschler, Lecture and conversation

Tuesday 29 September 2009

OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany
Lectures - Discussions - Films - Interviews, Water Plaza

The 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy', initiated by Joseph Beuys, is a white old Berlin Bus with a golden crown on it. The bus is a mobile artwork and the starting point for debates and thought-provoking impulses. It represents the idea of the Fluxus-group. The Fluxus movement stands for happenings which actively involve the public in a creative open-ended process.

One and a half year after the death of Beuys the first 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' went on tour. Departing from the exhibition of "Documenta 8", it made its way through Germany, stopping at 700 stations. Conforming to Beuys’ ideal, its drivers were looking for the dialogue with people, in order to promote the active forming of the 'social sculpture'.

Aiming to bring about the unity between art and life, the 'OMNIBUS for Direct Democracy in Germany' is going on tour through South-eastern Europe where it will stop at each of the Goethe-Institutes in this region. The tour will take up to ten weeks, starting in the second week of September 2009 from Athens, and stopping also in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrad, Bukarest, Sofia, Skopje, Istanbul and Thessaloniki.

At each stop, it will offer its visitors a platform for the fluctuation of thoughts as well as for talking, debating and other activities. By doing so, the bus will function as a panel for interaction between people and at the same time it will be the living metaphor for the concept of an ideal social system. Society becomes a social sculpture, in which anybody may live his or her creativity. According to Beuys, an ideal society, where justice and harmony with nature rule, can only be based on personal freedom and self-determination. In this sense, the journey to Greece will constitute a highlight of a deep symbolic power, as the bus will arrive at the origins of direct democracy as well as to the Athens Biennale whose theme is 'HEAVEN'.

Arrival of OMNIBUS

Sunday 27 September 2009

20.30: André Guedes, Old Forms of Future Events - A Public Reading
Performance, Esplanade Building (Water Plaza, Faliro Olympic Complex)

A Public Reading is the chapter from an ongoing project by André Guedes called Old Forms of Future Events that will be presented as part of the exhibition World Question Center, curated by Chus Martínez.

The performance consists of the display of images and the reading of selected excerpts from the books "Troy and the Trojans" and "The Italian Urbanism Since the Post-war Till Today" written by the American archaeologist Carl W. Blegen and the Italian urbanist and historian Marcello Fabbri respectively.

The two autonomous studies, which have the city as a common subject, will be juxtaposed during the performance, merged into each other and rehearsed in order to dissolve into a same narrative. While three people re-enact these excerpts, a fourth person performs an improvised sound score, autonomous from the textual reading and the pictorial display.

The overlapping of these two literary sources aims to reflect on the idea of erosion, transformation and disappearance, as well as on a social and physical entropy that derives from the cyclic process by which cities – and life within them – come across in history; something in which we inevitably participate but are at the same time subjected, either individually or as a group.

The production of this work was possible with the institutional support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Direcçao Geral das Artes / Portuguese Ministery of Culture.

Saturday 26 September 2009

Dimitris Kotsaras & Jennifer Nelson, Intimate Expansions
Performance, Flisvos Beach

Dimitris Kotsaras & Jennifer Nelson present the performance Intimate Expansions, which involves promenades or couples kissing (with the participation of the public) at sunset.

20.30: André Guedes, Old Forms of Future Events - A Public Reading
Performance, Esplanade Building (Water Plaza, Faliro Olympic Complex)

A Public Reading is the chapter from an ongoing project by André Guedes called Old Forms of Future Events that will be presented as part of the exhibition World Question Center, curated by Chus Martínez.

The performance consists of the display of images and the reading of selected excerpts from the books "Troy and the Trojans" and "The Italian Urbanism Since the Post-war Till Today" written by the American archaeologist Carl W. Blegen and the Italian urbanist and historian Marcello Fabbri respectively.

The two autonomous studies, which have the city as a common subject, will be juxtaposed during the performance, merged into each other and rehearsed in order to dissolve into a same narrative. While three people re-enact these excerpts, a fourth person performs an improvised sound score, autonomous from the textual reading and the pictorial display.

The overlapping of these two literary sources aims to reflect on the idea of erosion, transformation and disappearance, as well as on a social and physical entropy that derives from the cyclic process by which cities – and life within them – come across in history; something in which we inevitably participate but are at the same time subjected, either individually or as a group.

The production of this work was possible with the institutional support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Direcçao Geral das Artes / Portuguese Ministery of Culture.

Friday 25 September 2009

21.00: Elizabeth Ward, Christos Michas & Giorgos Papadopoulos,Money: need, desire, utopia
Performative Lecture, Esplanade Building (Water Plaza, Faliro Olympic Complex)

As part of the "How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?" exhibition curated by Christopher Marinos.

