participating: Iga Koncka, Konstantina Tsagianni, Laisul Hoque, Ken Nakajima
HIGHLIGHTS is a multimedia installation based on a collective reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958). The project highlights the dimension of plurality within the artistic process, reconceptualizing reading as a visual and performative practice of action and participation, and viewing as a practice of listening, reading and reflecting. By interweaving fragments of human intelligence (the readers' highlighted pdfs') with artificial intelligence (sound), the installation constructs a democratic mechanism of changes and exchanges that encourages viewers to participate in a viewing-now that evolves into a reading-later, facilitating a dialogic interplay between the self and the others, human and machine.
Self-images from a future that is already happening, 2023
concept/video: Evangelia Danadaki
participating: Konstantina Antonopoulou, Albert Barqué-Duran, Mikhai Karikis, Akrivi Koukouli, Vagelis Kontos
A group of young artists was asked to respond to the image of the future and the significance that art can play in a contemporary discussion on climate change. The result is a video-installation that generates and sustains a digital public sphere, one in which a new collective thought-image emerges in a playful, colourful and critical manner. The participants digitally selected the visual effects that would influence their self-images undermining the logic of identity in today’s physical reality. In allowing themselves to be mediated through technology, they both relinquish and reclaim aspects of their subjectivity, contributing to the creation of an inter-subjective scenario about the future. This dialogic synthesis emerges as an act of collective imagination, a site to rethink the potentiality of political agency and responsibility in the arts.
Self-images from a future that is already happening, installation,
Inspire Project, MoMus, Thessaloniki, 2023.
This installation, composed of a printer, a microphone, and a monitor displaying the artist in silent speech, engages with Hannah Arendt’s theory of action, animating the human capacity to begin anew. The subject of action is not a fixed entity but a participant in a world where the possibility of continuous re-birthing remains ever-present. The mute speaker and the repetition of printed blank pages reflect on the Arendtian concept of becoming, where the subject can escape definition and start over.
Notes on Hannah Arendt, installation, 2022.
Notes on Hannah Arendt, video, 2022.
A video and a chest of drawers transconnect and become public to underline the digital and physical qualities of the self composing a mixed-media self-portrait. The self appears as an image-based project to be carefully constructed by the subject herself trough a series of very intimate references, images, items, notebooks, clothes: a displacement of her embodied presence. What emerges is a mixed-media assemblage—an active, ever-evolving self-portrait (2021-today). The subject becomes both creator and creation, actively composing herself through the exposition of her personal chest of drawers and social media feeds. The work reveals the self as a continual recomposition of images, a performative project always shifting across both material and immaterial dimensions, offering a spatial potentiality for the self to be performed as a multiplicity of fragments, traces, and relations, questioning the boundaries between the physical and the digital, the body and its representation(s). The title indicates the feeling of disatisfaction that can follow the act of creation generating the desire to create as to perform (the self) again (better).
Over again and not exactly what I wanted, installation, Youths, Space 52, Athens, 2024.
4.48, 2022
Education after, 2022
The image projected is the first page of Theodor Adorno’s paper Education After Auschwitz. The date of installing this work was the 8th of March 2022, few days after the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Adorno’s text was projected on a school table with a red chair. Phrases and words were highlighted with different colours (yellow, green, red) to be later covered by the colour blue: a spatial moment to rethink the question of education today in relation to history, monstrosity, and action. Spectators were invited to read the text and digitally draw it blue.
Education after, Central Saint Martins, 2022.