05/11/2021
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Hybrid,Polythematic,Phigital.on going Festival
6-7-8 Νοvember 2021 Katerini Greece
100th anniversary of Iannis Xenakis
Olympolis Art Project was created in Pieria by the cultural and sports association "Olympus Eagles". In recent years, it has been organizing art festivals of original ideas and gastronomy, with the aim of highlighting the cultural heritage of Olympus. Using art as a tool, it aims to activate public spaces, artistic exchanges, the fermentation of new ideas on issues of environmental and social ethics / aesthetics, always taking into consideration the modern social web that is in a constant "on the road" situation, and in a continuous state under development.
We believe in collaboration, in the artistic interaction between inspired professionals and organizations, we work for public education, sustainability and social cohesion.
We are looking for new ways of communication in the new world that is being formed and opened before us, worrying creatively about the future of arts, sciences and letters, in the post-digital age, where it is already apparent that the body in the modern world is changing and transforming through virtual reality and we are waiting for the new form in human nature and condition. This name was chosen for the for-day educational-research that will take place in Katerini from 6 to 9 November 2021 and will be the first stage of the multi-thematic hybrid festival of duration.
PROMETHEUS I(annis)X(enakis) that we are preparing for the period 2022-23 is a multidimensional tribute to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the world-famous Greek composer and architect IANNIS XENAKIS who made an international career in Paris from 1946 and is considered to be the father of modern electroacoustic music by many people.
Since the summer of 2019, when the contacts with the Japanese cultural ambassador of the AItci region, musician and researcher KUNIKO KATO, Olympus origin choreographer and dancer Harris Gkekas and the Romanian artist Lucian E Matei began, we managed to be co-financed by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Municipality of Katerini and to enjoy the auspices from Greek National Tourism Organization(GNTO), of the Japan Embassy in Greece, the Ministry of Culture, the Greek community of Luxembourg, the Department of Hellenic Studies of Chicago University, the International Monument Foundation of Great Alexander and C.I.X. (Center Iannis Xenakis) based at the University of Rouen in Normandy, as well as private sponsors.
The second goal is to explore through artistic collaborations the similarities of Japanese with Greek culture and finally to highlight the wider region of Olympus and central Macedonia as a destination for cultural tourism through the routes of “LUMINUS OLYMPUS OF ALEXANDER” that we propose. Each day, Ioannis Skopeteas, Professor of Screenwriting and Directing at the University of the Aegean, together with his team record the events in order to create a narrative documentary.
The project will take place in the abandoned department store “EUROPEAN MARKET”, opposite PPC, 44 Irinis and Heroes Square corner in the center of Katerini and will be broadcasted online.
Finally, we would like to inform you that Prometheus IX was qualified for the second phase of the evaluation of "Eleusis, European Capital of Culture 2023" in a process in which 1780 artistic proposals from 47 countries participated.
Saturday 6 November
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17.00-18.00
Nikos Babanikas photographer-traveler workshop and permanent projection of photographs by the local world citizen .
18.00-18.30
Romina Koopman, photographer/artist student of Gerrit Rietveld Acadamie Amsterdam Photographic 3D installation
18.30-19.30
"PlastiCity" - Sound, interactive installation by Dimitris Bakas composite sound from on a three-dimensional metallic grid.
19.30-20.00 Screening of the documentary "Acoustic Ecology and Sound Art" by the screenwriter and director Vagia Buffeti.
20.00-21.00
Exhibition of the art installation Prometheus "Everything flows" with male Japanese washi paper kimono art and obi, photos of M.Papatzelou's washi Kimono by Everett Kennedy Brown, Masashi Nakamura and Stavros Parcharidis, art videos presenting her artistic activities in Kyoto and Thessaloniki and an introduction/workshop reference to her washi kimono art project
21.00-23.00
Lucian E. Matei
Interactive Visual Performance,Interactive Multimedia Installation,Digital Interactive ARTS “flux INTERACTIV”, an interactive multimedia installation that explores temporality, offers a real sense o livens and shifts the role of the public from passive viewer to active participant. The “flow” (flux) represents a quantum of universal laws about cause and effect. The technological expression of interactive art also works as a temporary and participatory light mural.
Sunday, November 7
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11.00-12.00 Presentation of the collection of Haiku poems "Internal connections of the liquid sky" (Greek & Japanese / "Odos" Publications / 2021) by the artist Maria Papatzelou, by Faye Tzanetoulakou, Dr. Art History, Special Secretary of AICA Hellas.
12.30-14.30
Speech & discussion entitled "Ideas and approaches to the work and thought of Iannis Xenakis" by Dimitris Exarchos, Assistant Professor, Department of Music Studies, University of Ioannina.
14.30-15.00
Sharon Kanach (phygital presentation) Exhibition of unique archives from CIX for the life and work of Iiannis Xenakis and the UPIC , the pioneer "machine" that makes understandable the relationship between music and mathematics
15.00-17.00
Assot Manoukian music producer “sound blending “sound contraction, inspiring from XENAKIS work
17.00-17.30
Theodoros Kleisiaris-electronic engineer Live sound improvisation "Richter Scale Madness (Kleissonic)",
17.30-18.30
Zachos Samoladas Animator/ Director
Member of Greek Directors Guild and ASIFA HELLAS
“My heart bleeds from the suffering of others”
Tokei Maru is an animated short based on an extraordinary human in history. A story that sounds like an old myth, a Japanese captain that places human life above all .
18.00-19.30
Anastasia Giannakidou,(Phygital presentation) Professor of linguistics,founder and director of the center of Hellenic Studies at the university of Chicago.
“Hellenic culture at the crossroads between east and west”
19.30-21.30
Open rehearsal with the choreographer and dancer Harris Gkekas, member of the Lyon-based STRATES group, and Sara Tan, Brussels-based solo dancer, on Pleiades and performed by Kuniko Kato(phygital participation) as part of Xenakis et le Japon which is evolving from 2016 throughout Japan and will be completed in 2022-23 with the presentation of Prometheus IX in the land of the Rising Sun and on a European tour
Monday, November 8
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12.00 -15.00
Open rehearsal and workshops with the participant artists
17.00-20.00
Conference-Dialogue for the cultural tourism in the area of Olympus and the opportunities of local communities on the perspective of cultural stock and tourism, as well as the impact of sustainable development in local communities, in order to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of Olympus
Participants-Speakers
Emiliano Micciche Responsible for cultural tourism proposals -
“Reading of the area. Pieria through the eyes of a foreign resident”
Maria Terzidou vice-meyer of Katerini tourism development organization
Savas Tsentidis,Theodoros Tekeridis,Apostolis Kourtis, Anastasios Papanastasiou
20.00-22.00
Open rehearsal –video editing-summary- announces
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