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