installation / performance / video / film
Highlights, 2024multimedia, moving metal stand, 150x60cm, digital prints, video, colour, AI generated sound.
duration: 06:06 min.
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) that reconceptualizes reading as a visual and performative practice of action and participation, and viewing as a practice of listening and reflecting. By interweaving fragments of human intelligence (the participating 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. The participants highlighted the text differentiating their readings. The video is a composition of common highlights that appeared between the readings.
documentation: https://vimeo.com/1037879964
video: https://vimeo.com/1038230858
multi-channel video installation, colour, sound.
duration: 06:30 min.
participating: Konstantina Antonopoulou, Albert Barqué-Duran, Mikhail Karikis, Akrivi Koukouli, Vagelis Kontos
A group of artists was invited to respond to the image of the future by choosing an Instagram filter as a self-image, generating a polyphonic thought-image that reflects on the potential role of art in contemporary discussions on climate change. Participation here signifies connection and communication, but also the capacity for distinction: the articulation of multiple perspectives on a shared subject. Through the interplay of old and new technologies, the project explores layers of diversity and differentiation, composing a digitalised public sphere that foregrounds the arts’ potentiality for agency. What emerges is a unified yet heterogeneous body as a shared reflection on the future and on the significance that artistic practice might hold in shaping critical and collective imaginaries around climate change.
video: https://vimeo.com/1095095994
Notes on Hannah Arendt, 2022multimedia, video, monochrome, silent, printer, michrophone on tripod stand.
duration: 00:35 min.
This installation, composed of a printer, a microphone, and a monitor showing the artist engaged in silent speech, explores Hannah Arendt’s theory of action by animating the human capacity to begin anew. The silent figure on the screen resists speech-as-declaration, while the printer, becomes a metaphor for potentiality rather than finality. Together, they gesture toward Arendt’s notion of natality: the radical openness of action as the site where the subject escapes definition and enters the realm of becoming, situated between others-viewers.
video: https://vimeo.com/674899513