After seventeen years as an active presence in the Greek dance scene, thanks to the support of the local authorities the Kalamata Festival has earned itself a special place on the festival map of the Mediterranean South, and built bridges to international dance creativity.

A number of influential figures, whose work is shaping the history of contemporary dance made their first Greek appearance at Kalamata, while the Festival has also taken care to promote and support Greek creativity in the field by commissioning works from talented Greek choreographers and supporting new companies in their experimental explorations.

Another integral part of the Festival are the seminars and talks aimed at dance students and professions alike, while other parallel events include publications and video dance productions.

From the very start, the Festival was programmed with two considerations in mind: the wide range of trends in contemporary dance and the ever-larger audiences this art-form attracts. Today, sixteen years down the line, every year sees a widely-varied audience enthusiastically respond to the call of the Festival.

Kalamata, the city of dance, is set to host its 17th annual programme of events between the 14th and 21st of July 2011.

The Festival is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Municipality of Kalamata.

14-21/07/2011

FESTIVAL VENUES

Kalamata Castle Amphitheatre

Polycladikon Lyceum Gym
170, Athinon Street

WORKSHOPS LOCATIONS

Kalamata National Stadium
Ethnikou Stadiou Street
Tel : 27210 82164

Kalamata Municipal Cultural Centre
33, Aristomenous street

Kalamata Paralia Gymnasium
Kritis & Voulgaroktonou(entrance from Praksitelous)

Zoumbouleio Megaro
6, Pan. Kaisari Street

Kalamata Municipal Theatre
2, Demosthenous street

OFF-PROGRAMME EVENTS

Historic City Centre – Αmpheias Square

Kalamata port

Kalamata Municipal Conservatory
1 Vileardouinou Street, Ypapantis Square

Secret Garden
98, Psaron Street, across the basketball ground, at the Kalamata Municipal Railway Park

PROGRAMME

Off-Programme Events

Workshops

Dedicated to contemporary digital arts and design, onedotzero is an internationally acclaimed organisation which aims to promote innovation across all forms of moving image and interactive arts. It showcases a range of activities, from events and special publications to education programmes and the artistic direction in a series of diverse projects.

Faithful to its free-to-enter submission policy, it encourages young talent as well as working artists to submit their work for the annual festivals, while the pioneering touring festival onedotzero – Adventures in motion has received an enthusiastic reception from both audiences and critics.

Travelling around the world, the festival aims to present the most exciting ideas and makes a stop in Athens, where – in collaboration with the Athens Video Art Festival 2011 – it gives us the opportunity to present to you four of its most important international touring screening programmes.

The screenings will be introduced by three members of the festival’s creative team, Elizabeth Waite, Joanna Shallow and Shane Walter.

Screening Programme

Friday 20 May | Room Δ2
1900–2000 | Extended play 10
Saturday 21 May | Room Δ2
1900–2000 | New British Talent 10
2000–2100 | Ladymation
Sunday 22 May | Room Δ2
1900–2000 | Wavelength 10

When: 20–22 May 2011

Where: Technopolis, 100 Pireos street, Gazi, 118 54 Athen

Ψηφιακές Τέχνες
ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΦΕΣΤΙΒΑΛ ΨΗΦΙΑΚΩΝ ΤΕΧΝΩΝ
ΚΑΙ ΝΕΩΝ ΜΕΣΩΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΣ 2011

El Festival de VideoArte de Atenas está dedicado a la cultura digital y a las nuevas tecnologías y se dirige a los amantes de la imagen móvil.
La meta del festival es promover esta forma de expresión contemporánea y especialmente viva, dando a los artistas estímulos adicionales para crear y la oportunidad de expresarse utilizando todos los medios audiovisuales, mientras se ofrece un espectáculo muy original al público.
Este año se presenta un amplio programa de Video Crítico en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, comisariado por Laura Baigorri. Esta muestra tiene como objetivo insistir en la visibilidad como única forma de resistencia; la obstinación por continuar ejerciendo la presión de la micro-política frente al mainstream mediático, en este caso a través de imágenes personales, ética y estéticamente elaboradas, que se contraponen a las imágenes manufacturadas dispuestas para el consumo rápido e inconsciente.
Las tres partes del programa se proyectarán el viernes, el sábado y el domingo de 17.00-18.00 h.

