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10 years of Avtonomi Akadimia ^^ Autonomous Groves
This number sings, in hexameter. Yet this number is a punk.
It roars about the earnest real of Autonomy. It purrs of Akadimia, exchanging teachings in a grove. It drums the joy of art; previously forbidden, it has returned to the polis, transmogrifying it — a harmony of disorder.
This number is an intangible comrade who fights on our side to protect the miracle of breathing ruins – activated by the rainbow, together with the plants and with us; together we are environmental personhood.
This number croons, cogently, of stamina and of persistence; it enthralls us with our own being connected – in the daydream, lived and surging, of our freedom.
On May 5th, as an alternative to the Easter weekend, the Ecologies of Care group, founded by Elke Krasny and Uska Jurmann, https://ecologiesofcare.org, and the feminist witches of Athens have gathered in the Akadimia Platonos. Infrastructure under Pressure – “Caring Practices of Resistance, Maintenance, Continuity, and Transformation”
Convened by Elke Krasny and Joulia Strauss
We practice martial arts precisely on the topos where Plato has invented militarised state – and overwrite it! Photo by Ines Moreira
We held a meeting with the Mouries collective at the Filotimo Residency, where the exhibition “Alright(wing)?”, curated by Raimar Stange, is taking place
Discussion on shock politics afther the video presentation by Eleni Tsamadia
Stefanie von Schroetter
Martin Schepers, anonym, Oliver Ressler, Paula Flores, Ulf Aminde
Andreas Schlaegel
“Libertas” by Ava Irandoost
(selection)
Celebratory program has continued during the heatwaves in June
Yorgos Theodorakis ^^ Climate catastrophe, the unkind version
Yorgos Theodorakis ^^ Climate catastrophe, the unkind version. Photo by Steven Corcoran
Tania Hron
Workshop: The Dystopia-Utopia of Akadimia Platonos: From doom to dawn, or do we want to imagine different futures?
Photo by Luca Di Blasi
Professor of Avtonomi Akadimia, Anastasia Efstathiadi (left) with an artist colleague
Johanna Di Blasi
In the eye of the storm
Photo by Tania Hron
Alkistis Lara Papadaki
Edible installation
Alkistis Lara Papadaki ^^ Edible installation
Photo by Tania Hron
Luca Di Blasi
End times of “never again!” – Notes on the katechontic dimensions of the present
Photo by Tania Hron
Kasia Wojcik ^^ Curating Solidarities – Excerpts from the film “Constitución Nómada”
Kasia Wojcik ^^ Curating Solidarities – Excerpts from the film “Constitución Nómada”
Photo by Tania Hron
Yustyna Kravchuk
What will you do when fascists take over the world?
Photo by Steven Corcoran
Yustyna Kravchuk
What will you do when fascists take over the world?
Photo by Tania Hron
Steven Corcoran
Philosophy and politics as vectors of autonomy: Knowledge and its excess
Steven Corcoran
Philosophy and politics as vectors of autonomy: Knowledge and its excess
Photo by Luca Di Blasi
Helen Dimos
A poetry reading/talk on the difficulty and desire of/for communication, in poetry and the political
Helen Dimos
A poetry reading/talk on the difficulty and desire of/for communication, in poetry and the political
Joulia Strauss
Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly and Qi Gong
Revealing a painting by my father, which has been evacuated from Ukraine
Photo by Luca Di Blasi
Joulia Strauss
Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly and Qi Gong
Revealing a painting by my father, which has been evacuated from Ukraine
Photo by Luca Di Blasi
Isabel Gueterres Sanchez ^^ A Living Archive With the Jungle
Workshop
Dimitris Papachristos
A sperm whale in our rhizome garden
Dimitris Papachristos
A sperm whale in our rhizome garden
Eleni Tzamadia
Going through an explosion
Eleni Tzamadia
Going through an explosion
Yustyna Kravchuk holding a poster by David Chichkan with a depiction of Nestor Makhno
Photo by Steven Corcoran
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.
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
To Araucaria ^^ Summer Semester 2021
Araucaria tree, to whom this semester is dedicated
Villa Araucaria, the pandemic venue of Avtonomi Akadimia
Queer Aboriginal Sista Girls (Transindigenous Assembly environment), photo: Fiona Kelly
Shipibo healer Maestra Justina (Transindigenous Assembly environment), photo: Fiona Kelly
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
room to bloom, ecofeminism workshops organized in collaboration with European Alternatives and AthenSYN
with Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Aleksandra Rhodius, Mayoori Sangameshwar Hanagodimath (aka MUKTA Mayoori), Marina Naprushkina, and Katerina Katsifaraki
Photo: Marina Naprushkina
Photos: Clara Mosconi
Protecting the Akadimia Platonos Jungle: solidarity from Hungary, Colombia, Italy, France, Spain, Ukraine, Belarus, Albania, Germany, Ireland
Photo: Clara Mosconi
Photo: Clara Mosconi
Penny Travlou (Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research), Nadja Verena Marcin, Eleni Riga, Joulia Strauss and Marc Müller ^^ Ecofeminism
image from Sonal Jain’s presentation
Marc Müller and Joulia Strauss honour indigenous activists assasinated in Colombia, photo: Clara Mosconi
Qi Gong workshop with Khien Phuc
Nalini ^^ Plantwork. A lecture on traditional work with plant medicine from the Amazon
Clara Mosconi ^^ Voicing a choreography of Echo
Raimar Stange (online) ^^ art als assembly – how democracy could work in the climate change
Xanaé Bowe (on the right): ^^ A Parallel(es) Life, 2021, 105min., film screening and discussion
Tania Hron ^^ Shamans, witchcraft, plant medicine, and global climate change
Nitya ^^ Tibetan Pulsing
Katja Ehrhardt ^^ Communicating with trees
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)
Thomas Oberender ^^ Towards a Gaia Theatre, photos: Marianna Bolano
This semester is prepared with the precious participation and support of Prof. Rainbow Snake André Sauer and Prof. Black Lion Yorgos Theodorakis
Aleksandra Rhodius from the Transindigenous Assembly environment
Mari Cats and Khien Phuc from the Transindigenous Assembly environment
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
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
Maestra Justina standing on the Akadimia timetable embroidery
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
Maja Chiara Faber: Modern Astrology
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
Luca Di Blasi: “Guilt Politics in the Anthropocene”
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”
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
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?” Communication with the genetically manipulated salmon.
