Protect the Breathing Ruins
Selves-Care as Politics
Avtonomi Akadimia has always been an artistic form of protest for autonomy and open access education. As it thrives into its second decade, through time, unfortunately, this protest has become painfully understandable for those who, initially, might think it exaggerated to claim that the dominant educational system is not a space of autonomy, but an arm of the state. And this world-wide arm was born from Plato’s primordial educational platform. Only here, at its root, can we overcome these ancestral errors of organization: the militarized state – a state that, in its current condition, is reducing the planet to ashes – and excluding art from society – thus enfeebling the imagination of other ways of being and enmeshing us all the more easily in hybrid world war.
Avtonomi Akadimia has reactivated the idea of open-air education amidst trees, cicadas and birds, at the very same spot it once existed. Now it pulsates as Breathing Ruins. We practice an inter-epistemology of art, philosophy, environmental activism and political healing. The preconditions of philosophy can only emerge from a real experience of freedom. The miracle of the intangible cultural commons, embodied by the Akadimia Platonos and specifically by the Breathing Ruins, is a unique urban architecture that allows us timelessness as well as a continuity of knowledge and its constant change.
Yet, there is still a plan to destroy the Akadimia Platonos: to exclude it from free public use and fell hundreds of trees – this, in a city already suffering oxygen deficits and extreme weather phenomena. This plan dares to call itself ‘Europe’s First Green Museum’. To overcome such levels of urban disaster, and the general oligarchic corruption that feeds on it and finances the destruction of living spaces, we need education.
We will continue to be the living museum that we already are – this unique place of philosophy doesn’t need to be preserved through its elimination. The struggle is much bigger than the Akadimia Platonos: it is about the status of art and philosophy in the world today.
Avtonomi Akadimia is an experiment that involves our self-transformation as an educational process. We will practice the self-care of our collectivity: selves-care. Our societies have failed. We have created a vicious cycle of epigenetic mass wounds on a large scale, and there are some individuals within it who strive to own the entire cosmos.
We thus announce:
May 4 19:00 Internationalist Care Day Care Reading Group Collective reading and discussion of texts by Elke Krasny on Practicing Care and Working for Feminist Infrastructures, and other texts which everyone is welcome to contribute with Valia Papastamou and Penny Travlou Akadimia Platonos Jungle May 7 14:00 – 16:30 Co-organised by Penny Travlou, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Theory and the Msc Architecture, Landscape and Environment, Edinburgh College of Art/ University of Edinburgh - Athens Fieldtrip Contesting Cultural Heritage: Commoning Landscape & Care Infrastructures Refective walk around Plato's Academy park and industrial site, followed by a circle of care Meeting with Avtonomi Akadimia: Joulia Strauss, Steven Corcoran, and Eirini Vlavianou Akadimia Platonos Jungle May 10 18:00 Sophia Muriel Layer by Layer Soft Materials, Hard Truths – A Personal Reflection on Fragility and Resistance from Berlin to Athens Akadimia Platonos Jungle May 10 20:00 Raimar Stange Why? Reasons for right-wing populism alright(wing)? Book presentation and discussion of a leaflet project with Raimar Stange (curator), Berlin, Helen Dimos, (poet), Athens, Eleni Tsamadia (artist), Athens designed by Anastasia Efstathiadi and produced by Inter Alia as part of Schools of Care project This project targets the wave of rightwing extremism unfolding across the globe. “alright(wing)?” is book is a collection of posters and documentation of exhibitions. Participants: Ulf Aminde, Jeremy Day, Gabriele Regiert, Marina Naprushkina, Oliver Ressler, Christine Würmell, Andreas Koch, Anna Meyer, Andreas Karl Schulze, Andreas Schlaegel, Eleni Tsamadia, Silke Wagner, Bethan Huws, Jost Wischneski, Ulf Aminde, Stefanie von Schroeter, Thomas Kilpper, Dharmendra Prasad, Antigone Theodorou, Dan Perjovschi, Claus Föttinger, Elisabeth Sonneck, Matthias Sturm, Shila Khatami, Peter Niemann, Bhima Griem, Martin Schepers, Jonathan Monk, Carola Spadoni, Marie S. Ueltzen, Jeremiah Day, Deborah Ligorio, Oliver Ressler / Martin Krenn, Johannes