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Under/Mining international group exhibition - Cyprus (28.10-20.11.22)
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UNDER | MINING
VARIOUS LOCATIONS – KALAVASOS, CYPRUS
October 28-November 20, 2022
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The multisite art exhibition addresses for the first time through a contemporary art perspective the history, memory, sociocultural and environmental impact of mining in Cyprus. Mining in Cyprus has a very long history, from antiquity to the present day. Even the name of Cyprus is derived from the copper - rich mines of the island, Cuprous / of copper from the Latin cuprum / copper. Mining reached its peak during the British colonial years. This exhibition, the first of its kind in Cyprus, will focus on the ex-mining community of Kalavasos and its heritage with reference always to the other mining communities of the island.
Curated by:
Dr. Gabriel Koureas, Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio, Giorgos Lazoglou
Participating Artists:
Klitsa Antoniou (Cyprus), Vince Briffa (Malta) , Trevor Borg (Malta) , Melita Couta (Cyprus) , Elina Ioannou (Cyprus) , Bill Psarras (Greece) , Lara Salmon (USA) , Constantinos Taliotis (Cyprus) , Leontios Toumpouris (Cyprus) , Adonis Volanakis (Greece)
Theoretical Art TextsDr. Gabriel Koureas (Cyprus), Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio (Italy), Maria Loizidou (Cyprus), Dr. Elena Parpa (Cyprus)
Supported by:
Υφυπουργείο Πολιτισμού - Deputy Ministry of Culture CY / Department of Fine Arts - Cyprus University of Technology : Contemporary Fine Arts Lab / Wignacourt Museum / Sagis / University of Malta : Department of Digital Arts / Heritage Malta / Arts Council Malta / University of Nicosia // Opening by the Deputy Minister of Culture Dr. Yiannis Toumazis 28.10.2022
Invited author for catalogue ‘The Revival of the Stones’ exhibition (2022)
The International exhibition of Contemporary art "The Revival of the Stones" (27/8-28/10, Kardamyli, Messenia) organised in collaboration with Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia, Greece and supported by George and Victoria Karelias Foundation (major support) and Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation.
Artists: Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, Maria Georgoula, Alexandra Roussopoulos, Ilias Papailiakis, Panos Profitis, Alexis Fidetzis, VASKOS Kostas Tzimoulis, Vassilis Noulas, Stroti Havet, Hara Piperidou, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Anastasia Douka, Kostas Christopoulos, Yorgos Papafigos, Stella Xr, Antonis Kanellos, George Kazazis, Alexandra Koumantaki, Joan Ayrton, Kostis Velonis, Marion Inglessi, Maria Varela. The exhibition will move by the performance of Angeliki Hatzi and Vasia Paspali.
Curated by Stella Christofi
Invited Essays in the edition book: Eleni Riga, Sotiris Chtouris, Sozita Goudouna, Bill Psarras, Takis Koumbis, Anna Micheli.
Curator of the exhibition ‘Where Do We Go From Here Now’, supported by NEON (2022)
The exhibition Where Do We Go from Here curated by artists Nansy Charitonidou and Bill Psarras, part of the Primarolia Festival 2022, Trajectories, takes place at the old Railway Station of Aigio; conceived by Primarolia organisation. Supported b NEON.
Curators and invited artists get inspired by the poetic, political, social and universal implications of boundaries in our times where boundaries, distance, proximity, mobilities and geopolitical frictions are processes under constant negotiation. Boundaries between people, locations, two eras. the old Railway Station of Aigio (1895) will be approached as an expanded curatorial experiment: spaces of transition, waiting rooms, departure platforms and meeting points will be interwoven through new commissioned artworks at the intersections of performance art, installations and new media practices.
Such works reveal new thresholds of experience within a station-metaphor for an era, a society, a human life. Trajectories, histories and journeys in search of the next place and future step – parallel and crossing trajectories create the herma for artistic production. Where do we go from here? A question of direction, of journey and reconsideration of the next step
Where Do We Go From Here [see exhibition catalogue]
ARTISTS: Vasilis Alexandrou, Evangelia Basdekis, Konstantinos Tiligadis – Andreas Sitorego (Heimer & Alz), Panagiotis Vorrias, Betty Zerva
CURATORS: Nansy Charitonidou and Bill Psarras
Location: Old Railway Station of Aigio
Part of: Primarolia Festival 2022
Dates: 03-11 September 2022, Aigio (10.00-13.00 and 18.00-21.30)
Invited screening at Video Art Projects (GR)
‘Territorial Poetics: III (Vanity)’ (2020) has been invited (curator Gioula Papadopoulou) to be part of the forthcoming Video Art Projects a new emerging international festival focusing on the artistic video creation, which is organised for the first time by the Municipality of Thessaloniki and the Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca, in collaboration with the New Media Laboratory of the School of Visual & Applied Arts - Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the support of the International Festival Video Art Miden.
An annual event in the future, a rich program of video art screenings from all around the world will be displayed, with more than 140 participant artists and art students from 21 countries. The program includes curatorial selections from invited foreign festivals, specifically from Italy, Germany, Portugal and Brazil. The screenings also include tributes to Greek video art,
The invited platforms and organisations from abroad include selections from: The New Museum of Networked Art, curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany), Visual container, curated by Alessandra Arno (Italy), FONLAD – International Video Art and Performance Festival, curated by Jose Vieira (Portugal) and Strangloscope, curated by Claudia Cardenas & Rafael Schlichting (Brazil). Also, Video Art Miden (based in Kalamata, Greece) will participate with selections curated by 5 basic members of its curatorial team (Gioula Papadopoulou, Margarita Stavraki, Olga Papadopoulou, Nikos Podias, Maria Bourika).
Video Art Projects
Municipal Art Gallery Casa Bianca – Municipality of Thessaloniki
18-19-20 May 2022 (12.00-20.00)
Screening at Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022 (US)
‘ISLET’ (2021) has been selected for screening at Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2022 presented by Northwest Film Forum (Seattle, US). The artist would also like to thank curators for choosing to give screenings section the name of my poem ("what is hidden needs to be seen")
This year’s festival takes place in-person April 21–24 (Northwest Film Forum, Seattle) and online April 21 – May 1. Cadence approaches video poetry as a literary genre presented as visual media, cultivating new meaning from the combination of text and moving image [book your slots for the section hybrid section during 21/4-1/5
Invitation for the international committee of Biennale of Western Balkans 2022
Bill Psarras has been invited to be part of the international committee for the forthcoming Biennale of Western Balkans. The BOWB 2nd edition focuses on “Iatrosophia: On Folk Medicine and Phytogeography” and in particular on communities who are holders of folk medicinal traditions and local botanical knowledge in the wider Balkan region, explored through art and open knowledge.
