ART FAIRS: Platforms Project Net 2020 – Parallel Program

The Platforms Project – Independent Art Fair stands today as the largest annual visual arts event in Greece, it is an international artist-run art fair which has been created since 2013, and it is an annual international meeting of artist groups-platforms. It is an international exhibition, which aims to map how art collectives work, and create channels of communication and cooperation with other countries.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Platforms Project Archive

Due the COVID-19 pandemic the Platforms Project 2020 taking very seriously the events that are happening worldwide, the travel restrictions and the protection of the health of artists as well as its visitors, creates a new perspective on art viewing, the online art fair, Platforms Project Net that will give the opportunity the visitor to get in touch with the works of 800 artist with 63 platforms from 20 countries through a digital exhibition. In the Parallel Program of Platforms Project NET 2020, OPEN STUDIOS, Studios of the Athens School of Fine Arts participate, presenting student’s actions and projects. The educational program KIDS LAB aims to introduce children to contemporary art and is designed for children between 4 to 16 years old from the Dutch platform EX-MÊKH and the artist and art teacher Ellen Rodenberg. The program draws inspiration from the spatial design of the Platforms. The art collectives platforms present their ideas in a space-booth which looks like a large cube. During the Platforms Project the children will be invited to participate in creating a mini space (mini booth-cube) with paper, pencils. In their small space they can draw inspiration from the exhibition. The viewer will be able to watch online a rich and varied programme of 21 online lectures on contemporary art matters, in Greek and English, as well as 22 online performances and videos of the participating groups. Visitors to the Platforms Project NET may engage in direct, real-time dialogue with the artists over the internet

Program of Talks and Performances Platforms Project Net 2020

15/5/2020:
17:00, Topp & Dubio, “In the future, all will be forbidden”, Topp & Dubio, (performance)
18:00, EULENGASSE , “„…introducing ARTIST RUN PANELS”, ομιλητές: Florian Adolph, Andrea Blumör, Harald Etzemüller, Jasmin Glaab i.a. (Τhe speech will be in English)…

16/5/2020
18:00, Chicago Artists Platform, “Cocoons”, Rose Camastro Pritchett, (performance)
19:00, “Zero Fucks To Give”, rapporteur: Lanfranco Aceti, (Τhe speech will be in English)

17/5/2020
12:00, “Trauma: The body of the society is sick. What about art?’’, (Τhe speech will be in Greek) Rapporteurs: Katerina Zacharopoulou (Visual Artist) Amina Moskof (Phycologist), Bia Papadopoulou (Art Historian, Independent Curator, General Secretary AICA), Leda Papaconstantinou (Artist-Performer), Panagiotis Rappas (Director-Artist), Coordinator: Efi Michalarou (Journalist, Art Critic, Independent Curator, Director online magazine www.dreamideamachine.com)
19:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “From the series Voice Over (A Poetry Reading)”, Holly Crawford, (performance)

18/5/2020
18:00, CYBORG/ASMA, “Digital art today and its challenges”,
4 talks – rapporteurs:
“SCENE-Interaction, Abuse of Power and Digital Reality” Athanasios Pallas (Associate Professor for Visual Arts-Digital Icon, Faculty of Visual ArtsSchool of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
“The Quarantine Culture- The Emergency Exit during Pandemic’s Social Distancing”, Anna Hatziyiannaki (Art Historian/Curator, New Media)
“Digital Art as an Interactive Medium of Expression”, (with the collaboration of Dr. Faye Tzanetoulakou and Professor Miltiadis Papanikolaou) Markella Tsichla, (Art Historian/Museologist, PhD candidate at University of Patras)
“The Presence of Digital Experience in life- Its’ impact in the fullness or emptiness of relations”, Iordanis Stylidis (Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Thessaly) (Τhe speech will be in Greek)
20:00, “Gloves”, Lanfranco Aceti, 2018. Video performance with colored condoms. Production manager: Pascal Dreier, (performance)

19/5/2020
18:00, ASSOCIATION THÉÂTRE DIONYSOS ET APOLLON, “interview by Joëlle Montech and Alistair Martinin”, Puerto Plata, Dominical Republic, photo: Chamanic Intention, Evgenia Logvinovska. (The speech will be in English)
18:30, “One billion artworks available online. So, what?” Rapporteurs: Yannis Spanoudis (Publisher, KROMA Magazine) Achilleas Pistonis (Painter Soteur, Street Artist) (Τhe speech will be in Greek)
20:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “Knowing Me Knowing You (A Deepfake Sensation)”, Rolina E. Blok & Alessandra Falbo, (performance)

20/5/2020
18:00, rosalux, “Untitled 2016_1969 (reenacting Dan Graham, Guggenheim Museum New York)”, Linda Weiss, (performance)
20:00, “Dialogues with Art & Artists’’, rapporteurs: Efi Michalarou (Journalist, Art Critic, Independent Curator). Presents her book “ in first singular & second plural’’ with 24 interviews by art people. (Τhe speech will be in Greek)

21/5/2020
18:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “Who is Jaque Jolene by Ms Pearls”, Marcia Beatriz Granero, (performance)
19:00, Rhythm Section, “A talk about the Project AMBIGUOUS UNAMBIGUOUS and our experiences”, rapporteurs: artists of Group Rhythm Section, Dr. Ezgi Bakçay and Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck. (Τhe speech will be in English) Live Talk with Zoom, Istanbul – Munich, 2020

22/5/2020
18:00, Fragments of truth, “art book, is this a book?” rapporteur: Louisa Karapidaki (Art historian) (Τhe speech will be in Greek)
19:00, D.E.U.S, “video performance DEUS”, Christina Negrepontis, (video – performance)

