Diplareios School, Theatre Square 3, Psyrri
Metro: Monastiraki/Omonia

Diplareios School:
Thursday 8 December, 19:00
Friday 9 December, 16:30, 19:30
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 December, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00

Eleftherias Park: Arts Centre
On Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December a visitor assistant will provide information from 17:00 to 20:00.

Talk by David Adler: THE CRISES: Arts, economics, and prison
Saturday 10 December, 18:30
Diplareios School Auditorium

The talk will focus on the paucity of imaginative responses to the Crisis by mainstream arts and economics, in relation to David Adlers' artwork on the US prison photography portrait system exhibited at the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME is exhibiting.  US prisoners have created a unique photography subculture: it consists of photos by prisoners, for prisoners, featuring prisoner created backdrops.  The process is collaborative, and very widespread. Though unknown in "The Free World" (the prison term for life outside) this may the largest photography movement in America. 

Whereas prisoners have been able to respond to their personal crisis by forming a parallel art system, David Adler argues that there has been a strange "under reaction" by financial theorists, and perhaps art theorists as well, and certainly the gallery system, to the precarious conditions that we all experience. He will therefore attempt to tie these seemingly disparate themes together, presenting prison art as just one example of creative responses by populations without financial resources.

David Adler is a documentary producer and writer with a background in both arts and economics. He lives in the NYC and teaches documentary at a women’s prison in upstate New York. He has been researching the US prison photography system since 2006. He is the author of "Snap Judgment" (Financial Times Press, 2009) about behavioral economics and he is co-editor of the anthology "Understanding American Economic Decline" (Cambridge University Press, 1994).  He was educated at Oxford University and Columbia University from which he has an MA in economics.

His arts documentaries include: "The People’s Painting" (BBC2, about the Russian conceptual artists Komar and Melamid), "The Burger and the King" (BBC2, based on his book about Elvis’ cuisine) and "Mafia NY: lifestyles of the rich and dangerous" which was part of an Arte Theme night. 

He is currently creating an art prize focused exclusively on 'late style' painting and older artists, to be known as the "Old Master's Prize", in collaboration with the artists Alexander Melamid and Art Spiegelman.

The Public School in Athens

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL (TPS) is an alternative independent educational project that was initiated in 2008 as an artistic project and has gradually grown to a worldwide educational network. http://thepublicschoolinathens.net

Series of seminars: "The Condition of the Post-Fordist City: The paradigm of Athens" - by Platon Issaias

Seminar No.2: "The categories of the Post-Fordist City"
Tuesday 6 December, 17:00-19:00
Diplareios School Ground Floor

Τhe categories under which becomes possible to explore the reality of the post-fordist city and to propose patterns of struggle and resistance within and against it.

Seminar No.3: "The paradigmatic value of Athens"
Wednesday 7 December, 19:00-21:00
Diplareios School Ground Floor

The specifics of the city of Athens contextualize the latter within the theoretical discourse as a paradigmatic yet particular and idiosyncratic case of metropolitan milieu.

Τhe relationship between labour, capitalistic development and contemporary metropolitan phenomena: The series of seminars will explore the condition of the contemporary city as it has developed under the influence of the post-Fordist mode of production. Within this reality, the city constitutes a "constant" factory, a territory of limitless possibilities of production and of exploitation of the labour force in its primal state.

Part of WORD OF MOUTH, curated by KERNEL: http://thewordofmouth.net

LuckyPDF – FREE GALAXIAS Screening
Thursday 8 December, 18:00-21:00
Diplareios School Ground Floor

LuckyPDF present the latest version of their participative video-project titled "FREE GALAXIAS". For the production of the video the London-based collective invited a network of contributors to prepare footage from a shot-list that was edited at a special-designed studio within the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME exhibition space. LuckyPDF are currently working with the footage in London, sending updated edits back to Athens incorporating new contributions and continuing conversations.

http://thewordofmouth.net/freegalaxias
http://luckypdf.com
http://kernel-platform.com

Part of WORD OF MOUTH, curated by KERNEL: http://thewordofmouth.net

Aristide Antonas – The Pending Text
Friday 9 – Sunday 11 December 2011
Diplareios School Ground Floor

