THE ERGASTIRIO

An intensive professional development workshop as part of a collaboration between Οnassis AiR and the Athens & Epidaurus festival, designed and facilitated by Silke Bake, Satu Herrala and Peter Stamer.

Participants of the 2019 “THE ERGASTIRIO”: C. for Circus, Little Things Orchestra, Androniki Marathaki, Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou, Sofia Paschou, Kostas Tsioukas

With THE ERGASTIRIO, Silke Bake, Satu Herrala, and Peter Stamer jointly create a working environment for six performing artists whose works are going to be presented in June/July 2019 at the Αthens Festival. During the week we propose an open working field to share respective artistic concepts and approaches with each other. Despite our fields of expertise in dramaturgy and choreography, in dancing and directing, in programming and curating, we don’t conceive of mentoring as a help for participants to become more successful artists. We rather want to provide a working atmosphere within which the participants are enabled to render their ideas visible, sayable, and thinkable.

MARCH 25–30, 2019

MONDAY (3/25) & TUESDAY (3/26): GROUP SESSIONS

On Monday and Tuesday, the participants engage in a group and introduce exercises or tools which are designed to reveal intrinsic conditions of the art works’ concepts. With these methodological contrast agents we aim at enabling and empowering the group to talk about their works and research, to take seriously the work of the other, to understand themselves as being part of a community of researchers, and to help comprehend that artistic research is nourished by a collective, and sometimes not always visible world of concepts and hidden gestures.

WEDNESDAY (3/27): A DAY OUT

How do you look at your living environment? What do you find inspiring, urgent, frightening, joyful about your co-citizens and the city you live in? A Day Out wants to leave the lab behind and delve into the pulsating heart of lived lives. The group does not necessarily have to stick together. If someone wants to invite a limited amount of peοple into their studio space, if three peοple take a walk whereas the others go to a museum – this is all fine as long as these parcours reflect perspectives, deflect ways of seeing and being in the context in which you live and work.

THURSDAY (3/28) & FRIDAY (3/29): ONE-ON-ONE

In order to give individual feedback and engage in personal exchange on Thursday and Friday, One-on-One Sessions with each mentor will take place for a maximum of 90 minutes. Which are the topics (related to curation, dramaturgy and production, and further) you want to access and share with us?