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
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
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
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
