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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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/EoC12_Joulia1-1024x624.jpg)
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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/EoC_InesMoreira.jpg)
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.](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/EoC7_Joulia-1024x734.jpg)
We held a meeting with the Mouries collective at the Filotimo Residency, where the exhibition “Alright(wing)?”, curated by Raimar Stange, is taking place
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Celebratory program has continued during the heatwaves in June
![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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Tania_Luca.jpg)
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
![Luca Di Blasi End times of “never again!” – Notes on the katechontic dimensions of the present Photo by Tania Hron](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Luca1_Tania-230x300.jpg)
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” Photo by Tania Hron](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/KasiaTania.jpg)
Kasia Wojcik ^^ Curating Solidarities – Excerpts from the film “Constitución Nómada”
Photo by Tania Hron
![Steven Corcoran Philosophy and politics as vectors of autonomy: Knowledge and its excess Photo by Luca Di Blasi](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Steven3_Luca.jpg)
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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Helen3-300x201.jpg)
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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Helena5-300x200.jpg)
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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/JouliaPainting_Luca.jpg)
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
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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Joulia_Strauss_Rainbow_Snake_Down_to_Earth_Gropius_Bau.jpg)
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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Joulia_Strauss_Thomas_Oberender_Down_to_Earth-1024x683.jpg)
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
![Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA and other Disasters Photo by Fernando Schrupp](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Nadja_Verena_Marcin_Joulia_Strauss_Down_to_Earth.jpg)
Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA and other Disasters
Photo by Fernando Schrupp
![Isabell Schrickel: "Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities' Creative Involvement with the United Nations"](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Isabell_Schrickel_Avtonomi_Akadimia.jpg)
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"](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Isabell_Schrickel_Avtonomi_Akadimia_2.jpg)
Isabell Schrickel: “Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations”
![Michelle-Marie Letelier: "Ancient or Human-made?"](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Michelle_Marie_Lettelier_Avtonomi_Akadimia.jpg)
Michelle-Marie Letelier: “Ancient or Human-made?” Communication with the genetically manipulated salmon.
![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](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Thomas_Oberender_Joulia_Strauss_Down_to_Earth.jpg)
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
![Joulia Strauss "Rainbow Snake" Mari Altar, drawings in collaboration with Marc Müller, Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Joulia_Strauss_Mari_Cats.jpg)
Joulia Strauss “Rainbow Snake” Mari Altar, drawings in collaboration with Marc Müller, Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri
Athens
![Avtonomi_Akadimia_Akadimia_Platonos](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Avtonomi_Akadimia_Akadimia_Platonos.jpg)
Meeting of climate activists, artists, philosophers and lawyers, organised in collaboration with the Permaculture School
Η Ζούγκλα της Ακαδημίας Πλάτωνος απευθύνει κάλεσμα προς μία ολοκληρωμένη προστασία των κοινών, της βιοποικιλότητας και της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς, για να αναζητήσει έμπνευση η σχετική Ευρωπαϊκή νομοθεσία στις ανιμιστικές κοσμολογίες, για να μετασχηματιστεί το εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα μέσω μορφών γνώσης των αυτοχθόνων, και για να ξεπεραστεί ο διαχωρισμός μεταξύ πολιτισμού και φύσης.
* Στα Ελληνικά, το φύλο της λέξης «κήπος» είναι αρσενικό, οπότε ο κήπος της Ακαδημίας Πλάτωνος, ενημερώνοντας τον εαυτό του, έχει γίνει τώρα ζούγκλα, που στα Ελληνικά, είναι θηλυκή.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObZD4Va2aps
![Maria](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Maria.jpg)
Maria Juliana Byck, ethical fashion designer, activist, artist, experimental filmmaker, and social practitioner, photo by Christoph Böhmer
![Joulia Strauss, artist Presenting Avtonomi Akadimia as well as contributions by Georgia Kotretsos and Eirini Vlavianou](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Joulia_Strauss_Avtonomi_Akadimia.jpg)
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’
Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, April 2016
![SotiriosBahtsetzis_VasylCherepanyn_PaulPreciado_JouliaStrauss_3](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SotiriosBahtsetzis_VasylCherepanyn_PaulPreciado_JouliaStrauss_3.jpg)
Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
![SotiriosBahtsetzis_VasylCherepanyn_PaulPreciado_JouliaStrauss_2](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SotiriosBahtsetzis_VasylCherepanyn_PaulPreciado_JouliaStrauss_2.jpg)
Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
![SotiriosBahtsetzis_VasylCherepanyn_PaulPreciado_JouliaStrauss_5](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/SotiriosBahtsetzis_VasylCherepanyn_PaulPreciado_JouliaStrauss_5-1024x686.jpg)
Panel On Education: by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Paul B. Preciado, Joulia Strauss (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
![DaphneBüllesbach_JakubDymek_IgorStokfiszewski_2](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/DaphneBüllesbach_JakubDymek_IgorStokfiszewski_2-1024x664.jpg)
Meeting Large European Networks by European Alternatives (Daphne Büllesbach) and Krytyka Polityczna (Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski)
![DaphneBüllesbach_JakubDymek_IgorStokfiszewski](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/DaphneBüllesbach_JakubDymek_IgorStokfiszewski-1024x768.jpg)
Meeting Large European Networks by European Alternatives (Daphne Büllesbach) and Krytyka Polityczna (Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski)
![Screening_AvtonomiAkadimia](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Screening_AvtonomiAkadimia-1024x740.jpg)
Discussion after the world premiere of the film documentary by Rafał Żwirek: „Forget Fear – Story of Occupy Biennale” (Photo: Marievi Mastoraki)
![MartaMadej_AvtonomiAkadimia_3](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/MartaMadej_AvtonomiAkadimia_3-1024x768.jpg)
Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz
![MartaMadej_AvtonomiAkadimia_1](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/MartaMadej_AvtonomiAkadimia_1-1024x758.jpg)
Marta Madej: Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz
![Joulia_Strauss_Aristidis Baltas](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Joulia_Strauss_Aristidis-Baltas-207x300.jpg)
Joulia Strauss introduces Avtonomi Akadimia to the minister of culture Aristidis Baltas (Syriza): education as a weapon
![Avtonomi_Akadimia_Athens_Biennale_Joulia_Strauss_4](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Avtonomi_Akadimia_Athens_Biennale_Joulia_Strauss_4-1024x686.jpg)
Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016. (Photo and collaboration on space: Ermina Apostolaki)
![Avtonomi_Akadimia_Athens_Biennale_Joulia_Strauss_2](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/Avtonomi_Akadimia_Athens_Biennale_Joulia_Strauss_2-1024x676.jpg)
Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia at the Athens Biennale, Bagkeion Hotel, Omonoia Square, April 2016. (Photo and collaboration on space: Ermina Apostolaki)
![BankOfNo](http://avtonomi-akadimia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/05/BankOfNo-1024x686.jpg)
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.