vol.3: There Was Land Here Before

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8-28 August 2022

Elafonisos School, Elafonisos,

Laconia Archaeological Museum of Neapolis Voion, Laconia

The exhibition Ammophilavol.3: There Was Land Here Before renegotiates our relationship to land, as well as the dominant narratives associated with it. We often think of land as our subsoil, a common ground for coexistence, and we create stories and histories to reinforce this relationship. The exhibition invites us to think of new interpretations and stories regarding real lands, as well as those constructed through our collective fantasies: fantasies of a non-existent land, a land that is different or inhabited differently, a land that can shake us off, a decaying land, a flourishing land, a trembling land, a land without borders. There Was Land Here Before creates narratives around our sense of place and time and how these formour different lives. Elafonisos, once a peninsula connected to the mainland, was transformed into an island by an earthquake. On this trembling ground, how can we reexamine past narratives and narratives of the past, while replacing them with collective dreams and radical gestures?

Contemporary Art Exhibition

Visual Artists: Alexis Fidetzis, Fotini Kalle, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Panagiotis Kefalas, Electra Maipa, Persephone Nikolakopoulou, Ilias Papailiakis, Poka-Yio, Dimitris Rentoumis, Nana Sachini, Nana Seferli, Eva Stefani, Sasha Streshna, Garden Thief, Kleopatra Tsali, Manos Tsichlis, Vaskos, Marina Velisioti, Christos Venetis, 3 137.

Writers: Natalia Damigou Papoti, Emmanouela Kiriakopoulou, Anastasia Michopoulou, Christina Papoulia, Eleni Riga, Theophilos Tramboulis, Vicky Tsirou, Evita Tsokanta, Stefanos Yiannoulis, Costis Zouliatis.

19 August 2022 / Guest Performance : Sofia Kouloukouri

Musical Performance

post - truth is

another water

game I play

against my mouth

(electro-acoustic Lamento for 4 performers / sound installation)

5000 years ago,there was a city — there, we can immerse ourselves in its own perspective with what is left to be true. Now beings live in the World of the Mouth (inter-verbal space) but the gates of what remains, are outside their sight.

Participating Artists:

Anna Papathanasiou: vox - performance / StellaN. Christou: vox - performance – digital electronics / Tasos Stamou: Improvised sound sources - analog electronics / Kostas Tzekos: Bass Clarinet - analog electronics.

Composition – Installation – Words: Stella N.Christou

Location: Archaeological Museum of Neapolis Voion, Laconia

Start: 19:30

Duration: 40 min

Days: 23 & 24 August2022