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Τhe project Τerrains Vagues proposes an exploration and re-examination of the urban vacancy through a series of performative and research activities. Departing from the assumption that the very concept of the ruin is interwoven with urban exploration, Terrains Vagues invites the walker to listen to the weaving of the contemporary urban landscape through its continuities and discontinuities.
Τhe project consists of walks and workshops in
public spaces of Athens, as well as screenings and a sound installation in the
exhibition spaces of T.A.F. / The Art Foundation. The closed gallery space will be functioning as an open studio for
the students of the Fine Art School of Athens.
Walks & workshops
Walk functions as a subjective physical relationship with the material environment and as performance it explores the boundary between the internal and external environment. Promenadology (Spaziergangswissenschaft), as a research and learning method, connects the environment with the stroller, attributing consciousness to the artistic procedure.
Αkoo.o | The Future ahead of
us #2.
Thursday 4/5, 18.00
Walking
performance. Participants are invited to transfer themselves to the linguistic
universe of Aymara of the Andean highlands and to explore their relationship
with time.
Dana Papachristou| Passagenwerk
Friday 5/5, 18.00
Walk in the arcade of Athens, Space – Time and Active Listening in the public
space.
ΑΤΑ – Αlternative Tours of Athens | Urban fallow
Wednesday 10/5, 17.00
From Syntagma to Omonoia, stories of condensation and emptiness, a participatory reading of space.
Giorgos Samantas| What remains? what ruins?
Friday 12/5, 18.00
Participatory walking workshop, sketching upon the relation
between the exhibition "white cube" and the urban public space.
ΑΤΑ – Αlternative Tours of Athens | Εργαστήριο
Saturday 13/5, 11.00
Participatory design workshop in public spaces around the Omonoia square.
Giorgos
Papamatthaiakis - Big Olive | Urban Fermentations
Saturday
13/5, 12.00
The areas west of Athens have nested the productive sector of the Greek capital
throughout the 20th century. The districts around Omonoia, in
particular, have successfully catered to a palimpsest of populations
of various classes and ethnic groups. Contemporary practices and beliefs
gradually led secondary industries out of town, leaving remnants of
production spaces behind; empty building carcasses and brownfields
are today landscapes of potential development.
This stroll follows the social fermentation and mutations in the former productive areas of Psyrri, Metaxourgheio and Kerameikos. It tells a story of successive expansion, dislocation and gentrification by providing a deeper insight into the current urban geography of developing territories of the center.
Nikos
Magouliotis - Big Olive | Spolio-logy of Athens
Sunday 14/5, 18.00
Athens is a city assembled by a variety of fragments of different historical phases. Its present image is co-formed by many layers of history, often simultaneously visible and in unexpected continuities. The walk Spoliology of Athens on Philopappou Hill will focus on the architecture of the city and how its architectural fragments (spolia, as named by archaeologists) have been used in different cases for the construction of the incongruous mosaic of the city and its buildings.
Sound installation
Dana Papachristou | Lines of flight
This work consists of a series of soundscape compositions and echoing urban silences. The pre-recorded audio material is part of a single composition but its placement in T.A.F. exhibition rooms around the courtyard, prevents its hearing as such.
The sound installation is exhibited in an environment that is in itself a historically charged place. The rooms of the T.A.F complex constitute ruins of a building dating back to the late 1800s. Over the years, these spaces have acquired many different uses, while in the 1950s they were inhabited by many families relocating to Athens as part of a wider migration wave. Since 2009, the rooms have been used as a unique venue for contemporary art exhibitions, hosting artworks, performances, in situ installations, and sometimes operating as an open studio for projects in progress. The rooms are nothing more than a palimpsest of multiple meanings and memories that are constantly recorded on the partially erased traces of previous interventions.
Open Studio
Practice of mapping with students from ASFA. Tutor | Sofia Grigoriadou
The closed gallery space will be transformed for 10 days into an open studio. A group of students of the Fine Art School of Athens, enrolled for the Mapping workshop/course along with their tutor Sofia Grigoriadou grapple with the notions of space and representation through mapping through the creations of collective compositions and individual projects.
Participants: Alexandra Charitou, Stella Kavagrou, Vasiliki Koukou, Melina Konstantinou, Eleni Makropopoulou, Eleni Maragkaki, Vladimiros Mitropoulos, Ioanna Michopoulou, Vasileios Okouve
Screenings
Patrick Baxter | A Place Where Ghosts Dwell (2016)
Duration: 68’
Patrick Baxter | Improv House (2014)
Duration: 7'08''
METASITU | Stop over city (2014)
Duration: 8’ 42’’
Giorgos Samantas | The Future ahead of us #1 (2017)
Documentation video, 4’ 51’’
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