Soundscapes Landscapes Rhizome II / Gazi, Kerameikos, Metaxourgeio

Medea Electronique

An audio-visual and highly interactive walk at the neighbourhoods of Kerameikos/Metaxourgeio to discover parts of the city you were unaware of.

The Onassis Stegi and Soundscapes Landscapes create a nexus of stories in the city. Artists who work in sound and images explore a new form of digital art-mapping in downtown Athens neighbourhoods and invite us on a real-time stroll through Gazi, Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio.

Kerameikos, along with Metaxourgeio, has a special intensity. It has been a living, meaningful space since antiquity that seems to weave and encapsulate the entire course of Athens through time: the cemetery, the train lines, the factory at Gazi, Kerameikos, Iera Odos and its night clubs, the edges of Metaxourgeio, multiculturalism, the development and gentrification of the area, immigrants, artists, night venues and clubs, alternative cultural spaces, tourists, and the Acropolis’ rock overlooking the area.

Cosmopolitanism and localism, national and European identity, pockets of resistance, modern Greeks and immigrants, tradition and modernity, an industrial area, and a working-class neighbourhood.

The project "Soundscapes Landscapes / Rhizome ΙΙ" reveals the stories that take place on the city's surface as well as those that are hidden away or underground or in its past. Put in your earphones, download the app onto your smartphone or tablet, and navigate the city.

A project at the intersection of art, technology, audio research and field recording which also provides a gateway into the anthropology and sociology of the city through its interviews and real-life stories, soundscapes, compositions and poetry.

Click here for the online app which allows you to create your own walk.

The soundwalks are available in Greek and in English

Free admission

Click here to read the instructions for downloading the app.

Credits

Production management: Manolis Manousakis

Curator & texts: Angeliki Poulou

App Design: Tim Ward

Sound Artists: Manolis Manousakis, Tim Ward, Costas Bokos, Vassilis Kontouris ((Studio 19st), Alexandros Drymonitis, Marinos Koutsomichalis,

Video Artists: Panagiotis Goumpouros, Cleopatra Korai, Michael Tebinka

Virtual Reality Programming: Vicky Bisbiki, Michael Tebinka, Panagiotis Goumpouros, Cleopatra Korai

3D Visual Art: Vicky Bisbiki

PD Programming: Alexandros Drymonitis

Graphic Design: Yannis Lolis

Recitation: Sara Bislanis, Nadia Deligianni, Stavros Loukeris, Gregory Patrick Karr, Giorgos Antonopoulos

Translation: Memi Katsoni, Anna Papaeti

A project by

Medea Electronique, 2016-2017

Produced by

Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens

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Cosmote

App by ZKM

The app is developed in partnership with the Onassis Cultural Centre and Medea Electronique as part of the Interfaces Project.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Guest Artists

John Van Aitken, Jane Brake, Iris Garrelfs, Emilia Izquierdo, Tassos Karadedos, Conor McCafferty, Matilde Meirelles, Evi Nakou, Alfredo Pechuan Roca, Marilee Pizarro

Τhe following academics’ and researchers’ scientific contribution has been important

Myrto Dimitropoulou (Historian, Researcher), Giannis Kozatsas (Dr. οf Philosophy, Archaeologist), Eugenia Bournova (Historian, Associate Professor, University of Athens), Elena Patatouka (Architect, PhD Candidate), Haris Tsavdaroglou (Dr. Urban Planner), Menelaos Charalampidis (Historian, Dr. οf Modern Greek History)

We also thank the poets who gave us permission to both use and record poems of theirs

Zissis Ainalis, Kostis Gardikis, Thomas Kiaos, Yiannis Stigas

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