"The starting point of our intervention is the realization, even the complaint, that the economic discourse is becoming increasingly autonomous and is superimposing itself upon the other spheres of life.  This process of economisation is following different trajectories: globalisation and imperialism, commodification and alienation, rationalisation and bureaucratisation are only a few of the lines of expansion of the economic logic.  Our aim is to investigate and subvert the economic grant narrative of the market economy by focusing on the function of money, to analyze the specific nature of the libidinal investments in the economic and consequently in the political sphere, and thereby to show how the individual desire is articulated, represented and mediated by the economic discourse. Moreover, to suggest a subversive potentially revolutionary re-investment of desire that will open the possibility for full enjoyment.

Competition, we will argue, is the imperative of the market economy legitimized by evolutionary, economic and moralistic arguments and money is the instrument that constructs meaning in this context. Money, regulates desire and constitutes subjectivity in consumption and production, it is the master signifier of the capitalist symbolic order and the omnipotent ritual of initiation in the economic 'reality'.  The grip of this reality does not happen in the discursive or even the ideological level, it is primarily affective and libidinal.  Discourse and language is just the screen upon which the tragedy of the alienation of desire in the market is performed, a projection and an articulation of a deep-seated reality.  Nevertheless, alienation is not an ideological problem; it is a pre-condition of subjectivation. Rational argument or rational critique is not a solution to the problem of alienation, but the fundamental misrecognition of what is necessary or possible for existence.  We will rather try to use both the body and the speech, the psyche and the intellect to suggest the construction of a subjectivity of happiness and a liberating alienation.

Our intervention needs to address both the discursive and the affective control of economic reality and of money.  We will suggest the connection of money to need and to desire and we will reflect on the possibility of utopia. Word, image and bodily movement; narrative structure, theoretical analysis and contemporary dance will be our media employed in an effort to illuminate and disrupt the separation from and the alienation of desire in the market via money.  The tension that lies in the basis of subjectivity can and should not be articulated as an economic and a monetary problem. This solution, delegated by market ideology, is, as any, bound to fail.  We will rather try to prefigure the utopia of full enjoyment as a strategy of resistance against the market and its imperative of competition as well as against the state of emergency imposed by the administrators of the economic crisis."

Elizabeth Ward is a dancer and choreographer based in New York.  She also teaches ballet in the Dance Academy of Stockholm and in Tanzquartier Wien. Her aesthetics combine classical ballet with postmodern dance and punk music.

Christos Michas's work engages with sound and image. He has studied and worked in Amsterdam, London and Athens, where he has also established his production company “game one productions”.

Giorgos Papadopoulos is an economist, graduate of London School of Economics. He attempts to combine economy critique with psychoanalysis and political action. He is a researcher in Jan Van Eyck academy and PhD candidate in Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Thursday 24 September 2009

Dimitris Kotsaras & Jennifer Nelson, Intimate Expansions
Performance, Flisvos Beach

Dimitris Kotsaras & Jennifer Nelson present the performance Intimate Expansions, which involves promenades or couples kissing (with the participation of the public) at sunset.

Saturday 19 September 2009

20.00: Eva Stefani & Nova Melancholia (Manolis Tsipos, Vassilis Noulas), Heretismoi
Performance, Flisvos Beach

The performance takes place at the Flisvos beach (in and out of the sea) and offers an alternative approach of the ecclesiasitc hymns of the christian orthodox church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Participants: Vicky Kyriakoulakou, Vassilis Noulas, Manolis Tsipos

Friday 18 September 2009

19.00: Andreas Angelidakis
Lecture, Glass Building (Water Plaza, Faliro Olympic Complex)

For the last ten years Andreas Angelidakis has been extensively involved with architecture as means of communication and presentation. Functioning equally as an exhibition designer and exhibitor, his creations span from the virtual/internet to the real space, investigating as such all aspects of the behaviour of the contemporary art exhibition visitor. For his lecture Angelidakis will focus on the core of his practice and namely on the architecture of presentation and communication and will present his most recent projects up to the architectural design of the 2nd Athens Biennale 2009. 

20.30: Toys in Heaven
Event, Water Plaza
Curated by ERROR CODE and HERACLES

Error Code and Heracles present a programme dedicated to music through the use of children's toys and unfold the possibilities they hold. The event is part of the exhibition "How Many Angels can Dance on the Head of a Pin?", curated by Christopher Marinos.

Many people see heaven in children and in their magical world, full of toys, that all of us as children have touched and basically broke. Everyone remembers this feeling of overwelming wonder that comes along with every new present, with every new toy: what's hidden inside it? What is this generating  power that makes the doll talk, the piano to make music, the model car to move?

What do children look for in their toys? Why is there this innate need to strip down the exterior and to explore the inside? Even if this process often leads to the total destruction of toys, sometimes something surprising and magical comes up: a doll that talks backwards, a sound that we never heard before, a shine that all of a sudden lights up the space. At this precies moment, abuse (of the toy in this case) redefines its traits.

We will produce sound out of gameboys, casio, old toys long forgotten in the attic or scattered in the open air market and their remains will be reconstructed and re-programmed for the creation of various compositions and improvisations.

