...a pineapple doughnut
Of cooked Crudenesswith actions, 26/12/2006 - 13/1/2007, Fokionos Negri St. 42
Open from 4pm until late
In Kypseli, the most densely populated neighborhood of Athens, along the pedestrian avenue of Fokionos Negri, we are once again faced with urban development in the omnipresent form of a commercially operated "recreation park". Nevertheless, what we need, contrary to the dominant model, is the creation of "other" spaces, alternative in that they do not deprive life and are conducive to different journeys of recreation, gatherings/wanderings.
The recent opening of the derelict Kypseli municipal market by local organizations, inhabitants, cultural associations etc, stresses the need for such alternative spaces in town. In truth, the "opening" of the municipal market is a challenge to everyone involved as we should take into account the real needs of the local people and the broader area, as well as the need for communal spaces of free access and expression and strike a sensitive balance between recreation and diversion, culture and the environment.
The Reconstruction Community supports this undertaking with a series of actions and an art exhibition organized in the Kypseli market (aprox. 700m²), in the period 26/12/2006 - 13/1/2007. The premises will be open daily from 4pm until late.
Exhibiting artists will colonize the successive cells that used to be shops and still have many traces of their previous use. The title "A pineapple doughnut" and subtitle "of Cooked Crudeness" have been interpreted in various ways, always in reference to the market as a transit phase for the often violent passage from a raw/primitive state to a cultural elaboration of materials and people.
The final list of participants is as follows:
Elena Akylla / Vaso Vougiouka / Dimitris Georgakopoulos / Irini Giorona / Nikos Gritzonas / Haralampos Dermatis / Giorgos Diamantakis / Aggeliki Douveri / Thalassini Douma / Mihalis Zorgias / Vasilis Theos / Giannis Kavalaris / Aggelos Kaltsis / Mélinna Kaminari / Vasilis Kanellopoulos / Anna Katsimpra / Kali Katsouri / Harris Kondosphyris / Manos Kornelakis / Alexandros Maganiotis / Kyriakos Banos / Foteini Nakou / Ippokratis Navrides / Athena Nikolaou / Aemilia Papafilippou / Giannis Pappas / Zoi Pappa / Foteini Polydorou / Christian Rupp / Panagiotis Sidiropoulos / Thanos Stathopoulos / Gella Tangalidou / Giorgos Taxiarhopoulos / Spyros Tsakiris / Anna Tsouloufi / Dimitris Halatsis / Giorgos Heilaris/ Cartel Group.
Video Projections with thematic reference to the urban environment by the group Multitrab Productions (Athens Video Art Festival), Wednesday 27 Dec 2006.
3 excerpts from the play "Plastic props from Alice in the Wonderland" presented by the theatre association "SHEDÍA" (total duration: 17'), Thursday, 28 Dec. at 8pm.
1. P + Lilly= L.F.E
2. Imponderabel Factor
3.Tea Party
(Directed by Gina Apostolopoulou/ Music: Spyros Faros/ Video: Emmanuelle Kroukofsky. Actors: Kostas Gerantonis/ Konstantina Mara/ Marina Natioti/ Nikos Christopoulos)
Screening of the documentary "Summer rain" by the jouranlistic team "Exantas", commentated by 20 artists, on Friday 29 Dec. 06.
Performance "human chess", Saturday 30 Dec. 8pm
A live chess game with black and white players with reference to the political manipulations, discrimination and power games. The game will be directed by distinguished chess masters Spyros Ilantzis and Maria Sarafoglou.
Simultaneous action by Aemilia Papafilipou with the work "chess continuum".
Open Discussions
--"Collective Organizing. Structure- Experience- Perspectives", Tuesday 26 Dec., 8pm.
--A discussion on the problem of Palestine, Friday 29 Dec. 8pm.
--Lecture by the Group Zoltart on "Urban Voids", Saturday 30 Dec., 5.30pm.
The program will close with a party on Saturday night.
For more information check the article by Eleni Portaliou on the history of the Kypseli municipal market building, as well as the essay by Manos Kornelakis "of Cooked Crudeness", that both appear in the texts/actions list of this site.
We want to thank Ippokratis Navrides, Panayiotis Kondosphyris, Giannis Malatantis and the theatre group Shedía.
Sponsor: Compuvideo
Organized by the Reconstruction Community
www.reconstruction.gr
info@reconstruction.gr
For more info contact
halatsisd@yahoo.gr mobile: 6948034131 (Dimitris Halatsis)
pobiti@otenet.gr mobile: 6977006459 (Katerina Nasioka)
Top Photo: Harris Kondosphyris