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conference: 31 march - 1 april 2017 / thessaloniki - basel
ABOUT
THEME
The conference will present case studies and scholarly debates that discuss novel approaches towards work and socially engaged art practices. The aim is to show the mutual dependence of work and art in envisioning the future of an upcoming society, via a productive exchange between the fields of art, education, creative industries, technology, politics, economy and research-based knowledge. Distinguished contributors from these fields, both academics and practitioners, will offer their proposals and insights on building alternative models of urban creativity, social entrepreneurship, resilient economies and civic participation, that can shape the future of work. The conference will be divided into five sessions with the following working titles: 1 Art for Social Change - theory and practices 2 Political Strategies in Art 3 Economy, Invention of Work, Digital Commons, Maker Movement 4 Art & Education 5 Perspectives on the Concept of Labour 6 Community, Urban Transformation, Digital Culture LIVE BROADCAST_PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT A unique trait is the conference format. Directed as a creative laboratory, the conference will pay particular attention to audience interaction, and at the same time function as case-study / best-practice model relevant to the the topic at hand. Public around the world will be able to follow the conference live online and join the discussion via a specially setup youtube channel. International institutions are invited to host the live broadcast of the event and/or organise parallel discussions. |
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
The live broadcast is done via a specially built, custom-made media lab, conceived and designed in collaboration with Institute HyperWerk. Young creatives from Thessaloniki are trained to develop and use the system, being offered the opportunity to acquire a new, unique set of skills that they can practise in the future, establishing themselves professionally, not only for future Artecitya events, but also on other occasions, that the conference organisers intend to create, in collaboration with partners in Thessaloniki and elsewhere. The conference scenography is designed by Practise(in)Cognition, a group of artists, architects and designers that emerged as a result of Eric Ellingsen’s Perceiving Academy, a project developed for the artist’s residency in the context of Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki last Summer. Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki’s Artecitya Agency supports Practise(in)Cognition in their first steps, offering them opportunities to learn-by-doing. Finally, in preparation of the Conference, an introductory workshop with the Conference Principal Scientific Consultant, Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis, took place one month prior (on March 4), introducing the local public to the main concepts to be discussed during the conference. Participation in both the introductory and the media lab workshops is free, following an open call process. |
TEXT
By Prof. Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis
The Artecitya Conference by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki aims at creating a productive exchange between the fields of art, labour, politics and research-based knowledge, aiming at a trans-disciplinary approach. It shows the mutual dependence of work and art in envisioning the future of an upcoming society. Our understanding of the concept of work is closely linked to industrial wage labor and employment. With paid work, we combine the meaning of life and the social legitimacy of individuals and collectives. This mental understanding becomes increasingly precarious, while corresponding with changes in the Welfare State and the globalised society. In the post-industrial society technological developments (internet and digital networking as well as mobility of labour) enabled various alternative forms of human labour to emerge, thus challenging conventional modes of work. New media researchers, digital craftsmen, socially engaged activists, permaculture makers, post-industrial designers, as well as innovative policy makers act towards inventing new forms of work as interaction with the social and natural environment. In the meanwhile, many artists today are deeply committed to making work that addresses pressing social issues and changes in the way we perceive the world: social cohesion, post-democracy, environmental crisis and scarcity of resources, intersection of leisure and work etc.. The potential of art for social change can be deployed in order to rethink the concept of work and offer alternatives to a precarious living, characterised by permanent unemployment, indebtedness and deprivation of civil rights, as well as the damaging lack of creative and resilient solutions for society. Artists explore new forms of “social practice” that become involved in addressing communities and conventional institutions. These experiments engage both with the notion of creativity (e.g. low and high culture), as well as with a redefinition of work (e.g. DIY, Makershops, Fablabs, alternative economies). Moving beyond the function of commenting and responding to society by means of creating visual, auditory or performing artefacts, socially engaged art can ignite demands for change, and provide a platform for reflection, collaboration and laboratories for building socially resilient practices of work. |
Our aim is to provide equal space to both scholarly and artistic contributions, as well as presentations of best practice models in society, in order to explore these highly relevant social, economic and aesthetic developments. Focusing on three specific areas -that is art, community and politics- various scientists, scholars, educators, artists, civil society activists, as well as stake holders in politics and economy are invited to deeply explore this state of things and offer proposals for building alternative models of work and art. Possible perspectives for contributions could be: new technologies, urban creativity, transformation design, art activism, civic participation, commons, alternative economies, social cohesion, best practice in social entrepreneurship, resilient and post-growth society, global governance and post-humanism. The list of contributors includes scholars, policy makers, and individuals who have already promoted significant and successful innovations in the sectors mentioned above.
