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FREIRAUM FESTIVAL
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Please watch this space for changes and additions to the programme, as we approach the festival date.

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 18 November 2021
PRE-EVENT 

19:30-20:30 (Central European Time)

MOVING SILENCE NICOSIA 
Live-streamed from ARTos House Nicosia 
Live performance, soundtracks for silent video and film works

Friday, 19 November 2021
DEMO-CRISIS & THE FUTURE OF PROTEST
NEW POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITIES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND SOLIDARITIES

12:30-18:00 (Central European Time)

Live-streamed from various cities around Europe

12:30-13:00
OPENING WORDS
Introduction by the Hosts
Sotirios Bahtsetzis (art theorist, ArtBOX, Ass. Professor in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating Practices, Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly) 
​& Lydia Chatziiakovou (curator, ArtBOX, member of the curatorial team of Freiraum Platform)

Welcome address, Elke Kaschl Mohni (Regional Director Southwest Europe, Delegate for European Affairs, Goethe-Institut Brussels)
Welcome address, Freiraum Platform Curatorial Committee, WATCH THE VIDEO

13:00-13:50
BEST-PRACTICES FROM THE FREIRAUM PLATFORM MEMBERS
Live-streamed from

Dublin - Trinity College, University of Dublin
"Reforming our Freedom: Expressions of Youth Voice for our Covid-19 Era"
Discussion with Daniel McFarlane, Dove Curpen and Reece Sheridan
Belgrade - Škograd/Schulstadt/Schoolcity 
"Schoollaboratory", artistic documentary by Milos Tomic

13:50-13:55
Intervention by Daniel Freund, Member of the European Parliament on the Conference for the Future of Europe WATCH THE VIDEO

13:55-14:00
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Adam Engler, UnityCore, 2021, video performance WATCH THE VIDEO
Emir Uysal, A chronological look into resistance in Boğaziçi University, 2021, video, 2D animation WATCH THE VIDEO
Ryan S. Jeffery, An Unsatisfying Metaphor, 2020, colour HD video WATCH THE VIDEO

14:00-15:00
SESSION 1: DEMO-CRISIS & THE FUTURE OF PROTEST
Introduction by the moderator: Ondrej Timco (researcher, project manager) WATCH THE VIDEO
Statements: 
Paolo Gerbaudo (Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities, Director of the Centre for Digital Culture, King's College London) WATCH THE VIDEO
Vladan Joler (Professor at the Academy of Arts at the University of Novi Sad and founder of SHARE Foundation) WATCH THE VIDEO
Live discussion

15:00-15:05
ARTISTIC INTERVENTION
Una Walker, Shadows and reflections, edited version of 2019 work, audio WATCH THE VIDEO

15:05-16:00
BEST-PRACTICES FROM THE FREIRAUM PLATFORM MEMBERS
Live-streamed from

Ljubljana - hosted by Maja Ziberna
Discussion with Ziga Divjak, director of "The Game" 
Athens - Deree American College of Greece
Live connection with the Visual Arts Department
Torino - Associazione Arteria 
Presentation of "The Globe" theatre play WATCH THE VIDEO
Brussels - Globe Aroma 
"Espace Fxmme", presentation of the workshop and spatial intervention with the project team and participants


16:00-16:45
KEYNOTE CONTRIBUTION BY SILVIA FEDERICI (Professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University)
Live discussion

ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Catalina Gonzalez
, The Murmur, 2020/21, video WATCH THE VIDEO
Angelos Papadopoulos, Body Politics_Porn Me, 2021, video WATCH THE VIDEO

16:45-17:45
SESSION 2: NEW POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITIES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND SOLIDARITIES
Introduction by the moderator: Ira Bliatka (independent researcher, educator) WATCH THE VIDEO
Statements: 
Nour Abouzaid (architect, programmer, Forensic Architecture researcher and MENA liaison) WATCH THE VIDEO
Slavco Dimitrov (independent researcher, queer and gender theorist, curator and activist) WATCH THE VIDEO
Live discussion

17:45-18:00
CLOSING REMARKS
​ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Bojan Stojčić
, Seeking for a Person, 2013-ongoing, public ad
Menelaos Lomis, An ever changing stage, 2021, video WATCH THE VIDEO