Wohnseifer, Antonia Low, Ina Wudtke, Kasia Wojcik, Anna Ivchenko, Florine Schüschke, Ava Irandoost, Helen Dimos, Sophie Carapetian, Nikolaos Branidis, Marc Müller, and others. Akadimia Platonos Jungle May 16 19:00 – 22:00 Joulia Strauss, exhibition curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis Eudaimonia: living in bliss today Crux Galerie June 1 19:00 Kalle Lundhal, Denmark Laughter Yoga Avtonomi Akadimia Headquaters June 3 19:00 Anna Melnik Cosmoenergy healing practice Avtonomi Akadimia Headquaters June 5-6 19:00 – 21:00 Sonia Eap, Cambodia Qi Gong Workshop Akadimia Platonos Jungle June 7-8 18:00 – 21:00 Khien Phuc, Cambodia Qi Gong and Viet Vo Dao Kung Fu Workshop Akadimia Platonos Jungle July 4 16:00 – 22:00 Valery Vinogradovs A Philosophy of Final Words Thoughts & Questions Akadimia Platonos Jungle July 5 19:00 Oscar Castell, Mexico, Mayan Riviera Decalsification and Activation of the Pineal Gland Akadimia Platonos Jungle Avtonomi Akadimia in Berlin series of events with Feminist Translocalities and kainkollektiv July 17, 17:00-20:00 Ulrike Bernard & Kathrin Dröppelmann Atelier of Liveliness A sharing of artistic garden spaces shaped by living matter and socio-ecological connections A walk through the garden, an artist talk, a shared action – and clay oven pizza Zukunftskiez Dammweg - Community Garden Dammweg 216, 12057 Berlin October 22 19:00 Steven Corcoran, Berlin The Politics of Care and the Care of Politics: Care in Foucault and Recent Political Movements Akadimia Platonos Jungle This semester is prepared with the precious participation and support of Anastasia Efstathiadi, Steven Corcoran, Sisyphus George, and Maria Tomprou In collaboration with Inter Alia, Schools of Care: kainkollektiv, Fundacja Performat Venues: Akadimia Platonos Jungle meeting point at the entrance opposite the Cooperative Café, Monastiriou Str. 140, Kolonos 10442, Metro Larissa M2, Metro Metaxourgeio M2, Bus 051, bus stop Kratilou, or call WhatsApp +491609 6665057 if lost
Avtonomi Akadimia Headquaters
Hill of the Muses
Ampati 3, 11741, Filopappou, Metro Syggrou Fix, or Bus stop Olympiaki
Crux Galerie
Sekeri 4, Athens 106 74, Greece
10 years of Avtonomi Akadimia
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.
May 4, 5
Ecologies of Care Gathering
Infrastructure under Pressure – Caring Practices of Resistance, Maintenance, Continuity, and Transformation
Convened by Elke Krasny and Joulia Strauss
May 4 20:00
Public Gathering and Sharing – Presentations and Discussions of Infrastructures under Pressure
Maria Petinaki, Eirini Vlavianou, Yustyna Kravchuk, Penny Travlou, Mouries collective, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Alkistis Lara Papadaki, Jenny Marketou, Athina Maria Tzioka, Helen Dimos, Urška Jurman, Elke Krasny, Nada Rosa Schroer, Daria Bocharnikova, Gabi Scardi, Merve Bedir, Ines Moreira, Nkule Mabaso, Sofia Boito
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
May 5 13:00
Exchange with the Mouries Collective and with Athens-based curators
Filotimo Residency
May 5 21:00
Performance by Paula Flores: Quelites
Muses* Home, Ampati 3, Filopappou, with kind support of: Room to Bloom, European Alternatives
May 10 19:00
A leaflet project: “alright(wing)?”
Exhibition and demonstration
Curated by Raimar Stange
This project targets the wave of rightwing extremism unfolding across the globe. “alright(wing)?” is both art exhibition and demonstration, held in the city of Athens. Participants: Ulf Aminde, Jeremy Day, Gabriele Regiert, Marina Naprushkina, Oliver Ressler, Christine Würmell, Andreas Koch, Anna Meyer, Andreas Karl Schulze, Andreas Schlaegel, Eleni Tsamadia, Silke Wagner, Bethan Huws, Jost Wischneski, Ulf Aminde, Stefanie von Schroeter, Thomas Kilpper, Dharmendra Prasad, Antigone Theodorou, Dan Perjovschi, Claus Föttinger, Elisabeth Sonneck, Matthias Sturm, Shila Khatami, Peter Niemann, Bhima Griem, Martin Schepers, Jonathan Monk, Carola Spadoni, Marie S. Ueltzen, Jeremiah Day, Deborah Ligorio, Oliver Ressler / Martin Krenn, Johannes Wohnseifer, Antonia Low, Ina Wudtke, Kasia Wojcik, Anna Ivchenko, Florine Schüschke, Ava Irandoost, Helen Dimos, Sophie Carapetian, Paula Flores, Nikos Branidis, Katrin Glanz, Marc Müller, Sofia Boito
Filotimo Residency, streets of Athens
June 6 19:00
Yorgos Theodorakis
Climate catastrophe, the unkind version
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 6 20:00
Tania Hron
Workshop
The Dystopia-Utopia of Akadimia Platonos: From doom to dawn, or do we want to imagine different futures?