For the Artist-Community Synergies committee:
Steve Bisson is a faculty member at Paris College of Art, Art Director of Lab27 and Co-director of the Move Cine Arte Film Festival. https://bowb.org/team-member/steve-bisson
Ksenija Orelj is a curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka and a writer. https://bowb.org/team-member/ksenija-orelj
Bill Psarras is an artist and Assistant Professor at the Department of Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese; also art director of Primarolia organisation. https://bowb.org/team-member/bill-psarras
‘Curate our traumas’ installation is part of MOMus Experimental Arts Center collection (January 2022)
Curate our traumas installation of Bill Psarras, commissioned for the 100 years of Joseph Beuys exhibition (Oct 2021) was the inspiration for a series of new handmade pins/brooches of MOMus available at the museum’s shop! The work has been part of the permanent collection of MOMus. More info here: https://www.billpsarras.com/text-based/curateourtraumas
Photos: Antonis Vlachos
Artist: Bill Psarras
Title: Curate our traumas
text-based installation, mirror, variable dimensions
2021 / Courtesy of the artist ©
New poems published by Thraca literary magazine and publications (February 2022)
Three new poems, part of Bill Psarras second’ forthcoming poetry publication have been published online after selection by Thraca literary magazine and publications. Thraca has been a high quality magazine and publisher of poetry in Greece; recently associated with SNFPHI and Columbia University on other initiatives
Poems: Ερμαϊκή Στήλη, Σύνδεσμοι, Αστυναύτης
2018-2022 / Courtesy of the artist ©
Cities, words, bodies and coordinates | Artist interview on Film Poetry and +the Institute for Experimental Arts (GR / EN)
Bill Psarras invited interview by Sissy Doutsiou - FILMPOETRY.org and +The Institute for Experimental Arts
Διαθέσιμη στα Ελληνικά: Πόλεις, λέξεις, σώματα και συντεταγμένες: Συνέντευξη του Βασίλη Ψαρρά στην Σίσσυ Δουτσίου για την ιστοσελίδα FilmPoetry.org του Ινστιτούτου Πειραματικών Τεχνών
Available in English: Cities, words, bodies and coordinates: Bill Psarras interview for Sissy Doutsiou - FilmPoetry.org a project by +The Institute for Experimental Arts
Date: December 2021
‘Joseph Beuys - We can’t do it without roses’ | group exhibition [commissioned] - MOMus - Goethe Institut (Greece)
Bill Psarras new work ‘Curate our Traumas’ is a text-based installation of mirror sentence conceived and produced for MOMus exterior space.
Celebrating 100 years since the birth of one of the most influential artists; Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), MOMus Experimental Arts Center and Goethe Institut Thessaloniki present a 3 days exhibition and parallel acts (16-18/10) entitled ‘We Can’t Do It Without Roses’. Happenings, artworks, performances, workshops, sound installations and projections will form a body of works which resulted from the Open Call to artists, curators and cultural institutions. The exhibition title takes its name from the homonymous lithograph which shows a moment of a durational performance of Beuys entitled Information Office (documenta 5, Kassel 1972). Title reflects Beuys’ philosophy and his need to promote through art ideas of knowledge, science, love and revolution as gradual blooming processes .
CultureNow.gr / Goethe Institut Greece / LiFO
Organised and curated by : MOMus Experimental Arts Center and Goethe Institut Thessaloniki © 2021
Duration: 16 October – 18 October 2021 (MOMus, Thessaloniki)
‘Objects in Odysseys’ included at the digital platform FILMPOETRY.ORG (Greece)
The work Objects in Odysseys; a sea-performance and expanded work of Bill Psarras has been included at the new digital platform FILMPOETRY.ORG; run by the Institute for Experimental Arts. The digital platform FILMPOETRY.ORG enrich filmmakers opportunities, offering: free live streaming of films for international audiences, open communication with other artists, financial support, promotion, distribution and marketing training services to help artists unify their careers.
Organised by : + The Institute for Experimental Arts (Film Poetry)
Duration: November 2021 - February 2022
‘A stitch in time saves nine’ | group exhibition [curation] (Primarolia Festival 2021)
Curation of the “A stitch in time saves nine exhibition” as part of the Primarolia Festival 2021
The exhibition curated by Nansy Charitonidou and Bill Psarras, focuses on the common etymology of text and textile. It considers ‘words’ and ‘textiles’ as conceptual units for journeys, narratives and revolutions. Words and threads link worlds with the hope of one message, they reveal tactics and methodologies: message passes as a thread the warp, it articulates itself as continuous thread in eras-labyrinths. ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ exhibition invites 3 contemporary artists: Maria Varela, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Yiannis Pappas. The artists present a series of new commissioned artworks inspired by the historical, social and geographical impact of the Corinthian black currant and the old Paper Factory of Aigio, merging two centuries of memory and production. These works; either paper textiles, site-specific poetic installations or mixed media objects; bring together the ephemeral and the textile. They reconsider wider practices across centuries such as weaving and writing through interdisciplinary and intermedia perspectives. The exhibition was part of the Primarolia Festival 2021 under the thematic umbrella of Networks, realised in Aigio during 25/9 - 3/10. Catalogue texts include curatorial ones (Nansy Charitonidou, Bill Psarras) and invited ones (Janis Jefferies, Bill Balaskas)
Artists: Maria Varela, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Yiannis Pappas
Curators: Nansy Charitonidou, Bill Psarras
Concept - Production : Primarolia organisation © 2021
Duration: 25 September – 3 October 2021, former garden of Paper Factory (where)
Granted and Supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Artworks are courtesy of the artists ©
Watch festival teaser: https://vimeo.com/589480900
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Φεστιβάλ Πριμαρόλια: Από τη μαύρη σταφίδα στη σύγχρονη τέχνη
Mini συνέντευξη του Βασίλη Ψαρρά (Καλλιτεχνικός Δ/ντης οργανισμού Πριμαρόλια) στο The Art Newspaper Greece
H έκθεση σύγχρονης τέχνης “Μια βελονιά στην ώρα της” σε επιμέλεια Νάνσυ Χαριτωνίδου και Βασίλη Ψαρρά και μια σειρά πολιτιστικών γεγονότων και δράσεων δίνουν το στίγμα του Φεστιβάλ Πριμαρόλια 2021 με τίτλο ‘Δίκτυα’ που ξεκίνησε το Σάββατο 25/9 στο Αίγιο. Έκθεση τέχνης, συνεργασία με το Athens Digital Arts Festival, το εν εξελίξει πρότζεκτ της Προφορικής Ιστορίας ανάμεσα σε άλλα.