​Saturday, 20 November 2021
STATE OF THE ARTS - ART IN THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE
13:00-20:30 (Central European Time)

Live-streamed from various cities around Europe
In partnership with Common Lab project by Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki & ArtBOX, in collaboration with TIF-Helexpo (GR)

13:00-13:15
OPENING WORDS
Introduction by the Hosts
Sotirios Bahtsetzis (art theorist, ArtBOX, Ass. Professor in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating Practices, Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly)
​& Lydia Chatziiakovou (curator, ArtBOX, member of the curatorial team of Freiraum Platform)

Welcome address, Beate Koehler, Director, Goethe-Intsitut Thessaloniki WATCH THE VIDEO
​

13:15-14:00
KEYNOTE CONTRIBUTION BY ATHENA ATHANASIOU (Professor of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences)
WATCH THE VIDEO
Live discussion 

14:00-15:15
BEST-PRACTICES FROM THE FREIRAUM PLATFORM MEMBERS
Live-streamed from

Basel - Hyperwerk Lab for Process & Experimental Design 
"On the Cotton Road Again", Chemnitz European Capital of Culture 2025 WATCH THE VIDEO
Thessaloniki - Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, ArtBOX.gr and partners
"Tale of X Cities", discussion with representatives of the partners and participants
Smolyan - Rhodope International Documentary Film Festival 
"Pianocean. Under the Western Sky", short introduction 

Berlin - AthenSYN
About Art in the digital public sphere

15:15-15:30
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Petros Tatsiopoulos, Installation Stem, Impression, 2021, video WATCH THE VIDEO
Tingwei Li, digitus digitālis, 2020, video WATCH THE VIDEO
Menelaos Lomis, An ever changing stage, 2021 video WATCH THE VIDEO

15:30-16:45
ART IN THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE - SESSION 3
Introduction by the moderators: Sotirios Bahtsetzis (art theorist, ArtBOX, Ass. Professor in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating Practices, Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly) ​& Lydia Chatziiakovou (curator, ArtBOX, member of the curatorial team of Freiraum Platform)
Statements:

Karen Van den Berg
(Prof Dr Phil, Chair of Art Theory & Curating, Zeppelin University) WATCH THE VIDEO
Kay Watson (Head of Arts Technologies, Serpentine) WATCH THE VIDEO
George Drivas (visual artist, film director) WATCH THE VIDEO
Live discussion

16:45-17:00
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Ewa Doroszenko and Jacek Doroszenko, The same horizon repeated at every moment of the walk, 2014, video WATCH THE VIDEO
Nefeli Kentoni, A Real Performance, 2021, video performance WATCH THE VIDEO
Bojan Stojčić, Seeking for a Person, 2013-ongoing, public ad

17:00-18:15
ART IN THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE - SESSION 4
Introduction by the moderators: Sotirios Bahtsetzis (art theorist, ArtBOX, Ass. Professor in Contemporary Art Theory and Curating Practices, Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries, University of Thessaly) ​& Lydia Chatziiakovou (curator, ArtBOX, member of the curatorial team of Freiraum Platform)
Statements:
Ana Vujanovic (theorist of performing arts and cultural worker) WATCH THE VIDEO
Jesse Cameron Alick (Dramaturg, artistic producer and researcher, Ass. Artistic Director - Vineyard Theater NYC) WATCH THE VIDEO
Kyriaki Goni (artist) WATCH THE VIDEO
Live discussion

18:15-19:00
BEST-PRACTICES FROM THE FREIRAUM PLATFORM MEMBERS
Live-streamed from
Copenhagen - Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Short films produced during 2021 Summer School on Film & Architecture
Strasbourg - Association Ballade presented by Ira Bliatka


19:00-19:30
ARTISTIC INTERVENTION
Bojan Stojčić
, Seeking for a Person, 2013-ongoing, public ad

19:30-20:30
BEST-PRACTICES FROM THE FREIRAUM PLATFORM MEMBERS
Live-streamed from

Regensburg - Theatre Regensburg 
Discussion with Maria Milisavljević (author) and Laura Mangels (dramaturg) 

20:30
CLOSING REMARKS
Contact us:
Initiated by the Goethe-Institut in 2017, Freiraum is now an autonomous network of more than 40 actors from culture, science and civil society.
Website admin: www.artbox.gr for Freiraum Platform.
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