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Avtonomi Akadimia 2023: Rewilding and Rewriting

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.

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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

 

 

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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?

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

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. 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

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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: 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

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

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.     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

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.

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Elke Krasny: Workshop: Care feminism: Words, conversations, walks

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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

To Araucaria ^^ Summer Semester 2021

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Araucaria tree, to whom this semester is dedicated

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Villa Araucaria, the pandemic venue of Avtonomi Akadimia

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Queer Aboriginal Sista Girls (Transindigenous Assembly environment), photo: Fiona Kelly

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Shipibo healer Maestra Justina (Transindigenous Assembly environment), photo: Fiona Kelly

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 Keynote lecture: Steven Corcoran ^^ Choice of the Gods, photos by Clara Mosconi

A special newspaper dedicated to the tree, was edited by Steven Corcoran, Clara Mosconi, and Joulia Strauss

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room to bloom, ecofeminism workshops organized in collaboration with European Alternatives and AthenSYN

detailed documentation

with Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Aleksandra Rhodius, Mayoori Sangameshwar Hanagodimath (aka MUKTA Mayoori), Marina Naprushkina, and Katerina Katsifaraki

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Protecting the Akadimia Platonos Jungle: solidarity from Hungary, Colombia, Italy, France, Spain, Ukraine, Belarus, Albania, Germany, Ireland

 

 

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Photo: Clara Mosconi

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Photo: Clara Mosconi

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Penny Travlou (Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research), Nadja Verena Marcin, Eleni Riga, Joulia Strauss and Marc Müller ^^ Ecofeminism

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Marc Müller and Joulia Strauss honour indigenous activists assasinated in Colombia, photo: Clara Mosconi

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Qi Gong workshop with Khien Phuc

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Nalini ^^ Plantwork. A lecture on traditional work with plant medicine from the Amazon

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Clara Mosconi ^^ Voicing a choreography of Echo

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Raimar Stange (online) ^^ art als assembly – how democracy could work in the climate change

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Xanaé Bowe (on the right): ^^ A Parallel(es) Life, 2021, 105min., film screening and discussion

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Tania Hron ^^ Shamans, witchcraft, plant medicine, and global climate change

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Nitya ^^ Tibetan Pulsing

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Katja Ehrhardt ^^ Communicating with trees

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Youlia Mermigka, Nikos Souzas, Jojo Diakoumakos ^^ Autonomy of Migration, Border Regimes and Post-Racial Crisis: The Case of the Greek Island of Chios (2015-2016)

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Thomas Oberender ^^ Towards a Gaia Theatre, photos: Marianna Bolano

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This semester is prepared with the precious participation and support of Prof. Rainbow Snake André Sauer and Prof. Black Lion Yorgos Theodorakis

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Aleksandra Rhodius from the Transindigenous Assembly environment

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 Mari Cats and Khien Phuc from the Transindigenous Assembly environment

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Photo: Clara Mosconi

Avtonomi Akadimia — Academy of Transformation

Avtonomi Akadimia at Down to Earth. Klima Kunst Diskurs unplugged, Gropius Bau, 2020

Rainbow Snake: "Transindigenous Assembly" unplugged Joulia Strauss in collaboration with costume designer Kristina Weiß-Busch,  upcycling-artist Gabi Bartels, dress maker Nina Janßen-Braje Drawings: Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri, Marc Müller Shipibo embroideries: Isabel Franquines Bardales, Dorcas Maynas Romayna, Emilda Sanchez Barbaran, Keila Rojas Martinez

Rainbow Snake: “Transindigenous Assembly” unplugged
Joulia Strauss in collaboration with costume designer Kristina Weiß-Busch,
upcycling-artist Gabi Bartels, dress maker Nina Janßen-Braje
Drawings: Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri, Marc Müller
Shipibo embroideries: Isabel Franquines Bardales, Dorcas Maynas Romayna, Emilda Sanchez Barbaran, Keila Rojas Martinez

Avtonomi Akadimia — Academy of Transformation, a conversation between Thomas Oberender and Joulia Strauss Down to Earth. Klima Kunst Diskurs unplugged, Gropius Bau, 2020 Photo: Eike Walkenhorst © Berliner Festspiele/Immersion

Avtonomi Akadimia — Academy of Transformation, a conversation between Thomas Oberender and Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth. Klima Kunst Diskurs unplugged, Gropius Bau, 2020
Photo: Eike Walkenhorst
© Berliner Festspiele/Immersion

 

Sista Girls

Sista Girls

Maestra Justina standing on the Akadimia timetable embroidery

Maestra Justina standing on the Akadimia timetable embroidery

Thomas Oberender and Joulia Strauss in a conversation with the founder of Love Parade, Dr. Motte

Thomas Oberender and Joulia Strauss in a conversation with the founder of Love Parade, Dr. Motte

Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA and other Disasters Photo by Fernando Schrupp

Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA and other Disasters
Photo by Fernando Schrupp

Maja Chiara Faber: Modern Astrology

Maja Chiara Faber: Modern Astrology

education as a form of art

education as a form of art

Joulia Strauss and Robert Lippok perform together for the first time. Photo by Thomas Oberender