A specific trait of the Conference is its format, which will be directed as a creative laboratory paying particular attention to audience interaction. The event will be held at Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. Following the format of a “staged performance” the meeting departs from the conventional conference, in order to enhance participation and activation of the public, as well as an inclusive exchange of ideas. Contributors are invited to participate either with a video statement or with a a short lecture which will comment and further expand issues and themes presented in the video statements. The 2-days conference will be live-streamed on the official site of Artecitya and various social media platforms. Art and educational institutions around the world, such as the KUNSTrePUBLIK in Berlin will host the live-streaming of the conference. Public attending the conference live as well as public worldwide attending via live-streaming can submit questions to the contributors. Moderators will present a selection of the submitted questions to the contributors and ask them to comment. The stage design will be created by the artists collective Practise(in)Cognition, who have emerged as a result of artist Eric Ellingsen’s residency last Summer. The language of the conference will be English with a simultaneous translation into Greek for the public attending the conference. |
contributors
Video Statements
Tania Bruguera, political artist
Kari Conte, Director of Programs and Exhibitions, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
Eric Ellingsen, artist, architect, educator & Practise(in)Cognition, artists group
Pablo Helguera, artist, educator, author
Jeanne Van Heeswijk, artist
Dr. Phil. Monika Kästli, art historian and curator
Achilleas Kentonis, trans-disciplinary artist, innovation trainer and engineer; founder and director of ARTos Foundation Nicosia
Dimitri Konstantinidis, director, Apollonia European Art Exchanges
Florian Malzacher, freelance curator, writer and dramaturge, artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival
Pedro Reyes, artist
Prof. Dr. Felix Stalder, Professor for Digital Culture, Zurich University of the Arts; Senior Researcher, World Information Institute, Vienna
Nato Thompson, Artistic Director, Creative Time, New York
Responders
Sepake Angiama, documenta 14, Head of Education
Prof. Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis, curator, author, educator, Principal Scientific Consultant of the Conference
Stephanie Bertrand, independent curator
Niels Boeing, journalist, author, co-founder of Fab Lab Fabulous St. Pauli, Hamburg
Lydia Chatziiakovou, ArtBOX, Artistic Director of Artecitya by Helexpo
Elli Chrysidou, Vice-Mayor of Culture, Municipality of Thessaloniki
Prof. Dr. Christopher Dell, Professor for Urban Design Theory at HafenCity University Hamburg
Giovanni Flore, Benetton Digital Signage Project Management, former consultant at Fabrica
Dr. Giorgos Gkiouzepas, environmental scientist
Harikleia Hari, architect
Philip Horst, artist, KUNSTrePUBLIK, co-founder ZK/U Berlin
Lena Jöhnk, PhD student in the field of Socially Engaged Art, HafenCity University Hamburg
Samuel Kalika, artist, designer; founder of Critical Concrete, Porto
Christof Mayer, Raumlabor, Berlin
Christos Pierros, Economist, Senior researcher at Labour Institute of GSEE (General Workers Confederation of Greece)
Rainer Rosegger, sociologist
Christos Savvidis, ArtBOX, Artistic Director of Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Prof. Max Spielmann, Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design, Basel
Dr. Kostis Stafylakis, art theorist and visual artist, political scientist, Adjunct at the University of Patras
Prof. Dr. Nicholas Theocarakis, Associate Professor of Political Economy and History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Arnisa Zeqo, documenta 14, Coordinator of Education
Tania Bruguera, political artist
Kari Conte, Director of Programs and Exhibitions, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
Eric Ellingsen, artist, architect, educator & Practise(in)Cognition, artists group
Pablo Helguera, artist, educator, author
Jeanne Van Heeswijk, artist
Dr. Phil. Monika Kästli, art historian and curator
