ART ISLANDS:Hydra In Motion-Animart 2019
The 13rd edition of ANIMART 2019 (School – Forum – Festival) will take place in Hydra Island in collaboration with the Hydra Arts Lab of Common Benefit Enterprise of Hydra Municipality (ΚΕΔΥ), under the Auspices of the Municipality of Hydra. All the activities (theater, cinema, photography, dance, music) will spread throughout the island: from the Historical Lazaros Kountouriotis’ Mansion, the 2nd Elementary School (build ca. 1828-32), the open-air cinema Gardenia, the Open-air Theatre at Kamini and other outdoor places of the island.
“MAPPING BODIES – SITE SPECIFIC DANCE PERFORMANCE” (Opening: 22-07-2019 19:00 – End: 26-07-2019 19:00, Venue: Open-air spaces of Hydra village, Meeting Point:Hydra’s Port): Trial+Error, cross arts research group, along with five students of Keratsini – Drapetsona School of Art, present a site-specific dance performance at ANIMART 2019, created during their artistic residency in Hydra Island.Triggered by the architecture and landscape, the body senses space and narrates its silence, as it traces yesterdays in present through dancing and immersing gazes in the uninterrupted sharing of “us”.
“THE SPRING OF LOVE” (22/7/19 21:00, Duration: 30′, Venue: Alex Veroukas’ House): A fictional letter of Emperor Hadrian to his soldier and lover Antinous. Hadrian is in Athens to participate in the Eleusinian mysteries in the autumn of 124. From the theater of Dionysus he writes this letter on the subject of the world and love. Love is treated as an inner self-awareness experience. Through the paradox of love, the great ruler of the world, man conceals a promise of absolute pleasure that is experienced as pain.
“BIO-GRAPHIA” (Opening: 22/7/19 23:00, Duration: 70′, Venue: Open-air Cinema “Gardenia”): a film somewhere between Animation and Expanded Cinema. It is an experimental film par excellence, based on a collage of gravures by Chumy Chumez. The color has been specially processed, and the method used is introduced for the first time in cinema, with the simultaneous use of a unique frame, whose dimensions are 1:2.75 (the maximum rate ever used). The film itself takes the form of a Lamposcope projection, through which a narration of the historical and mythical subject of the time and the world it refers to is reestablished.
“PANAGIOTIS RAPPAS’ ANIMATED MOVIES SCREENING” (23/7/19 21:00 & 23:00, Duration: 60′, Venue: Open-air Cinema “Gardenia”): The International animator, Panagiotis Rappas, who has born in Hydra island, talks about his carrier on animation industry, and will answer to the audience’s questions after screening his selected animated movies.
“HYDRAION: IN PRAISE OF WATER” (23-07-2019 21:00, Duration: 45′, Venue: Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion): Water is the world’s most vital substance, essential for all life on earth. This concert is dedicated to our respect for it, that we will not pollute it, over use it or misuse it. The health of us all depends on it. This ancient wisdom heard in the texts of Homer, Diodorus and Hesiod, frame original luxuriant sounding works by internationally renowned composer/performer Ros Bandt. She has created this site specific programme especially for ANIMART here in Hydra (the name derived from the Greek word for water), a reference to the natural springs on the island) together fascinating underwater recordings, new works on environmental themes of endangered birds together with the ancient myth of Hydra though her metamorphic instrument the tortocopus, the ancient Greek Lyre coupled with a mbira octopus.
“CODE NAME: DOWRY CONTRACT – A gesture for marriage bondage” (23-07-2019 22:00, Duration: 30′, Venue: Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion): The visual artist Margarita Petrova and the actress Danae Papoutsis meet in Hydra for ANIMART 2019 to present a performance and a video installation based on the exploration of the social, economic and historical backround of the island at the beginning of the last century. The actress wears (for the second time) the veil of Penelope’s Webs team and reads texts, known as ΠΡΟΙΚΟΣΥΜΦΩΝΑ (dowry contracts), which depict the social conditions of another era, the genealogical trees, their relatives, the linguistic idioms and the feelings of the marriaged couple at the beginning of its common life. At the same time, a video (30′) with local womens from Hydra island telling their own story will be screened.
“PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION” (24/7/19 20:00 – 28/7/19 14:00, Venue: Municipal Market of Hydra) Participating artists: Vassilis Karkatselis, Dimitris Vavliaras, María Elena Muñoz Bonilla and Athanasios Athanasiadis.