The new edition of the project "The Pending Text" by architect and writer Aristide Antonas will be installed at Diplareios School ground floor. "The Pending Text" is a series of successive dated versions of a novel under preparation. The unfinished versions of the untitled text, which is being written in Athens, are printed in the form of volumes since the 2nd of September 2011.

http://thewordofmouth.net/thependingtext
http://www.aristideantonas.com

Part of WORD OF MOUTH, curated by KERNEL: http://thewordofmouth.net

Supermarionetta & Omada Epta – "ANAMONES [WAITING]"
Friday 9 December, 18:00-19:00
Diplareios School Ground Floor

An in situ performance dealing with the notion of 'waiting', without being able to ever see the outcome. Faces are passive, entrapped in their immobility, comfortable in their panic. The performers expose their most private moments in a public waiting space, identifying with it and moving through it like ghosts, while the viewers/passers-by experience their own actual waiting.

Direction and costumes: supermarionetta
Performers: Eleanna Apostolaki, Aggeliki Bozou, Michalis Georgiou, Nikos Georgiou, Valli Ioannou, Thanos Kosmidis, Sofia Liakou, Vicky Mastrogianni, Marios Panayiotou, Vaggelis Papadakis

Floater Magazine – Athens Audiograms
Saturday 3 – Sunday 11 December
Online project and Diplareios School Ground Floor

Floater Magazine presents the online issue "Athens Audiograms", a series of speeches that where recorded during the autumn of 2011. Five scientists and theorists talk about Athens during the financial crisis, while extracts from recent newspaper magazines are being read out loud. The recordings will be also presented through an installation at the Diplareios School ground floor and on the web site of Floater Magazine.

Meet the team of Athens Audiograms and friends over some informal talk and refreshments on Friday 9 December, between 18:00-20:00

http://thewordofmouth.net/floatermagazine
http://www.floatermagazine.com

Part of WORD OF MOUTH, curated by KERNEL: http://thewordofmouth.net

MOHAMMAD – Live gig
Friday 9 December, 20:00-21:00
Diplareios School Basement

MOHAMMAD are ILIOS, Coti K & Nikos Veliotis and they have been operating since 2009. Their music is a monolithic pounding of sonic inter-modulation and dark melodies. They will present a version of the song "Ase me na Figo", especially for the 3rd Athens 2011 Biennale MONODROME.

More information:
www.mohammad.gr
http://vimeo.com/channels/mohammad

Nikos Charalambidis’ "Carnival Pause" event
Saturday 10 December, 11:00-17:00
Diplareios School Auditorium

The "Carnival Pause" event is part of the parallel events taking place within the framework of Nikos Charalambidis’ multifarious project titled "Carnival Pause". The event comprises of a programme of talks and screenings relating to the concept of the installation presented as part of the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME, as well as Charalambidis’ wider practice.

The nomadic character of H.A.M. (Hollow Airport Museum), an alternative Fine Art School founded by Charalambidis in the abandoned Nicosia Airport, Cyprus, is expressed through the inclusion in the project of a  typical animal breeders' hut from the village of Syrrako (Epirous, Northwest Greece). The hut instigates a research process examining the nomadic way of life of the Vlachoi people, presented during the event through dramatized scenes and re-enactments.

In parallel, the element of "voyaging" incorporated in the role of the tutors of the School and their unusual educational and teaching methods is related to the screening of Yiannis Nikolaidis’ documentary "The Teacher's Dream". The rest of the presentations will make references to similar itinerant and nomadic issues and also extend to a re-examination of the notion of the Museum and the role of the artist – curator.

For more information on "Carnival Pause", please click here.
 
Programme:

11:00-12:00 Screening:"The Descent and the Ascent of the Animal Breeders of Syrrakos", documentary, 50’, directed by Yiannis Nikolaidis. Screened for the first time, as part of the "Carnival Pause".

The cycle of the adventurous and strenuous life of the poor animal breeders of Syrrakos village, the origins of which go far back in time.

12:15-13:00 "Daydreams of a Lonely Walker", Hariklia Hari, talk

An ongoing journey via a subjective experience and observation of the landscape and a careful study of the "spirit emanating from locations ".

13:00-13:45 "I call it Phantasiometric Ec-stasis", Nadia Aryropoulou, talk

13:45-14:30 "Contribution, collaboration  and co-authoring: the identity of the artist in negotiation", Alexios Papazacharias, talk

14:45-15:15 Screening: "The Teacher’s Dream", documentary, 25’, directed by Yiannis Nikolaidis. Screened for the first time, as part of "Carnival Pause".