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 8 19:00
Johanna Di Blasi
In the eye of the storm
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 8 19:30
Alkistis Lara Papadaki
Edible installation
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 8 20:00
Luca Di Blasi
End times of “never again!” – Notes on the katechontic dimensions of the present
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 9 19:00
Kasia Wojcik
Curating Solidarities – Excerpts from the film “Constitución Nómada”
Filotimo Residency
June 9 20:00
Yustyna Kravchuk
What will you do when fascists take over the world?
Filotimo Residency
June 14 19:00
Steven Corcoran
Philosophy and politics as vectors of autonomy: Knowledge and its excess
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 14 20:00
Helen Dimos
A poetry reading/talk on the difficulty and desire of/for communication, in poetry and the political
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 14 20:30
Joulia Strauss
Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly and Qi Gong
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 20 18:00 – 19:30
Isabel Gueterres Sanchez
A Living Archive With the Jungle
Workshop
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 20 21:00
Dimitris Papachristos
A sperm whale in our rhizome garden
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 20 21:30
Eleni Tzamadia
Going through an explosion
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 20 22:30
Set by DJ Justine
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 21 18:00
James Simbouras
Finite and infinite games
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
June 21 19:00
Eirini Vlavianou
Attending to Endings; on extinction mythologies and post-human necromancies
Sculptural intervention and lecture
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
Venues:
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
meeting point at the entrance opposite the Cooperative Café, Monastiriou Str. 140, Kolonos 10442, Metro Larissa M2, Metro Metaxourgeio M2, Bus 051, bus stop Kratilou, or call WhatsApp +491609 6665057 if lost
Filotimo Residency
Filotimou 42, Kypseli
Bus 22, station Nea Kypseli, trolley bus 2 and 4 station Plateia Kypselis, metro Attiki or Agios Nikolaos
This semester is prepared with the precious participation and support of Anastasia Efstathiadi, Eirini Vlavianou, Pavlos Kavadias, Steven Corcoran, and Tania Hron
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.
Programme
3 June, 18.00 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? Akadimia Platonos Jungle 3 June, 20:00 Dust to Glitter Group (Cecilia Hussinger, Falk Lörcher, Kasia Wojcik, Sarah Waterfeld) Art After All?; Commoning Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz / Berlin Akadimia Platonos Jungle
6 June, 20:00 Elke Krasny Living with a Wounded Planet: On Feminist Recovery Villa Araucaria 9 June, 21:00 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 Reservation is required. More information: https://atopos.gr ATOPOS cvc
13 June, 10:00 – 19:00 Joulia Strauss Rituals of Environmental Grief, a workshop at Futuring Waters: A Speculative Manifesto Claiming the Water Rights for Elefsina by Jenny Marketou, (commissioned by Cultural Capital of Europe, 2023) Journey to Elefsina, please, register at: +30 690 691 2882 or jouliastrauss@gmx.de 14 June, 21:00 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 Akadimia Platonos Jungle 15 June 18:00 in collaboration with ATOPOS cvc Kasia Wojcik Creating the Nomadic Constitution; Open Assembly on Citizenship, Political Rights and Migration ATOPOS cvc 16., 17 June 18:00 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 Akadimia Platonos Jungle
16 June 20:00 Eirini Vlavianou Attending to Endings; on extinction mythologies and post-human necromancies Sculptural intervention and lecture Venue: Akadimia Platonos Jungle
17 June 20:00 Steven Corcoran Excavating the Politeia: Organising and Trust in the People Akadimia Platonos Jungle 18 June 18:00 Thomas Oberender Language and Power; 10.000 words for change. A meditation on language Akadimia Platonos Jungle 18 June 20:00 Poka Yio Bloated; Athens and its cultural digestion system Akadimia Platonos Jungle 21 June 20:00 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 Villa Araucaria and online, please, request the link by registering with jouliastrauss@gmx.de
Venues:
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
Akadimia Platonos, meeting point at the entrance opposite the Cooperative Café, Monastiriou Str. 140, Kolonos 10442, Metro Larissa M2, Metro Metaxourgeio M2, Bus 051, bus stop Kratilou, or call +30 690 691 2882 if lost
Villa Araucaria, a residency for Ukranean and international artists in collaboration with the Room to Bloom project Papazachariou 10 Kallithea 176 71 Bus 40, 106, 126, 136, 137 station: Panteios Metro 2 (red line) station: Syngrou Fix
ATOPOS cvc Salaminos 72, Kerameikos 104 35 Metro 3 (blue line) station: Kerameikos
Drawing: Joulia Strauss, 2023
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.
