SUmmer 2016 residencies #2 and #3
Eric Ellingsen: Perceiving academy | 4-15.07.2016
Lynn peemoeller: you are food | 27.06-15.07.2016
Closing festival: 14.07.2016
Programme:
19:30 Departure from Thessaloniki City Hall
20:30 Arrival at Alexander the Great statue (Paralia)
20:30-21:30: Space & Taste experiments
19:30 Departure from Thessaloniki City Hall
20:30 Arrival at Alexander the Great statue (Paralia)
20:30-21:30: Space & Taste experiments
Photos: George Kogias
closing festival - PREPARATIONS
Video: George Manos - Cre8ive Studios; photos: George Kogias
Artecitya Thessaloniki’s summer residencies with Eric Ellingsen and Lynn Peemoeller aimed to challenge our perception on the city, its structures and the everyday. Eric Ellingsen's Perceiving Academy focuses on the issue of our perception and interaction with public space, while Lynn Peemoeller’s You Are Food deals with urban agriculture and food, as a product of mass production, distribution and consumption. Faithful to their initial intention and to art for social change practices, which are central to Artecitya, the two artists designed their activities, ultimately aiming to establish self-organised structures with long-term presence and sustainable impact.
More specifically, Eric Ellingsen worked with a group of 18 young practitioners - mainly but not exclusively fine arts and architecture students. The Perceiving Academy curriculum included walks led by experts on various knowledge fields, centered around the way in which we see and perceive the city as space, as well as on how we co-develop structures and relations within it. As a reaction to their walks, the participants designed, constructed and publicly presented a series of temporary sculptures-interventions-structures that functioned as a point of convergence within public space, a place for meetings and debates, a starting point for renegotiating the interpretation and use of urban landscape. These constructions were presented on Thursday, July 14 and were put together on location with the assistance of the public. This initial phase of the Perceiving Academy is an introduction to a long-term programme that the artist is currently developing in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the Municipality of Thessaloniki, in the context of the project LABattoir for the Old Slaughterhouse - where the Academy was based for the duration of the residency.
For her work You Are Food, Lynn Peemoeller activated an expanded network of activists who deal with food. Through the discussions held, the need emerged for a campaign to inform and raise awareness on relevant issues, especially through the prism of Food Waste, perceived as a key-point for the transformation of our way of living. Studies have shown that a significant percentage, more than 1/3 of the global food production, is wasted in the fields and in the supermarkets, in households and restaurants, a fact that, apart from perpetuating social inequalities, causes significant financial and environmental problems. Already, the artist has started working together with institutions and experts towards designing the campaign, that was symbolically launched on July 14.
More specifically, Eric Ellingsen worked with a group of 18 young practitioners - mainly but not exclusively fine arts and architecture students. The Perceiving Academy curriculum included walks led by experts on various knowledge fields, centered around the way in which we see and perceive the city as space, as well as on how we co-develop structures and relations within it. As a reaction to their walks, the participants designed, constructed and publicly presented a series of temporary sculptures-interventions-structures that functioned as a point of convergence within public space, a place for meetings and debates, a starting point for renegotiating the interpretation and use of urban landscape. These constructions were presented on Thursday, July 14 and were put together on location with the assistance of the public. This initial phase of the Perceiving Academy is an introduction to a long-term programme that the artist is currently developing in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the Municipality of Thessaloniki, in the context of the project LABattoir for the Old Slaughterhouse - where the Academy was based for the duration of the residency.
For her work You Are Food, Lynn Peemoeller activated an expanded network of activists who deal with food. Through the discussions held, the need emerged for a campaign to inform and raise awareness on relevant issues, especially through the prism of Food Waste, perceived as a key-point for the transformation of our way of living. Studies have shown that a significant percentage, more than 1/3 of the global food production, is wasted in the fields and in the supermarkets, in households and restaurants, a fact that, apart from perpetuating social inequalities, causes significant financial and environmental problems. Already, the artist has started working together with institutions and experts towards designing the campaign, that was symbolically launched on July 14.
