Avtonomi Akadimia 2023
Rewilding and Rewriting
It took the overturning of lakes into fire and for jungles to start inhaling, rather than emitting, oxygen, before the conditions of life on Earth would become a political factor. But just as some feeling and thinking humanoids started to assume their interconnectedness and rediscover animism, bulldozers came along to cut down trees in one of the few parks of Athens.
The death drive of economic rationalization now tearing Greece to pieces, has to be tamed. Tourists have had enough of colonial fictions of archaeological sites. Instead, they would like to join us, our movements of the First Global Reloveution, we who have gathered together, in the ruins of the European state, to imagine and script worlds beyond nations and borders, and who, with the power of art, manifest lives worth living, in which bulldozers let loose the subterranean river, Kiffissos, that flows under the lush cypresses and olive trees of the Akadimia Platonos Jungle.
Here, we esteem knowledge of the Good Life above all knowledges and weave together indigenous epistemologies. We leave behind the hierarchies of the art world and embrace collectiveness. We conjure the reuniting of art and physis in ecofeminism. We cast off identity politics. We recover political philosophy from the academies. And we extoll the Beauty of the Akadimia Platonos Jungle.
Ana Piquer: Workshop: The Ancient magic of dreams. Nahua/Mexican artist will teach us how to navigate in our dreams and connect with non-Western languages as a way of political resistance
Thomas Oberender Language and Power; 10.000 words for change. A meditation on language
Tania Hron
Reimagining and rewriting futur(es) in Plato’s Jungle
Workshop: What kind of social, cultural, political future would I like to imagine for a neighborhood?
Elke Krasny
Living with a Wounded Planet: On Feminist Recovery
Magali Dougoud
The Blue Continuum; The rising of the Womxn Waves – cinematic investigation on femicide in Berlin’s waterways
Film presentation. Podium discussion with Magali Dougoud and Eleni Riga. With the support of Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung. Photo: Pavlos Kavadias
Magali Dougoud
The Blue Continuum; The rising of the Womxn Waves – cinematic investigation on femicide in Berlin’s waterways. Film presentation. Podium discussion with Magali Dougoud and Eleni Riga. With the support of Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung Photo: Pavlos Kavadias
in the programme of The Office of Hydro-commons by Eleni Riga
Margarita Tsomou
On Planetary Feminism
Joulia Strauss
Transindigenous Assembly; Punk documentary about queer aboriginal and indigenous artists and their inventions of the “good life”, a life worth living amidst the wrong life
Film presentation
Discussion with Margarita Tsomou and Eleni Riga. On the photo by Alexandra Masmanidi: Joulia Strauss
in the programme of The Office of Hydro-commons by Eleni Riga
Margarita Tsomou
On Planetary Feminism
Joulia Strauss
Transindigenous Assembly; Punk documentary about queer aboriginal and indigenous artists and their inventions of the “good life”, a life worth living amidst the wrong life
Film presentation
Discussion with Margarita Tsomou and Eleni Riga. On the photo by Alexandra Masmanidi: Eleni Riga
Steven Corcoran Excavating the Politeia: Organising and Trust in the People. Photo: Kasia Wojcik
in collaboration with Parrhesia Philosophy School Berlin Kasia Wojcik, Steven Corcoran, Omid Tofighian, Parwana Amiri, Ioulia Mermigka, DJ Justine: Migration as Radical Site of Art, Translation & Philosophy. On the photo by Pavlos Kavadias: Parwana Amiri
in collaboration with Parrhesia Philosophy School Berlin Kasia Wojcik, Steven Corcoran, Omid Tofighian, Parwana Amiri, Ioulia Mermigka, DJ Justine: Migration as Radical Site of Art, Translation & Philosophy. Photo: Pavlos Kavadias
Fight With Your Knowledge
Avtonomi Akadimia 2022
Welcome to this ∞th year of Avtonomi Akadimia
May it be a year of infinite solidarity, in defiance of the hybrid world war that threatens to engulf us. May it be a year in which an infinity of interrelated, self-governed communities, facing a world of havoc and mayhem, dare to celebrate life.
Avtonomi Akadimia, founded in 2014, has sought to be a humble contribution to the First Global Reloveution. This Reloveution has started well: we united, disagreed, agreed, and partially effected the empire’s dissolution. But now… in the throes of agony, capitalism sacrifices populations out of political opportunism, cultivating dictators who impose resource wars, mass rapes, genocides of indigenous land workers, witch hunts, and so on. How can we fight against this backlash?