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
Venues:
Akadimia Platonos Jungle
Akadimia Platonos, meeting point at the entrance opposite the Cooperative Café, Monastiriou Str. 140, Kolonos 10442, Metro Larissa M2, Metro Metaxourgeio M2, Bus 051, bus stop Kratilou, or call +30 690 691 2882 if lost
Villa Araucaria
Papazachariou 10
Kallithea 176 71
Bus 40, 106, 126, 136, 137 station: Panteios
Metro 2 (red line) station: Syngrou Fix
The Muses’ Embassy
Ampati 3, Koukaki 11741
Bus 40, 106, 126, 136, 137 station: Gephyra
Metro 2 (red line) station: Syngrou Fix
Art works exhibited in the Villa Araucaria:
Eirini Vlavianou ^^ Companions, 2022, mixed media
Stefanie von Schroeter ^^ Climate logos, 2022, mixed media
Yorgos Maraziotis ^^ Untitled, 2017, neon, wires, dimensions variable
Joulia Strauss ^^ Fight With Your Knowledge, 2022, felt tip pen and colour pencils on paper
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The Room to Bloom residency for Ukranean artists has been made possible with the kind support of Marie Michel, Inken Baller, Eleni Tzamadia, Walther Schüschke, MitOst, Ulla und Werner Gössling, Sarah Waterfeld in collaboration with HAU2, André Sauer, Ecologies of Care group, and is organised by Florine Schüschke and Joulia Strauss.
This semester is prepared with the precious participation and support of Anastasia Efstathiadi, Eirini Vlavianou, Empros Theatre, André Sauer, Elke Kania, Steven Corcoran, and Tania Hron.
To Araucaria
Summer Semester 2021
23 June
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
18.00-18-30
Opening: collective offerings to the Araucaria tree
19.00-20.30
Steven Corcoran ^^ Choice of the Gods
25-29 June
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria and Avtonomi Akadimia in the Akadimia Platonos Jungle
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
29 June
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
20:00-22:00
Penny Travlou (Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research), Nadja Verena Marcin, Eleni Riga, Joulia Strauss and Marc Müller ^^ Ecofeminism
30 June
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
20:00-22:00
Ecofeminism. Open closing assembly with Sonal Jain, Beral Madra and others
3 July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia in the Akadimia Platonos Jungle
14.00 – 18.00 and
4. July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia in the Akadimia Platonos Jungle
10.00 – 14.00
Khien Phuc ^^ Qi Gong Workshop
16.00-17:30
Nalini ^^ Plantwork. A lecture on traditional work with plant medicine from the Amazon
6 July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
16.00-17:30
Sophia Rhei ^^ Tracing geographies of reflection
18:00-19:00
Clara Mosconi ^^ Voicing a choreography of Echo
7 July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
16:00-17:30
Raimar Stange (online) ^^ art als assembly – how democracy could work in the climate change
20.00-22.00
Xanaé Bowe ^^ A Parallel(es) Life, 2021, 105min., film screening and discussion
9 July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
16.00-17.30
Tania Hron ^^ Shamans, witchcraft, plant medicine, and global climate change
14 July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia Araucaria
13.00-16.00
Nitya ^^ Tibetan Pulsing
18.00-19.30
Katja Ehrhardt ^^ Communicating with trees
20.00-21.30
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)
15 July
Venue: Avtonomi Akadimia in the Akadimia Platonos Jungle
18.00-19.30
Thomas Oberender ^^ Towards a Gaia Theatre
This semester is prepared with the precious participation and support of Prof. Rainbow Snake André Sauer and Prof. Black Lion Yorgos Theodorakis
Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation
at Down To Earth in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2020
August 13
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Indigenous Epistemologies and Western Wisdom in LAR
17:30-19:00 Steven Corcoran ^^ A World in Abeyance: Fanon and Landscapes of Struggle in LAR
August 14
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17 Uhr Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Indigenous Epistemologies and Western Wisdom