Joulia Strauss and Robert Lippok perform together for the first time. Photo by Thomas Oberender

Joulia Strauss and Robert Lippok perform together for the first time. Photo by Thomas Oberender

Joulia Strauss and Robert Lippok perform together for the first time. Photo by Thomas Oberender

Joulia Strauss and Robert Lippok perform together for the first time. Photo by Thomas Oberender

Joulia Strauss and Robert Lippok perform together for the first time. Photo by Thomas Oberender

Luca Di Blasi: "Guilt Politics in the Anthropocene"

Luca Di Blasi: “Guilt Politics in the Anthropocene”

Bartosz Zurowski: "Plant medicines and music in spiritual practices of Amazonian tribes"

Bartosz Zurowski: “Plant medicines and music in spiritual practices of Amazonian tribes”

Bernd Brabec de Mori: "How to Get Down to Earth? Indigenous Knowledge, Power and the Uncanny"

Bernd Brabec de Mori: “How to Get Down to Earth? Indigenous Knowledge, Power and the Uncanny”

Isabell Schrickel: "Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities' Creative Involvement with the United Nations"

Isabell Schrickel: “Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations”

Isabell Schrickel: "Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities' Creative Involvement with the United Nations"

Isabell Schrickel: “Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations”

educational process

educational process

Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema): What Happened to Sharing, what Happened to Caring

Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema): What Happened to Sharing, what Happened to Caring

Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema): What Happened to Sharing, what Happened to Caring

Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema): What Happened to Sharing, what Happened to Caring

 

 

Michelle-Marie Letelier: "Ancient or Human-made?"

Michelle-Marie Letelier: “Ancient or Human-made?” Communication with the genetically manipulated salmon.

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transformation of the european educational system

Qi Gong workshop by Khien Phuc

Qi Gong workshop by Khien Phuc

Avtonomi Akadimia — Academy of Transformation, a conversation between Thomas Oberender and Joulia Strauss Down to Earth. Klima Kunst Diskurs unplugged, Gropius Bau, 2020 Photo: Eike Walkenhorst © Berliner Festspiele/Immersion

Avtonomi Akadimia — Academy of Transformation, a conversation between Thomas Oberender and Joulia Strauss
Down to Earth. Klima Kunst Diskurs unplugged, Gropius Bau, 2020
Photo: Eike Walkenhorst
© Berliner Festspiele/Immersion

Sista Girls, Shipibo Orphan School, Maestro Wiler, Marc-John de Brown

Sista Girls, Shipibo Orphan School, Maestro Wiler, Marc-John de Brown

Maestro Wiler and Marc-John de Brown

Maestro Wiler and Marc-John de Brown

Joulia Strauss "Rainbow Snake" Mari Altar, drawings in collaboration with Marc Müller, Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri

Joulia Strauss “Rainbow Snake” Mari Altar, drawings in collaboration with Marc Müller, Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri

Athens

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Meeting of climate activists, artists, philosophers and lawyers, organised in collaboration with the Permaculture School

The Akadimia Platonos Jungle* is launching a call for an integrative protection of commons, biodiversity and cultural heritage, for the relevant European legislation to seek inspiration in animist cosmologies, for the education system to transform through indigenous forms of knowledge, and for the separation between culture and nature to be overcome.

*In Greek, the gender of the word ‘garden’ (ο κήπος) is masculine, so Akadimia Platonos, updating itself, has now become a jungle (η ζούγκλα), which, in Greek, is feminine.

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Penny Travlou, cultural geographer, activist, photo by Christopn Böhmer

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Sandy Fameliari, environmental activist, physicist, photo by Christopn Böhmer

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Helen Dimos, writer

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Yorgos Theodorakis, Permaculture School, environmentalist, activist

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André Sauer, cultural activist

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Steven Corcoran, translator, philosopher, photo by Christopn Böhmer

MariaAthina

Maria Athina Tzioka, environmental, social and artistic activist, photo by Christopn Böhmer

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Natasha Dourida, cultural engineer, photo by Christopn Böhmer

Iosif Eframidis, architect, environmental activist

Iosif Eframidis, architect, environmental activist, photo by Christopn Böhmer

Maria Petinaki, architect

Maria Petinaki, architect, photo by Christopn Böhmer

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Maria Juliana Byck, ethical fashion designer, activist, artist, experimental filmmaker, and social practitioner, photo by Christopn Böhmer

Antigone Theodorou, performing visual artist

Antigone Theodorou, performing visual artist

Constantina Litsa, permaculturist, herbalist

Constantina Litsa, permaculturist, herbalist

William Rowe, poet, teacher

William Rowe, poet, teacher

Kathleen Kunath and Christoph

Kathleen Kunath and Christoph Böhmer

Ioulia Mermigka, cultural studies scholar, philosopher

Ioulia Mermigka, cultural studies scholar, philosopher

Jon Goodbun, environmental architect, writer, teacher, artist, activist

Jon Goodbun, environmental architect, writer, teacher, artist, activist

Nikos Anastasopoulos, architect

Nikos Anastasopoulos, architect

special guest: Sovik Roy

special guest: Sovik Roy

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Joulia Strauss, artist Presenting Avtonomi Akadimia as well as contributions by Georgia Kotretsos and Eirini Vlavianou