Images of a Floating World | group exhibition [virtual project] (funded by HMCS)
Images of a Floating World exhibition goes virtual!
Primarolia cultural platform (npcc) is delighted to announce the launch of the Virtual Exhibition project of Images of a Floating World group exhibition, curated by Nansy Charitonidou, 12-30/9 in the context of Primarolia Festival 2020, under the ‘Mobilities’ thematic. The exhibition took place in the renovated historical warehouse of Kanellopoulos-Kritsotalakis in Aigio. Primarolia Festival 2020 was realised by the Primarolia platform in collaboration with the Municipality of Aigio and DH.K.EP.A. (cultural sector) under the auspices and support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Region of Western Greece. It was also significantly supported by Olympia Odos with further collaboration with Onassis Cultural Foundation. The virtual exhibition forms one more autonomous project of Primarolia team, which was successfully granted by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports following a proposal (2020). The detailed 360o photographic approach and mapping was realised by Thomas Gerasopoulos photographer specialised in architectural and interactive photography; a project coordinated and curated by the Primarolia team. The virtual exhibition includes all the visual and aural qualities of the physical exhibition space along with a bilingual presentation of exhibited artworks, artists, links and videos, further material regarding the Primarolia cultural platform and historical info, digital catalogue and related audiovisual material from the festival. This permanent virtual aspect of the exhibition set the foundations for the promotion of such curated and site-specific artworks influenced by the cultural routes of Vostizza currants, towards international audiences!
Artists: Susan Collins, Francesco Kiais, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, Yiannis Kranidiotis, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Bill Balaskas, Leda Pavli, Bill Psarras
Heading towards its 3rd year, Primarolia cultural platform sets the foundations for expanded cultural strategies in Greece and abroad: contemporary art practice with international artists, oral histories and digitation of anecdotal archives, interdisciplinary networks and collaborations with cultural and academic institutions across Europe.
Concept – Project Coordination: Primarolia cultural platform © 2021
Project coordination: Bill Psarras [Art Director of Primarolia platform]
360 photography – Virtual Exhibition: Thomas Gerasopoulos
Graphic Design: Argiro Starida
Duration: September 2020 – January 2021
Granted and Supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Artworks and related info material are courtesy of the artists ©
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Invited for group exhibition: FACTT 2021 Festival of Art and Science (Portugal)
The Arte Institute and the RHI Initiative, in partnership with Cultivamos Cultura, have the pleasure to present the FACTT 2021 - Festival Art & Science. The festival opens on January 28, at 7:30 PM, and will be exhibited online on RHI Stage. This year we are reshaping FACTT! Come join us for the kick-off of this amazing project!
ONLINE VENUE: RHI Stage platform - http://bit.ly/3bWCT64 OR on the RHI Think app OR at Arte Institute and RHI Think facebook pages
DATE: January 28, 2021 | 7:30 PM
FACTT team: Marta de Menezes, Suzanne Anker, Maria Antonia Gonzalez Valerio, Roberta Buiani, Jo Wei, Dalila Honorato, Joel Ong, Lena Lee and Minerva Ortiz.
FACTT 20/21 – Improbable Times presents a series of exceptional artworks jointly curated by Cultivamos Cultura and our partners. The challenge of a translation from the physical space that artworks typically occupy, into an exhibition that lives as a hybrid experience, involves rethinking the materiality of the work itself. It also questions whether we can live and interact with each other remotely and in person producing creative effective collaborative outcomes. Improbable Times brings together a collection of works that reflect the times we live in, the constraints we are faced with, the drive to rethink what tomorrow may bring us and to navigate and build a better future, beyond borders.
Arte + Ciencia; “Third Sonorous Body (Tercer Cuerpo Sonoro)”.
Michael Palumbo, Kavi, Debashis Sinhan & Joel Ong; “Void * Ambience: Latency”.
Suzanne Anker; “Remote Sensing”.
A project speared and promoted by the Arte Institute we are in or production and conception partners with Cultivamos Cultura and Ectopia (Portugal), Ionian University (Greece), ArtSci Salon@University of Toronto and Sensorium@York University (Canada), School of Visual Arts (USA), UNAM, Arte+Ciência and Bioscenica (Mexico), and Central Academy of Fine Arts (China).
LITMUS publication: Lichen issue (UK)
Bill Psarras is part of the new publication by Litmus Publishing (ISSN:2054-8915, UK) on the theme of "lichen" with a new experimental visual essay entitled 'Geopoetries: 5 metaphors and stories with longitude and latitude'
Press Release
Really happy to share the news that Litmus: the lichen issue is now with the printers and available to pre-order. Containing pretty much everything you need to know about lichen, it is a bumper issue at 191 pages (including 34 colour inserts.)
Many thanks to our contributors: Lydia Davis, Laura Wainwright, Shezad Dawood, Inês Geraldes Cardoso, Peter Gizzi, Addison Kamb, Drew Milne, Bill Psarras, Stephen Collis, Rhys Trimble, Gillian Osborne, Jack Cooper, Brenda Hillman, Lynn Keller, Diana Lelonek, Sarah Watkinson, Caroline Millar, Nell Perry, Thomas Pearson, Robert Keal, Mark Valentine, Maria Sledmere, Jo Delyse Packwood, David Hawkins, Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan, Joanne B Kaar, Carol Dalton, Aodán McCardle, Tristan Blackmore, Oscar Furbacken, Kyle Booten, Katharina Maria Kalinowski, Isabel Nolan, Tania Hershman, Konstantinos Papacharalampos, Theodoros Chiotis, Julie Hogg and of course a special thanks to our guest editor Declan Wiffen for his contributions, hard work and vision.