A dance instructor aged 95, forgotten by everyone and bypassed by the times, re-lives in his imagination, during New Year's Eve of 1988, the dancing and the fun he had with his students in the good old days, until he suddenly realises that it was all a New Year's Day dream.

15:15-16:15 "Art and/or Politics? A foreward to the strategy of over-identification". Giorgos Tzirtzilakis, 10 mins talk, followed by the screening of the documentary "Art and Politics", part of the television series "Sites of Life-Sites of Ideas". Script-Direction: Giorgos Keramidiotis, Scientific Consultant of the episode: Kostis Stafilakis, Production: ERT3, 2010, duration 45’

16:15-17:00 "Over the corner we met Iolas: the possibilities for a Museum", Philopappou Group, talk & discussion

We Never Closed
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 December, 17:00 onwards
Diplareios School 3rd Floor

A celebratory extravaganza true to "the-show-must-go-on" spirit of the project, that will include a series of performances and excerpts from past weeks' presentations. The stage will host all members of We Never Closed, all their collaborators and other guests.

A multifarious project hosted by the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME, presenting performances every Saturday and Sunday and hosting various guest artists every Friday, on a stage that functions both as a platform for the events and as an ongoing installation.
"We Never Closed" was the famous motto of Windmill Theatre, a variety and revue theatre in Great Windmill Street in Soho, London. The motto refers to the fact that the theatre remained open and performances continued throughout World War II, even at the height of the London Blitz.

Entertainers and performers, musicians, athletes and artists are invited to enact a series of actions on a wooden stage. The construction of the stage constitutes a reaction to 'emergency' and a pretext towards regaining an artistic commitment similar to practices of Russian Agit-prop. The crowd and the individuality, History within the condition of the here and now, improvisation and the construction of the live image, are some of the key-points of the performances. The aim is to achieve a coordination of all parts, a coordination with memory narratives that could possibly generate a "synastry" that will instigate once again the revolutionary spark.

https://www.facebook.com/we.never.closed

YELP Danceco., Action +1: "Exactly what I wanted -1/+3/0/+1"
Saturday 10 December, 20:00-21:00
Sunday 11 December, 18:00-19:00
Diplareios School 1st Floor

Based on "The Rite of Spring" (Le Sacre du Printemps) by Igor Stravinsky.
 
Choreography: Mariela Nestora
Music: Igor Stravinsky

"LEAK" Intervention
Sunday 11 December, 18:00 onwards

Venice Biennale 2001, Francis Alÿs takes part with his work "The Ambassador", which comprises of releasing a peacock in the streets of Venice. The "LEAK", starting from the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011, lets loose an intervention aiming to spread in the city of Athens. The LEAK comments on the notion of the contemporary performance, entwines with it, and doubts, like its curators, what it means to be a viewer.
Without this performance being a work of art per se and without it being anything without an audience, the "LEAK" challenges our circulation within the 3rd Athens Biennale venue, Diplareios School, and the way we move within this space.

Leaking…: Nefeli Ananiadi, Venia Andreou, Fryni Vrettou, Konstantina Giasemidou,Nadi Gogoulou, Georgia Laskari, Chara Kotsali, Androniki Marathaki, Chrysanthi Badeka, Maria Papachristou, Ioanna Paraskeuopoulou, Mety Panagiotopoulou, Loutsianna Papadaki,Elena Stayropoulou, Theano Vasilaki

The Angelo Foundation – Fantasy Plot Generator
Sunday 11 December, 19:00-20:00
Diplareios School Ground Floor

Fantasy Plot Generator is a new hybrid project by Angelo Plessas. Stories that are created randomly by a website (http://fantasyplotgenerator.com) are animated on a stage by actors. Part of WORD OF MOUTH, curated by KERNEL:http://thewordofmouth.net/

Participating actors: Babis Galiatsatos, Natassa Giannaraki, Afroditi Kleovoulou, Giorgos Kyriakou, Athina Mathioudaki, Nikos Maramathas, Electra Nikolouzou, Maria Panourgia, Alkistis Poulopoulou, Maria Tzani, Kostas Tsioukas, Lena Mosha

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