Joulia Strauss, artist, activist
presenting Avtonomi Akadimia
and mediating telephone contributions by Georgia Kotretsos and Eirini Vlavianou

 

Avtonomi Akadimia in collaboration with LAB12 ASFA

Steven Corcoran: On Egalitarian Politics Today: Thinking Outside a ‘Desire for the West’

Steven Corcoran Photo by Theo Ilichenko

Steven Corcoran
Photo by Theo Ilichenko

Steven Corcoran Photo by Theo Ilichenko

Steven Corcoran
Photo by Theo Ilichenko

Steven Corcoran Photo by Theo Ilichenko

Steven Corcoran
Photo by Theo Ilichenko

 

online marathon: the economy of borders ^^ we lost our soft soul, by crossing the borders

July 9th

Eirini Vlavianou – Das ist euer krieg, nicht meiner / This is your war, not mine, 2020
This project is a pen illustration which tries to address the position of women in situations of war and destruction. Structured in reference to many symbolisms extracted from classical painting, the work unveils a female figure rising in a manner similar to that of a monument, from rough waters while a deconstructed, destroyed city lies behind her. Rough waters are usually used in art history as a means to manifest pain, disease, war or destruction. The use of an iconography similar to that of the Art Nouveau movement, in which women are portrayed as ethereal and seductive, as a decorative erotic object in the painting that is, is not aimless. As the title of the work implies, the purpose of this illustration was to underline the minimum say women have in political choices, while being the ones that are inflicted the most pain. Wars, being the continuation of patriarchal power remnants, always place the most vulnerable in situations that do not involve them. We, as women, in particular are constantly found in between battles organised and manifested by men for men. This is a shout out for everyone who has been hurt, used, abused, manipulated, blamed while being under circumstances they did not choose. When the inhumanity doesn’t hurt us, it makes us stronger!
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July 8th

Liwaa Yazji

My contribution to The Economy of Borders… Thank you all for the chance to be part of this group and event.

The first Poster I do ever. I can only remember one I did in elementary school for Jerusalem…

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This is a trailer to my film “Haunted”, it talks about Syrian in one of the critical moments as I believe during these harsh times. whether to leave Home or not… if you ever had the luxury even to question. Syrians like everyone else like their homes (some spent over 20 years to obtain one!) so, it is not easy for them to be so uprooted… it was crucial to film Syrians while still in Syria… to give a correct idea how they are not Naturally Born Refugees as media makes of them. 

To have a safe place to live in is a right
To have a future is a right
If countries sell weapons to Syria, it is strange that the same countries refuse to take in refugees… the natural outcome of wars they had their fingers in.
People will continue to move due to so many reason… climate, wars, pandemics… as long as the wealth distribution is so imbalanced and abusive.


 

July 7th

Antigoni Theodorou

For this project I came in contact with Parwana Amiri, refugee from Afghanistan who is living at Ritsona refugee camp in Greece. Parwana is an author, a poet, an education volunteer and equal rights and justice activist. She published the books ‘Olive tree and old woman’ and ‘My pen will never break but borders will’. She is sixteen years old, she speaks five languages, and dreams of entering politics to defend the rights of the oppressed. I wanted her voice to be heard, so I asked her to write and send me her words. She sent me several examples of her letter and we corrected many times. She couldn’t find more paper so she sent me the final letter written on a paper box. I found this very sweet. I thought from the beginning that it will be nice and strong if her handwriting will be on the poster and not me writing it again or write it on the computer using fonts and decorate it. If you are interested you could have a look at her social media where among other things she shared videos considering the situation inside the camp during the pandemic.

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July 5th

Vera Varlamova

How to play?

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July 4rth

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou

This is Tinhairbell, a non-binary, trans Hairy Fairy.
For me it was important to create a transfeminist, intersectional message, spreading radical softness, tenderness and vulnerability as a political tool of resistance against all borders and oppressive regimes.

This is a small poetic fairytale about her.

The Hairy Fairy was born out of the last tears of a woman who was burnt at the stake after she had been accused of witchcraft. That day Ursula let her bittersweet tears fall, she let them flow on her whole body and fall on the ground. Her body, a source of identity and prison, turned into ashes, which seeped through the ground and took root in the silent history of the world. Tinhairbell rose from the mud and the trails of death. One component of her essence is the constant fear of persecution. She flies with her one shiny wing in perpetuity across time and opposes all the mechanisms of control and exploitation of her body using her supersized arms. Her fairy dust consists of the voices of women covered by silence, the therapists, the insubordinates, the gossips, those who poisoned their masters and lived by themselves in the margins. If you look down below the sky and close your eyes, you might see her sprinkling glitter with her colourful boxing gloves.