Achilleas Kentonis, trans-disciplinary artist, innovation trainer and engineer; founder and director of ARTos Foundation Nicosia
Dimitri Konstantinidis, director, Apollonia European Art Exchanges
Florian Malzacher, freelance curator, writer and dramaturge, artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival
Pedro Reyes, artist
Prof. Dr. Felix Stalder, Professor for Digital Culture, Zurich University of the Arts; Senior Researcher, World Information Institute, Vienna
Nato Thompson, Artistic Director, Creative Time, New York
Responders
Sepake Angiama, documenta 14, Head of Education
Prof. Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis, curator, author, educator, Principal Scientific Consultant of the Conference
Stephanie Bertrand, independent curator
Niels Boeing, journalist, author, co-founder of Fab Lab Fabulous St. Pauli, Hamburg
Lydia Chatziiakovou, ArtBOX, Artistic Director of Artecitya by Helexpo
Elli Chrysidou, Vice-Mayor of Culture, Municipality of Thessaloniki
Prof. Dr. Christopher Dell, Professor for Urban Design Theory at HafenCity University Hamburg
Giovanni Flore, Benetton Digital Signage Project Management, former consultant at Fabrica
Dr. Giorgos Gkiouzepas, environmental scientist
Harikleia Hari, architect
Philip Horst, artist, KUNSTrePUBLIK, co-founder ZK/U Berlin
Lena Jöhnk, PhD student in the field of Socially Engaged Art, HafenCity University Hamburg
Samuel Kalika, artist, designer; founder of Critical Concrete, Porto
Christof Mayer, Raumlabor, Berlin
Christos Pierros, Economist, Senior researcher at Labour Institute of GSEE (General Workers Confederation of Greece)
Rainer Rosegger, sociologist
Christos Savvidis, ArtBOX, Artistic Director of Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Prof. Max Spielmann, Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design, Basel
Dr. Kostis Stafylakis, art theorist and visual artist, political scientist, Adjunct at the University of Patras
Prof. Dr. Nicholas Theocarakis, Associate Professor of Political Economy and History of Economic Thought at the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Arnisa Zeqo, documenta 14, Coordinator of Education
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Photos: George Kogias
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Concept
Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki - Peter Panes (Director), Christos Savvidis (Artistic Director), Sotirios Bahtsetzis (Principal Scientific Consultant) & Max Spielmann, Institute HyperWerk Programme Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Principal Scientific Consultant, ArtBOX & Lydia Chatziiakovou, Artistic Director of Artecitya by Helexpo, ArtBOX Max Spielmann, Institute HyperWerk Organisation & Coordination General Organisation & Coordination: Aris Kalogiros, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & ArtBOX Coordination Assistant: Maria Lazaridou Coordination for the Municipality of Thessaloniki: Lela Tsevekidou, Sakis Fylaktos Coordination for Artecitya by Helexpo: Vicky Dalkrani, Dimitris Kourkouridis Coordination for Museum der Kulturen Basel: Tabea Buri Coordination for Artecitya by KUNSTrePUBLIK: Philip Horst, Lena Enne Scenography of the space at Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki Practise(in)Cognition (Vasilis Alexandrou, Dimitris Chatzinikolis, Spyros Kazantzis, Chryssa Kotoula, Konstantinos Kotoulas, Anna Lioka, Fenia Nevrokopli, Christos Polymeris, Katerina Sideri) Visual Ccommunication: Victor Gountaras Communication: Despina Kaviri Social Media: Lazaros Allilomis Photographer: George Kogias Live Pianists: Ero Menegou, Lina Tsernou Keynote Presentation: George Mantzouranedes Interns: Laura Mangels, Mariann Seibert Yoga Instructor: Athina Ligkou Pre-Conference Preparatory Workshop Lecturer: Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Principal Scientific Consultant Participants: Zoe Antoniadi, Maria Chatzaki, Dimitris Chatzinikolis, Antigone Eftychiadi, Marina Kalamara, Spyros Kazantzis, Chrysa Kotoula, Eleni Koumara, Natalia Koutsopetrou, Maria Kyrou, Maria Letsiou, Anna Lioka, Fenia Nevrokopli, Alexandra Oikonomidou, Paraskevi Poimenidou, Meropi Pavlou, Stergios Seretis, Katerina Sideri, Georgia Skartadou, Foulvia Solomonidou, Marina Toula, Stella Voutyri - Tsoumatidou, Francesca Metzler, Alexia Xafopoulou |
