ARTECITYA kick-off meeting
29 & 30 January 2015, Goethe-Insitut Thessaloniki
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki hosted the first meeting between the ARTECITYA partners. Discussions included programming and administrative issues, joint projects and collaborations between the different partners, as well as scenarios for the sustainability of the network after the conclusion of the program's four years preliminary period.
Photos: Ingo Duennebier
ARTECITYA first public presentation
Saturday 31 January 2015, 10.00-17.00; Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, auditorium
ARTECITYA's first introduction to the world is hosted by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki. It includes a short presentation of the program and its main partners; specific proposals, already underway, characteristic of ARTECITYA’s philosophy; local partners, and theoretical approaches.
Photos: Ingo Duennebier
Parallel Event
EXPLOSION OF SPEECH, performance by Bigert & Bergstrom
Friday, 30 January 2015, 22.00-22.15; Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki
Swedish artists duo Bigert & Bergström present the first of their series of performances “Explosion of Speech”, that starting from Thessaloniki will later take place in various cities around Europe and will result into a 15 mins. film. "A fiery paean to the importance of free speech and the power of poetry, the film follows a common thread – a burning fuse – that winds through Europe leaving a burnt-out trail of text in its wake. Words become sentences, evolving into a collective poem created by a group of poets from the cities through which the burning fuse passes. The film evokes words of flame, burning with anger over such topics as financial inequality, unemployment and growing xenophobia. But it also contains bright sparks of hope and love as this cut-up poem takes shape through the use of gunpowder and matches.” (B&B) The first verse of the poem will be contributed by Thessaloniki-based author Alexandros Aimoniotis.
Photos: Ingo Duennebier
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AGENCY, 2015 - 2018 |
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Throughout 2015, the Artecitya Agency will be established and developed. Based at Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and active all over the city, the Agency will be the "heart" of the project, functioning as creative incubator, curatorial organiser, production-manager and information disseminator.
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Conference, December 2015
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A two days’ Conference, organised in collaboration with Artecitya’s German partner, ZKU - KunstRepublik. The Conference will focus on Berlin and other German cities as case-studies to discuss issues central to the project, such as participation, citizenship, urban planning, public space, audience development and art for social change, in order to provide the theoretical background for the residencies that will take place in 2016 and 2017. The specific approach and list of speakers will be decided in collaboration with ZKU and according to the preparatory research and networking that will take place in Thessaloniki and Berlin throughout 2015.
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Artists-in-residencies, 2016-2017
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The conception and implementation of a series of 6 residencies, involving directly and indirectly international artists, curators and experts. The residencies will address following issues: Lived Architecture, City Branding, Creative Cluster, Oral Histories, Sustainable Tourism, International Networking, Envisioning the Future. Residency participants will be selected by invitation and through an international call for proposals, out of which the most relevant and implementable projects will be selected on the basis of terms of reference closely defined by all partners.
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Exhibition, 2018
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An exhibition in Thessaloniki (2018) will recapitulate the Agency’s activities since the beginning of the project. Artecitya GR will also be presented in the major exhibition that will present the entire ARTECITYA network in Strasbourg.
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Publication, 2018
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The publication and international dissemination of works on the theoretical and historical aspects of art for social change, its application via the various actions carried out by Artecitya's network, the results of the project's research and methods.
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Dissemination / internet platform
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Throughout the project, information will be conveyed to thousands of people via the Artecitya internet platform (e.g. artists' interventions, inhabitants' reactions, expert reports, European programming, etc.). The entire network’s activities will also be promoted through a series of web documentaries, produced by ARTE Creative. While ARTECITYA GR will closely collaborate with local media to communicate its activities.
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Research trips & Networking
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Throughout the project, a series of research trips & networking activities will take place, in order to investigate relevant initiatives and good practices (New York, London, Paris, Berlin and other German cities and elsewhere).
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