Η Τριχωτή Νεράιδα γεννήθηκε από το τελευταίο κλάμα μιας γυναίκας που βρισκόταν πάνω στους πασσάλους της πυράς επειδή την κατηγόρησαν για μαγεία. Εκείνη τη μέρα η Ούρσουλα ελευθέρωσε τα γλυκόπικρα δάκρυά της, τα άφησε να διασχίσουν το κορμί της και να πέσουν στο χώμα. Το σώμα της, πηγή ταυτότητας και φυλακής, μεταμορφώθηκε σε στάχτη η οποία εισχώρησε στο έδαφος και ρίζωσε στη σιωπηλή ιστορία του κόσμου. Η Τρίχερμπελ βγήκε μέσα από τη λάσπη και τα ίχνη του θανάτου. Ένα από τα συστατικά της υπόστασής της είναι ο διαρκής φόβος καταδίωξης. Πετάει με το ένα της αστρα-φτερό στο διηνεκές διασχίζοντας το χρόνο και εναντιώνεται με τα υπερμεγέθη της μπράτσα σε όλους τους μηχανισμούς ελέγχου και εκμετάλλευσης του κορμιού της. Η νεραιδόσκονή της αποτελείται από τις φωνές των γυναικών που τις κάλυψε η σιωπή, τις θεραπεύτριες, τις ανυπάκουες, τις κουτσομπόλες, αυτές που δηλητηρίαζαν τους αφέντες τους και ζούσανε μόνες τους στο περιθώριο. Αν κοιτάξεις χαμηλά κάτω από τον ουρανό και κλείσεις τα μάτια, ίσως τη δεις να σκορπίζει γκλίτερ με τα πολύχρωμα πυγμαχικά της γάντια.

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July 2nd

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July 1rst

By Greta Cazzola:
WIR SIND HIER, WIR SIND LAUT : MACHT PLATZ!
WE ARE HERE, WE ARE LOUD: MAKE SPACE/GET OUT OFF OUR WAY!
We – women*, migrants*, minorities – are part of this society and take place in building it.
Now we deserve our space, our recognition. We will not let this space be taken away from us. We are not quiet. And we are many.

This was the scream that echoed in the streets as we walked through the city on international women*s day. Walking through a city and shouting this slogan together with other allies fills me with strength and determination. And this strength I want to share!

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June 30th

by Florine Schüschke:

multipass. valid
for all countries. and borders
become obsolete

multipass. one for
every person in the world.
same for everyone.

seems like a dream but
we have to believe in it
becoming true. a fight.

because passports are
the biggest inequity
one can imagine.

because passports are
the biggest absurdity
one can imagine.

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June 29th

By Olia Sosnovskaya:

I am writing this in Vienna, Austria. Due to the total neglection of the coronavirus pandemic by the Belarusian president A. Lukashenko, who refused to imply quarantine and orders to lower the official statistics (if you follow it – just don’t trust it) and the number of tests, the situation there is really frightening. People and businesses crowd-fund for medical supplies. Every time I hear and read about someone of my friends’ relatives, colleagues and friends being sick or dead. At this moment, Belarus is rated with the highest coronavirus risk by the Austrian government. It is unknown when we would be able to move between the Schengen borders more or less ‘freely’ again, even if having visas.

And then, more news is coming when the president election campaign started: endless lines of people who are queuing in the epidemic to give their signature for the alternative future candidates; then those candidates to the candidates (even prior their registration) being detained; the current president daily humiliating and assaulting the people in the media; bloggers and hundreds of people protesting the detainment getting arrested.

And the most recent news was that almost half of Minsk districts’ water was polluted — not safe to drink, to cook, to wash. The authorities denied the danger for the whole day! The problem is still not solved fully, and there is still no reliable information about what happened.

You may think the borders are far, and that they protect you. Very soon the first Belarusian nuclear power plant will get launched, regardless the numerous safety warnings, lack of proper examinations and existing failures. The recent water crisis in Minsk reminds us, that in case of emergency we will not get neither information, nor help. The radiation does not care about the borders.

PS. Below is the donation campaign for everyone who has been those been recently arrested, fined or persecuted by the state in Belarus.

https://www.facebook.com/donate/1123543824684874/269990080768227/

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June 27th

A Trip to Dagestan, by Victoria Lomasko:

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By Nagrane Narva:

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June 26th

by Nicola Schüschke:
At the moment I am trying to understand the phenomenon of „Heimatroman“, a sub-genre of the German “Groschenroman”(dime-novel). Even if this kind of pulp literature seems absurdly outdated, it is being read widely throughout this country. People read them in order to get distracted, as the end is always a happy one, there’s nothing much you can miss. They are perfect to make yourself think that there are no problems in this world other than choosing between the rich and the beautiful. The stories follow strict rules: no politics, no sex, no surprise! They are full of reactionary images, submissive sexism and romanticized nationalism. Especially the cover images show what it’s all about: on most of the novels there’s a young couple or a girl smiling in the middle of nature. Even the colour-schemes often include the colours of the German flag. Absurdly, the Heimatroman is being published in higher numbers that any other books in Germany. I asked myself what kind of story the main author of German fiction, Angela Merkel, would write about. I figured out, it must be about „Grenzenlose Liebe“ – endless love, love without borders.
Still – even if Horst Seehofer doesn’t seem to come up with another volume of prose but just repeats his same old verses – I don’t lose hope that there are at least some others out here who have other ideas about “Heimat” than a flirt with the hunter on a castle in Bavaria!