Programme

\\NIADOKA//
Gameboy DMG-01 running LSDJ 3.9.2
Gameboy Advance SP running Nanoloop 2.3
Talkbox – Stylophone
Microphone Shure SM58//

\\SISTER OVERDRIVE//
Bontempi Melodica
Assorted music boxes
Frog – Kazoo
Portable cassette-corders
Microphone Sennheiser e845s//

\\KURASHIKU ONGAKU//
Casio keyboards SA8 – PT31 – SA5
Atari 2600 running Atari synthcart
Ds running glitch DS
Ds running repeater DS
Gameboy Advance SP running nanoloop 2.3
Microphone AKG D3800S + Behringer XM1800S//

\\TASOS STAMOU//
Flute - melodica
Modified electronic toy “animal sounds”
Modified electronic toy  “the mad cow”
Modified taperecorder with samples of children's songs//

\\GEORGE KARAMANOLAKIS//
Gameboy DMG-01 running LSDJ 3.9.2
Gameboy DMG-01 running nanoloop
Ds running protein
Modified Yamaha PSS 130
Tapes with games for spectrum //

\\XAERO//
Nintendo Gameboy DMG-01 running LSDJ 3.9.2
Microphone Shure PG58//

\\NANOTEKT//
(Live Visuals)
vvvv
Gameboy DMG-01 running GameboyCamera

Thursday 17 September 2009

19.00: Angelo Plessas Works
Talk, Glass Building (Water Plaza, Faliro Olympic Complex)

Artist Angelo Plessas presents his artistic practice, which involves the exploration of the internet and its influence on contemporary life and culture. An open dicussion with the public follows the presentation.

Angelo Plessas lives and works in Greece. His most recent solo exhibitions include "Angelo Plessas Works" at the Berkeley Art Museum (September 2009), " Headquarters" at Rebecca Camhi gallery (with Andreas Angelidakis, June 2009) and " The Angelo Foundation Headquarters" at Jeu De Paume in Paris (with Andreas Angelidakis, curated by Maria Ines Rodriguez, April 2009). He is currently exhibiting at the 2nd Athens Biennale in the exhibition "Splendid Isolation, Athens" curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.

Sunday 13 September 2009

12.00: Matteo Fraterno & Cesare Pietroiusti
Performance, Faliro Park & Beach

Matteo Fraterno and Cesare Pietroiusti present a performance at the Faliro beach and park, which takes place during the day and lasts until the evening. Taking as their starting point the slogans that filled the streets of Athens last December, the two artists explore the relation between language and protest, using the human body as a 'site' for political protest.

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Saturday 12 September 2009

12.00: Matteo Fraterno & Cesare Pietroiusti
Performance, Faliro Park & Beach

Matteo Fraterno and Cesare Pietroiusti present a performance at the Faliro beach and park, which takes place during the day and lasts until the evening. Taking as their starting point the slogans that filled the streets of Athens last December, the two artists explore the relation between language and protest, using the human body as a 'site' for political protest.

19.00: Filopappou Group, Natural Cultivation Workshop
Faliro Park

Terminating the activities of the work Et in Arcadia Ego, Filopappou Group sow clover, chinese cabbage, white beet, ruccola and a big variety of autumnal and spring flowers in an area of 100 sq.meters at the Faliro Park. The first sprouts will be visible in autumn, whereas more spectacular results will appear in approximately three years. This garden, a live sculpture, a land paradise, will be developed on an ongoing basis in the Faliro Park.

19.30: Αthens Urban Sound gathering, Hip hop supports the refugees
Hip-Hop festival, Water Plaza

Fourteen of the most popular hip hop groups of Athens join their forces with the Greek Council for Refugees N.G.O. (GCR) against racism and xenophobia. The Greek Council for Refugees was funded in 1989 and is an exclusively philanthropic organisation. Its vision is for every refugee and asylum-seeker in Greece to have access to a life of dignity and its mission is to protect their rights and help them live without fear.

The participating artists on the second day of the festival are: Univers, Nekriki Sighi, Freedom of Speech, Bitman & El Pap Chico, Flowjob, MC Yinka and guest Nikolas Razastarr.

This concert has a dual purpose; on one hand, to make young people more conscious of the necessity to protect and respect refugees through the dissemination of the message “life is a right, its protection is an obligation”, and on the other hand, to financially support the Greek Council for Refugees and enable them to carry on their diverse work. The Greek Council for Refugees collects funds from European and national programmes, sponsorships, donations, members’ contributions and from special events. Accurate information and the raising of awareness is crucial for wiping out social racism. Such actions and initiatives aim at making the world a better place and contribute to the process of approaching and accepting our fellow-man, no matter where he or she comes from.

The festival is co-produced by 'Lagnes Prod-actions'.

