Rooms 2012_d - Plus

ROOMS 2012 plus+

Contemporary Art Show

part d

It’s the first time since ROOMS became an art event for the city of Athens that a parallel eexhibition takes place in Kappatos Gallery under the name Rooms 2012 plus + where the artists participating in ROOMS 2012 exhibit artworks in the gallerys’ spaces.

Participant Artists: Ιάνθη Αγγελίογλου, Νικολέττα Αντωνάκου, Στέλλα Δρυγιαννάκη, Αλέξανδρος Κακλαμάνος, Ιωάννα Κασίκη, Πέγκυ Κλιάφα, Ματίνα Κουσίδη, Θάνος Κυριακίδης, Χρήστος Κωτσούλας, Βιργινία Μαστοργιαννάκη, Ναταλία Μηλιώκα, Γιάννης Μουράβας, Γιάννης Μπελημπασάκης, Θεοφάνης Νούσκας, Δημήτρης Παπουτσάκης, Νίκος Ποδιάς, Πάνος Σκλαβενίτης, Έφη Σπύρου, Αναστάσης Στρατάκης, Ξένιος Συμεωνίδης, Νίκη Τσάχρα, Αγάθη Τσορώνη.

Beep beep

 

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep

go the horns in the cars in the street

we walked away from the lover's leap

opposite directions

synchronised feet

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait

for the time it takes a heart to mend a break

how many moons are reflected in the lake

can you wait forever if time is all it takes

despite all the warnings

I landed like

a fallen star

in your arms

beat beat beat beat beat beat beat

goes my heart on the side of my sleeve

whispering something I can hardly believe

'let me take the lead

cos love is all we need

Simone White

Design Walk 2012 B

What kind of country do we want Greece to be in ten years from now? Will the characteristics of the Greek identity be affected by the monetary crisis? How will we perceive Greece in 2022 and how will we be perceived by our friends, allies, observers and competitors abroad? How we can influence the way others see us? Within the narrative context "Greece 2022" the design studios will create their own version of our future. During Design Walk 2012, nothing will be left undisclosed. The designers will confront the present, suggesting a different future, ambitious, intelligent, optimistic, extroverted and humorous. "We need this now, more than ever. The issue is purely existential. We cannot create a different future without having imagined it first".

Greece 2022

11 creative studios, 11 aspects of our lives, 10 years later

3, 4 and 5 February 2012

[ the website ]

[ part B]

 

G Tourism

In contrast to Elytis’s verse “If you deconstruct Greece, in the end you’ll have an olive, a vine and a boat,” the tourist imagines memorabilia with attic light, the Parthenon, endless beaches, Dionysian nights and any latest fad he is offered. What promotional item could represent our country’s modern tourism image? What product could possibly encompass the Eternal Then and the Ambigious Now?

2022 finds us with the prophetic words covering the Glorious City like a sound-logo: “Tourism is the most powerful industry in Greece”. And so a “product” reflects the future

π6 (Pi6) Social Standards

Historians disagree. The Antistatists’ official version wants March 25, 2022, a day meant to commemorate the two hundred and first anniversary of the glorious liberation from the Turks, to be linked with the disappearance of all social authorities on the Battleship Averof by the Reformist Provocateurs Group and their “forced seclusion” on an island-plateau.

In one moment, all the prevailing role models in Greece’s modern history disappear, rumors say to the remote atoll of Lost. In the lab of historical wonders, new generations of leaders are already being hatched

This is Amateur Consumerism

Do you have a red-figured amphora with flute-players in exchange for a second hand gold buckle? The pre-Homerian economy of 860 BC is here. DIY online sales, digital marketplaces are the new vintage silk road.

 

In 2022 “The Death of a Post-Capitalist Salesman” is a fact, while thousands of homes have been converted into warehouses full of goods. Commerce has shrunk and basic goods are now grown in greenhouse-balconies, studio-communes and co-op warehouses. The end of advanced marketing, without retouching, product styling and targeted consumer groups.

DesignPark Religion

Did God ever imagine religion?

 

Αn interactive photographic installation about me, you, the other, us, all , the One… since then until 2022…?

Stylo

 

overload, overload, overload,

coming up to the,

 

It's its love of electric,

it'll be flowing on the streets,

night after night,

just to get through the week,

sometimes it's hard.

right now.

 

single cell,

out of depression,

rise above,

always searching,

if I know your heart,

electric is the love.

there's only one way,

let it pray a little while longer,

it's got a way of passing through man and woman,

in another world,

in another world in the universe.

 

right now here's what we got to do,

it's its love of electric,

it'll be flowing on the streets,

night after night,

just to get through the week,

sometimes it's hard.

that's what I'm talking about,

love electricity,

shockwave central,

power on the motherboard,

yes.

 

push up,

overload,

legendary,

heavy glow,

sunshine,

thunder roll,

keep this on,

they broadcast so raw and easy,

thunder roll,

sunshine,

work it out.

right now.

 

Gorillaz

Design Walk 2012 A

What kind of country do we want Greece to be in ten years from now? Will the characteristics of the Greek identity be affected by the monetary crisis? How will we perceive Greece in 2022 and how will we be perceived by our friends, allies, observers and competitors abroad? How we can influence the way others see us? Within the narrative context "Greece 2022" the design studios will create their own version of our future. During Design Walk 2012, nothing will be left undisclosed. The designers will confront the present, suggesting a different future, ambitious, intelligent, optimistic, extroverted and humorous. "We need this now, more than ever. The issue is purely existential. We cannot create a different future without having imagined it first".