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June 25th

Today we continue with our marathon with Batoul Baty Sedawi:
Women are the most vulnerable to injustice in the war-torn countries, but in my country, the injustice will be doubly unfair as they are subjected to the worst kinds of torture and rape in the prisons, and after their release, they are ostracized by their families and society where they are considered to have brought shame to them.
النساء هم الاكثر تعرضا للظلم في البلاد التي تعاني من الحرب، لكن في بلادي سوف يكون الظلم مضاعفا حيث انها تتعرض لابشع انواع العذاب والاغتصاب في المعتقلات، وبعد خروجها تتعرض لنبذ من قبل اهلها ومجمتع حيث تعتبر قد جلبت عار لهم .

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by Baty Sedawi

 

June 22nd

Today we continue with Lada Nakonechna‘s work:
This project took place on the different streets of Zurich. People were proposed to create the secure place by delineation their own territory using yellow chalk (this color signs public space places which are privatised). At the end the chalk circle makes people immovable inside.

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June 20th

This day is dedicated to The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation, Athens.

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Here comes the message from Shayan, one of the former detainees of the Petrou Ralli prison, please, take the time to hear the witness of Europe today:

link to Shayan’s message

 

A small fragment from the zine by Shayan, she and others from the community of The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation publish and distribute it for those who are still in prison:

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Letter of Denunciation: human rights activists and everyone else, please, don’t let this document pass your attention.

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Our initiative ‘The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation’ is part of the anti-authoritarian solidarity grassroots movement. We are a self-organized feminist collective opposed to all states and borders, political parties, public or private institutions and NGOs. We are committed to the struggle for women’s emancipation and the end of gender based and racial violence, homophobia, transphobia, sexism and the trafficking of women and children that is reproduced by the machinery of patriarchy globally. For almost 4 years, we have been meeting with detained women, starting our visits at Εlliniko and then at Petrou Ralli. We listen to detainees’ stories and demands and document the problems they face, attempting to answer their questions and give voice to their denunciations. At the same time, we try to foster and sustain a broader local and international social network of solidarity with other individuals and collectives through organizing events around imprisonment and other gender issues. We work to build and strengthen our relationships and empower one other, even after women are released from the detention center. Together we struggle for our liberation.

FOR THE BREAKDOWN OF BORDERS, THE ABOLITION OF DETENTION CENTERS, PRISONS & CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
AGAINST THE PANDEMIC OF PATRIARCHY,
SOLIDARITY AND SELF ORGANIZATION ARE OUR WEAPONS
Email: spiti.gynaikon@gmail.com
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Some photos from the process: The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation is making their poster for The Economy of Borders action…

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June 19th

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By Sarah Kwasnicki:

Arrival without landing My daily arrivals: home, Schlesische 27, Neue Nachbarschaft// Moabit, friends, garden – where I feel safe, full, grounded, where I feel strong and loved. I arrive because I see my future and I want to stay. People who flee blocked from arrival. Violence at the borders, people held against their will, under inhumane conditions. Once the European border is crossed, the decisions come from above – if you’ll stay, if you’ll be deported, where you’ll to live, what you are permitted to do, what will be denied of you. A container, a fence, no voice, no choice, – on repeat – that’s not arrival. The right to live, the right to vote, the right to work, the right to move, the right to home, the right to friendly neighbors, the right to be together, the right to a garden, the right to learn, the right to be seen, the right to be heard, the right to love, the right to peace, the right to happiness, the right to a bathtub, the right to arrival We are living in privilege that we don’t want to see.

Heute mit Sarah Kwas

Ankommen statt Unterbringen – Tagtäglich komme ich an – zu Hause, in der Schlesischen 27, in der Neuen Nachbarschaft// Moabit, bei Freunden, im Garten, … – kurzum, an Plätzen, wo ich mich wohl und sicher fühle, wo ich geerdet bin, Kraft tanken kann, das Miteinander genieße. Ich bin angekommen, weil ich weiß, dass ich eine Perspektive habe und bleiben will. Tagtäglich wird Menschen auf der Flucht ein Ankommen verwehrt. Sie werden gewaltvoll an Grenzen aufgehalten und es bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen zu verharren. Und wurde die Europäische Außengrenze überquert, wird von oben herab entschieden, – ob du bleiben darfst, ob du abgeschoben wirst, wo du leben musst, was du zu tun hast, was dir verwehrt bleibt. Und wieder, ein Container, ein Zaun, keine Entscheidungsgewalt, keine Stimme, keine Perspektive – das ist kein Ankommen. Ein Recht auf Wohnen, ein Recht auf Wählen, ein Recht auf Arbeit, ein Recht auf Umziehen, ein Recht auf zu Hause, ein Recht auf nette Nachbarn, ein Recht auf Miteinander, ein Recht auf Garten, ein Recht auf Lernen, ein Recht auf Anerkennung, ein Recht auf Liebe, ein Recht auf Frieden, ein Recht auf gute Laune, ein Recht auf Badewanne, ein Recht auf Ankommen. Und wir leben unsere Privilegien, erkennen sie nicht und treten sie mit Füßen.