En colaboración con el Festival Internacional de VideoArte de Atenas 2011.

Tejnópolis, Pireós 100, Gasi y Filmoteca de Grecia, Ierá Odós 48 & Megalu Alexandru 134-136 (Metro Keramicós). Información: www.athensvideoartfestival.gr y 211.7108073
Entrada general: 7 €

Το Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακών Τεχνών και Νέων Μέσων της Αθήνας είναι ένα διεθνές φεστιβάλ οπτικo-ακουστικών τεχνών αφιερωμένο στον ψηφιακό πολιτισμό και τις νέες τεχνολογίες, που απευθύνεται σε όλους τους λάτρεις της κινούμενης εικόνας.
Σκοπός του είναι να προωθήσει αυτή τη σύγχρονη και ιδιαίτερα ζωντανή μορφή έκφρασης, δίνοντας στους καλλιτέχνες επιπρόσθετα κίνητρα για δημιουργία και την ευκαιρία να εκφραστούν χρησιμοποιώντας όλα τα οπτικο-ακουστικά μέσα, ενώ ταυτόχρονα προσφέρεται ένα πρωτότυπο θέαμα στο ευρύ κοινό.
Φέτος παρουσιάζεται ένα ευρύ πρόγραμμα με τον τίτλο Κριτικό Βίντεο της Λατινικής Αμερικής και Καραϊβικής, σε επιλογή της Λάουρα Μπαϊγκόρρι. Σκοπός αυτού του προγράμματος είναι η επιμονή στην οπτική παρουσία ως μοναδική μορφή αντίστασης, η αποχή ως μορφή αντιμετώπισης της μικροπολιτικής πίεσης μπροστά στα καθιερωμένα των ΜΜΕ, σ’ αυτή την περίπτωση μέσα από προσωπικές εικόνες, ηθικά και αισθητικά επεξεργασμένες, που έρχονται σε αντίθεση με τις στημένες εικόνες που προορίζονται για την γρήγορη και ασυνείδητη κατανάλωση.
Τα τρία μέρη του προγράμματος θα προβληθούν την Παρασκευή, το Σάββατο και την Κυριακή, 5 – 6 μ.μ.
Σε συνεργασία με το Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακών Τεχνών και Νέων Μέσων της Αθήνας 2011.

Τεχνόπολις, Πειραιώς 100, Γκάζι και Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος, Ιερά οδός 48 & Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου 134-136 (Μετρό Κεραμικός). Πληροφορίες: www.athensvideoartfestival.gr και 211.7108073
Γενική είσοδος: 7

FOR TOMORROW REMEMBER FOR IT IS THE BEGINNING OF ALWAYS!

The international festival of digital arts and new media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival, continuing its journey through the world of contemporary arts and new technologies returns for its seventh edition.

Supporting its basic principles and with the heritage of its seven years long history, Athens Video Art Festival represents our country internationally by presenting year by year cultural activities from worldwide in the most integral way with the aim of familiarizing the Greek public with new media in the context of a general effort to unite the diverse dots of the artistic map. In the context of its program, we had the pleasure to present a series of tributes to some of the most important figures, such as Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Bill Vorn and Andy Warhol in collaboration with either local or international organizations. Artists from around the world have the opportunity to present their artworks through the annual call for entries for the seven categories of its program (Video Art – Video Installations – Installation Art – Animation – Digital Image – Performance Art – Web Art), composing a platform of dialogue among the diverse aspect of digital culture.

Following the famous Nam June Paik’s quote «The future is now», the upcoming edition of Athens Video Art Festival suggests the continuous redesignation of thesis, aims and principles of everyday life inviting both artists and the public to coexist as colleagues in a journey to the future.

In the context of the program of its forthcoming edition, Athens Video Art Festival is scheduled to host artworks for the seven official categories, whereas attendants will have the opportunity to get familiar with eleven of the most outstanding festivals of digital arts from six European countries, as well as to view a special tribute to one of the most influential cultural movements, FLUXUS, entitled «Fluxus is an attitude».

