Time & Date
On Friday, May 12, 2023, we are excited to invite you to the sixth Open Day of the Onassis AiR Tailor-made Fellowships program. This month's Open Day includes performances, a live broadcast, and a series of presentations that will unfold throughout the evening with the participation of our current Fellows Yota Argyropoulou, Anastasia Diavasti & Sumugan Sivanesan, Dennis Dizon, Moriah Evans, Stefanos Levidis, Latent Community, Harry Isra Muhammad and Lydia Xynogala.
19:00-22:00
Anastasia Diavasti and Sumugan Sivanesan host a live broadcast based on their collaborative research. Playing out their recordings and interviews, the duo reflect on themes of dance, solidarity, SF, teargas and care. fugitive feminist empathics combines the Onassis AiR space with those of the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. The event will broadcast 19.00–22.00 EET via {openradio}, an independent platform for experimental radio and via Channel 2 of Movement Radio.Dennis Dizon presents to tap, to lean, to twist, to warp as part of the too cool to burn, a long-term research project that reimagines “climate sensitivity”—a climate science equation that measures Earth’s uncertainty from increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The ongoing project activates dissonance and delusion as tactics, reframing climate as a medium for negotiating relationality, between humans with the more-than-human, to align interspecies behaviours and communication.
Moriah Evans presents Resignation Studies, an opportunity to give up and surrender to what is there in the present moment and to accept something that is inevitably present but invisibilized. A series of Resignation Studies have transpired all over Athens and will transpire throughout the space for the duration of this event. Performed by: Moriah Evans, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Despina Sanida Crezia. Documentation by Anastasia Diavasti.Stefanos Levidis presents parts of his research project Ghost Habitats of the Prespa trilateral natural park. Through animal appearances on trap cameras, a tool equally used by conservationists and border guards, the project considers the entanglements between nature, culture and technology in border zones, and probes the role of non-humans —animals, forest communities and changes in meteorological conditions— in bearing witness to violent, yet gradual, border processes.
Latent Community will present a series of photographs from their research field in Avato. The photo-series are presented in the form of a visual research diary, reflecting on the real and imagined routes that shaped Avato, a village in the Xanthi region, home to a long-standing black community, created during the Ottoman Empire.
Harry Isra Muhammad presents a glimpse of his research project Jackpot, suddenly. What if a collective unexpectedly receives a jackpot? Through this research, Harry Isra Muhammad looks for the most radical decision-making processes in terms of sharing resources; how can the collective decide on the way they are going to use the resources (jackpot) democratically?
Lydia Xynogala presents spring stories, a piece that revolves around printed postcards and storytelling as part of her ongoing research into the 750 mineral springs of Greece. Old or new postcards made from photographs of her visits, Xynogala will share stories of travel, bath encounters, ideas, surprises, findings, forgotten histories and of imagined futures. To pay attention is to care.
21:00-22:00 PERFORMANCE - ALEX(A) (duration: 60 minutes)
Yota Argyropoulou presents a research-based performance between fiction and reality. A performance that has been developed at Onassis AiR and Kaaitheatre, ALEX(A) intimately converses with the themes of technology, politics, and Artificial Intelligence.Image1/16
Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou
- Anastasia Diavasti & Sumugan Sivanesan: fugitive feminist economics
- Dennis Dizon: Too cool to burn
- Moriah Evans: Resignation Studies
- Stefanos Levidis: Ghost Habitats
- Latent Community: AVATO
- Harry Isra Muhammad: Jackpot, suddenly
- Lydia Xynogala: The 750 Mineral Springs of Greece (Revisited)
Functioning like an open studio, the Open Days is a series of monthly events that will run throughout the year and are open to the public. This is an opportunity to meet and exchange with our Fellows as well as to learn more about their artistic research through short talks, presentations, workshops or screenings that aim to shed light on their research trajectory and work in-progress. The format of the Open Days is shaped based on the needs and artistic practice of the Fellows each time. Running between September 2022 to July 2023, the Tailor-made Fellοwships is an open-ended program offering time and space, tailored to the individual research needs of each participant.
