artecitya agency - goethe's dream
​project presentation on the OCCASION of the inauguration of "points of view" - the new garden ​by artist Giorgos gyparakis

18/10/2016, 19:00-23:00, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
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Giorgos Gyparakis - "Points of View" (redesign of Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki's garden; inauguration & artist tour)
Alexandros Psychoulis - "Arkadien" (redesign of Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki's cafe; artist tour)
Theodoros Zafeiropolous - "Homeland" (work in progress; workshop with the artist) ​

PROGRAMME:
19.00-20.00 Introduction to the projects (Auditorium)
20:00-21:00 Tour of the works with the artists & Homeland workshop*
20:00-23:00 Presentation of the Artecitya activities 2015-2016 (Artecitya space - behind the Café)
Food by Dimitris Koparanis / Music by Synthetic

homeland: TEACHERS' presentation | 1.10.2016

Teachers' workshop on the project-in-progress Homeland by Theodoros Zafeiropoulos.
In collaboration with the Primary Education Directorate of Western Thessaloniki and the Head of Cultural Affairs,  Dr. Virginia Arvanitidou. The workshop aimed to inform teachers on the work itself, as well as on the educational possibilities provided by the participation in the work with their students. A rich package of references and educational material will soon be published on the Homeland website.
Photos: George Kogias

Designing creative synergies - conference participation
​Monday, 21/03/2016, 15:00-16:45, Panel III, "Interventions in Public Space / Art for Social Change"
Location: International Hellenic University Auditorium (14th km Thessaloniki - N. Moudania, Thermi)

Artecitya participates in Designing Creative Synergies - 3rd International Conference, organised by the International Hellenic University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the City of Thessaloniki, the Business & Cultural Development Centre, the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, the British Council, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, The Telloglion Foundation for the Arts, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Creativity Platform.
Conference website​

lectureS BY ERIC ELLINGSEN AND LYNN PEEMOELLER
ARTECITYA RESIDENCies #2 & #3

In preparation of their residencies this Summer, the artists will give short lectures to introduce themselves to the public.​
THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2016, 18:00-20:00
GOETHE-INSTITUT THESSALONIKI AUDITORIUM (​66 VASSILISSIS OLGAS AVENUE)
ENTRANCE: FREE / LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Eric Ellingsen: RADICAL IMAGINATION COMMUNINTY 
Eric will give a short talk and performance on his spatial and teaching practices. He will focus on a few recent projects entangling perception, art and architecture as public engagement, education experiments and a politics of learning, as well as mapping as a kind of embodied cognition engaging urban situations through language/poetry/and walking. In the summer of 2016, Eric plans to work with a community of interested participants to open an experimental 'school' or 'institute'. The school will be a platform for learning how to learn, as well as a sustainable community practice run by participants that will inherit the institute platform after Eric's residency ends. We will create a constitution for our community by walking and cooking together while we occupy public spaces of the city. The city will be our classroom, our studio, our office, our laboratory. While we walk we will forage for architectural materials, as well as conduct 'classes' in different public spaces throughout the city. The school will be a choreographed archipelago of actions and designs as 'platforms' situated in public spaces. The platforms will host a moving festival of speakers, actions, performances, and politics. 
Lynn Peemoeller: MEMORY KITCHEN 
Lynn will give a small talk and host a conversation on how FOOD and recipes provide a bridge for growing cross-gernerational knowledge. Her talk will focus on recent projects and the possibilities that are cultivated when overlapping the spaces of our cities, homes, lives and food as spaces where we cook our stories and memories.
​In the summer of 2016, Lynn plans to work with a small group of people that will engage a mobile food and media laboratory. The mobile food lab will be rolled through the city and be used to create public ethnographic encounters that will collect cross-generation food stories. The mobile food lab will also be a broadcast station, a platform for a 'food TV show' that will engage cooking performances and competitions. The mobile food lab will also be incorporated into Eric's project during the overlapping residencies, and will be inherited by the Radical Imagination Community to be used for their 'school'.



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lectures by artecitya's sotirios bahtsetzis
in the context of the athens biennale 2015 - 2017 "OMONOIA"
Synapse 2: Rethinking Institutional Critique – Α View from the South

FRIDAY, 15 APRIL 2016, 14:15-16:30, ​SESSION II: "COMMON PRAXIS"
National Theatre (48 Panepistimiou Str., Athens)
SUNDAY, 17 APRIL 2016, 11:00-16:00, DISCUSSION WITH VASYL CHERAPANYN & JOULIA STRAUSS: "ART-AS-EDUCATION"
Bageion Hotel, Omonoia Square, Athens / Co-organised by the Autonomous Academy
More: Athens Biennale Facebook Events

AGENCY LAUNCH

#agency #dissemination
23.11.2015
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Official launch of the
​Artecitya Thessaloniki Agency

public presentation

#agency #dissemination #networking
31.01.2015
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
First introduction of Artecitya to the world.
Presentations, lectures, partners intro. ​

kick-off meeting

#partners meeting #programming #dissemination
29-30.01.2015
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki​