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AB6 Newsletter #9: Only 10 days to go for ANTI
Date: November 29th, 2018
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NEWSLETTER | NOV 29, 2018 6th Athens Biennale 2018 Curators: Stefanie Hessler / Poka-Yio / Kostis Stafylakis |
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ONGOING PROJECTS Make your own tattoo at Salong Flyttkartong Thu 29.11, 2-6pm & Sat 1.12, 2-6pm > TTT building, 4th floor 
Salong Flyttkartong at the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI photo Nysos Vasilopoulos Is it fashion? Is it art? An extravagance? Or a statement? Whatever it is, and however each one sees them, tattoos are a personal view of how people see themselves and their body. They are in a way a personal performance. For a few days, you can confide your body with Salong Flyttkartong and make the experience of ANTI a physical one too. The unorthodox parlor set up by Linnea Sjoberg does not create "beautiful" tattoos but fast motifs inspired by personal moments. Some moments mark the memory memory, others may leave marks on the body. This week, Salong Flyttkartong and tattoo artists filomila and isto mike are waiting for you to capture for free a memory and create an experience you will remember for years. Where has my pension gone? Get your answer at the Civil Financial Regulation Office Weekdays, 2-8pm > TTT building, 2nd floor 
Civil Financial Regulation Office at the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI photo Nysos Vasilopoulos Every weekday, the agents of the Civil Financial Regulation Office (CFRO) at AB6 ANTI call the responsible regulators in Europe and ask them your questions. How is it possible that so little has changed since the last crisis? Finance is hiding behind its complexity. People in the financial sector only talk to each other. But we have questions. It's time we talk. What should we ask? Visit us at the 6th Athens Biennale, and leave your questions. You will soon get your answers. More info about the project by The Peng! Collective here. Do not miss at CINEMA NIGHTS ANTI welcomes you every week until the closure of the exhibition, December 9, to watch a series of screenings-funny, touching, but also often controversial and disturbing-by the artists of the 6th Athens Biennale. Sit back at the large red armchairs of KINO, the pop up movie theater at Esperia Palace, relax and enjoy an alternative cinema experience. 
ANTI KINO is powered by LG. What's the damage, 2017 by Heather Phillipson video, 7' Courtesy of the artist Thu 29.11, 8pm > Esperia Palace, KINO, 1st floor 
Heather Phillipson, What's the damage, 2017, Film still What's the damage is a call against dominant power structures answering back to ongoing crises under white patriarchy. Spoken word and digital fluidities give Phillipson's summons and riposte vital form through representations of livid, female bleeding, rising up against leadership circle-jerks, over-groomed toupees, environmental catastrophes, weeping vortexes, scorched orangutans, animal-fat banknotes, and advancing super-moons, pizzas, and drones. Narcissister Organ Player, 2018 by Narcissister film, 91' Directed by Narcissister Edited by Taryn Gould Produced by Narcissister and Taryn Gould Courtesy of the artist Thu 29.11, 8:08pm > Esperia Palace, KINO, 1st floor 
Narcissister, Narcissister Organ Player, 2018, Film still Combining her experience in dance and commercial art, and granted with the anonymity of the mask, Narcissister's performances point to gender, sexuality, race, media representation, and entertainment culture. Her feature film Narcissister Organ Player (2017) blends documentary, animation, and performance to explore how the loss of the artist's mother and her family history led to the creation of the masked persona. *With Greek subtitles Turtles All the Way Down, 2009 by Basim Magdy Super 8 film and DV on DVD, 10'09'' Courtesy of Gypsum Gallery, Cairo; hunt kastner, Prague; Art Sumer, Istanbul Fri 30.11, 8pm > Esperia Palace, KINO, 1st floor 
Basim Magdy, Turtles All the Way Down, 2009, Film still Basim Magdy's film takes its title from a popular expression referring to the problem of infinite regress. The saying, which is believed to have originated in Hindu mythology, assumes that the Earth is supported by the back of a turtle, who rests on the back of a larger turtle, who in turn rests on an even larger turtle, and so on. Magdy's film is a celebration of curiosity in a time when knowledge and scientific findings are under attack by so-called alternative facts sprouting in the "post-truth" era. *With Greek subtitles Explaining the Law to Kwame, 2018 by Roee Rosen video, 23' Courtesy of the artist Fri 30.11, 8.11pm > Esperia Palace, KINO, 1st floor 
