Time & Date
During the evening, you will have the chance to discover what our current Onassis AiR Fellows have been working on these last weeks through a series of performances, soundscapes, video installations, and in-progress presentations by William Cardoso, Charbel Haber, Agape Harmani, Zoe Hatziyannaki, Janis Rafa, Eva Vaslamatzi, and Paky Vlassopoulou. Continuing a successful collaboration, Onassis AiR will also host the second iteration of Electric Café by STEGI.RADIO.
19:00-22:00 [presenting throughout the event]:
- Agape Harmani | Archival material and video installation
- Janis Rafa | Installation, video (5 min, loop), and performed text
- Charbel Haber | Poem in the form of a publication
- Eva Vaslamatzi | Installation with audio and text work
- Paky Vlassopoulou | Performance
- Electric Café | DJ set with Giganta
19:00–21:00 | Zoe Hatziyannaki | Installation with audience participation
21:30–22:00 | William Cardoso | Presentation of in-progress dance performance
Willian Cardoso | Deadline
For the Open Day, Cardoso will present excerpts of his ongoing research on the choreographic work “Deadline.” In this work, Cardoso and his team are looking to explore the idea of rupture, which highlights the contradictory spirit that they develop through the body in the final works. The rupture is not a surprise; instead, it is an accessory that they use to create a shift in the path of the movement. The work is supported by TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique du Luxembourg for 2023–24 in the framework of the Grand Luxe Network.
Charbel Haber | Lazarus won’t rise if Rome doesn’t fall
A poem drenched in Mediterranean melancholia about mutating gods and decaying empires in a historical timeline that is not our own. This poem will take different forms: a publication/fanzine, portraits of the mutated gods, and a video essay through which we explore the subjective nature of history.
Agape Harmani | The moment of recognition
In the early 20th century, British and Italian forces occupied Ethiopia, assisting the Empire in suppressing tribal uprisings. During this time, two men from Istanbul and Cyprus migrated to the Oromo territory of Dembidolo, where they married women from the region. Their families lived there for decades in a community of English, Italian, Greek, and indigenous cultures. Eventually, they were forced to leave, scattering across different countries, including Greece. Harmani will present archival and video material from her research project that aims to document their stories of home, displacement, and migration, exploring the circumstances that led them to migrate, settle, root, and start anew.
Zoe Hatziyannaki | The Day the Earth Caught Data
This interactive installation involves audience participation using primarily online material shared by different users through Google Earth. It attempts to draw parallels between a widely shared, seemingly uncomplicated reality and a troublesome fiction, where the image-makers become storytellers of their own unsettling future.
Janis Rafa | I Betrayed Your Mouth Endlessly
With the horse’s mouth as the starting point of the research, Rafa will present an audiovisual installation that combines a 3D animation with archival footage and a spoken word performance based on a text co-authored by Ioanna Gerakidi and Janis Rafa. In this research material, the animal’s mouth is acknowledged and seen as a tool for domination, deception, competition, and resilience, as well as proof of non-consensual relations between humans and non-humans. Considering the animal body, and even more so the animal mouth, as a subject with qualities expanding towards colonial discourses, the presentation aims to trace the first steps of an excavation touching the complex and unquestioned hierarchies of equestrian exercise, horse racing masculinity, speciesism, reciprocal, loving relationships and vocabularies.
Eva Vaslamatzi | This City is a Wasteland
The research project is a text-work that condenses different narratives, recorded and imagined. The ongoing curatorial research is presented as an awkward, multi-character dialogue against the backdrop of a city that seems to be changing radically.
Paky Vlassopoulou | Wandering lines: BE AN EFFORT
During the Open Day, Vlassopoulou will test a performance referring to her ongoing interest in the human condition and existing social behaviors. “What happens when you lose control?” Every now and then, some guests are experiencing something that forces them to concentrate, find their balance, and pay attention to the act of offering.
Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou
Electric Café by STEGI.RADIO
Electric Café is the meeting point for the Athenian creative scene, a hub for producers, artists, and communities. It is an invitation to gather under the same roof and be present with each other, open to fresh ideas and yet-to-be-unearthed tastes and sonic combinations―an opportunity to solidify communal bonds while being immersed in music.
For its second iteration at Onassis AiR, Electric Café presents Giganta, a music producer and sound designer based in Athens, creating electronic, genre-bending sounds for over a decade. She will play an extended DJ set full of eclectic beats and vibrant tunes, a warm mixture of electronica, R&B, hip-hop, and rare gems.