Live Stream - Media Lab
Head of training / Technical development of live video equipment: Martin Schaffner, Institute HyperWerk Director, Floor Manager: Despina Kaviri Director of Photography, Unit Manager: Giorgos Manos Participatory Media Trainer and Producer, Scientific Assistant, Project Management: Elie Kioutsoukis, Institute HyperWerk Technical Execution & Coach: Elias Buess, Institute HyperWerk Participatory Media: Prof. Max Spielmann, Board of Directors, Institute HyperWerk Renting of Audiovisual Equipment: Giorgos Kosmidis - Diapason Technical Support: Marios Mastoras - Diapason Sound Technicians: Simos Lazaridis & Christos Douganis Internet Services: Iraklis Aslandidis - Your Media Trainees: Christos Chatziioanidis, Theodore Karamagalis, Sofia Karasavvidou, Irene Koliou, Eleni Koumara, Maria Kyrou, Alexandra Oikonomidou, Kortessa Sioti-Tselekidou, Iliana Skaragkou, Savvas Tsatouras, Anastasia Tsita, Petros Tsoukalelis Presenters Thessaloniki: Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Principal Scientific Consultant, ArtBOX & Lydia Chatziiakovou, Artistic Director of Artecitya by Helexpo, ArtBOX Basel: Anka Falk, Institute HyperWerk & Anna Schmid, Director, Musem der Kulturen Interpreters Marina Diafa, Chrysa Sidiropoulou Translations Stavroula Tsiara Production Team Basel Producer: Jonas Grieder, Institute HyperWerk Assistant: Sophie Buscetta, Institute HyperWerk Assistant: Vanessa Gygax, Institute HyperWerk |
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Artecitya by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design – Academy of Art and Design – University of Applied Sciences & Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel CO-ORGANIZED BY Municipality of Thessaloniki - project "LABattoir" IN COLLABORATION WITH Artecitya by TIF – Helexpo, Thessaloniki Museum der Kulturen, Basel Artecitya by KUNSTrePUBLIK, Berlin DATES Conference: 31 March - 1 April 2017 Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki (GR) Museum der Kulturen Basel (CH) Preparatory workshop: 4 March 2017 Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki Media Lab workshop: 18-22 March 2017 Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki VENUES Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki 66 Vasilissis Olgas Str., 546 42, Thessaloniki, Greece Language: English and Greek with simultaneous translation Museum der Kulturen Basel Münsterplatz 20, 4051, Basel, Switzerland Language: German ENTRANCE TO ALL VENUES FREE.
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Athens / documenta 14 Address: d14 Press and Information Centre, Mourouzi 16, 10674 Athens Date: 31.03 & 01.04, All Sessions Basel / Institute HyperWerk for Postindustrial Design Address: Freilager-Platz 1, CH-4023, Basel Date: 01.04, All Sessions Belgrade / European Centre for Culture & Debate - GRAD Address: Brace Krsmanovic 4, 11000, Belgrade Date: to be announced soon Berlin / ZK/U - KUNSTrePUBLIK Address: Siemensstr. 27, 10551, Berlin Date: 31.03, 14:30-17:30, Sessions 2 & 3 Madrid / Slow Track Society Address: Cañizares 12, 28012, Madrid Date: 31.03, All Sessions Madrid / Atelier Solar Address: Arturo Soria 39, d. basement. 28027, Madrid Date: 01.04, All Sessions Munich / European Business School, Munich Campus Address: Theresienhöhe 28, 80339, Munich Date: 31.03, Session 3 & lecture by Dr. Begoña González Otero Muscat / Stal Gallery Address: Villa 221 Al Inshirah Street, Muscat, Oman Date: 31.03, Sessions 1, 2, 3 Nicosia / Frederick University Address: Prozak Coffee Shop, Medontos 3A, 1060, Nicosia Date: 31.03, Session 2 & Open Discussion with Evagoras Vanezis & Michalis Paraskeva Strasbourg / Apollonia European Art Exchanges Address: 23, Rue Boecklin F-67000, Strasbourg Dates: 31.03, All Sessions & 01.04, Session 6 Valletta / Fondazzjoni Kreattività - Spazju Kreattiv Address: Cinema St. James Cavalier, Castille Place, Valletta Date: 31.03 & 01.04, All Sessions Zagreb / HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) & MK Gallery (Miroslav Kraljević Gallery) Address: Šubićeva 29, 1000, Zagreb Dates: 31.03 & 01.04, All Sessions |
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