Order journal issue: Head over to https://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk/Shop/2054-8915-5 to own your copy!
OCCUPANTS invited screenings | Video Art Miden (2021)
O C C U P A N T S // Curated by Gioula & Olga Papadopoulou. (Date: 1-31 January 2021)
The selection, curated by Gioula Papadopoulou and Olga Papadopoulou, presents 7 invited works by contemporary Greek artists, focusing on human presence and action, through various manifestations. All together, the works of the selection compose an “ode” to vanity and to the agony of human existence to find a meaning, through actions, writings-rewritings and almost Sisyphean repetitions that strive to leave a mark, a semantically and conceptually charged trace of human activity, of life and art.
Yiannis Pappas, who presents 2 of his works here, focuses on performance, using symbolic sociological elements and creating tensions between space and the body as an entity and as existence. Alexia Psaradeli, on whose work the title of the selection is based, “lives” and coexists with imaginary biological forms -parasites of the subconscious during sleep- and converses with them silently through a choreographed movement. George Boudalis leads us to a landscape of fragmented writing, where we wander among scattered, unrelated words until a memento mori symbol is revealed. Bill Psarras explores the concept of futility through a video performance where common stones are patiently turned into gold – but only on the surface. Anastasia Lamprou in a double action explores and symbolically draws the limits of the physical and mental space through sound, rhythm and a movement neurotic and hypnotic at the same time. Kostas Daflos roams the streets of Piraeus with a peculiar technological lantern that reproduces pre-recorded noises randomly and irregularly in a neglected urban landscape, with the audience being minimal, random, and mostly indifferent.
Yiannis Pappas & Thiago Bortolozzo, Amid, Germany 2014, 1.30
Alexia Psaradeli, Occupants, Scotland 2016, 4.32
George Boudalis, Memento mori, Greece 2020, 1.00
Bill Psarras, Territorial Poetics (III: Vanity), Greece 2020, 13.32
Anastasia Lamprou, 2328, Greece 2018, 8.00
Yiannis Pappas, Demi Gloire (Semi-Glory), Greece 2016, 5.30
Kostas Daflos, Cipo_09 <laterna>: [garbocracy], Greece 2016, 5.55
image credit Bill Psarras, Territorial Poetics (III: Vanity), 13.32’, Greece (2020) - Courtesy of the artist ©2020
Myrtis: A month of art in the Athens War Museum (2021)
Bill Psarras has been invited to participate in the forthcoming art exhibition dedicated in Myrtis (Μύρτις) along with various artists from sculpture, painting and media arts. Myrtis is the name given by archaeologists to an 11-year-old girl from ancient Athens, whose remains were discovered in 1994–95 in a mass grave at Kerameikos (Athens).
Myrtis is believed to have died in the Plague of Athens in 430-427 BC after experts were able to isolate genes of the disease that caused the deadly typhoid fever from her teeth. Her entire skull was found to be in unusually good condition, which is what allowed the reconstruction of her face, a significant feat accomplished by Professor and orthodontist Manolis Papagrigorakis (University of Athens) and his research team, who were able to give a face to an anonymous girl from the Age of Pericles [info: e-Kathimerini newspaper]
DATE: 25 January - 21 February 2021 // VENUE: Athens War Museum (Greece)
>> Important Note: Exhibition was postponed due to COVID-19 measures and will be realised during 2021
STREAMING FLUXUS project (in collaboration with ADAF 2020)
The Department of Performing and Digital Arts, University of Peloponnese goes to Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020
Following its first year of life (2019-2020), the brand new Department of Performing and Digital Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese (Nafplion) launched an important collaboration with the International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival. Such a collaborative scheme aims to reveal numerous creative links between academia and contemporary art scene by fostering academic education and intermedia artistic practices. The launch of this collaboration starts this summer (2020) under the umbrella project “Streaming Fluxus”, with students from the Department of Performing and Digital Arts and Theatre Studies submitting new works for the 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival, which goes also online through ADAF ONLINE (online.adaf.gr) during July-August 2020. This year’s artworks have been realised as part of the following modules: “Scenography: Installation and Intervention in public space” (MA in Theatre and Society: Theory, Staging and Didactic / Module leaders: Marina Kotzamani and Asi Dimitroulopoulou) and “Introduction to Performance Art” (BA, Department of Performing and Digital Arts / Lecturer: Bill Psarras).
Date: August - September 2020 [online]
> * / ORGANIZING TEAM
Concept / Idea Streaming Fluxus: Bill Psarras (Dr., Artist, Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts)
Project coordination: Marina Kotzamani (Head of the Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts, Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Peloponnese) // Ilias Chatzichristodoulou (Founder of Athens Digital Arts Festival) // Bill Psarras (Dr., Artist, Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts)
Curation: Ilias Chatzichristodoulou (ADAF) // Marina Kotzamani (Head of the Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts) // Bill Psarras (Dr., Artist, Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts)
Kindly supported by Ilias Chatzichristodoulou and Athens Digital Arts Festival (www.adaf.gr) - More info at www.pda.uop.gr
ΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΙΚΗ ΟΜΑΔΑ * Γενικός συντονισμός project: Μαρίνα Κοτζαμάνη (Πρόεδρος ΤΠΨΤ, Αναπλ. Καθ. ΤΘΣ, ΠΑΠΕΛ), Ηλίας Χατζηχριστοδούλου (Διευθυντής Athens Digital Arts Festival), Βασίλης Ψαρράς (Δρ., Εικαστικός, Διδάσκων ΤΠΨΤ ως ΠΥ) // * ΣΥΛΛΗΨΗ CONCEPT ‘STREAMING FLUXUS’: Βασίλης Ψαρράς (Δρ. Εικαστικός, Διδάσκων ΤΠΨΤ ως ΠΥ) // * ΕΠΙΜΕΛΕΙΑ PROJECT: Ηλίας Χατζηχριστοδούλου, Μαρίνα Κοτζαμάνη, Βασίλης Ψαρράς // Με την ευγενική στήριξη του H. Χατζηχριστοδούλου και του ADAF (www.adaf.gr) >> Περισσότερες πληροφορίες: http://pda.uop.gr/ >> ΤΠΨΤ στο Facebook: www.facebook.com/departmentpda || © 2020
Σύντομo teaser για τον Ανοιχτό Διαγωνισμό Δημιουργίας Λογοτύπου για το Τμήμα Παραστατικών και Ψηφιακών Τεχνών της Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών του Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου Δημιουργία: Νοέμβριος 2020 //
ΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ: Μαρίνα Κοτζαμάνη (Πρόεδρος ΤΠΨΤ, Αναπλ. Καθ. ΤΘΣ, ΠΑΠΕΛ), Αναστάσιος Θεοδωρόπουλος (Διδάσκων ΤΠΨΤ), Βασίλης Ψαρράς (Διδάσκων ΤΠΨΤ)
Website: http://pda.uop.gr/
The Film and Video Poetry Society official selection - USA (2020)
Territorial Poetics was officially selected by The Film and Video Poetry Society, and will be exhibited during November - December 2020 in Los Angeles, USA. Glad to be part of such a society FVPS will announce the 2020 program, venue and schedule on their website. The international film festival and symposium will celebrate and screen a large scope of film and video projects developed through the medium of poetry. This event will also host a series of panels, guest speakers, and public dialogues regarding film and video poetry over the course of the symposium.