Avtonomi Akadimia is a manifesto. But we have nothing to proclaim. There is no one to demand anything from. We are the ones we were waiting for and we live our script, forging our path as a self-organized grassroots university and durational art work. Here, living is learning, and learning is healing. We reunite shamanism and politics, creolize care feminism, blockchain unions, and frog medicine. We re-define art by distributing climate pamphlets, by practising ancestral sound healing, martial arts, and drawing with Qi. We cook and dance, we honour disobedient schools from previous struggles in order to formulate a political philosophy. We listen to the Grandmother of the Universe, a trans-indigenized Mari-Goddess, whose voice guides our passage to grasping nature as a sacred living organism.
This year, continuing on from last year’s ecofeminist part of the Room to Bloom project, we have opened a residency for Ukrainian artists. We welcome these Amazonians, who have left their birthlands and come to share with us their knowledge of resistance and of forging a society of solidarity.
This year, we support the workers of Athenian universities: hands off the autonomy of the academies!
This year, we further exemplify the process of collective enlivenment and of caring for the cultural heritage of the public jungle of Akadimia Platonos, by contributing to its protection as an environmental commons and establishing #LegalRights4AkadimiaPlatonosJungle and #§0LegalRights4MotherEarth.
We fight with our knowledge.
The programme takes place at three venues of the Avtonomi Akadimia: in the Akadimia Platonos Jungle, at the Villa Araucaria, an urban house with a jungle in an inner yard, situated underminingly behind Panteion University, Kallithea, and at The Muses’ Embassy, next to Filopappou Hill.
Elke Krasny: Workshop: Care feminism: Words, conversations, walks
Elke Krasny: Workshop: Care feminism: Words, conversations, walks
Programme
24 June, 20.00
Lucas
Preparations for the Avtonomi Akadimia
Lecture on Traditional Amazonean Frog Medicine
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
Kambo Ceremonies June 25 – June 28
Please, contact Lucas, limited participants: WhatsApp: +4915153246370
27 June, 19:00
James Simbouras
Keynote
New Delphi. Blockchain Machines, Gaian Cybernetics and Labour of Trust: Imagining new futures with dirt behind their ears
Villa Araucaria, zoom
27 June, 20:00
Raimar Stange
Climate Changes everything: Exhibition and distribution of Climate pamphlets
Talk by the curator Raimar Stange on zoom
Villa Araucaria and across the public space of Athens
1 July, 18:00
Elke Krasny
Workshop: Care feminism: Words, conversations, walks
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
2 July, 18:00
Marcella Caldas
Decolonial curatorship from the south: Deep listening and radical imagination for new horizons
Villa Araucaria
2 July, 19:00
Maria Mayor
Deep artist talk: Here I come to save the day
Villa Araucaria
3 July, 18.00
Joulia Strauss
Workshop: Qi Gong with elements of Kung Fu: Drawing with Qi
Villa Araucaria
3 July, 20.00
Hybrid terrains and entanglements in Kampos by
Stratis Vogiatsis
Villa Araucaria
5 July, 18:00
Elisa Sophia Braun
The Common Orchard: Architectural Choreographies for a Fruit Farm
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
5 July, 19:00
Eliana Otta
Messaging through the roots
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
6 July, 20:00
Steven Corcoran
Fighting for Knowledge: Enacting Equality
In solidarity with Empros
Free Self-managed Theater EMPROS
Riga Palamidou 2, Psirri 10554
10 July, 12:00 – 16:00
Liwaa Jazji
Storytelling workshop: Look back in…
Please, register: +306906912882
The Muses’ Embassy
14 July, 17:00
Eirini Vlavianou
Workshop:
Lullabies as songs of rest; from the cradle to feminist labour struggles
Villa Araucaria
14 July, 20:00
Alkistis Lara Papadakis
Food Pedagogies: A performative lecture around a cooking session
Villa Araucaria
16 July, 19:00
Eirini Vlavianou
Workshop: Lullabies as songs of rest; from the cradle to feminist labour struggles
Villa Araucaria
16 July, 22:00
Yuystyna Kravchuk
Kyiv after the Rave
The is talk followed by a collective cooking session and a rooftop party with DJ Justine
Villa Araucaria
17 July, 20:00
Thomas Oberender
Mind the gatekeepers: Pros and Cons for independent community projects in Krypto and IRW
Akadimia Platonos Jungle