Supporting the role and the character of Athens Video Art Festival, as well as appreciating modern artists’ artistry, this year’s program is enriched by a special category under the title «Believe the hype». The showrooms will host artworks created by artists that outstood during the past one year, in the framework of an exhibition curated by the Athens Video Art Festival Production Team.

Last but not least, with the aim of maintaining the interaction between the several elements of art and influenced by the phrase «Music is the healing force of the universe», Athens Video Art Festival 2011 adds to its program a special music line up inaugurating for the very first time in its history a second, inner stage.

Supported by:
Cultural Organization of Municipality of Athens, «Technopolis» of Municipality of Athens, Peiraios 100, Gkazi

Media sponsors:
Mega, MTV Greece, docTV, tvxs, αθηνόραμα, 2board, Athens Voice, City Press, Free Sunday, PC World, Computer Active, Athens News, Aesthetica Magazine, Digital Artist, +design, Υποβρύχιο, SONIK, SOUL, Σινεμά, Velvet, Platform, Echomove, Αθήνα 9.84, Air 104.4, Best 92.6, Στο Κόκκινο 105.5, in.gr, otenet.gr, mindradio.gr, Breathtaking Athens, artAZ, Urban Style Mag, artmag, ελculture.gr, Dailymotion, avopolis.gr, postyourevent.gr, e-go.gr, forfree.gr, art fox, wooloo.org, e-artnow, Shooting People, ARTE Creative.

Info:
Admission time: 16:00 – 04.00 am
Access:
Bus: Νο 21 (Omonia Square)
Bus: 035, 049, 811, 815, 838, 914, Β18, Γ18, 731, 031.
Tube station «Kerameikos»
Additional information:
www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
Mail address: info [at] athensvideoartfestival.gr
Tel: +30 211 71 08 073

Titchner is considered one of the most significant young UK artists. He was born in Luton and graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 1995. He was nominated for the Turner Prize, the most important UK award in contemporary art, in 2006. He has shown his work in numerous solo exhibitions in London, Los Angeles, Madrid and Berlin, and he has taken part in a series of group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.

The project includes the following works:

Attention and Habituation
an installation of ten videos presented in the Project Space area of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
The Last Ten Years
a new video installation presented during night hours on the window of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece Bookshop
Now for reality
a banner set up in 3 different central locations in Thessaloniki

Titchner will also give a series of talks and presentations on his work and on issues related to contemporary art and everyday reality in general, such as the influence of media aesthetics and vocabulary on the way we see ourselves.

He will return to Thessaloniki in 2012 to present an exhibition especially designed for the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition will be curated by Artemis Potamianou. Further information will be announced shortly.

The presentations will be held in English. The activities are being organised in collaboration with the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece and the General Secretariat for Youth (Thessaloniki branch).

MARK TITCHNER PRESENTS HIS WORK

When: Thursday 10 March 2011, 6 p.m.
Where: Amphitheatre, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 154 Egnatia Street, 546 36 Thessaloniki

MY LIFE IN WORDS
Mark Titchner speaks about the use of text in his work.

When: Friday 11 March 2011, 8 p.m.
Where: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece Bookshop, 11 Tsimiski Street, 546 24 Thessaloniki

WHY ARE WE WHAT WE ARE RATHER THAN WHAT WE’RE NOT?
Talk on the theme of the influence of the media aesthetics and vocabulary on the way we see ourselves.

When: Saturday 11 March 2011, 1 p.m.
Where: Project Space, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 154 Egnatia Street (HELEXPO), 546 36 Thessaloniki

ATTENTION AND HABITUATION
installation

When: 10 March–30 April 2011
Where: Project Space, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 154 Egnatia Street, 546 36 Thessaloniki

NOW FOR REALITY
banner

When: 10 March–30 April 2011
Where: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Entrance), YMCA Square,Thessaloniki
Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece Bookshop, 11 Tsimiski Street, 546 24 Thessaloniki
One more venue to be announced.