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Friday 11 September 2009

19.30: Αthens Urban Sound gathering, Hip hop supports the refugees
Hip-Hop festival, Water Plaza

Fourteen of the most popular hip hop groups of Athens join their forces with the Greek Council for Refugees N.G.O. (GCR) against racism and xenophobia. The Greek Council for Refugees was funded in 1989 and is an exclusively philanthropic organisation. Its vision is for every refugee and asylum-seeker in Greece to have access to a life of dignity and its mission is to protect their rights and help them live without fear.

The participating artists on the first day of the festival are: Salto Mortal, Pyrini Lailapa, Orthologistes, Nea Taksi Pragmaton, Phyrosun, Phase3 and guest Eisvoleas.

This concert has a dual purpose; on one hand, to make young people more conscious of the necessity to protect and respect refugees through the dissemination of the message “life is a right, its protection is an obligation”, and on the other hand, to financially support the Greek Council for Refugees and enable them to carry on their diverse work. The Greek Council for Refugees collects funds from European and national programmes, sponsorships, donations, members’ contributions and from special events. Accurate information and the raising of awareness is crucial for wiping out social racism. Such actions and initiatives aim at making the world a better place and contribute to the process of approaching and accepting our fellow-man, no matter where he or she comes from.

The festival is co-produced by 'Lagnes Prod-actions'.

Saturday 25 July 2009

Twoflower
Music event, Water Plaza

Billy is member of the 'Entity', party organisers that focus on electronic music (chill out, progressive, psytrance). Their main event is 'Synapse' (psytrance - UK), but they have also been involved in events such as 'Eclectic' (UK), 'Arcane' (UK), 'Samothraki Dance Festival' (Greece) and 'Sonica Festival' (Italy).

Friday 24 July 2009

Fresh Nights for the Living
Music event, Water Plaza

A secret night with sounds ranging from electronic hell to exotic paradise, including stops to familiar but distorted hits.

Sunday 19 July 2009

VELVET FESTIVAL: 3 VELVET DAYS IN HEAVEN
Fashion - Visual Arts - Performances - Music, Water Plaza

18.00-21.30: Wear Heaven (fashion)
Curated by Haris Kourkoulis / Anny Hasomeri

Creation – preparation of clothes by young greek designers.
With the participation of: Broke Queens, Angela Dementi, Etten, Anny Hasomeri, Nikolaos Haralambidis, h.o.p.e., Ioli Mihalopoulou, Euaggelia Mpoumpouli, Photoharrie, Serenata Serano, Dimitris Zafeiriou.

19.00-23.00: Berets from Montmartre (art)
Curated by Kostantinos Dagritsikos

Painters and graffiti artists paint the visitors’ portraits.
With the participation of: Champ 84, Dreyk The Pirate, Eirini Karayianopoulou, Hrysa Lamprakopoulou, Vassilis Mpotoulas, Tassos Papaioannou, RTM One, Ioanna Sahini, Taxis, Spyros Tsakiris, Leuteris Yiakoumakis, Nikos Youlis +Real-Life Guests.

19.30-20.30: VELVET cup
Legendary football match - Artists versus Musicians

19:30: Last dance in Heaven
Curated by OUTRO

Football Anthems by Andreas Kikiras at 19.30 & Broken Beats at 21.00 & Non Stop Hits at 22.30

Saturday 18 July 2009

VELVET FESTIVAL: 3 VELVET DAYS IN HEAVEN
Fashion - Visual Arts - Performances - Music, Water Plaza

18.00-21.30: Wear Heaven (fashion)
Curated by Haris Kourkoulis / Anny Hasomeri

Creation – preparation of clothes by young greek designers.
With the participation of: Broke Queens, Angela Dementi, Etten, Anny Hasomeri, Nikolaos Haralambidis, h.o.p.e., Ioli Mihalopoulou, Euaggelia Mpoumpouli, Photoharrie, Serenata Serano, Dimitris Zafeiriou.

19.00-23.00: Berets from Montmartre (art)
Curated by Kostantinos Dagritsikos

Painters and graffiti artists paint the visitors’ portraits.
With the participation of: Champ 84, Dreyk The Pirate, Eirini Karayianopoulou, Hrysa Lamprakopoulou, Vassilis Mpotoulas, Tassos Papaioannou, RTM One, Ioanna Sahini, Taxis, Spyros Tsakiris, Leuteris Yiakoumakis, Nikos Youlis +Real-Life Guests.

20.30: Perhumanimal (performance)
Curated by pedestrian-Marilena Petridou

Nomass Vasso Polymeni, SANTAZOA

21.30: Young Blood (live gigs)
Curated by The Callas

Bazooka at 21.30 & Phoenix Catscratch at 22.15

23:00: Last dance in Heaven
Curated by OUTRO

Rebetalism at 23.00 & Sonic Playground at 00.30 & Amateurboyz at 01.30 & Paul Bennett at 03.00

Friday 17 July 2009

VELVET FESTIVAL: 3 VELVET DAYS IN HEAVEN
Fashion - Visual Arts - Performances - Music, Water Plaza

18.00-21.30: Wear Heaven (fashion)
Curated by Haris Kourkoulis / Anny Hasomeri

Creation – preparation of clothes by young greek designers.
With the participation of: Broke Queens, Angela Dementi, Etten, Anny Hasomeri, Nikolaos Haralambidis, h.o.p.e., Ioli Mihalopoulou, Euaggelia Mpoumpouli, Photoharrie, Serenata Serano, Dimitris Zafeiriou.

