Artistic research in Greece, from the 1990s to the years of the crisis

A conference organized in the context of the research project, which was supported by the Research Centre for the Humanities for the year 2019.

Wednesday 18 December 2019 | 10:30-20:30

Program

*[all videos linked here are in Greek]

 

10:30 – 12:00 | Research Project Presentation

Participants:

Elpida Rikou, PhD, Anthropologist, Artist, Lecturer at the Department of Art Theory and History, Athens School of Fine Arts

Katerina Konstantinou, Art Historian, PhD Candidate of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Chair: Fay Zika, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Art, Department of Art Theory and History, Athens School of Fine Arts

Commentator: Apostolis Lambropoulos, Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Bordeaux Montaigne University

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12:15-13:45 | Session | Artistic Production in the period of the “crisis”

Chair: Despoina Zefkili, Art Critic, Editor in Chief at “Athinorama” magazine, member of the Temporary Academy of Arts

Discussants:

_Myrsini Zorba, Writer & Cultural Politics Researcher
Artistic research and public policy for the arts

_Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Founding Member of the group “Workshop for Public Commons”, Curator
Describe her only in superlatives, Killjoy

_Nefeli Myrodia, Creative Producer and Dramaturgist at Onassis AiR: An (inter)national artistic research residency program, Onassis Foundation
The contribution of private foundations in the support of artistic research

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13:45-14:30 BREAK

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14:30-16:00 | Discussion | Curatorial Practices and Artistic Research

Chair: Elpida Karampa, Art Theorist, Curator

Discussants:

_Dafni Vitali, Art Historian, Curation at the National Museum of Contemporary Art

_Vaggelis Vlachos, Artist

_Yiota Ioannidou, Artist

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16:15-17:45 | Session | Artistic Education and Aristic Research

Chair: Ada Dialla, Professor of European History at the Department of Art Theory and History, Athens School of Fine Arts, President of the Board, Research Centre for the Humanities

Discussants:

_Areti Adamopoulou, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, University of Ioannina
Artistic education in a university environment: continuities or ruptures?

_Panos Charalambous, Artist, Professor and former Rector at the Athens School of Fine Arts
Artistic education… as artistic practice (Instinct or conception, invention and construction?)

_Vanessa Theodoropoulou, Art Historian, Researcher and Lecturer at School of Fine Arts Arts in Angers, France (ESAD TALM)
What does an artist need to know in order to lay the foundations of substantial artistic research?

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18:00-19:30 | Session | The Social Sciences and the Humanities’s Turn “Beyond Text”

Chair: Eleana Yialouri, Tenured Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences

Discussants:

_Aris Anagnostopoulos, Historian-Anthropologist, University of Kent
The Typical and the Event: adventures in an archive

_Marios Chatziprokopiou, Performative Arts Theorist, Lecturer at the University of Thessaly
From the Field to the Voice and the Page: Poetry and Ethnography in Greece

_George Samantas, Anthropologist of Sound – sound designer, TWIXTlab
Hearing between ethnographical and artistic research

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19:30-20:30 | Conference Summary

 


Notes:

  1. We with to thank the Bodossaki Foundation/ Bodossaki Lectures on Demand for filming and dissemination of the research project presentation (https://www.blod.gr/lectures/kallitexniki-ereyna-1990-krisi/).
  2. Videos have been posted with the consent of all appearing.
  3. Xenia Kalpaktsoglou could not attend the conference due to health reasons.