 

June 17th

Clara Stella Hüneke

We proudly present an insight into the documentary Clara Stelle Hüneke did on Athens recent resistance history.
The documentary „Parko“ deals with an occupied space which used to be a commercial parking spot and got transformed into a lively green park during the uprising of 2008 in Athens. It delivers an intense view on life during the crisis and we see the collective in a dialog about self-organisation and a city from below. The film accompanies their assamblies and see how they are organized, how the place got squated and why they believe in a collective space. It highlights one microcosm fighting against capitalism with an open space for everyone.
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June 16th

We continue our Marathon with Nadira Husain! Nadira is installing this week her exhibition with two other artists Amina Ahmed and Varunika Saraf at Heidelberger Kunstverein which will open on Friday. And she sends us these images:

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Marina Naprushkina

 

 

June 15th

WISH is a non-mixed group of 10-15 women refugees and activists on the island of Lesbos, Greece. We were born in different places, we have different ages, experiences, dreams and fears. But we share the idea that solidarity is our best weapon.

Most of us live in the refugee camp of Moria, others in the camp of Kara Tepe or in Mytilini. We have been working on the island for two years. We create spaces of resistance in this world full of walls and borders, full of prisons, racism, sexism and injustice. Resistance means mutual support, care of the others and respect.

Since the beginning of this year the increase of violence -xenophobia, racism, COVID-19, and systemic neglect of those seeking asylum – threatens the lives of people on the move and those in solidarity. This worsen the already harsh situation in the island’s refugee camps, where there are currently more than 20,000 people without access to any basic right. In this context, it has become more evident than ever that our main strength is our links, which allows us to adapt and continue.

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Poster by WISH

“We are the face of the refugee woman.

We are the young women who live in Moria.

Also the old ones, the single ones and their kids.

We are those who try hard.

We are those who lost themselves, we don’t know who are we.

We are our future, but we lost our hope.

We thought me were humans, now we know we are refugees.

We are those supposed to have rights.

We are strong.

We are together, we hold each other to change our moods.

We are the ones who walk together.

The ones who stand together.”

 

Facebook page: @wishlesb

Email: wishlesbos@gmail.com

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June 14th

Today we gladly post the text and the poster by Vanessa Gravenor: With the poster and in the past months, I have been asking myself if a state can be possessed *haunted* by security. In this, I do not mean to contend measures taken by states such as Germany, such as face masks, or the prohibition on public gathering, but rather to ask what lurks on the background, on the margins, of these policies. We see the closure of the European borders to asylum seekers, but at the same time, permission is granted for those who have the means and the right passports. Economic migrants from Eastern Europe are granted passage to keep a particular brand of capitalism running in the West at the expense of their health and their lives. Even the binaries have eroded: now, we can only choose between the same: more surveillance, better data governance. The alternative: death. It is a nihilistic necropolitics written without any experience of precarious life.
Can a state be possessed or occupied by security? This statement probably prompts some type of science fiction disaster sequence of robots ruling the world; however, we know this scenario is in fact quite more banal that Hollywood would have us imagine it. It begins slowly: it creeps. It has been creeping for a while now.

 

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Vanessa Gravenor: Sicherheitsbesessener Staat   June 13th

We would like to introduce Uma Gаdzieva and her book “Grandma”. Heute möchten wir Uma Gаdzieva vorstellen und ihr Buch “Oma”, das sie für ihre Mutter geschrieben hat. Das Plakat für die Ausstellung basierte auf einer Zeichnung zum Buch. 103983061_10213827793728140_7535222008986989609_o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yevgenia Belorusets is a photographer and writer and lives in Berlin and in Kyiv. She is the co-founder of “Prostory”, a journal for literature, art and politics, and a member of the interdisciplinary curatorial group “Hudrada”. Her works move at the intersection of art, literature, journalism and social activism, between document and fiction. Her artistic method was established in her long-term projects such as “Gogol Street 32”, which portrayed the residents of a communal apartment building during their daily activities in a slowly decaying living environment, or in the project “Victories of the Defeated”, which included series of documentary photographs, texts and interviews and was dedicated to the coal miner communities, which continued to exist in Eastern Ukraine on the very edge of military conflict. To accomplish this work Yevgenia Belorusets visited between 2014 and 2017 cities near and in the warzon of Donbass Region in Ukraine. In 2018 / 2019 she has published a book of stories called Fortunate Fallings (Shchastlivyie padeniia) about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing conflict in the Donbass region, caused by Russian military intervention after the Kyiv Maidan of 2014. The publishing hous Matthes & Seitz issued it in Germany in 2019.

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Yevgenia Belorusets, 2020

 

June 11th

Today we post a letter and two paintings from Raha Amiri:

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Raha Amiri, Batwoman, 2020

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Raha Amiri, Burnt Nest, 2020

Greeting and regards
With respect to all
I am Raha Amiri 24 years old from Afghanistan i have a girl she is 8 years old we are in Greece, Moria.
I would like to talk about my experiences. My work is about beauty and art with women. I am really exited sharing my paintings and my feelings to “The economy of borders” with all of you. “Burnt Nest” is one of my paintings about all human around the world who lost their home and their family. So I wanted to share my feelings sympathy with these people. My second painting is “Batwoman”, about all women who have forgotten their power and considered themselves weak. I shared my feelings about refugees with paintings because each of them has embraced their sad possessions stories. How beautiful it is to be in solidarity, understand each other, so we all end up in this house whose name is the world so we dont forget to give love and affection to each other. Let’s build a beautiful world for a big family because we are a family in the world.