Roee Rosen, Explaining the Law to Kwame, 2018, Film still A lecturer analyzes the legal case of the arrest of a young Palestinian. The deft analysis of law and legislation alternates with an erotic delirium. The lecture deviates into sexual spasms and an erotic lust permeates members of the audience. Starting from fragmented references to present politics, Rosen discovers a non-dialectical method to investigate the fabled intersection between the embodiment of law and desire. *With English subtitles The Rebellion of Red Maria, 2011 by Costas Zapas film, 95' Courtesy: Minus Pictures Films Thu 22.11, 8pm > Esperia Palace, KINO, 1st floor 
Costas Zapas, The Rebellion of Red Maria, 2011, Film still In a city-with heavy metal music haunting the heroes and the voice of Maria Callas being heard-an aged man, ex-terrorist, who dresses like a woman, Red Maria, is hiding as a sex worker and performer, dancing in the streets for passersby who pay him. He meets a young boy who lives as a street urchin. The boy discovers his missing mother in the voice of the dead diva, Maria Callas. Red Maria saves the boy. In order to survive, they invade cafes, giving performances that praise a new political God. Red Maria teaches the boy how to survive. Together they become magicians, holy fools, rebels. *Only in Greek WORKSHOP Spaces of Reflection by Spaces of Reflection group Sat 01.12, 12.30-6.30pm > Esperia Palace, GiGi, ground floor 
The Spaces of Reflection project aims to spark discourse on art mediation. It explores audience perception and possibilities for public participation in large-scale contemporary art exhibitions. In 2017, a Berlin-based group of fine arts, visual communication and art history students with diverse professional backgrounds came together with Athens-based artists and anthropologists in order to examine documenta 14 and questions evoked by the exhibition. Altogether they developed different experimental approaches and mediation tools based on their own professional experience, which they tested in a one week "laboratory" at the 10th Berlin Biennale. This Saturday, the Spaces of Reflection project will set up a room for reflection and discussion on the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI. Participants: Magdalena Berger van Buiten, Vivien Emmanouilidou, Sofia Grigoriadou, Simon Johnson, Alexia Manzano, Mattin, Dana Papachristou, Georgios Samantas, Ioannis Sarris, Silke Wittig. SHADOW THEATER Amusementorium, 2018 by Spyros Aggelopoulos Sun 18.11, 6-7pm & 7:30-8:30pm > TTT, 4th floor, room 403 
Spyros Aggelopoulos, Amusementorium, 2018 photo Nysos Vasilopoulos Shadow theater has a long tradition in Greece and the East. Karagioz, the folk hero, personifies the Ordinary Guy Archetype, a bit naive, a bit of a rascal, poor and beaten-up, trying to survive against the odds by utilizing folk wisdom and tons of luck. In Aggelopoulos's shadow theater, a mash-up of politicians, media figures, superheroes, cinema characters and villains-from Donald Trump and Slavoj Zizek to Rocky and Marina Abramovic-competes in an imaginary arena. Place your bets on the winner. ARTIST TALK Consonants and vowels, 2013-2018 by Ilias Papailiakis Sun 02.12, 7:30pm > Esperia Palace, KINO, 1st floor 
Ilias Papailiakis, The archaic father. Study of Mr. Tsingos' natural size (detail), 2018, oil on canvas Ilias Papailiakis has been working in a Don Quixotic quest to compete with the historic masters of painting. The romantic vanity is every now and then penetrated by fragments of a personal narrative that mocks formalism and oozes out of the primed canvas into "real" life. On the occasion of One2one being presented at the 6th Athens Biennale ANTI, Ilias Papailiakis will present twenty four of his works dating from 2013 to 2018. During his presentation, he will talk about his topics of interest within these five years, as well as the principles that formed his visual language until this day. GUIDED TOURS by AB6 curators Enjoy the guided tours to the exhibition by the curators of AB6 and learn more about ANTI, the curatorial concept, and the art projects. 
Scheduled guided tours Sat 1.12, 4pm & 6:30pm Sun 2.12, 4pm & 6:30pm Meeting point: TTT Building, Stadiou 15 (Main Venue) More about the program of events here. Venues TTT building, Stadiou 15 Esperia Palace, Stadiou 22 Benakeios Library, Anthimou Gazi 2 TSMEDE, Kolokotroni 4 Opening hours Mon-Fri: 2pm-10pm Sat-Sun: 12pm-10pm Buy your tickets online here. Become a friend of the Athens Biennale. |
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