Award: ARTWORKS Artist Fellowship Program of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2020-2021)
Bill Psarras has been selected (award) as an Artworks Fellow for the 3rd ARTWORKS Artist Fellowship Program of Stavros Niarchos Foundation, for visual arts/contemporary art category! ARTWORKS is a nonprofit organisation that aims to create a fertile and nurturing environment for Greek artists through funding and public engagement opportunities.
With the 2018 inauguration of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program, ARTWORKS has been awarding monetary prizes to individual artists in recognition of their artistic skills and qualifications. The purpose of these awards is to empower the Fellows and encourage them to reflect, explore and experiment with their artistic practice. Apart from financial support, the Program offers free seminars and workshops to stimulate dialogue and creativity. The long-term goal is to create a dynamic alumni network, a support system that will promote interaction among artists, communities and institutions.
ARTWORKS was founded in 2017 and is supported by its founding donor, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
image credit Artworks website (2020)
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CICA Museum of Art - Circle group exhibition, South Korea (2020)
Territorial Poetics will be part of the future group exhibition ’Circle’ organised by the CICA Museum of Art, in South Korea during 5-23 August 2020 in Gimbo. The circle is one of the most universal visual elements that has appeared from ancient art to contemporary art. It is a geometric shape found in nature that offers us visual and psychological comfort. The circle symbolises totality, perfection, eternity, and cyclic movement and also relates to the sublime and rituals. CICA Museum’s international exhibition “Circle 2020” features photography, 2D digital art, video art, interactive art, painting, sculpture and installation art dealing with circles, roundness, circulation, repetition, rituals, and wholeness.
Images of a Floating World group exhibition | Primarolia Festival (2020)
Bill Psarras new work Objects in Odysseys commissioned from Primarolia platform for the Images of a Floating World group exhibition (2020) has been exhibited during 12-30/9 in Aigio. Images of a Floating World group exhibition, curated by Nansy Charitonidou and co-curated by Bill Psarras (art director of Primarolia Festival) includes new invited artworks from Susan Collins, Francesco Kiais, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Yiannis Kranidiotis, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, Bill Balaskas, Leda Pavli and Bill Psarras. The exhibition was supported and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Olymbia Odos and West Peloponnese region. Exhibition catalogue available here
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GOLEM group exhibition (2020)
Bill Psarras was invited to produce a new artwork for the purposes of the exhibition GOLEM: Generate in Solidarity organised by Trojan DAO, supported by GATHERING AROUND PERFORMANCE, VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK, Studio Contemporaneo, and the Ionian University Laboratory of Interactive Arts - In.Arts
Αs artists we stand by local groups in their efforts to limit the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The Golem is a figure in Jewish mythology, as a metaphor for the potential destructiveness of human artifices. GOLEM as a proposal for artistic intervention, aims to offer a different perspective to this period of forced social inactivity, inviting us to look at the emergency context in a generative rather than solely creative way. Generative, meaning “acting with the aim of generating” a different reality. The artistic event GOLEM will be symbolically realised as a collection of different performative actions taking place in spaces chosen by the artists, but being transmitted and displayed simultaneously online.
The event intends to communicate the fundraising effort inviting the public to directly contribute to the cause “HELLAS COVID 3D supplies”, in collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Health. The virtual exhibition space will open to the public on June 5 2020, with the vernissage at 18.00 GMT+3, which will be a presentation of the guests of honor participating artworks.
DATE: 5-7 June 2020 (18.00 - 00.00). // LOCATION: Online opening Friday 5 June, 18.00
Invited artists || Curated by Francesco Kiais
Adoniou Adonis // Adoniou Yannis KUNST-STOFF & Andrius Mulokas // Fornoni Nicola // Bricco Lucia // Kanellopoulou Athina // Kangela Tromokratisc // Marta Lodola & Valerio Ambiveri // Papamichael Andreas // Pappas Yiannis // Pashias Andreas // Bill Psarras // Sparmann Marcel // Tsoli Aggeliki // Vasileiou Fillipos // Voulgaris Kostas
Artworks also presented by the following guests of honor:
Dimitris Alithinos // Marilyn Arsem // Franko Black // Francesca Fini - Francesca Leoni - Francesca Lolli // Guillermo Gomez-Peña // Leda Papaconstantinou // STELARC // Theodoros // VestAndPage
Onassis Cultural Foundation e-screenings (2020)
During COVID-19 era (April 2020), Onassis Foundation presents a series of artworks e-screenings conceived and commissioned for Visual Dialogues 2013 exhibition dedicated to internationally acclaimed poet C.P. Cavafy. Bill Psarras had been invited for a commissioned work; resulting to Urban Halo (2013, 6′); a performance for camera and poetry. Work is available here: https://www.onassis.org/video/visual-dialogues-2013-urban-halo-bill-psarras or in Onassis YouTube channel
ADAF 2020 Live | Going Public e-screenings (2020)
Athens Digital Arts Festival included ‘Urban Halo’ video performance for the ADAF 2020 Live “Going Public” screenings. Thank you ADAF! More than ever the issue of the reoccupation of the public sphere occurs. Recording under the framework of the urban environment criticises the limits between public-private, physical-digital. Through a humanitarian in situ process, a hybrid space is formed, one that makes us wonder how “"public”“ is space in contemporary reality after all?
