installation / performance / video / film
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 and post/human 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.
Highlights
participatory installation, multimedia, auto-rotated 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 and post/human 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.
installation view from the group show ‘Do electric sheep dream?’, Maraslio, Athens, 2024.Self-images from a future that is already happening
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.
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.
installation view, Inspire Project, MOMus, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2023.
Notes on Hannah Arendt
multimedia, video, monochrome, silent, printer, michrophone on tripod stand.duration: 00:35 min.
Notes on Hannah Arendt is an installation composed of a printer, a microphone, and a monitor showing the artist engaged in silent speech, that 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 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.
installation view, Central Saint Martins, London, 2022.
Not exactly what I wanted
video installationsingle-channel projection, wooden chest of drawers with contents.
duration: 03:08
The self appears as an intermedial image-based project carefully re-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 as an active and in-progressself-portrait (2021-today). The artist becomes both creator and creation composing herself through the exposition of her personal chest of drawers (sculpture) and social media feeds (video). The work reveals the self as a continual recomposition of images, a performative project shifting across material and immaterial dimensions, offering a spatial potentiality for the self to be performed as a multiplicity of fragments and textures.
installation view from the group show ‘Youths’, Space 52, Athens, 2024.