The Critical Practices Program
The Critical Practices Program is a full time, 3-month encounter of practitioners living and working in Greece. The program is designed as a collective artistic and curatorial research cοmmunity for visual artists, choreographers, theater and film directors, composers, performers, curators, producers, designers, writers, cultural theorists, and other curious minds –working within time-based artistic practice.
The 2019/20 participants are: Yota Argyropoulou, Laure Jaffuel, Myrto Katsimicha, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Inés Muñozcano, Aris Papadopoulos, Prodromos Tsinikoris
The 2019/20 mentors and guests are: Silke Bake, Igor Dobricic, DOLCE Publications, Shady El Noshokaty, Ioanna Gerakidi, Ant Hampton, Lenio Kaklea, Mark Leckey, locus athens (Maria-Thalia Carras and Olga Hatzidaki), Christophe Meierhans, Miguel Angel Melgares, Markus Shimizu, Peter Stamer, Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Irena Tomažin, Manolis Tsipos, Raed Yassin
We believe that the artistic cοmmunities living and working in Greece right now could benefit from a more non-disciplinary and undisciplined approach (vs. trans-disciplinary/multi-disciplinary/and disciplinary in general). Artistic mediums, research and creation methodologies, society at large, have all become less binary. There are fewer and fewer polarities such as dance vs. theater, design vs. visual art, film vs. video. The Critical Practices Program is for those who are in-flux, who are going through rupture, for those practitioners who are experiencing a shift within their individual artistic practice or creative trajectory. The program offers time, space and a tailor-made collective research community to 8 practitioners working within the broader confines of what we call time-based contemporary art practice. One group of 5 participants convenes in Fall (September 15–December 15, 2019) and another group of 3 participants convenes in Spring (February 15–May 15, 2020).
At the end of each three-month encounter, the participants share their individual and collective research questions and experience of The Critical Practices Program through an Open Studio Day, a day of presentations adopting various formats —performances, screenings, walks, talks, dinners etc.— depending on the occasion. The house of Οnassis AiR is open to the public to peers, to invited guests, curators and friends.