Lecture Performance in LAR
17:30 Grischa Dallmer ^^ Doors to the Unconscious – Open! The El Juego Community. Combining scientific knowledge and ancestral wisdom in LAR
August 15
17:00-18:30 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Transindigenous Assembly in RST
August 16
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:30-19:00 Angelika Selina Braun ^^ Über meine Zeit mit Don José Arzalias Taguarí in LAR
August 17
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Transindigenous Assembly in RST
August 19
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
16:30-17:30 Peter Berz ^^ Down to the Earth: über der Erde, auf der Erde, in der Erde in LAR
17:30-18:30 Michelle-Marie Letelier ^^ Ancient or Human-made? in LAR
August 20
15-17:30 Isabell Schrickel ^^ Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations in RST
19:00-20:30 Maja Chiara Faber ^^ Modern Astrology in LAR
20:00-21:00 Bartosz Zurowski ^^ Plant medicines and music in spiritual practices of Amazonian tribes in Südplatz Garden
August 21
16-17:30 Bernd Brabec de Mori ^^ How to Get Down to Earth? Indigenous Knowledge, Power and the Uncanny in LAR
17:30-19 Maja Chiara Faber ^^ Modern Astrology in RST
August 22
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:30-19:00 Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema) ^^ What Happened to Sharing, what Happened to Caring in RST
August 23
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:30 Nadja Verena Marcin ^^ Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA and other Disasters in RST
August 24
11:00-11:30 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
12:00-12:30 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
13:30-14:00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
14:30-15.00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
August 26
10:30-11:00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
11:30-12:00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
13:00-14:30 Tania Hron ^^ Shamanic Knowledge Lektüreseminar in RST
19:00-19:50 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in Südplatz/Garden
20:00-20:50 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in Südplatz/Garden
August 27
15-17:30 Isabell Schrickel ^^ Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities Creative Involvement with the United Nations in RST
18:00-18:30 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation – Indigenour Forms of Knowledge in LAR
18:30-19:30 Robert Lippok & Joulia Strauss ^^ Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly in LAR
August 28
15:00-15:30 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation – Indigenour Forms of Knowledge in LAR
15:30- 16:30 Robert Lippok & Joulia Strauss ^^ Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly in LAR
17:30-19:00 Luca di Blasi ^^ Schuldpolitik im Anthropozän in LAR
August 29
16:00-17:30 Brandon La Belle ^^ The torn sound. Reading Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña in LAR
17:00-18:30 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Zur Transindigenous Assembly in RST
August 30
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
August 31
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 2
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 3
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:30-18:00 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation – Indigenour Forms of Knowledge in LAR
18:00-19:30 Brandon LaBelle, Marina Naprushkina, Mathilde ter Heijne ^^ Education as an art form. Education as down-to-earth of Art in LAR
September 4
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron ^^ Shamanic Knowledge Lektüreseminar in RST
16:30-18:00 Lukasz Kuni ^^ Kambô. Die Froschmedizin aus dem Amazonas als Werkzeug für inneres Wachstum und für die Heilung unserer Beziehung zur Natur in LAR
18:00-19:30 Peter Weibel ^^ My Earth Odyssee in LAR
September 5
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron ^^ Shamanic Knowledge Lektüreseminar in RST
September 6
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 7
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 9
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 10