“HYDRA: THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE” (24/7/19 20:00 – 28/7.19 23:00, Duration: 42′ (loop), Venue: Municipal Market of Hydra): The video presents both familiar and obscure sides of the daily life of Hydra and has been screened at the Historical Archive – Museum of Hydra from September 2018 until July 20, 2019 in the frame of the exhibition “Contemporary Art meets Naïve Art in Hydra”, based on the Collection of the Dr. Panos Koronakis – Rohlf family.
“ACTIVE SURRENDER” (24/7/19 21:00, Duration: 30′, Venue: Municipal Market of Hydra): Salvo Genovesi’s poem is based on the eternal challenge with ourselves: the resistance to change. As the artist says “Changing not just to change, but changing like a real, deep necessity to go forward. Eternal birth and death of something. We have resistance to accept death but is only when we accept it that can come something new in our life. This theme is really important in my life, in fact, I started to practice Buddhism for this reason, searching answers to my fundamental questions about the meaning of life”.
“THE SQUARE” (25/7/19 19:45, Duration: 45′, Venue: Open-air Theatre, at Kamini): Attempting to grope the immeasurable geometry of feelings, she loops on the perimeter of an impeccable shape, the square. The square does not condone any mistakes and drives the individual to the quest of a never-ending pattern, of a structure within a structure, within a structure, on a seemingly infinite existence in between our familiar dimensions. Are fractals the answer to inner human geometry? This performance contemplates on the geometry of sentiments and the vanity of human rationalization.
“STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION” (26/7/19 19:00 – 30/7/19 14:00, Venue: B’ Elementary School of Hydra): The Photographic Group of the Student Cultural Club, University of Athen, organizes the annual photography exhibition of its members. Βoth of them, old and new, share with us the photographic results of this year seminar cycle, as they were printed in black and white, in digital and analogue format. The icons are the culmination of this year’s student photography event, which organizes photographic seminars every year, aiming not only in the technical training of the participants, but also in shaping and cultivating the photographic perception and the exploration of the photographic medium.
“IN MEMORIAM OF GISELE RΙCHARDSON” (26/7/19 19:00 – 28/7/19 14:00. Venue: 2nd Elementary School of Hydra). As Kostas Daoultzis says “Gisele Richardson, a Canadian citizen, a cosmopolitan (having lived in different countries around the world), a resident and at the same time a lover of Hydra, was my benefactor and my mentor. She was the one who presented me my very first serious camera (a Pentax ME) with which these photos were taken, on occasional visits to the island, with a black and white film – and some of them with an infrared b&w film. The reason for my choice of this particular means was the dazzling light during the day, which was reflected on the white-washed walls and which at the time could probably be captured on an infrared film, which again would depict the white areas with a relative glare. So, walking up the hill towards the Villa Helios (Gisele’s residence on the island) which overlooks the town lying at the foot of the hill and around the port, I tried to depict this game of light and shadows. The result can be seen on the photographs”.
“ROSA, THE DREAM” (26/7/19 21:00, Duration: 40′, Venue: Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion): The actrees Nadia Mourouzi reads some excerpts from Christoforos Christofis’s famous novel “Rosa, The Dream”, on which his movie “Rosa” was based. Musical Intervantions by Nikos Platanos (accordion).
“THE BLESSING” (27/7/19 21:00, Duration: 50′, Venue: Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion): The Greek actress Roula Pateraki, reads in Panhellenic first, the unpublished play of Dimitris Dimitriadis titled “The Blessing”, based on the famous painting composition of Theodoros Vryzakis entitled “The Bishop of Old Patras Germanos Blesses the Flag of Revolution” (1865). Yiota Vei, the very famous Greek folk singer intervenes by interpreting hip-historical folk songs.
“THE JAZZ CONCERT” (28/7/19 21:00, Duration: 80′, Venue: Open-air Theatre, at Kamini): the Graduate student ensemble of the Music Department of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is going to present a Jazz concert with different styles from traditional to modern Jazz.
“BOLIVAR, A GREEK POEM” (29/7/19 21:00, Venue: Lazaros Koundouriotis Historical Mansion): The Olympic Games gold medalist Ioannis Melissanidis will read the poem “Bolivar” by Nikos Engonopoulos, directed by Elpida Skoufalos.
More Info: https://animartgreece.eu
