Onassis AiR: Workshop | Thanasis Deligiannis and Yannis Michalopoulos

Following an artistic research project that currently enters its third year, Thanasis Deligiannis and Yannis Michalopoulos are organizing a workshop within the framework of the Margaroni Residency. The two of them share practices, conclusions, and questions around the traditional Greek feasts (“panigiria”) and their evolution, the rural space and the presence of agricultural machinery, as well as the ways in which this research produced materials that can potentially lead to a creative outcome.

The workshop is organized into four thematic modules: “The ‘Panigiri”, “Sound as a Guide”, “Working Intermedially” and “Other Places: Xiromero/Thessaly.”

Workshop’s working language is Greek.

This Workshop is addressed to creators and researchers from all disciplines. Attendance to all modules is not mandatory. Register your interest to one or more modules, by filling the form with information about your practice and bio.

Due to limited capacity, selected participants will receive a confirmation email by October 19th.

Monday, 23 October

MODULE A: The Panigiri | 11:00-14:00

Retaining a distance from academic scholarship, tools of oral cultural history and methods of anthropogeographical observation were applied. The aggregation of diverse materials has allowed for their new creative treatment. This method is an unbiased attempt to evaluate the products of this culture, the people who serve it, and the society they address.

MODULE B: Sound as a Guide | 16:00-19:00

Three concentric circles: The feast sets out in the center, which is where the dancer converses with the musicians; around it, on the perimeter, the settlement’s vast territory and in turn the rural land expands, with their architectural elements getting integrated into the natural landscape of the Greek province. The sounds of music, water, people, vehicles, and the agricultural machinery comprise a diverse aural ecosystem.

Tuesday, 24 October

MODULE C: Working Intermedially | 11:00-14:00

An attempt at composition guided by the imprint of sound and experience. Disparate elements – such as the agricultural machinery, electricity, garments, voices, the square, etc. – coexisted in a series of trials as part of an open and intermedial process that didn’t aim at a predetermined result.

MODULE D: Other Places: Xiromero/Thessaly | 16:00-19:00

Xiromero and Thessaly are the two areas on which Margaroni Residency’s field research was focused. ‘Panigiria’ without tourists, slow dances, female dancers, alternative residential planning, contrasting rural landscapes, and, above all, the presence/absence of water resources. In the end, how can natural landscape work as an allegory, as it is shaped after human intervention?