Avtonomi Akadimia

Raimar Stange will talk via zoom about the exhibition project „2052 – Kunst zur Klimakatastrophe“ [2052 – Art on the Climate Catastrophe]. This Project is formatting the “exhibition” genre anew. About 30 artists were invited to create leaflets on the subject of “climate catastrophe”. So the focus was on outspoken politically engaging art and not on the creation of obscenely expensive sales pieces and “impartial” l’art pour l’art, to paraphrase Immanuel Kant. These will then distributed across Berlin’s and Athen’s urban area throughout the…

The global Covid-19 pandemic has (re)named care as essential infrastructure. Those, who perform caring labors, were defined as living infrastructure, as care was, and is being stretched to the limits. The realities of care are defined by austerity, precarization, and exhaustion. The imaginaries of care are filled with ethics, relationality, choice, empathy or kindness. Arguing that there is still a lack of everyday language to articulate labours, experiences, and feelings of, care, and that there is furthermore a profound lack…

  Focusing on the liminal space of mediumship within global processes, we will examine case studies from the southern context that highlight questions on how art can serve as a common disruptive tool for expansion, emancipation, and political constituency. By examining the complex fragility and potential of situated horizontal dialogues beyond extraction, we seek to frame conditions enabling non-colonial cultural management horizons committed to prompt embodied space for silenced memory, where tension and connection merge to enact multidimensional agency networks…

Maria Mayor is an artist, curator, born in Lviv, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Have no formal artist education, studied system analysis in Lviv Polytechnic. Interesting is city, co-existence with nature in the city, irony and coincidences. 

Introduction to Qi Gong. Reuniting the Athens Qi Gong Group. After the training, we will draw, transmitting the power of light to the paper! We will be preparing for an intense workshop with Khien Phuc. These two-day workshops regularly take place in Athens: This entertaining Qi Gong workshop will give you a global body harmonisation as it will regulate all organs (liver, kidneys, spleen, stomach, heart, lungs) through deep breathing. You will feel calm and open at the level of both body and spirit. The workshop is…

Stratis Vogiatzis  is going to talk at Avtonomi Akadimia about his recent book “Kampos” and the enigmatic world of Kampos in the island of Chios  where all short of entanglements between human and no human are taking place. Kampos for Stratis is not an isolated place but a land of hybrid terrains and zones of outlandish encounter, a hatching refuge  between heterogenous identities, critters and memories that resist the anthropocentric divisions, the dualistic simplifications of our time. In Kampos,  myths beliefs, stories are constantly…

I will introduce you to my fruit farm project The Common Orchard, in which I deal with private property and the need to be more open in order to learn how to share. It also includes ways of thinking about future handling of agriculture and esteem for old knowledge, such as identifying livings around us, different species that have specific requirements for space, soil type, shade and growth, in order to treat them with respect. The analysis and handling of…

A message exchange between human beings and trees, all of them turned into mediums in an attempt to create a farewell for forests lost in the last years. ^^ Eliana Otta Vildoso (Lima, 1981) is an artist with a Master in Cultural Studies. She cofounded the artist-run space Bisagra and coordinated the curatorial team for the permanent exhibition at Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social. She has taught in various Peruvian institutions and is a candidate for the Phd in Practice at…