coming times

In thinking containers*, amy proposes experiments with different protocols of collective decision-making, Valia & Ioanna focus on the relevance of care in artistic practices and artistic work, noting cracks and gaps, but also on its appropriation by cultural institutions, while Anna highlights the multiplicity of relations inherent in every processual act of thinking. 

In the open mic** Ana reflects on models of feminist and participatory governance as a possible transformative response to the precarity entrenched in neoliberal cultural policies, but also on how care, relational ethics and shared responsibility can reshape cultural work. Silvia shares her research which raises questions around regimes of visibility, and how curatorial practices can embody absence, loss, and imagination. Bojana reflects on the sonorities of care at work in collective, entangled, communal forms of artistic work. Focusing on the Greek dance context, Betina decodes what feminist practices of care and interdependence, as well as collective artistic practices, signify by examining the complex relationships between art, work, and everyday life. Whilst Maria, Rodia, and Medie follow a score with questions and share thoughts, concerns, and fantasies around visible and invisible feminist practices and methods through their own working positions. 

Dora and Anna invite us to a performative dinner through a game of materials and recipes, collaboration, and self-observation, while undercurrent generates a performative condition of parallel group discussions.

In the performative acts, Pierre guides us through a sewing tour of a sleeveless blouse and invites us to try his sewing machine every day, Yorgia shares the thoughts and associations of a girl, Nikos redefines relationships of dependence and control through the co-existence of a body and a robotic vacuum cleaner, while AMR will conclude the symposium with a dj set.

In audio notebooks, the collectives systering and WordMord, in two parallel sound installations respond to the modalities of their work. The hangout space is accessible to any person who wants to rest between other activities or browse and engage with the content of the ephemeral library, and every day Dora with Νefeli will prepare collective lunches.

coming times space is looked after daily by Rallou and technically supported by Tristanos.

Rallou Karella

Rallou Karella is a dancer based in Athens. She has participated in the performances If I cannot dance I will not be a part of your revolution choreographed by Maria Koliopoulou, Hard Times/Good Times choreographed by Sofia-Danae Vorvila at M54, Symposium choreographed by Iro Vassalou at Megaron Athens, Antigone directed by Harris Fragoulis, Thiseion Theatre/Sphendoni Theatre. She has also collaborated with Polina Kremasta, Romeo Castellucci, Sotiris Hatzakis, Irini Drakou. She is a postgraduate student of the Theatre Studies department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She holds a diploma from Aktina professional dance school and a degree from the psychology department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Nefeli Gioti

Nefeli Gioti was born in Athens. She is a dance researcher, choreographer, and dancer who works between Greece and Sweden. She has completed her MA in choreography at the University of Arts in Stockholm and her BA in Environmental Science in Greece. She has worked as a performer and artistic collaborator in numerous choreographic works and projects in Greece, Germany, France, and Sweden. Her work is emerging and revolving within and through the intersection of dance, choreography, artistic research, performance, and speculative fabulation. Her work delves into the narrative operation in the fields of dance and choreography by exploring discursive practices. She proceeds into thinking through performative objects, such as performances, publications, discursive practices, and video experimentation. She has been a fellow artist in the Critical Practice (Made in Yugoslavia) program.

Tristanos

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Theodoros Koveos

Theodoros Koveos is a visual artist and designer based in Athens. He is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he earned a degree in painting, and continued his studies in the postgraduate program “Digital Forms of Art.” His artistic practice focuses on exploring intermedia art and cybernetic discourse, often with philosophical and political undertones. He primarily presents his work through collective initiatives, often anonymously, and has collaborated with significant institutions and organizations. Among others, he has worked as a designer for the scenographic team of Dimitris Papaioannou at the 2015 Baku European Games (BEGOC), for Roger Bernat (Documenta 14), for the Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019), for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and for Google. In recent years, he has been working as a designer at the Onassis Foundation’s Stegi.

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