19.00-23.00: Berets from Montmartre (art)
Curated by Kostantinos Dagritsikos

Painters and graffiti artists paint the visitors’ portraits.
With the participation of: Champ 84, Dreyk The Pirate, Eirini Karayianopoulou, Hrysa Lamprakopoulou, Vassilis Mpotoulas, Tassos Papaioannou, RTM One, Ioanna Sahini, Taxis, Spyros Tsakiris, Leuteris Yiakoumakis, Nikos Youlis +Real-Life Guests.

20.00: Perhumanimal (performance)
Curated by pedestrian-Marilena Petridou

Odorous: Olia Lydaki presents an in situ performance titled Odorous, which unfolds in three stages.

With the participation of:Aimilios Arapoglou, Despoina Hatzipavlidou, Valia Karayiorga, Sylvia Katsarou, Panayiotis Koustas, Thomai Magganari, Katerina Skiada, Vanessa Spinasa, Vaggelis Tsaprounis, Marina Tsartsara, Maria Tsitroudi, Maria Valeri, Manolis Vitsaxakis, Melina Zaharopoulou.

21.30: Young Blood (live gigs)
Curated by The Callas

SallyZero at 21.30 & BruisedLee at 22.15

23:00: Last dance in Heaven
Curated by OUTRO

Lick & Destroy at 23.00 & Cunted Daughter at 00.30 & Armani Had A Softer Touch at 02.00

Saturday 11 July 2009

22.00: Meedy
Music event, Water Plaza

Meedy begun his music electro activities in the mid 90's, influenced by techno, minimal, house, drum & bass and dub sounds. He produces special sounds that dominate the audience!

Friday 10 July 2009

22.00: Aeneas
Music event, Water Plaza

A selective music journey to the dub, Nu-jazz, trip-hop and house music by Aeneas.

Sunday 5 July 2009

18.00-22.00: NSK
issuing of passport for the fictional NSK state, Flisvos Building

11.00-15.00: An Architektur, Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces: The Meaning of the Commons
Open Workshop with Massimo de Angelis, Stavros Stavrides and other guests from Athens, Flisvos Building

The notion of private property is crucial to capitalism. For the last 30 years the neoliberal agenda helped to transform the urban landscape into a field of commodities dominated by the claims of capitalist utilization: Its perpetual need to find further profitable terrains for capital accumulation resulted in the commodification and privatization of former public properties, services and spaces that had long been considered inaccessible vis-à-vis profitability calculations. These politics of dispossession, disfranchisement and exclusion led to increasing spatial and social inequalities.  The current crisis, however, has meanwhile led to a decreasing legitimation of these neoliberal politics. Yet the left seems to be lacking concepts to make use of the material and imaginary spaces that are opened up by the current situation: How to further resist and challenge the capitalist demands on the production of space? How to develop alternative models of urbanization and society?

We want to discuss the potential of the concept of commons as a political discourse and practice that sets a limit to capitalist accumulation but that also goes beyond it,  a strategy of de-commodification and re-appropriation that tries to recognize and articulate the already existing though maybe minor and often micro-level alternative practices. Commons are an optimistic alternative, a grounded vision based on existing struggles but fundamentally questioning the hegemonic logic of a capitalist society. We want to discuss the notion of commons in different historical situations and explore how it can be actualized today. What are its potentials, limitations, can it be turned into a social and political force and perspective towards post-capitalist spaces?

Massimo de Angelis is Professor of Political Economy at the University of East London.
Stavros Stavrides is Assistant Professor of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.

20.00-23.00: Just7 & Q(liquid)
Jazz night, Batis Beach

The 16 & 18-year-old dynamic artists guarantee the enjoyment of the audience.

Just7, a young group of enthusiasts, love jazz and what it represents. They started from usic School of Alimos (Athens) and wish to leave their mark in the industry they adore. The group is consisted of: Vangelis Vassilopoulos (voice - trombone), Antonis Lazos (saxophone alto), Ermis Palmas (saxophone tenor), Yorgos Vassilopoulos (trumpet), Yorgos Bereris (piano), Yiannis Toubekis (electric guitar) and Thodoris Proponas (drums).

The group Q(liquid) consists of students from the Music Schools of Alimos and Ilion (Athens) who love greek altrnative music. Q(liquid) are Nikos Antonopoulos (guitar), Katerina Konstantinou (cello) and Yorgos Stavrides (percussion).