Thanks to the friends who efforts hard for this beautiful program wish for victory and peaceful


My contact instagram: raha.tattoo1995
Facebook: raha amiri

 

 

online marathon: the economy of borders ^^ we lost our soft soul, by crossing the borders

We would like to thank all participating artists and activists. It is great, what we achieved only in a few weeks. Thanks to everyone for your participation and involvement, for your support yesterday at the opening and assembly. Tomorrow we start our online marathon. Please, stay with us for the next four weeks.

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Dear all, it is amazing!

The “Rathaus” is covered with our posters. Something like this is happening for the first time. The final result you can see tomorrow. Come and support us at 5 pm by the opening and Assembly.

 

Marina Naprushkina

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The exhibition will be accompanied by a four week long online marathon. The participants will be making daily contributions referring to their work, the socio-political situation and their political demands.
Media partners: Neue Nachbarschaft/MoabitMoabit Mountain College (Berlin)The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation (Athens)Prostory (on literature, social criticism and modern art)

 

Avtonomi Akadimia unfolds into the UFO of the Kyiv International 2017

True revolutions arrive on the dove’s feet of media history
Friedrich Kittler

In occasion of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, Avtonomi Akadimia payed an extensive visit to The Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017.

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The Winter Semester was interentangled with the public program and has enfolded at the main venue, the Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, also known as the “UFO”.

After the documenta 14’s Parliament of Bodies that has moved learning into the center of the art discourse, UFO of the Kyiv International had offered us the next ideal environment to continue the experiment of education as a socio-cybernetic art work. UFO’s conference hall, originally planned as an experience of oneness of sound and image, syneisthesis, (σύν syn, “together”, and αἴσθησις aisthēsis, “sensation”) has not been accomplished during the Soviet times. As a force that creates chronotopologies of oneness of art, philosophy, technology and politics, Avtonomi Akadimia furtherdeveloped the uncompleted construction by modulating the aspired experience from synaisthēsis to what can be called synethosis, the unity of the movements of our First Global Revolution.

Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017 has organized a meeting with the architect of the UFO, Florian Yuriev, to discuss the renovation project which may turn the unique monument of modernist architecture into the part of the shopping and entertainment center “Ocean Mall”. UFO, according to law, can be only used for the educational purposes. Avtonomi Akadimia contributed to the discussion with the solidarity action of exemplifying its fulfillment.

Program:

November 1, Wednesday, 17:00

Presentation of “Krytyka Polityczna Athens”: Universitas by Katja Ehrhardt (AthenSYN) and The School of Everything by Joulia Strauss (Avtonomi Akadimia) (Greece/Germany).

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Photos: Sasha Kovalenko

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November 1, Wednesday, 19:00

Eirini Vlavianou (Greece)
In Memoriam Zygmunt Bauman

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November 3, Friday, 17:00
“Deep Hanging Out” presentation by Helmut Batista (Brazil)

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November 3, Friday, 19:00

“Acoustic Weapons: From the Walls of Jericho to the GitMo Playlist” performance by Sebastian Bayse Schäfer (Germany)

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November 4, Saturday, 16:00

“Dread Nought! Fear Not – in the Age of Anxiety” presentation by Judith Holzer and Marcel Schobel (Germany)

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Judith Holzer enjoying the view from our UFO observation appartment

November 5, Sunday, 14:00

“Pirate Cinema and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art” talk and screenings by Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert (Germany):

14:00 Revolution 1 (French): Chris Marker, Gaspard Glanz, Ute Holl, Peter Ott, et al.

17:00 Revolution 2 (October): Kira Muratova, Peter Cherkasky, Artavazd Peleshian, Ken Jacobs, et al.

20:00 Revolution 3 (Digital): Dzyga Vertov, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Grandrieux, et al.

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November 10, Friday, 17:00

“Final Fantasy II – 21 Translations of Purpose in Japanese – 喜怒哀楽 Kidoairaku (Joy-Furious-Sadness-Pleasure)” presentation by Hiroshi McDonald Mori (Japan).

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Hiroshi McDonald Mori’s talk took place on the day after the opening of a giant blockbuster show on Japanese culture in the Mystetski Arsenal exhibition hall. But what matters about Japan are the subversive strategies of its queer community shared by Hiroshi McDonald Mori.

 

November 12, Sunday, 17:00

“From Parking Space to Park” film screening and discussion by Clara Hüneke (Germany).

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Does the future of the UFO and other struggles for public space depend on our ability to form a responce from the side of the community, as in the case told by Clara Stella Hüneke’s film?

 

November 12, Sunday, 19:00

“Ethico-aesthetic paradigm against the Fascistization of Society. The Greek Case and the Murder of Pavlos Fyssas” talk by Ioulia Mermigka (Greece).

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Justyna Kravchuk, who translated Judith Butler’s “Frames of War”

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Vlad Holovko, artist, initiator and organizer of Plivka Art Center, Nastya Teor, who took control of our stay in Kyiv, and founding member of Occupy Museums, Noah Fischer.

