Onassis AiR Fall Open Days 2024

For two days you will have the opportunity to visit the residency spaces and meet this year’s Fellows as they share their in-progress work, ideas, and research. This is a rare chance to engage with our creative community, by exploring a variety of artistic practices and taking part in a lively exchange of ideas.

The event includes live performances, multimedia installations, talks, and workshops by Vasia Attarian & Mirto Makridi, Katerina Foti, Catriona Gallagher, Chara Kotsali, Dimitris Kourtis, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Meriç Öner, Eva Papamargariti, Urok Shirhan, and Lydia Xynogala.

On Saturday evening, Voltnoi Brege, co-artistic director of STEGI.RADIO, will curate the event’s music, introducing the first iteration of Electric Café for this season.

Friday, November 1 | 19:00 - 22:30 and Saturday, November 2 | 13:00 - 22:30

[presenting throughout the event]

Catriona Gallagher | follies, shells, adaptation: the keepers of the garden – Installation of research material

Dimitris Kourtis | Alec Scouffi | Echoes of unconventional wanderings – Mixed-media installation

Meriç Öner | Best Used By [Date] – Installation of research material

Eva Papamargariti | All these spectacular whispers – Audiovisual installation

Urok Shirhan | GR/AND M/OTHER TONGUES – Installation of research material

Friday, November 1 | 19:00 - 22:30

19:00–20:00 | Meriç Öner | Best Used By [Date] – Conversations with the audience

19:00–22:00 | Chara Kotsali | ΙT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE – Durational impro practice

19:30–20:00 | Urok Shirhan | GR/AND M/OTHER TONGUES – Performance

20:00–20:30 | Vasia Attarian & Mirto Makridi | BINGO NIGHT! – Performance

21:00–21:15 | Katerina Foti | Blue – Performance

21:15 | Chara Kotsali | ΙT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE – Performance

22:00–22:30 | Efthimios Moschopoulos | FÀE : an ephemeral dining – Performance & Installation

Saturday, November 2 | 13:00 – 22:30

13:00–14:30 | Lydia Xynogala | Friends of the 750 Mineral Springs of Greece – Presentation & Roundtable discussion

14:30–16:30 | Catriona Gallagher | follies, shells, adaptation: the keepers of the garden – Phytography workstation

17:00–18:00 | Meriç Öner | Best Used By [Date] – Pickle making workshop with Christina Kotsilelou

18:00–19:00 | Meriç Öner | Best Used By [Date] – Conversations with the audience

19:00–19:30 | Urok Shirhan | GR/AND M/OTHER TONGUES – Performance

20:00–20:30 | Vasia Attarian & Mirto Makridi | BINGO NIGHT! – Performance

20:30–22:00 | Electric Cafe | Music DJ set by Voltnoi Brege

21:00–21:15 | Katerina Foti | Blue – Performance

21:30–22:00 | Efthimios Moschopoulos | FÀE: an ephemeral dining – Performance & Installation

Vasia Attarian & Mirto Makridi | BINGO NIGHT!

Katerina Foti | Blue

“Blue” is a song about urban melancholy and all the things we lose in a city that changes daily. Each building covered in blue tarp symbolizes all the stories and memories once held within it, now buried in its foundations for the sake of constructing short-term rental apartments. “Blue” is also the story of a woman who, while in a city that crashes down on her head, searches for her own personal losses, which become collective memories and stories flooding the urban fabric.

Catriona Gallagher | follies, shells, adaptation: the keepers of the garden

An installation of research material related to “Sparoza”, a film-in-progress about a historic garden on a hillside in Paiania and the three generations of women who have tended to it. Alongside the research elements, samples and experiments will be staged that reflect the process of the film’s making, including phytogram plant prints on 16mm film and recipes for plant-based developers for black-and-white negatives.

Chara Kotsali | ΙT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE

In the aftermath of a technological and social revolution that never happened, “IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE” wants to think about the emotional history of the present. It is an attempt to stage a counter-epic narrative about the rush towards the sun and the freefall into the digital universe.

Through the continuum of a dance that never stops, even when it has exhausted its physical and emotional resources, the performer traces the history of amazement and disenchantment, of amusement and sadness that followed the satellization of everyday life.

Dimitris Kourtis | Alec Scouffi: Echoes of unconventional wanderings

Dimitris Kourtis presents a captivating exploration of historical memory through a collection of photographs, archival footage, and rare gramophone recordings, focusing on Alec Scouffi and the Interwar period. The installation features a teaser video and selected prints designed to introduce Alec Scouffi to the audience, sparking curiosity and encouraging deeper questions about this intriguing era.

Efthimios Moschopoulos | FÀE: an ephemeral dining

Efthimios Moschopoulos presents a 13-minute teaser-performance including elements from his ongoing research, entitled “FÀE: an ephemeral dining”. A table, a field, a flock of sheep, a DJ, a shepherd. Dinner as a landscape that is both finite and ever-changing. A reflection on the temporary nature of human experience.

Meriç Öner | Best Used By [Date]

For her long-term research “SAVING/S?”, Meriç Öner studies various “acts of preservation” through different practices related to cultural heritage, food, wealth, nature, artworks, data, and memories. While inquiring about the motivations behind preservation from the perspectives of experts, she aims to collect personal reflections on the (expected) lifespans of all things that surround us.

In the context of her research, Meriç collaborates with the Onassis AiR Fellow and Chef-in-Residence Christina Kotsilelou to organize a pickle-making workshop on the afternoon of Saturday, November 2.

To schedule a 10-min conversation with Meriç, you can reserve your slot in advance by completing this form.

Eva Papamargariti | All these spectacular whispers

Through an audiovisual installation that introduces a peculiar plethos of Othered bodies and voices, Eva Papamargariti offers a first glimpse into her upcoming work “All these spectacular whispers”. This swarm of entities consumes, generates, and spits out fragmented stories and lore that dwell on the liminal realm of reality and fiction, while balancing constantly between personhood, vernacular mythologies, and fragile kinships.

Urok Shirhan | GR/AND M/OTHER TONGUES

Urok Shirhan presents a preview of her new performance and research project “GR/AND M/OTHER TONGUES”, which she is currently developing at Onassis AiR. The presentation at the Open Day encompasses a performance as well as an installation of research materials.

Lydia Xynogala | Friends of the 750 Mineral Springs of Greece, a non-profit association

Lydia Xynogala presents the progression of her research project, “750 Mineral Springs of Greece (Revisited)”, which has since evolved into the creation of a nonprofit association with related mission and goals. Together with Sofia Berdelis, Christina Kotsilelou, Orestis Mavroudis, Joshua Olsthoorn, and other participants, they will showcase and discuss a series of actions in springs and bath sites initiated through this framework, along with other future projects.

For its first iteration of this season, Electric Café presents Voltnoi Brege, co-artistic director of STEGI.RADIO and founding member of the audiovisual collectives The Erasers and drog_A_tek. He will present a two-and-a-half-hour set blending sounds from the past and present of forward-thinking electronic music.

During the 2024–25 Onassis AiR Open Days, a new two-day event series spanning three seasons (Fall, Spring, and Summer), you will have the chance to engage with artists from around the world as they present their work in various formats, including live events, screenings, performances, talks, multimedia installations, and soundscapes.