Other Activities
Performance #thehead | On becoming an animal | Panos Sklavenitis
Partnership of the Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab of the Department of Balkans, Slavic and Oriental Studies (PA.MAk), in the context of the new cycle of publications entitled: “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the city” with MOMus-Museum ov Contemporary Art and Cultural Venue of Islahane – former Hamidieh School of Arts & Vocations.
Sunday, May 14, 2023 | 14:00
45 minutes
Meeting point: MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (within TIF-Helexpo)
Open participation for the public
Visual artist Panos Sklavenitis curates for the first time an unexpected – and otherwise rather improbable – gathering of the various worlds of his project #thehead, as part of his participation in the main exhibition of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. A large carnival-like procession of individuals and groups in their own disguises will perform their own ritual in the city center, following a route from the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art (within TIF-Helexpo) to the Cultural Venue of Islahane – formerly Hamidie School of Arts & Crafts (2 Eleni Zografou Street).
At 17:00, in collaboration with the Cultural Venue of Islahane, there will be an open discussion about the artist’s work hosted in the same space.
In the context of a discussion on art, politics, and the post-human, in collaboration with the initiative “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the City”, the following will discuss the artist’s work: Fotini Tsibiridou, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies / University of Macedonia), and Christina Grammatikopoulou, PhD in Art History and Theory, Postdoctoral Researcher (Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies / University of Macedonia), coordinated by Maria-Thaleia Karra, curator of the Biennale’s main exhibition “Being as Communion.”
Event language: Greek
Documentary screening: “I heard God crying” (documentary 86′ – production 2013)
As part of the Cycle “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the City,” we will screen and discuss the film “I Heard God Crying” (86-minute documentary, 2013 production) with its creator Elpida Skoufalou on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, from 18:00 to 20:30, at the Cultural Venue of Islahane (address: Elenis Zografou 3, Thessaloniki).
The film takes us on a journey through Greece, Syria, and Albania. It focuses on rituals of faith, mourning, and lamentation as performed by minority communities, so close yet so distant from us. Marginalized communities from the Balkans and the Mediterranean remind us of the redemptive and healing significance of embodied rituals. These are worlds that communicate with God through the body and whose social actions are imbued with their passions. Worlds where faith in life guides them to honor their dead through rituals. Worlds that speak of forgotten intimacies of post-human inclusion, in harmony with nature and other creatures.
Event language: Greek
Invitation to MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Kostakis Collection
The Culture- Borders-Gender/Lab of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies (PA.MAK), in the context of the new cycle of public actions entitled: “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the city” , on Friday, December 23, 2022, time 17:00-20:00, will be at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art- Kostaki Collection (Kolokotroni 21, Lazariston Monastery).
Event language: Greek
https://www.momus.gr/exhibitions/organiki-tehni-h-protoporia-sto-petrogkrant-0
“The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the city”
The Culture – Borders – Gender/Lab of the Department of Balkan, Slavic, and Oriental Studies (University of Macedonia), creating links between the academic community and society, will be hosted on Wednesday, 7/12/2022, from 18:00 to 20:00, at the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Proxenou Koromila 23, Thessaloniki).
The event, within the framework of the new cycle of public actions titled: “The Culture-Borders-Gender/Lab in the city,” includes the presentation of print and electronic publications, as well as information about its educational activities and events open to the public.
Event language: Greek