 

November 14, Tuesday, 19:00

“Snapshots from Future Occupations” talk by Noah Fischer (USA)

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Olexiy Buistov, artist, initiator and organizer of Singulart space, speaking

 

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Joulia Strauss emphasizes the political difference of The Kyiv International from the usual Biennials as a remark closing the program.

 

Special thanks: Elena Dietrich, Eirini Vlavianou, Nastya Teor

Beyond the official program, informal exchange between the participants and the community in Kyiv took place. Nowadays, again, politics is made in the kitchen! We are very grateful for the warm reception to Oksana Briukhovetska, Nataliia Neshevets, Yustyna Kravchuk, Ruslana Koziienko, Anna Kravets, Anna Tsyba, Vlad Holovko, Olexiy Buistov, Nikita Kadan, Valeriia Didenko, Maria Pashkova, Dana Kosmina, and – for his kind invitation – to Vasyl Cherepanyn.

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All photos above by Sasha Kovalenko

 

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Nataliia Neshevets, David Chichkan, Anna Tsyba and Noah Fischer at the exhibition just closed by the curators due to censorship from the side of the Pavlo Tychyna Literary-Memorial Museum which became complicit with the right wing groups.

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Clara Stella Hüneke and Ioulia Mermigka demonstrating the feminist art works by Oxana Briukhovetska (who joined the photo on the right)

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Legendary Fridge Dance by Dana Kosmina at the UFO appartment. Lady with a cup: Marta Madej, Krytyka Polityczna Berlin

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Elena Dietrich, Alexandra Streshna, Clara Stella Hüneke, Ioulia Mermigka, Hiroshi McDonald Mori, Nastya Teor, Anna Kravets at the “creepy bar”

 

 

 

The School of Everything at the documenta14

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During the opening days of documenta 14 in Kassel and during its closing days in Athens, a meeting of initiatives which aimed to transform the European educational system took place. We were building an educational system consisting of politically motivated and artistic initiatives for sharing knowledge, and of proposals by thinkers who see education as decisive for social change. Texts, documentation, manifestos, and sketches of educational models were presented during the School of Everything in Kassel and in Athens. The participants of this gathering embody a novel curriculum, our gift to all educational institutions of the world.

Education as an art form has moved, as the public and educational programs of the d14, from the periphery to the center. Moreover, during the School of Everything at the Parliament of Bodies, the end of documenta was officially proclaimed. Documenta as an institution incapable of liberating itself from the zombifying strictures of modernity, no longer accommodates the process called art.

 

Concept: Joulia Strauss
Curator of the symposion: Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Organized by AthenSYN. In collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung.

Partners: ASFA Athens School of Fine Arts (GR); Kunsthochschule Kassel (D); LUCA School of Arts, Leuven, Brussels, Gent (B); HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design; FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Basel (CH); Avtonomi Akadimia (GR); with the support of the Schwarz Foundation, Eye Square GmbH, and HAECCCC, 0+865
Special thanks to Eirini Vlavianou and Yorgos Maraziotis

ATHENS

Parliament of Bodies, Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center and Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance, Athens

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KMMN Kulturbahnhof of Kassel School of Fine Arts

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Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, April 2016

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Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Panel On Education: Vasyl Cherepanyn

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Meeting Large European Networks by European Alternatives (Daphne Büllesbach) and Krytyka Polityczna (Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski)

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Meeting Large European Networks by European Alternatives (Daphne Büllesbach) and Krytyka Polityczna (Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski)

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Daniel Mützel: Border Security In The Robotic Age (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Joulia Strauss: Introducing participants of Avtonomi Akadimia (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Discussion after the world premiere of the film documentary by Rafał Żwirek: „Forget Fear – Story of Occupy Biennale” (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Sebastian Schäfer: Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist

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Sebastian Schäfer: Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist

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Sebastian Schäfer: Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist

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Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz

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Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz

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Raimar Stange: Forget Institutional Critique

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Raimar Stange: Forget Institutional Critique

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Marievi Mastoraki (center), a new and precious collaborator of Avtonomi Akadimia

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Ioulia Mermigka: Incorporeal materialities: Politics of the body, gender, language and rythm

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Ioulia Mermigka: Incorporeal materialities: Politics of the body, gender, language and rythm

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Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy

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Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)

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Joulia Strauss introduces Avtonomi Akadimia to the minister of culture Aristidis Baltas (Syriza): education as a weapon

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Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016. (Photo and collaboration on space: Ermina Apostolaki)

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Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016. (Photo and collaboration on space: Ermina Apostolaki)

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Bank of No with Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016.
(Photo: Ermina Apostolaki)
The starting point of the no-currency of the BANK OF NO is a collective “rebranding initiative” where art meets the banking crisis. At the core lies an international working group with roots in the 2011 political movements, including main organizers of Occupy Museums, Gulf Labor, Free Artists Hungary, and Living Memorial. By “rebranding“ the dead “Laiki“ bank, the working group which included its initiator Noah Fischer, as well as Raúl Hott, Nurtane Karagil, Csaba Nemes, Joulia Strauss and “twenty three”, opened a window onto the global financial situation from the specific political and economic conditions experienced on Cyprus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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