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Zur Transindigenous Assembly in RST
16:30-18:00 Andreas Weber ^^ Animism as ecopolitical practice in LAR
19:00-21:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 11
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 12
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Zur Transindigenous Assembly in RST
September 13
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation
KNOWING OURSELVES
the curriculum for a university in times of ‘Climate Chance’*
Avtonomi Akadimia in Akadimia Platonos + LAB12 ASFA
June 20 20:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Introduction of the programme
June 20 20:00 Luca Di Blasi ^^ Seriousness without Enemy. Towards an Anthropocenic Concept of the Political
June 21 18:00 Johanna Di Blasi ^^ Heritage Trouble: The Humboldt Forum Berlin (lecture and discussion)
June 21 20:00 George Theodorakis ^^ From Climate Change to Climate Chance
June 21 20:30 Extinction Rebellion Hellas ^^ Join the Rebellion – intro to XR Hellas
June 22 14:00 – 18:00 and June 23 10:00 – 14:00 Khien Phuc ^^ Qi Gong Workshop ^^ registration: +30 690 691 2882, info: www.lotuscentercambodia.org ^^ In collaboration with Sporos
July 17 18:00 James Simbouras ^^ The DAAO community meetings: Blockchain for the cultural commons
July 17 20:00 Eirini Vlavianou ^^ Observation, exploration and artistic reflection on Akadimia Platonos site
July 17 21:00 Raimar Stange ^^ Identity politics and freedom of art
July 19 20:00 Thomas Oberender ^^ Workshop 1: Occupy History
July 20 20:00 Thomas Oberender ^^ Workshop 2: Welt ohne Außen
ASFA, Kolokotroni 4, Athens
September 10 14:00 – 17:00, September 11 14:00 – 17:00, and September 12 14:00 – 17:00 Clara Mosconi ^^ Impermanence: Conversations about posters as political resistance
September 12 10:00 – 13:00 Going beyond the nation-state: an exchange between European Alternatives and Athenian Initiatives
participants will be announced soon
September 15 18:00 Jonas Tinius ^^ Welcome, and Enjoy the Ruins. On the Fetish of Antiquity and Capitalist Abandon
September 15 19:00 Sotirios Bahtsetzis ^^ Towards Posthuman Ecologies of Affect
please, see “events” for the upcoming seminars, lectures, workshops, and actions
BlackRock Protest Semester (Summer Semester 2018 and beyond)
- 16.06 Introduction of the BlackRock Protest Semester by Joulia Strauss
- 16.06 Raimar Stange (Berlin)
climARTe // Art and Climate Change - 20.06 Music Jam and Kitchen on Exarcheia Square (within the frame of the so-called International Refugee Day)
- 12.07 Luca Di Blasi (Berlin / Bern)
Guilt Collectives and Identity Migration - 12.07 Clara Stella Hüneke (Berlin)
Meeting on Love, Sex and Community - 13.07 James Simbouras (Athens)
Deep Artists Talk - 14.07 Officinalis (Athens)
Gingko planting and herbal wisdom share “Resilience: plant allies” - 14.07 Helen Dimos, William Rowe & Kyrck (Athens / London)
Sound as Resistance // Protest Walk & Collective sound workshop - 22.07 Patricio (Peru)
CIRCULOS DE MEDICINA AMAZONICA // Lecture and Ceremonies with the Sacred Plant - 15.09 – 16.09 Khien Phuc (Cambodia/France)
Qi Gong Workshop - 16.06 – 14.07 Eirini Vlavianou (Athens)
Observation, exploration and artistic reflection on Akadimia Platonos site during the BlackRock protest semester
Winter Semester 2017-2018
Avtonomi Akadimia in the UFO of Kyiv International – Kyiv Biennial 2017
- 01.11 Presentation of “Krytyka Polityczna Athens”: Universitas by Katja Ehrhardt (AthenSYN) and The School of Everything by Joulia Strauss (Avtonomi Akadimia) (Greece/Germany).
- 01.11 Eirini Vlavianou (Greece)
In Memoriam Zygmunt Bauman - 03.11 Helmut Batista (Brazil)
Deep Hanging Out - 01.11 Sebastian Bayse Schäfer (Germany)
Acoustic Weapons: From the Walls of Jericho to the GitMo Playlist - 04.11 Judith Holzer and Marcel Schobel (Austria, Germany) Dread Nought! Fear Not – in the Age of Anxiety
- 05.11 Pirate Cinema, Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert (Germany)
Pirate Cinema and the New Forms of Action Against Politics and Art
^^ Revolution 1 (French): Chris Marker, Gaspard Glanz, Ute Holl, Peter Ott, et al.
