Open Call | Virtual Workspaces by Euripides Laskaridis // OSMOSIS
Screen DIY: Space & Object Performance
A series of workshops under the general title Virtual Workspaces, become a symbolic, virtual workspace for artists to communicate.
True to its mission to forge links with important institutions beyond Greece’s geographical borders, to support the professionalization of younger artists and to offer opportunities of connections within the international artistic community, Onassis Stegi is co-producing and co-organizing the project Virtual Workspaces.
Artists from diverse artistic backgrounds, maintaining a transdisciplinary approach to their practice, offer the opportunity of a creative working space, involving a group of professionals from various backgrounds.
This series of online workspaces is to be seen as an area that aims to bolster cultural fermentation, to encourage creativity and to build constructive exchanges in relation to specific goals and problematics. It will strive to maintain interactive processes within this safe-space of a temporary, but so valuable virtual framework of a selected group of peers.
Each Virtual Workspaces workshop is designed to foster the circulation of ideas between professionals, very often also involving non-professionals, with the hope to provoke sustained engagement within each group, and nurture the potentiality of new collaborations beyond the frame of the digital environment.
Architects, designers, visual and/or performing artists with an a affection for DIY creativity, will be called to playfully examine the poetic and transformative potential that may lie in the modest everyday objects that surround us.
"Screen DIY: Space & Object Performance"
by Euripides Laskaridis // OSMOSIS
Euripides Laskaridis invites artists from the visual and the performing arts to a collective exploration on DIY creativity, through our computer’s mics and cameras.
In this virtual workspace, the much vaunted and all-embracing quirky Greek performer and creator, will explore ways of being creative away from the stage. In light of his ongoing artistic quest on space and object performance, artists from a variety of different disciplines are invited to join in researching together on the uncharted territory that one may call: Screen DIY: Space & Object Performance.
Architects, designers, visual and/or performing artists with an a affection for DIY creativity, will be called to playfully examine the poetic and transformative potential that may lie in the modest everyday objects that surround us.
Participants will be invited to open up their drawers, closets and cupboards, play with everything that can be found near them, facilitate lighting fixtures and any type of sound producing gadget that one may find having at their home, working space or studio.
While nobody will be more knowledgeable than the other, in a virtual space of experimentation and playful trust without onlookers, the group will be called to look at our most familiar everyday objects through the lens of an eccentric and unconventional imagination.
General Information
Dates: January 17, 20, 24, 27, 2022
Time: 1:00- 3:30 PM Central European time / 2:00-4:30 PM Eastern European time
Duration: 2.5 hours per session
Place: Zoom platform
Application Deadline: Saturday, January 8th 2022
There is no participants’ fee.
The sessions will be held in English.
The meetings will be video recorded via the Zoom platform.
Who can apply
Anyone with an affection for DIY creativity is welcome from a variety of different disciplines such as architects, designers, visual and/or performing artists. Students are also welcome. A group of 12 participants will be selected to participate in the workspace and we will examine the possibility for observers or any type of onlookers.. Participants will need to have a laptop with Zoom and the camera will have to be working during the workspace sessions so as to actively take part in the process.
It is very important to be willing to play around and experiment with personal surrounding objects and artifacts. Simple writing and crafts material available — such as papers, scissors, glue, pencils, markers and pens — is strongly encouraged.
Organizers:
Coordinators:
For ONASSIS STEGI: Christina Liata
For STUDIO teatrgaleria: Anna Lewanowicz (Initiator and Head of the Project), Szymon Adamczak
