Jacques Lacarrière inspiration for thesis

Jacques Lacarrière at the Benaki Museum, Athens
Lacarrière captures the Greek rural life during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s in the villages, the islands, the mountains, and the fields. He focuses on everyday activities and occupations which demonstrate the character of Greek traditions. The mapping of these activities reveals the process of those tasks in an [...]

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E(k)soterikotites – Art, Politics and Society in times of crisis

in Antonas’ talk:
Viktor Shlovsky’s idea that art should devise techniques of un-familiarization, and render form difficult. Από τον ποιητικό περνάμε στον πεζό λόγο μέσω του ζωντανού λόγου και χρόνου. Μέσα από την επιστράτευση του ζωντανού χρόνου η τέχνη γίνεται στρατηγική, περισσότερο από τελικό προϊόν. Antagonism introduces the structure to define what is art; through [...]

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tim hopkins at the thursday club

Les Noces Project is inspired by the Stravinsky’s ballet cantata Les Noces. Stravinsky and his collaborators, Nijinska (choreography) and Goncharova (visual design) imported the rituals of a Russian peasant wedding onto the stage, exposing them to unflinching aesthetic investigation across their collaborative disciplines. The work was conceived using unusual musical forces, such as four electromechanical [...]

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igloo visit at the V22

visit the igloo piece Swanquake:House at the V22 space
:: interesting inversion of real space into virtual through manipulating the wallpaper (slightly pixelated wallpaper glued on walls) and through simulating the real space inside the gaming environment :: simulating the real, which is already faked
:: immersion of people inside a constructed ambient, both in the real [...]

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