22.00: Carlos Slazenger
DJ set, Water Plaza

On Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July dj Carlos Slazenger will play music for two special nights selecting primitive rock 'n' roll, retro disco, exotica & horror, surf, sci-fi nostalgia, futuristic folk, from a collection of bizarre records.

Friday 3 July 2009

19.00-21.00: An Architektur, Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces: The Meaning of the Commons
Public Interview with Massimo de Angelis and Stavros Stavrides, Flisvos Beach

The notion of private property is crucial to capitalism. For the last 30 years the neoliberal agenda helped to transform the urban landscape into a field of commodities dominated by the claims of capitalist utilization: Its perpetual need to find further profitable terrains for capital accumulation resulted in the commodification and privatization of former public properties, services and spaces that had long been considered inaccessible vis-à-vis profitability calculations. These politics of dispossession, disfranchisement and exclusion led to increasing spatial and social inequalities.  The current crisis, however, has meanwhile led to a decreasing legitimation of these neoliberal politics. Yet the left seems to be lacking concepts to make use of the material and imaginary spaces that are opened up by the current situation: How to further resist and challenge the capitalist demands on the production of space? How to develop alternative models of urbanization and society?

We want to discuss the potential of the concept of commons as a political discourse and practice that sets a limit to capitalist accumulation but that also goes beyond it,  a strategy of de-commodification and re-appropriation that tries to recognize and articulate the already existing though maybe minor and often micro-level alternative practices. Commons are an optimistic alternative, a grounded vision based on existing struggles but fundamentally questioning the hegemonic logic of a capitalist society. We want to discuss the notion of commons in different historical situations and explore how it can be actualized today. What are its potentials, limitations, can it be turned into a social and political force and perspective towards post-capitalist spaces?

Massimo de Angelis is Professor of Political Economy at the University of East London.
Stavros Stavrides is Assistant Professor of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens.

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

22.00: Carlos Slazenger
DJ set, Water Plaza

On Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th July dj Carlos Slazenger will play music for two special nights selecting primitive rock 'n' roll, retro disco, exotica & horror, surf, sci-fi nostalgia, futuristic folk, from a collection of bizarre records.

Wednesday 1 July 2009

19.30: Carol Becker, Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production
Lecture, Glass Building (Water Plaza, Faliro Olympic Complex)

The Columbia University Club of Greece has the pleasure of welcoming Carol Becker, Dean of the School of the Arts of Columbia University, to present a lecture inspired by her latest book entitled Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production, Wednesday, July 1st, 2009, at 19:30, at the Glass Building at the Water Plaza of the Faliro Olympic Complex (adjacent the Esplanade). The lecture is being presented as part of the program of events of the 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 «Heaven».

A reception will follow. l The lecture will be presented in english. l Admission: 25€ (includes ticket for admission to the exhibitions of the biennale)

For further information and RSVP please contact Ms Cleo Lymberi at +30 6974 64 23 10 or clymberis@gmail.com

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

18.00-22.00: NSK
issuing of passport for the fictional NSK state, Flisvos Building

21.00-23.00: Superflex, Burning Car (2008)
outdoor screening, Flisvos Park

21.00-23.00: Krzysztof  Wodiczko, Hiroshima Projection (1999)
                      Reijo Kela, 365 Days – Video Diary (1999-2006)
                      Cesare Pietroiusti & Matteo Fraterno, Un accento di realtà
                      Jennifer Nelson, The Chronicles of Despair (in paradise) (2007)
outdoor screening, Batis Beach (backside of Batis stage)

20.00: Larry Gus + Konstantia Manthou, Pensile Gardens
Live concert, Batis Beach (at the playground of the Batis Beach stage)

Larry Gus will present the semi-installation Pensile Gardens, hung objects, microscales and nanosounds.

20.45: My Wet Calvin, Sanctuary
Live concert in encircled space for purification at the beach (tram stop Flisvos), Flisvos Beach

My Wet Calvin were founded in Athens in 2004 by Aris and Leonidas. After numerous releases and shows in Athens, Thessaloniki, the greek province, and the U.K., they are planning to take the charts by storm with an upcoming release in the autumn. Sanctuary is an experiment taking place at the beach, a performance-like concert: the viewers prior entering the small enclosed space at the seashore will go through a symbolic act of purification, which aspires at introducing them to a handmade primeval paradise.

21.30: Lumiere Brother
Live concert, Flisvos

Lumiere Βrother was a founding member, lead singer and main composer of Serpentine. In autumn 2007, with the assistance of Ottomo in Fab Liquid Studios, he made the recording of 13 songs that initiated a period of musical creations under the influence of the Lumière brothers and Tim Burton, the vocal chords of the Beatles and E.L.O., the adventurous life of Oscar Wilde and Saint-Exupéry, and the delicate piano sounds of Satie and Debussy.