^^ Revolution 2 (October): Kira Muratova, Peter Cherkasky, Artavazd Peleshian, Ken Jacobs, et.al
^^ Revolution 3 (Digital): Dzyga Vertov, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Grandrieux, et al. - 10.11 Hiroshi McDonald Mori (Japan)
Final Fantasy II – 21 Translations of Purpose in Japanese – 喜怒哀楽 Kidoairaku (Joy-Furious-Sadness-Pleasure) - 12.11 Clara Stella Hüneke (Germany)
From Parking Space to Park, film screening and discussion - 12.11 Ioulia Mermigka (Greece)
The Greek Case and the Murder of Pavlos Fyssas - 14.11 Noah Fischer (USA)
Snapshots from Future Occupations
Summer Semester 2017
The School of Everything at the documenta 14, Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center and Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance
- 06.07
Sanchayan Ghosh, Junaid Baloch, Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert, Joulia Strauss, Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Jonas Tinius, Tania Hron, Martina Schumacher, Costantinos Amvrosiadis - 07.07
Sanchayan Ghosh, Junaid Baloch, Jan Gerber, Sebastian Lütgert, Katja Ehrhardt, Joulia Strauss, Sebastian Bayse Schäfer, Nuno Cassola Marques, Jenny Marketou, Marco Clausen, Raúl Hott, Ioulia Mermigka, Arnisa Zeqo
The School of Everything at the documenta 14, KMMN, Kulturbahnhof of Kunsthochshule Kassel
- 11.06
Joulia Strauss, Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Jean-Pierre Rammant, Max Spielmann, Sebastian Lütgert, Jan Gerber, Jonas Tinius, Luca Di Blasi, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Mathilde ter Heijne - 12.06
Agnès Rammant-Peeters, Katja Ehrhardt, Noah Fischer, Mriganka Mudhukallya, Elad Lapidot, Arnisa Zeqo, Lindsay Parkhowell, Maarten Vanvolsem, Johanna Scherf, Georgia Kotretsos, Sotiris Tsiganos, Jonian Bisai, Mischa Schwab, Andrea Iten - 13.06
Katja Ehrhardt, Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Joulia Strauss, Ahmad Alkhatieb, Sebastian Schäfer, Judith Holzer, Paul B. Preciado
Winter Semester 2016
- 23.09 Deep Artist’s Talks ^^ Martina Schumacher, Berlin
The Architecture of seeing: a talk focusing upon colour and transparency - 24.09 Deep Artist’s Talks ^^ Vilelmini Vilma Andrioti, Athens
- 25.09 Deep Artist’s Talks ^^ Michael McGarry, Cape Town
- 24.10 Art as remedy? Cultural work and the refugee “crisis”
with Paris Legakis, Marina Gioti, Petros Lales, Vilelmini Vilma Andrioti, Margarita Tsomou, Yorgos Moutafis, Evi Lampropoulou, organized in collaboration with AthenSYN - 25.10 Deep Artist’s Talks ^^ Ivan Razumov, Moscow
- 18.11 Pirate Cinema, Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert, Berlin
What can you do with a movie? What can you do with 100 movies? What can you do with 10,000 movies? - 19.11 Pirate Cinema, Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lütgert, Berlin
STRATEGIES FOR ΕΧPROPRIATION OF URBAN SPACES AND MOVING IMAGES - 16.02 – 28.02 UNIVERSITAS – workshops by Syrian, Greek, and German artists. Athens Biennale, Khora Athens, Skaramangas and Eleusis Camps. Conceived by Avtonomi Akadimia and AthenSYN. Organized by AthenSYN
Summer Semester 2016
- 17.04 Sotirios Bahtsetzis (Athens), Vasyl Cherepanyn (Kyiv), Paul B. Preciado (Athens, Kassel), Joulia Strauss (Berlin, Athens)
On Education - 17.04 Daphne Büllesbach, Berlin (European Alternatives), Jakub Dymek and Igor Stokfiszewski, Warsaw (Krytyka Polityczna)
Meeting Large European Networks - 18.04 Daniel Mützel, Berlin
Border Security In The Robotic Age - 19.04 Rafał Żwirek, Warsaw
World premiere of the film documentary „Forget Fear – Story of Occupy Biennale“ - 20.04 Alyssa Moxley, in collaboration with C.A.S.A. for Transmission Art Festival Athens – Karlsruhe
4Dsound: points on the curve - 20.04 Sebastian Schäfer, Berlin
Acoustic weapons: from the walls of Jericho to the GitMo playlist - 21.04 Marta Madej, Berlin
Introduction of Krytyka Polityczna Center. Screening of „Brave New World / Nowy wspaniały świat“, a documentary by Maria Smarz-Koczanowicz - 22.04 Raimar Stange, Berlin
Forget Institutional Critique - 23.04 Ioulia Mermigka, Athens
