Time & Date
We are very happy to close this season with the third Open Day of the Onassis AiR Tailor-made Fellowships Program on Friday, December 2, 2022, at 19:00–22:00, with the participation of our current Fellows Margarita Athanasiou, Tristan Bera, Bryony Dunne, Danai Giannoglou, Julian Hetzel, Nadja Verena Marcin, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki & Marianne Tuckman, and Miriam Simun.
Throughout the evening the Fellows will present their research and work-in-progress through a series of presentations that adopt various formats. Margarita Athanasiou will present a mind map and preliminary visual material of her research into practices of mediumship and spirit possession and the links to female empowerment. Tristan Bera will serve visual material from his forthcoming artist book on ‘magnificent obsessions’ and Cuba Libre, virgin or not, with a soundtrack made by Amateurboyz in 2018. Bryony Dunne will show excerpts from her latest film ‘Surrender your Horns’ (2022), where real and fantasy worlds intertwine in a tragic story where rhinos die because myths live. Danai Giannoglou will unfold her research material into issues of language and translation. Julian Hetzel will invite the audience to experience empathy through an encounter that takes water as a resource. Nadja Verena Marcin introduces the feminist audio bot "#SOPHYGRAY" with which visitors can engage in small talk and discuss art, identity or feminism. Marina Miliou-Theocharaki will present, together with her collaborator Marianne Tuckman, excerpts from a piece, with the working title “Mammals have been seen clinging” that touches upon soft and awkward intimacy, distance and ways of saying goodbye. And finally, Miriam Simun will present the in-progress performance Welcome to the Contact Zone in which they explore rewilding as ecological strategy and where it collides with artificial intelligence, biopolitics, unknowability, and the fine line between love and domination.
RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Margarita Athanasiou: The Dispossessed Daughter
Tristan Bera: Magnificent Obsessions
Bryony Dunne: To Welcome a Toadfish
Danai Giannoglou: Glossolalia
Julian Hetzel: SPAfrica
Nadja Verena Marcin: #SOPHYGRAY
Marina Miliou-Theocharaki: Whatever is at stake, I take
Miriam Simun: an attempt to grasp the whole
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Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou
Functioning like an open studio, the Open Days is a series of monthly events that will run throughout the year and are open to the public. This is an opportunity to meet and exchange with our Fellows as well as to learn more about their artistic research through short talks, presentations, workshops or screenings that aim to shed light on their research trajectory and work in-progress. The format of the Open Days is shaped based on the needs and artistic practice of the Fellows each time. Running between September 2022 to July 2023, the Tailor-made Fellοwships is an open-ended program offering time and space, tailored to the individual research needs of each participant.