CODEC International Experimental Film/Video Festival - Online catalogue (2015-2019)
Bill Psarras work was included in the official selection of artworks from CODEC in Mexico in the online catalogue/exhibition during pandemic era, curated by Eric Tapia. CODEC International Experimental Film and Video Festival releases and adds to the online catalog for free, the works selected from previous editions of the festival (2015-2019), this with the purpose of creating a space for coexistence and reflection around experimental cinema and video, based on the space where we are. We thank the filmmakers who joined the catalog, we believe that it is essential to have art and culture close, taking advantage of the network as a form of exhibition and collective dissemination.
Curator: Eric Tapia
Date: March 2020
Primarolia documentary (2019, 73’ - KFilms, Cosmote TV, ERT) | Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2020)
Primarolia Festival 2019 and Into My Garden Come group exhibition were part of a documentary (2019, 72′) directed by P. Kakavias and co-produced by KFilms, ERT and COSMOTE TV, officially selected for debut screening at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2020 (May, online)! Glad to be part of this documentary both as an artist and film composer with an original soundtrack
Direction / Script: Panagiotis Kakavias
Cinematography: Aristotelis Metaxas
Research: Natasa Bozini
Archive research: Stavros Michelis
Assistant Director: Spyros Manolatos
Editing: Nikos Alpadakis
Sound: Christos Sakelariou
Original Soundtrack / Music: Bill Psarras
Narration: Leonidas Kakouris
Production: KaBel
Producer / Producers: Katerina Beligianni
Co-production: COSMOTE TV, ERT
Production Country:Greece
Year / Duration: 2019, 73’
More: https://primarolia.com/project/su_20-9_doc_primarolia/
ΕΡΤ streaming (2021) - https://program.ert.gr/details.asp?pid=3767798&chid=49
8th International Video Poetry Festival (2019)
Territorial Poetics (II: unfolding) site-specific performance for camera and drone of unrolling 520m of paper upon an abandoned railway line, was exhibited as a film in the 8th International Video Poetry Festival organised by Institute for Experimental Arts in Athens, Greece (13-14 December 2019)
Date: 13-14 December 2019 / Venue: Theatre Embros, Athens
Into my Garden Come group exhibition (2019)
Eight artists from Greece and United Kingdom arrive in Aigio eager to start a new conversation with the place. Aigio, a town cradled between the sea and the high mountains holds a history that dates back to ancient times and offers a fertile ground of artistic creation and dialogue through a contemporary art exhibition. The exhibition focuses on the metaphorical concept of the garden. The title is taken from Emily Dickinson’s verse “Into my garden come!”, perceived as a meeting and gathering of senses, ingredients, objects, ideas – a point of conjunction, of matter and meaning, of past and future. This new sowing of people, ideas and meetings takes place in the coastal zone of Aigio, known as Vostizza during the Middle Ages, meaning the city of gardens, lending the famous name to the local currant variety
Artists: Rob Kesseler, Agalis Manessi, Aggelos Antonopoulos, Luc Messinezis, Yiannis Brouzos, Maria Tsagkari, Kostas Pappas, Bill Psarras
Curator: Nansy Charitonidou
Date: 5-20 October 2019 // Venue: Kanellopoulos-Kritsotalakis old warehouse, Aigio (Greece)
‘Enclosures | Pass-throughs’ exhibition / Thessaloniki Concert Hall (2019)
New work entitled Territorial Poetics (I: awareness); a (site-specific) mixed media installation of neon light text, stones and soil was exhibited as an awarded artwork at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall (TCH); as part of the ‘Enclosures | Pass-throughs’ exhibition (June/September 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date: 13-15 September 2019 // Venue: Thessaloniki Concert Hall outdoor space, Greece
FILE 2019: Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil)
The poetic performance for camera ‘Messenger’ was selected for the forthcoming exhibition - festival of the prestigious FILE 2019 Electronic Language International Festival, in Sao Paolo (Brazil) at SESI Gallery of Art. FILE is the biggest festival of Art and Technology in Latin America. Founded in 2000, the FILE Electronic Language International Festival is since then producing electronic and contemporary art exhibitions.
Publication at Leonardo Electronic Almanac (The MIT Press) (2018)
One of the central themes in the art practice / theory of Bill Psarras - the concept of ‘hybrid flaneur’ - was published in his paper entitled “Walking the senses, curating the ears: Towards a ‘hybrid flaneur/flaneuse’ as ‘orchestrator” in the volume ‘Sound Curating’ of Leonardo Electronic Almanac journal by The MIT Press.
Citation: Psarras, B. (2018). “Walking the senses, Curating the ears: Towards a hybrid flaneur/flaneuse as ‘orchestrator’” LEA: Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 22 (3), ‘Sound Curating’. Publisher: The MIT Press, ISBN 978-1-912685-66-4 (Print)
Space, Sound and the Improvisatory International Conference (2018)
Bill Psarras was invited to speak at the international conference Space, Sound and the Improvisatory organised by Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens, 19-21 October 2018), with his paper “Metaphors for Walking: ‘Tuning’ space, senses and imagination” - part of the Saturday panel along with John Drever (Goldsmiths), Nikos Bubaris (University of Aegean) and Teresa Marie Connors (Memorial University, Canada).
Date: 19-21 October 2018 // Venue: Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens [Στέγη Ιδρύματος Ωνάση]
More: Space, Sound and the Improvisatory International Conference
Many Parts of Something Great (2018)
Developed for the purposes of COST action IS1210 "Appearance Matters: Tackling the Physical and Psychosocial Consequences of Dissatisfaction with Appearance", Many Parts of Something Great aims to address younger ages with a positive image awareness message. This is a short animation film which wishes to go beyond the stereotyped depiction concerning body shape by addressing further issues such as special needs, age and gender and supporting the expression of individuality.