23/5/2020
17:00, Rhythm Section, “The Beautiful Formula”, Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Veronika Wenger, Michael Wright, Live Painting with Zoom Whiteboard, London – Munich, 2020, (performance)
18:00, Sepersepuluh, “Performing Objects”, conversation between Luca Bosani and Kelvin Atmadibrata, (Τhe conversation will be in English)
19:00, “UNESCO chair MA creation” and “Implicite Cultural Policies Part I, II & III”, Rapporteur: Professor Milena Dragicevic Secic (PhD, director of the MA Unesco chair Cultural Politics & Managment, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
20:00, “Feminist and Women festivals in the Balkans”, Rapporteur: Tatjana Nikolić (Researcher and Teaching Associate, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia). Curated by Daphne Nikita (poet, art historian, director of DIATOPOS contemporary art center) and Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos (visual artist, Nicosia, Cyprus), (Τhe speeches will be in English)

24/5/2020
18:00, D.E.U.S, “DEUS”, Music “All as a possibility” by Jef Vanderlinden, poem: Christina Negrepontis, (performance)
19:00, “In the post-covid-19 era. Consequences in the artworld”, rapporteur: Nicos Samaras (artist, founder of CASK gallery (dir. Giorgos Alexandros Samaras), ArtStop magazine publisher, GASradio owner), (Τhe speech will be in Greek)

25/5/2020
18:00, Chicago Artists Platform, “From Studio A&W”, Nelson Armour & Kathy Weaver, Studio A&W, (performance)
19:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “Contemporary Printmaking-The Syrian”, rapporteurs: Leigh Clarke. (Τhe speech will be in English)
20:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “we could talk about spaces too”, Rapporteurs: Koenraad Claes & Remco Roes (intermerz collective), (Τhe speech will be in English)

26/5/2020
17:00, Fragments of truth,“live art books”, Angelos Skourtis, (performance)
19:00, ID:I GALLERI, “Arts in the pandemic, the pandemic as Art”, Timo Menke, (reading performance) A playback reading performance on the viral conditions of cultural production during quarantine, and how the pandemic infects, transforms and mutates society, politics and culture, featuring a pandemic pan flute soundtrack

27/5/2020
17:30, Embryo LLC, “I Need Help”, Shanina Dionna, (performance)
19:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “Conversation with a video painting”, Lee Wells, (conversation – performance)
20:00,”Discussion with Michael Ashkin, Vassilios Doupas and Caroline May”, Michael Ashkin is an artist and Chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University, NY. Vassilios Doupas is an independent curator and writer based in London where he works as curator of programs at the Contemporary Art Society, London. Caroline May is an artist, and the founder of Kaktos Project, an independent artist-run space in Athens, with a focus on urban landscape and the forces of gentrification with the aim to empower community and collective action. (Τhe discussion will be in English)

28/5/2020
15:00, “The art scene in the french provinces: traps and challenges” rapporteurs: Béchir Boussandel (Artist), Clara Juliane Glauert (Artist),Guillaume Krick (Artist), Régis Perray (Artist), Nathalie Poisson-Cogez (President of 50° nord), Éric Rigollaud (Director of le Bureau d’art et de recherche David Ritzinger, Editor and Curator of La belle époque), Moderator: Luc Hossepied (journalist and Director of PPGM Gallery) (The panel will be in French)
18:00, Five Years & Darling Pearls & Co, “Untitled Performance with Rolina E. Blok and Marc Hulson”, Alex Schady, (performance)
20:00, “Profiteroles”, Macklin Kowal, (lecture-Performance)

29/5/2020
18:00, ID:I GALLERI, “Unspeakable”, Alexander Mood, (performance)
19:00, 11 Εργαστήριο της ΑΣΚΤ / 11 Studio of ASFA, talk-performance about project “TORA ΤΩΡΑTORA ΤΩΡΑ!”, (Τhe speech will be in Greek)

30/5/2020
18:00, “Contemporary problems of history and art criticism”, rapporteur: Emmanuel Mavrommatis (Emeritus Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, President AICA Hellas) (Τhe speech will be in Greek)
20:00, “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back“, Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Videographer: Sareen Hairabedian, assistant: Christopher Bahls-Marils. Curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Vera Ingrid Grant. production manager: Samuel Horning. With thanks to the The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, and Dance Exchange, (performance)

31/5/2020
16:00, EULENGASSE, “summing up our impressions – an ARTIST RUN PANEL“, rapporteurs: Florian Adolph, Andrea Blumör, Harald Etzemüller, Jasmin Glaab i.a. and the public audience. (Τhe speech will be in English)
What has happened until now? What were the inspiring moments of »Athens«? What is the future of this increasing artist run scene? The panel will resume to the first panel held in Switzerland in March 2020, continuing the discussion and opening new perspectives to a lot of new participants of the open platform. EULENGASSE hopes to invite everyone to Frankfurt am Main/Germany in autumn 2020 for another ARTIST RUN PANEL.
19:00, ΟΡΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΩΝ – ORIZONTAS GEGONOTON, “Καλλιέργειες / Cultivations” , Rapporteurs: Cultivators: Visual artists in conditions of isolation, analyze and chronicle the concept of cultivation. They are performing in front of their cameras, without an audience. (Τhe speech will be in Greek)

Info: Directors: Artemis Potamianou and Michalis Argyrou, Curator: Artemis Potamianou, Duration 14-31/5/20, Hours: Daily 00:00-24:00, Admission: Free, https://platformsproject.com