Multimation
METAMORFOSIS #1
Everything flows, nothing stands still.
Heraclitus
The international exhibition MULTIMATION - Metamorfosis#1 takes place during ANIMFEST in Athens, 16 - 22 March 2017. The exhibition shows live multimedia art performances that expand the field of animation, focusing on flow and movement in public space and environment, connecting the digital world with the body via contemporary multimedia art performances. Venues of the exhibition are the public space of Athens and the indoor venues Vryssaki Art Gallery, Romantso Arts Center, Zeon Cultural Center. the garden of the Numismatic Museum and Vrilissia Municipal Center, with artists from UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Canada, Cyprus and Greece.
Curator: Geert Vermeire (Belgium)
Artist, curator and writer with as main field an artistic practice focused on the performative, mixed reality and social practices, with the body in public space, community involvement and ethical involvement of cultural action as key elements. His activities involve immersive formats of arts, and an interdisciplinary and artistic research involving walking. He engages in creative collaborations with choreographers, sound artists, new media artists, architects and writers. Since 2010 part of the noTours team, exploring augmented aurality within an international collective of developers and sound artists. Co-founder of Akoo-o, an international group of artists and researchers (Belgium, Greece and UK) that use sound and mobility as vehicles of expression and social inquiry. Co-founder of the Urban Emptiness Network, an international network of researchers and artists investigating the qualities of silence and emptiness throught connected actions in various cities as Athens, Brussels, Edinburgh, New York and in Nicosia.
IN COLLABORATION WITH:
"Cine Drassis" Cine Club of Vrilissia
Arts & Sports Organisation of Municipality of Vrilissia
the Milena Principle
Athens School of Fine Arts
Interactive Arts Lab - InArts, Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University
Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology, Music Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
PARTICIPANTS (in chronological order of events):
| Isabelle Clermont (Canada) |
| Marielys Burgos Melendez (Puerto Rico), Konstantinos “Deko” Dekoumes, Vasiliki Vlachou (Greece) |
| the Milena principle & Stefaan van Biesen (Belgium) |
| Urban Emptiness Network (UK - Belgium - Greece) |
| Alexandra Pambouka (Cyprus) |
| Alexandra Pambouka (Cyprus) / Nadia Hatzimitraga (Greece) |
| Andromachi Vrakatseli (Greece) / Young Artists Refugees of Filippiada camp |
| Vassiliki Spyrou (Greece) |
| Georgia Gremouti (Greece) |
| Elli Vassalou (Belgium - Greece) / Gitsa Kostantoudaki (Greece) |
| Marina-Leto Antiohou, Phoebus Thanos, Asteris Kanoussis, Phoebe Koutselou, Vassilis Bouzas (Greece) |
| Panayiota Koushiappa (Cyprus - Greece) |
| Sofia Makridou (Greece) / Theodora Prassa (Greece) |
| Christoforos Christodoulou (Cyprus - Greece) |
| Anti Narrative team (Greece) |
| Bogna Juchnowicz (Poland) |
| Deree – The American College of Greece |
| Vasileios Filippou (Cyprus) / Maria Methymaki / Mariza Parasyri (Greece) |
| Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology, Music Department, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) |
| Ienke Kastelein (Holland) |
| Katerina Drakopoulou (Greece) / Ioulia Ladogianni (Greece) |
| Lezli Rubin-Kunda (Canada - Israel) |
| Iro Dimitriou (UK - Greece) / Caterina Antonopoulou (Greece) |
| Stella-Maria Pouli / Maria Lyberidou / Natalia Koutsopetrou / Manolis Panagiotakis (Greece) |
| Isabelle Clermont (Canada), the Milena princilple (Belgium), Bogna Juchnowicz (Poland) |
| Ioannis Vougioukas (UK - Greece) |
| Christos Prossylis and his theatrical group (Greece) |
ATHENS ANIMFEST