Greece 2022

11 creative studios, 11 aspects of our lives, 10 years later

3, 4 and 5 February 2012

[ the website ]

[ part A]

Sereal Designers
Governance

Ten years later, everything is under way. Today's policies condemn the future.

Does imagination play any role in change? In order to imagine the future one must first envision the present.

 

Embarrassment or conceit? Participation or denial? Imagination or fantasy? Labyrinth thoughts in search of tomorrow's light.

about:
concept : design : inter/national

Vakalo 10 years Master of Arts

Within the ominous portents of daily life and the endless banality, there are bright moments that escape, showing a future that will be the result of orderly planning (design), based on ideas (concept), which will bring in creative contact the private and the public, the local and the global (inter/national). Exhibition of 25 selected projects.

3 in a box
Entrepreneurship

Using data from global paradigms and from Greek reality, we speculate on our future entrepreneurial behavior

R.E: Texas

 

  

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre presents Texas and R.E.

 

 

Ground Floor:  Reconfigured Etiquette / Ioanna Pantazopoulou

First Floor: Texas / Dimitris Tsoumplekas

until 10.03.2012

Say Yes 2 ASM

2011 is the year ASM reach musical maturity in the shape of their sophomore album “Crown Yard”. The underlying flavour is the same optimistic true-school hip hop vibe that endeared them to listeners and live audiences all over Europe in their collaborative work with Wax Tailor and on their debut album “Platypus Funk”.

What sets this record apart is the sophistication of the arrangements and the depth in which they explore the genres they had previously only touched upon: most notably the funk in its raw original form, but also Motown soul, roots reggae, and afrobeat.

ASM’s live show moves effortlessly between Funk, Hip Hop and Reggae and has seen them compared in their sound to the likes of Jurassic 5, The Pharcyde and A Tribe Called Quest. Principally composed of multi-national lyricists Green-T and FP, as well as DJ, VJ and MPC-wizard Fade, their live ensemble extends to include the Rice Krispies horn section (Sax, Trombone and Trumpet) plus an array of other guest musicians when possible.

In addition, ASM have added a visual component to the performance in the form of a full video show which is created to compliment their music and interact dynamically with live audiences. With over 200 shows under their belt they are easily considered one of the top European Hip Hop acts touring today.

[ source ]

Photos and Video are from their live performance @ k44.Athens / 02.02.2012

I'm in No Mood

 

I'm in no mood

I'm in no mood to comb my hair

There's a chill in the air

And it's catching

Catching

I was so drunk last night I didn't even undress for bed

And the pin in my hair was still stuck in my head

I'm in no mood to comb my hair

There's a chill in the air

And it's catching

Catching

 

 

I was so drunk last night I didn't even undress for bed

And I swear the pin in my hair got stuck in my head

I didn't even undress for bed

I was so drunk last night.

 

The Fiery Furnaces

Photographic Pairs 2012

 

Each exhibition in series Photographic Pairs features the work of two photographers, both members of the Photography Circle, whose paths in life or photography cross.

 

 

The new photographic pair are Lukas Vasilikos and Christina Sorovou, whose friendship emerged from their shared passion for the art of photography.

 

Sorovou’s black and white photographs are of friends and family while Vasilikos’ color photographs mainly depict street scenes.

 

The pairing of these photographers is justified not only in light of the friendship they share but also because of similarities in the way they have developed as photographers. That said, their work as photographers bears the marks of their distinct personalities.

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Lukas Vasilikos 
He was born in 1975 at Heraklion, Crete. In 1996 he moved to Athens where he still lives and works.
In 2006 he joined the photography seminar of Manos Lykakis and that's how he entered the photography world. From then on, he focused on street photography which is his real passion.

 

 

He has participated at group exhibitions at Greece and Istanbul. During 2009 he participated at Athens Photo Festival at the group exhibition "New Greek Photographers" and during 2010 he participated at Athens Photo Festival with an individual exhibition. During 2011 he participated with individual exhibition at the "Kithira Photography Meeting". His photos have been presented in 4 photography publications, along with other photographers. Since 2008, he is a member of Platon Rivellis "Photo Circle".

[ website ]

 

 

Christina Sorovou

Christina Sorovou was born in 1973 . She studied Informatics at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. She now lives and works in Athens. In 2008 she attended the Platon Rivellis Seminar on Creative Photography which is how she became acquainted with the world of photography. Since then, she has been a member of Photocircle. She has participated in several exhibitions in Athens, Crete and New York . In 2012 she presented her work at the Hellenic American Union in Athens together with Lukas Vasilikos, at the exhibition: “Photographic Pairs”. 

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Kettering

I wish that I had known in that first minute we met,

The unpayable debt that I owed you.

Because you'd been abused by that bone that refused you,

And you hired me to make up for that.

Walking in that room when you had tubes in your arms,

Those singing morphine alarms out of tune

Kept you sleeping and even, and I didn't believe them

When they called you a hurricane thunderclap.

When I was checking vitals I suggested a smile.

You didn't talk for awhile, you were freezing.

You said you hated my tone, it made you feel so alone,

And so you told me I ought to be leaving.

But something kept me standing by that hospital bed,

I should have quit but instead I took care of you.

You made me sleep and uneven, and I didn't believe them

When they told me that there was no saving you.

The Antlers