Media and Image Perception Task Group for the COST Action
Credits:
- Joanne Cassar: writer
- Christine Porter Lofaro: illustrator
- Hannah Staff Murphy: voice over
- Samuel Attard: sound producer
- Chara Sakellari: animation
- Bill Psarras: music composer
- Andreas Giannakoulopoulos: webmaster
- Brenda Murphy: coordinator in Malta
- Dalila Honorato: coordinator in Greece
Special thanks to:
Interactive Arts Lab (Ionian University) // Campus FM 103.7 (University of Malta)
More info about the project:
cost.inarts.eu/ and appearancematters.eu/
NICE! Is Return Possible? group exhibition (2017)
A new work was commissioned for the group exhibition NICE! Is Return Possible, co-curated by Salon de Vortex (Yiannis Grigoriadis & Yiannis Isidorou); supported by NEON (2016). Exhibition photos also available here. Order and read book info and table of contents here
NICE! An exhibition and a book
“A poetic exploration about the possibility of return, of memory, homeland and loss”
Opening: 16 March 2016, at 20:00
Duration: 16.3.16- 4.4.2016
Curated and edited by: Yiannis Grigoriadis & Yiannis Isidorou (Salon de Vortex)
Production: Lo and Behold (www.loandbehold.gr)
Venue: Municipality of Nikaia Cultural Centre “Manos Loizos”, 245 Thivon Anenue, Opposite Village Park, Nikaia.
Supported by NEON and Municipality of Nikaia
texts by invited authors:
Dimitris Allos, Vassilis Amanatidis, Orfeas Apergis, Rika Benveniste, Ioanna Boukova, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Theodoros Chiotis, Christos Chrissopoulos, Phoebe Giannisi, Katerina Iliopoulou, Yiannis D. Ioannidis,
Panayotis Ioannidis, Konstantinos Matsoukas, Maria Michou, Vassiliea Stylianidou and Maria Topali.
images by participating artists:
Vaggelis Artemis, Alexandra Giannakandropoulou, Lizzie Calligas,Campus Novel, Christos Chrissopoulos, Kostas Daflos, Apostolos Ntelakos, Dimitris Dokatzis, Marina Gioti, Giorgos Gyparakis, Dimitris Halatsis, Panayotis Ioannidis, Nadia Kalara, Zissis Kotionis, Tassos Langis, Anna Lascari, Giorgos Papadatos, Nikos Papadimitriou, Leonidas Papalampropoulos, Maria Paschalidou, Artemis Potamianou, Bill Psarras, Vassiliea Stylianidou,
Alexandros Psychoulis, Yiannnis Theodoropoulos and Theodoros Zafeiropoulos.
OUT(TOPIAS): Performance and Public Space group exhibition (2016)
Bill Psarras will be part of the forthcoming exhibition OUT(TOPIAS): Performance and Public Space at The Benaki Museum (Pireos street, Athens), with the new site-specific performance Light Walks (22/9 and 2/10).
The core of the exhibition presents video projects created in Greece in recent years which attempt an approach of outdoor, public space through performing arts. The movement towards outdoor space is linked to the renegotiation of public space as primarily shared space and is accompanied by an increased interest in the distinct physical features of the surroundings as they contribute structurally to the realisation of the performance event. The exhibition brings forth a dynamic field of contemporary Greek cultural production deeply rooted in the outdoor space performance tradition in Greece, which is simultaneously found into the core of the recent worldwide developments in performance space.
The exhibition presents projects that joined the Hellenic National Participation at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2015 as well as the Dutch National Participation (Best Curatorial Concept Award PQ15). New performance projects created during 2015 – 2016 are also presented while, during the exhibition, there will be held a range of parallel events: live performances, lectures, workshops, masterclasses, video and film screenings and a series of round tables.
Date: 22/9 and 2/10/2016 (performance open to the public) // Location: The Benaki Museum outdoor space
Auspices: The Exhibition is under the Auspices and Supported by The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Letters to the Mayor: Athens [Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York] (2016)
Metamatic:taf gallery in collaboration with Storefront for Art and Architecture New York presents the project Letters to the Mayor: Athens which was hosted at the metamatic:taf gallery space from 25 February until 6 March 2016.
Letters to the Mayor constitutes an itinerant exhibition in the form of letters written by architects to the mayors of the cities where they live or work. It started in New York City in 2014 with a collection of letters from a series of international architects writing to their respective mayors, bringing innovative ideas and visions of the city closer to the decision-makers.
Having travelled to more than 20 cities around the world, the project Letters to the Mayor will be implemented for the first time in Athens. In this exhibition, architects, academics, writers and visual artists are invited to develop their thoughts about the city, opening simultaneously a broader dialogue on the contemporary urban condition. The letters presented in the exhibition will be delivered to the Mayor of Athens, who has been invited to an open discourse with the writers and the public as part of the exhibition.