22.30: Flakes, Siren
Live concert, Flisvos

Flakes play Indie Art Punk music wearing Vintage Rock 'n' Roll shoes. Split between Athens, Patra and London, they have had numerous shows in Greece and abroad and received positive reviews by the music press and the audiences. In July 2008 they were selected out of 740 bands to perform in the Live stage of MTV at the EXIT FESTIVAL 2008. Their debut album "Lick Your Fingers, If you Like it", released in October 2008, came out as one of the best greek indie albums of the year.

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live , Flisvos Building

20.00: Filopappou Group, Arcadia / Utopia: A series of discussions about the aesthetic, philosophic, historic and political proclamations of Utopia
Faliro Park

"When utopias become reality", presented by Alexandros Kioupkiolis and "For a critique in the critique of utopia", presented by Vicky Iakovou

21.00-23.00: Superflex, Burning Car (2008)
outdoor screening, Flisvos Park

21.00-23.00: Krzysztof  Wodiczko, Hiroshima Projection (1999)
                      Reijo Kela, 365 Days – Video Diary (1999-2006)
                      Cesare Pietroiusti & Matteo Fraterno, Un accento di realtà
                      Jennifer Nelson, The Chronicles of Despair (in paradise) (2007)
outdoor screening, Batis Beach (backside of Batis stage)

22.00: ILIOS, Symphony for electronics and internal combustion engine
Live concert, Water Plaza

Since the early ‘90s ILIOS explores the boundaries of sound and image. His sound palette is constantly renovated, aiming at protecting his anti-career. Some of his pieces have received international press reviews declaring them as 'the sound of death' and 'the most enervating record imaginable'. ILIOS has presented his work on a live audience more than 170 times in 25 countries in Asia, North and South America and Europe, aiming to enhance the stimulation of the senses through testing the resistance of space and body. The 2nd Athens Biennale marks the premiere of the Symphony for electronics and internal combustion engine, combining in real time low frequencies from sound generators and the vibrations from the metal parts of a car (www.siteilios.gr).

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

19.00-24.00: Filopappou Group, Poetic residency arcadia / Poetica residenza arcadia – a laboratory of words
Faliro Park

For five hours words and people meet in the space of the installation. Poets share with the visitors readymade written material or words that emerge from experiencing the work. Be it a whisper or as a scream, verbal speech breaks the ordinary boundaries of poetry reading. Writing flows through chalk on concrete, on secret love notes circulating  from one hand to the other, on papers stuck on fences, sewn on pillows, behind the blackboard.

Participating poets: Alexandra Plastira, Katerina Iliopoulou, Foivi Yiannisi, Panayiotis Ioannidis, Patritsia Kolaiti, Yianna Boukova, Iordanis Papadopoulos, Giorgos Hantzis, Thanos Stathopoulos, Doukas Kapantais, Yiannis Stigkas, Yuli Volanaki, Theoni Kotini.

21.00-23.00: Superflex, Burning Car (2008)
outdoor screening, Flisvos Park

21.00-23.00: Krzysztof  Wodiczko, Hiroshima Projection (1999)
                      Reijo Kela, 365 Days – Video Diary (1999-2006)
                      Cesare Pietroiusti & Matteo Fraterno, Un accento di realtà
                      Jennifer Nelson, The Chronicles of Despair (in paradise) (2007)
outdoor screening, Batis Beach (backside of Batis stage)

22.00: Konstantinos Bhta
Live concert, Batis Beach (Batis stage)

Konstantinos Bhta will present a dj-set with music selected especially for this evening, also including both unreleased and known songs of his own. He will present what he considers to be “musical surfaces”, mainly compositions he listens to when he paints or when he tries to think or when he doesn’t think of anything at all, but wants to listen to music. He will play vinyl records of his own collection.

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

19.30-21.30: Dimitri Kotsaras & Jennifer Nelson, Intimate Expansions
performances with the participation of the public at sunset

20.00: Filopappou Group, Arcadia / Utopia: A series of discussions about the aesthetic, philosophic, historic and political proclamations of Utopia
Faliro Park

"The eterotopias of gardens", presented by Faie Zika, and "The Gates of Arcadia", presented by Theoni Fotopoulou

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

19.30-21.30: Dimitri Kotsaras & Jennifer Nelson,Intimate Expansions
performances with the participation of the public at sunset

21.00: Filopappou Group,Arcadia / Utopia: A series of discussions about the aesthetic, philosophic, historic and political proclamations of Utopia
Faliro Park

"Feminist utopias", presented by Maria Gargaroni.
Through acknowledging the dystopias of their reality, women surpass them either by constructing imaginary worlds or by creating ephemeral – or not – places of experimentation and freedom. A triptych presentation. Dystopias: daily incidents of violence against women. Utopias: Novels of feminist science fiction. Eterotopias: Imperative breakouts from patriarchy.

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

20.30: Filopappou Group, Arcadia / Utopia: A series of discussions about the aesthetic, philosophic, historic and political proclamations of Utopia
Faliro Park

"Discussing the utopias of the 20th century", presented by Antonis Liakos

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

Filopappou Group
Faliro Park

Construction of 'hybrid bicycle' in collaboration with the group " Podilat(iss)es tis Athinas".
In the installation site of Et in Arcadia ego the group 'Filoi tou Podilatou' from Rethymnon present three 'bicycle-constructions'.