transformation of the european educational system
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
Sista Girls, Shipibo Orphan School, Maestro Wiler, 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
Athens
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.
Penny Travlou, cultural geographer, activist, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Sandy Fameliari, environmental activist, physicist, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Helen Dimos, writer
Yorgos Theodorakis, Permaculture School, environmentalist, activist
André Sauer, cultural activist
Steven Corcoran, translator, philosopher, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Maria Athina Tzioka, environmental, social and artistic activist, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Natasha Dourida, cultural engineer, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Iosif Eframidis, architect, environmental activist, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Maria Petinaki, architect, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Maria Juliana Byck, ethical fashion designer, activist, artist, experimental filmmaker, and social practitioner, photo by Christopn Böhmer
Antigone Theodorou, performing visual artist
Constantina Litsa, permaculturist, herbalist
William Rowe, poet, teacher
Kathleen Kunath and Christoph Böhmer
Ioulia Mermigka, cultural studies scholar, philosopher
Jon Goodbun, environmental architect, writer, teacher, artist, activist
Nikos Anastasopoulos, architect
special guest: Sovik Roy
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
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.
UFO portrait by Joulia Strauss
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).
Photos: Sasha Kovalenko
November 1, Wednesday, 19:00
Eirini Vlavianou (Greece)
In Memoriam Zygmunt Bauman
November 3, Friday, 17:00
“Deep Hanging Out” presentation by Helmut Batista (Brazil)
November 3, Friday, 19:00
“Acoustic Weapons: From the Walls of Jericho to the GitMo Playlist” performance by Sebastian Bayse Schäfer (Germany)
November 4, Saturday, 16:00
“Dread Nought! Fear Not – in the Age of Anxiety” presentation by Judith Holzer and Marcel Schobel (Germany)
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.
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).
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).
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).
Justyna Kravchuk, who translated Judith Butler’s “Frames of War”
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)
Olexiy Buistov, artist, initiator and organizer of Singulart space, speaking
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.
All photos above by Sasha Kovalenko
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.
Clara Stella Hüneke and Ioulia Mermigka demonstrating the feminist art works by Oxana Briukhovetska (who joined the photo on the right)
Legendary Fridge Dance by Dana Kosmina at the UFO appartment. Lady with a cup: Marta Madej, Krytyka Polityczna Berlin
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
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
photos by Marco Claussen
KASSEL
KMMN Kulturbahnhof of Kassel School of Fine Arts
photos by Eirini Vlavianou
photos by Alexander Wahrlich
photos by Joulia Strauss
photos by Ahmad Alkhatieb
Photos by Léa Busnel
Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, April 2016
Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Panel On Education: Vasyl Cherepanyn
Meeting Large European Networks by European Alternatives (Daphne Büllesbach) and Krytyka Polityczna (Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski)
Meeting Large European Networks by European Alternatives (Daphne Büllesbach) and Krytyka Polityczna (Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski)
Daniel Mützel: Border Security In The Robotic Age (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Joulia Strauss: Introducing participants of Avtonomi Akadimia (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Discussion after the world premiere of the film documentary by Rafał Żwirek: „Forget Fear – Story of Occupy Biennale” (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Sebastian Schäfer: Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist
Sebastian Schäfer: Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist
Sebastian Schäfer: Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist
Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz
Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz
Raimar Stange: Forget Institutional Critique
Raimar Stange: Forget Institutional Critique
Raimar Stange: Forget Institutional Critique
Marievi Mastoraki (center), a new and precious collaborator of Avtonomi Akadimia
Ioulia Mermigka: Incorporeal materialities: Politics of the body, gender, language and rythm
Ioulia Mermigka: Incorporeal materialities: Politics of the body, gender, language and rythm
Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy
Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy
Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy
Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy
Hiroshi McDonald Mori: Final Fantasy (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
Joulia Strauss introduces Avtonomi Akadimia to the minister of culture Aristidis Baltas (Syriza): education as a weapon
Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016. (Photo and collaboration on space: Ermina Apostolaki)
Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016. (Photo and collaboration on space: Ermina Apostolaki)
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.