Curated by: METASITU & metamatic:taf
Participating artists and architects: A Whale’s architects, Yannis Aesopos, Dimitris Athinakis, Loukas Bartatilas, Campus Novel (Giannis Cheimonakis, Giannis Delagrammatikas, Foteini Palpana, Yiannis Sinioroglou, Ino Varvariti), Xenofondas Dialeismas, Renata Douma (OPEN HOUSE ATHENS), Panos Dragonas, Alexis Fidetzis, Lena Foutsitzi, George Gavalas & John Mourikis (ARCHSET), Danae Georgouli & Filia Glyka, Tatiana May Kallergis, Maria Kaltsa, Yannis Karlopoulos, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Stelios Kois (Kois Associated Architects), Vassiliki Kotzia, Konstantinos Labrinopoulos (KLab), Katerina Matsa, Loukas Mexis, Marlen Mouliou, Filippos Oraiopoulos, Maria Paneta, Konstantinos Pantazis & Marianna Rentzou (Point Supreme), Artemis Papageorgiou (Entropika), Myrto Papadogeorgou (City of Errors), Maria Peteinaki, Eleni Portaliou, Bill Psarras, Elien Ronse, Speleo- / Σπήλαιο- (Fanis Kafantaris, Giannis Grigoriadis, Stavros Mouzakitis, Vassilis Vassiliadis), Thomas Tsalapatis, Augustus Veinoglou (SNEHTA Residency), Georgia Voudouri (medianeras), Eirini Vourloumis, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos, Efthimios Zervas, Alexandros Zomas (Micromega Architecture&Strategies)
Date: 25 February - 6 March -21 May 2016 // Venue: Metamatic:taf gallery, Athens
Area Studies in Flux International Conference (UCL, London)
On September 27-29 2018, I presented a paper at the Area Studies in Flux International Conference, entitled “Performing borders and conflict zones: Body, action and imagination towards poetic interventions”, in London (UK). Research was part of the arts-based postdoctoral research funded by IKY (2017-19) - see also
Date: 27-29 September 2018 // Venue: UCL, London
More: Area Studies in Flux Conference
‘THE NEW NEW’ group exhibition | 2nd Artecitya Art Science Technology Festival by 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair (2017)
Bill Psarras participates with a screen-based work (as part of the Dept. of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University) at the exhibition ’THE NEW NEW’ of the 2nd Artecitya Art Science Technology Festival by HELEXPO (82nd Thessaloniki International Fair), which runs between 9 - 17 of September, Pavilion 2 in Thessaloniki International Fair. Helexpo presents the 2nd Art Science Technology Festival in the context of the European programme Artecitya, at the 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair’s Pavilion 2, from the 9th until the 17th of September. The first edition of the Festival, that took place in September 2016, was greatly successful, attracting more than 10.000 spectators of all ages. This year, the Festival takes place on the second floor of Helexpo’s Pavilion 2, a 2.700 square meters space, where more than 90 projects of 120 young and acclaimed artists from Greece and abroad are presented.
Curation by Lydia Chatziiakovou (ArtBOX)
Date: 9 - 17 September 2017 // Venue: Thessaloniki International Fair, Greece
Retrospective exhibition at Megaron Concert Hall (GR)
The Department of Audio & Visual Arts presents its course retrospectively in a retrospective exhibition which will be held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) 20 to May 21, 2017. The show includes selected works of graduate, postgraduate students, Ph.D students and Professors, along with works by internationally renowned artists, such as Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Barry Purves and Theodore Ushev.
Date: 19-21 May 2016 // Venue: Athens Concert Hall (Megaron)
Tundra | Bill Psarras - poetry collection
(in greek)
Bill Psarras’s debut poetry collection ‘Tundra’ has been published by Pigi Publications in Greece (September 2017). The collection presents 44 poems influenced by visual poetry, which reveal an emotional geography of the city and the soul. Bill Psarras explores ‘Tundra’ as a metamodern oscillation between art and geography, architecture and psychology deeply influenced by the notions of city, geology, meteorology; rendering them emerging metaphorical terrains for imagination and interdisciplinary thought. The collection focuses on fragments of the everyday, the transient, the fleeting, the inbetween, the repetitive, the potential; echoing Baudelaire’s (1859) words ‘to distill the eternal from the transitory’
You can order ‘Tundra’ or find it here:
*Pigi Publications [http://www.pigi.gr/?product=toundra]
*Politeia bookshop [https://tinyurl.com/y9swwrtz]
*Protoporia bookshop [https://tinyurl.com/ycb7dfnu]
*Bookshop IANOS [https://tinyurl.com/yc8uezsy]
*Bookshop Evripides
*PUBLIC stores
*e-shop.gr [https://tinyurl.com/yagw3ywh]
*Biblionet [https://tinyurl.com/y85cseeu]
Summer-Autumn 2015: International Festival screenings (Romania, Mexico, Greece, Serbia)
During Autumn 2015, one of my latest walking-based works ‘Urban Halo’ was exhibited in various international festivals. In particular: CODEC International Video Festival, EI77 Centro Cultural (Mexico) // SIMULTAN International Festival, Timisoara (Romania) // Caldera Festival of Arts & Literature, Onassis Cultural Foundation selection, Santorini (Greece) // 4th International Video Poetry Festival, +The Institute [for Experimental Arts], Athens (Greece) // Syros International Film Festival, Onassis Cultural Foundation selection, Syros (Greece) and finally at Alternative Film/Video International Festival (selection and curation by Creg de Cuir) Belgrade (Serbia)
Αόρατες Πόλεις / Invisible Cities group exhibition [Greece]
Urban Halo will be exhibited on the exhibition ’Invisible Cities’for the celebrations of Italo Calvino in Athens (Greece). Exhibition and 2 day symposium is co-organized by the Department of Media and Communications (University of Athens) and Italian Institute of Culture.
Catalogue (printed or online) with all speakers and artists can be viewed here
Date: 23 October - 6 November 2015
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture, Patission 47, Athens (GR)
The Art of Walking group exhibition (UK)
Urban Halo (2013) and Walking Portraits: Performing Asphalts (2012) will be exhibited on the forthcoming exhibition ’The Art of Walking’ from Walking the Land arts collective. The exhibition includes ‘Laurie Lee: Poetry, Art and Landscape’. Catalogue (printed or online) with all artists and artworks can be viewed and ordered via this link
Date: 6 September - 5 October 2014,
Venue: Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire (UK)
The Terminal group exhibition (UK)
Two recent screen-based works (Apollo Poetics and Walking Portraits) were invited to be screened in the live art performance art project / group exhibition ‘The Terminal’, organised by Something Human curatorial team in partnership with PUSH and SEA Arts Festival. The concept of the exhibition is strongly based on the notion of non-place (Marc Auge) and in-betweeness.
Curator: Annie Jael Kwan
Date: 25 - 27 October 2013
Venue: 4749 art space, 47-49 Tanner street, London Bridge, London, UK
Art Up! Goethe Institut (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey)
Bill Psarras was invited (curator: Katerina Goutziouli) to be part and is one of the Greek artists for the new project entitled ’Art Up: Media Arts in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey’, of Goethe Institute which is just initiated. The project will run across the three Goethe Institutes (Athens, Ankara, Sofia) and will host a series of exhibitions, online presentations, workshops, seminars and interesting writings from curators and media theorists; focusing mostly in the fields of media and new media arts, virtual reality, social media and more. The website will act as an online platform of artists’ profiles [bio, works, links]. For more information please access the website: http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/kue/enindex.htm
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