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

18.00-22.00: NSK
issuing of passports for the fictional NSK State, Flisvos Building

21.00-23.00: Superflex, Burning Car (2008)
outdoor screening, Flisvos Park

21.00-23.00: Krzysztof  Wodiczko, Hiroshima Projection (1999)
                      Reijo Kela, 365 Days – Video Diary (1999-2006)
                      Cesare Pietroiusti & Matteo Fraterno, Un accento di realtà
                      Jennifer Nelson, The Chronicles of Despair (in paradise) (2007)
outdoor screening, Batis Beach (backside of Batis stage)

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

20.00: Filopappou Group
Workshop on natural cultivation presented by Ilias Vakis and Dimitris Desillas

21.00: Filopappou Group
Faliro Park

"Tracing the ephemeral in the city": presentation and discussion on transportation, highways, graffiti and urban expansion. Presented by Panos Totsikas, architect, member of the Panattic Network of City Movements and Active Citizens and Citizens’ Initiative for the Protection of Ymittos.

Construction of 'hybrid bicycle' in collaboration with the group " Podilat(iss)es tis Athinas".
In the installation site of Et in Arcadia ego the group 'Filoi tou Podilatou' from Rethymnon present three 'bicycle-constructions'.

21.00-23.00: Superflex, Burning Car (2008)
outdoor screening, Flisvos Park

21.00-23.00: Krzysztof  Wodiczko, Hiroshima Projection (1999)
                      Reijo Kela, 365 Days – Video Diary (1999-2006)
                      Cesare Pietroiusti & Matteo Fraterno, Un accento di realtà
                      Jennifer Nelson, The Chronicles of Despair (in paradise) (2007)
outdoor screening, Batis Beach (backside of Batis stage)

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

18.00-22.00: Eloisa Cartonera
outdoor workshop, open to the public, on how to create handmade books of Argentinean literature, Flisvos Building (patio)

20.30: Filopappou Group,Arcadia / Utopia: A series of discussions about the aesthetic, philosophic, historic and political proclamations of Utopia
Faliro Park

"Towards A New Arcadia: The bucolic utopia of contemporary art", presented by Kostis Stafilakis

20.45: The Boy
Live concert, Batis Beach (lifeguard tower near the port)

21.00-23.00: Superflex, Burning Car (2008)
outdoor screening, Flisvos Park

21.00-23.00: Krzysztof  Wodiczko, Hiroshima Projection (1999)
                      Reijo Kela, 365 Days – Video Diary (1999-2006)
                      Cesare Pietroiusti & Matteo Fraterno, Un accento di realtà
                      Jennifer Nelson, The Chronicles of Despair (in paradise) (2007)
outdoor screening, Batis Beach (backside of Batis stage)

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

22.00: dimitris papadatos / KU  TH (better canned and left in the fridge for opportunists who oblige)
Live concert, Flisvos Park (at the project by Errands)

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

18.00-22.00: Eloisa Cartonera
outdoor workshop, open to the public, on how to create handmade books of Argentinean literature, Flisvos Building (patio)

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

Antti Laitinen, It’s My Island
construction of island using sand bags, Flisvos Beach

18.00-24.00: Broadcast Group
on-site workshop documenting the actions, performances and events of Heaven_Live, Flisvos Building

18.00-22.00: Eloisa Cartonera
outdoor workshop, open to the public, on how to create handmade books of Argentinean literature, Flisvos Building (patio)

20.00: Filopappou Group
Faliro Park

Workshop "Between utopia and entopia", temporary collective astions by Dimosthenis Agrafiotis

Series of actions with the participation of the 'audience', in order to demonstrate that the body is the beginning, tool and medium of sense and pleasure. The 'audience' will be requested to use its breath, body parts, imagination and abilities to carry out and implement acts, aiming to show the admirable and vulnerable of the body.

22.00: Nikos Arvanitis,Tonight Live! Spectacle
recurring event with fireworks, Flisvos Beach

21.30: The Callas Feat. The Callasettes: Fuck Your God
Performance, Flisvos Park

On the day that the 2nd Athens Biennale opens for the public, at 10 in the evening, The Callas present their performance entitled Fuck Your God, a song title from their latest album. A classic protest song against any kind of authority, presented in a half hour Kraut/Ρsyche version. The Callasettes (I. Toumpakari, M. Petridou, A. Polychroni, M. Nikoloulea) are participating, with a new choreography and new Callas dresses, made especially for the performance. The Callas are the band formed by artists Lakis and Aris Ionas and are active since 2004. They have made two albums, DIY or DIE (2007) and The Callas (2009). They have performed in the DESTE Foundation, Great Escape Festival (Brighton), Artrocker magazine (London), AMP gallery, The Breeder, and the 1st Athens Biennale.