Incorporeal materialities: Politics of the body, gender, language and rythm - 24.04 Hiroshi McDonald Mori, Berlin, Tokyo
Final Fantasy - 13.05 Joan Ayrton, Hugo Brégeau, Érik Bullot, Thibaut Gauthier, Louis Henderson, João Vieira Torres, Stephen Wright, James Simbouras
CRISIS DOCUMENT - 15.05 Global Nuit Debout Syntagma
Tania Hron: Berlin Media Theory: Program of an Alternative Thinking – “Media Determine our Situation” Friedrich Kittler 1943-2011 - 25.05 Mriganka Madhukallya, Assam
Assembly of Desire - 27.05 Amin Husain, New York, Palestine
On This Land and Third Cinema Today - 29.05 General Assembly, Pnyx
- 30.05 Georgia Kotretsos
The Phototropics: Situated east of the Prime Meridian - 30.06 Rossen Ventzislavov
Performance Art and the Body Politic - 10.07 Meeting Noah Fischer
- 14.07 Luca Di Blasi, Berlin, Bern
White, Heterosexual Men and the Rise of New Populism - 14.07 Lindsay Parkhowell, Berlin
Antigone and the Sublime: Acts of Impossible Affirmation
Winter Semester 2015
- 19.09 Marc-Robin Wendt, Berlin
Franchise or co-operative capitalism? Two possible futures for our society - 06.10 Valerija Pintschuk, Berlin
INFORMATION WARFARE as part of the HYBRID WAR – Russia’s imperialistic (neo)-colonial tactics - 07.10 Tania Hron, Berlin
Short and Intense Seminar: Fly High with Friedrich Kittler - 08.10 Benjamin Wilck, Berlin
What’s wrong with Euclid’s definitions of ‘odd’ and ‘even’? Aristotelian refutation of a definition and ancient arithmetic - 14.11 Lucy Beynon, Lisa Jeschke, William Rowe, Sean Bonney, London
Theatre, Poetry and Militant Politics - 20.11 Student ID printing action
- 22.11, 23.11 Yannick Oster, Karlsruhe
molecular aesthetics – from quantum states to discrete alien realities - 24.11 Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen, Berlin, Helsinki
Perpetuum Mobilizations from 2007-2015 - 25.11 Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Athens
Giving Time: Reinventing Art’s Economy - 26.11 Tania Hron, Berlin
Program of an Alternative Thinking – “Media Determine our Situation” Friedrich Kittler 1943-2011 - 27.11 Dimitrios Ginosatis, Athens
European Union: An essentially secularized onto-theo-logical problem - 28.11 Hiroshi McDonald Mori
Diarrhea and Hermes in the mirror stage - 29.11 Student ID printing action
Summer Semester 2015
- 05.06 Daniel Mützel, Berlin
Innovative deportation methods made in Germany – and how refugees are fighting against them - 06.06 Peter Berz, Berlin
Biological Media Theory - 06.06 Tatiana Volkova, Moscow
The Chronicles of the Russian Activist Art - 07.06 Dimitrios Ginosatis, Athens
On consciousness, strange loops and recursiveness - 09.06 Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Athens
Semiopower and Eikonomia - 09.06 Anna Markoulidaki, Athens
Ancient Greek language lessons during the entire month - 10.06 Marc-Robin Wendt, Berlin
Dating History - 11.06, 12.06 Matthias Hofmann, Berlin
Seminar on Janusz Korczak - 12.06, 13.06 Matthias Hofmann, Berlin
Emancipatory Thought and Action. A Journey Through Time exploring Philosophical and Pedagogical Ideas - 12.06, 13.06, 14.06 Filippos Vasileiou, Athens
M.F.A. (Martial Fine Arts) - 14.06 Olesya Turkina, St. Petersburg
Book presentation: “Soviet Space Dogs” - 15.06 Poka-Yio, Athens
Studio Talk - 15.06, 16.06 Luca Di Blasi, Berlin, Bern
Meta-Politics of Suspicion - 15.06 Dimitra Dimopoulou, Athens
The Perfect Leap - 23.06 George Caffentzis, Brooklyn, NY
Plato’s Republic and Student Loan Debt - 24.06 Georgia Kotretsos, Athens
Artist Visit - 25.06, 30.06, 01.07 Tania Hron
Reading Friedrich Kittler. A History of Media and Media Studies - 25.06, 27.06 Raimar Stange, Berlin
Let’s do it! - 26.06 Ioulia Mermigka, Athens
An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm Against the Fascistization of Society - 27.06 Urban Void, Athens
Farewell to the City – Again - 29.06, 30.06, 02.07 Moritz Mattern, Berlin
3D Environments: Maya - 01.07 A.C.G, Athens
A.C.G – The Legion of the Modest - 02.07, 03.07, 04.07 Christoph Keller, Berlin
Anarcheology-Museum - 03.07 Adonis Volanakis, New York, Athens
A visit to Athens Festival installation – a guided tour with artist sharing the process