THE LAST TEN YEARS
video

When: 10 March–29 April 2011 (every evening except Saturdays & Sundays)
Where: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece Bookshop (window), 11 Tsimiski Street, 546 24 Thessaloniki

INFORMATION

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art:
2310 240 002 & 2310 281 212
www.mmca.org.gr & mmcart.blogspot.com
mmcart1@mmca.org.gr
British Council:
2310 378 314
Chrysoula.Melidou@britishcouncil.gr

Dear friends of Austrian culture!
 
This time we would like to refer to two exhibitions of contemporary Austrian art which will begin in March in Athens as well as in Thessaloniki.
 
On 10th March at 20.00 a homage to contemporary Austrian Photography and Video Art entitled  „Fluss in Athens“ will be opened at the M55 Art Gallery in Mavromichali  55, Athens/Exarchia (www.m55projects.gr). Cooperation partner is the Initiative of Lower Austria for Photo and Media Art  „Fluss“, whose artistic director, Martin Breindl, will also be present.
 
Works of five Austrian photographers and 5 video-artists, Helmut and Johanna Kandl, Gerda Lampalzer, Wolfgang Müllner, Anna Zeilinger and Sabine Maier [Machfeld], Michael Mastrototaro [Machfeld], Magdalena Frey, Gerald Zahn and Robert F. Hammerstiel, will be exhibited.
The exhibition will be on view until 1st April. 
In Thessaloniki the opening of the exhibition „das Manihesto“ of the Austrian-Greek  artist group DaDa DA Academy (Albert Mayr, Panos Papadopoulos, Elisabeth Penker, Petros Touloudis and Marina Faust) will take place on 16th March at 20.30 in the State Museum of Contemporary Art (www.greekstatemuseum.com). The exhibition will be on view from 16th March until 24th April.  You will find further information in the attachments. 
Both exhibitions will take place with the support of the Austrian Embassy in Athens.  
 
Moreover we would like to draw your attention once again to the exhibition “Obsessions and Intimacy – The body in contemporary Austrian drawings”, wihich is on view until  3rd April in the B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music (9 Vas. Sofias, Athens, www.thf.gr). Drawings of  Alfred Kubin, Maria Lassnig, Alfred Hrdlicka, Arnulf Rainer, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Adolf Frohner, Hubert Scheibl, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Kurt Kocherscheid, Franz West, Lois Weinberger and Birgit Jürgenssen are on display.
Opening hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays: 10.00 – 18.00 /Thursdays, Fridays: 10.00 – 21.00. Admission tickets cost 6 Euro or (reduction tickets) 3 Euro. Free admission on Mondays.
This exhibition is under the aegis of the Ambassador of Austria in Greece, Dr. Michael Linhart.

Video Art – Video Installations – Installations – Animation Digital Image – Performance Art – Web Art

(Additionally, an opportunity is given to young musicians and bands to post their demos for the concerts of the festival)

Submission forms and comprehensive information can be given in the official website of Athens Video Art Festival, while entry forms will be accepted until March the 10th of 2011.
For the very first time artists can submit their artworks apart from post offices, as well as by uploading them online
READ MORE: http://www.breathtakingathens.com/node/5001362

The exhibition Intake features two installations from the material from two art projects Please Me and Fall in Love with the Log that were developed in the United States from 2007 to 2009. The first installation offers the visitor the experience of being in a hurricane: in a hermetically sealed room, air turbines mimic the phenomenon of a whirlwind. The second installation allows us to “reckon” with a natural-size “Jumbo” (Boeing 747-200) engine.

At the same time, the artist uses video, still images, and audio to document the steps involved in creating the work and conveys with particular clarity the organizing principles with which the material was incrementally transformed.

Theodoros Zafeiropoulos graduated with honors from the School of Fine Arts at the Aristoteleian University of Thessaloniki and from the Master of Fine Arts program of the School of Fine Arts in Athens. He was awarded the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award from the School of Visual Arts in New York, from which he earned a Masters in Fine Arts. He is also a recipient of the Fulbright Foundation scholarship and other scholarships. He was a fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA. The artist has participated in various group exhibitions. Intake is his third solo exhibition. He lives and works in Athens and New York City.

Art historian Sotirios Bahtsetzis curates the exhibition.