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Vol.40 Autumn 2013

COVER: Spyros Paloukis

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A magazine about extraordinary humans, their ideas and achievements!

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Gogo Griva

Kunsthalle Athena / In The Studio

Lambros Fatsis (Boulevard Soundsystem)

George "Lowtronik" Ramantanis

Volta by Stella Kyriakopoulos

Wonderwood by Spyros Paloukis

Monsieur Barbu

George ::Lowtronik:: Ramantanis

INTERVIEW on NEu Tymes

5 things not to hang the scales

1. Drink more water, reduced alcohol and salty. 2. Weighing not! 3. Changed your dinner. 4. Add variety in fruits and vegetables. 5. Increase the activity, eg walking, gymnastics.

When you first realised that “sound” should be your loved material?

I was a teenager just around the time some really important electronic records were released. So it’s easy to assume that all these sounds were imprinted in my head after hours and hours of headphone sex with my ears.

Years passed and I would always hear references of my favorite artists and producers in my sound. People wouldn’t notice them, but i did; and always hated that. But then, i took a step back and listened to my sounds as a whole and i changed my mind.

It turned out, that i mashed so many different beloved sounds together that i created something i like. Ok, It’s not something ‘revolutionary’ or the next big step on electronic music, but -i hope- that it has a distinctive character, that i enjoy.

What means for George “LowtroniΚ” Ramantanis “I'm listening” (in technical or artistic term)?

I never get to enjoy the music any more! I just have to listen, all the details all the tricks all the blips and blops in any track. My head goes like “oh, i see what you did there” or “cool vocals on the chorus”, “nice bass there!” and of course “you fu**r how did you come up with that?”

Being both a musician and a sound designer, same thing applies to films. It has to be a truly amazing film to make me stop paying attention to what i’m listening...

Cinema scores, sound effects, ...awards!

What do you feel for all that? Are you happy?

I’m extremely lucky I'm in two of the coolest professions in the world , cinema and music. So yes, i’m very happy either working on a short film that only a handful of people might see, or mixing sound for a great feature film.

Which is the movie you're jealous about that is made by someone else and that you'ld like to be “cooked” by you and why?

Oh, the list is endless. There are so many awesome scores and soundtracks since the dawn of cinema i envy, each one for different

reasons. I wll name just one: Fight Club. The Dust Brothers got to create cool beats, on a film about an awesome book, awesomely made

by David Fincher, starring the awesome Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.

How wide would you like your music grow?

I would like it to be heard by as many people as possible. I would really enjoy it if more and more bands or artists would ask me for a remix of their work, or some kind of artistic collaboration.. Of course my goal is to work on more films as a composer as well.

What your plans for the next five years are?

I just released my first full album and it’s an awesome feeling, but deep down i really can’t wait to do it all over again and release my second one. One other goal is to get involved in at least 50 short films.

Until now I've worked on around 20 titles, either as a sound designer or composer. I might even reach a hundred, who knows!

Tell something to Neu Tymes readers! :) My new album “Cuts, Edits, Versions” is available on www.lowtronik.bandcamp.com. You can download it for free or you can buy it in physical form in an awesome handmade package.

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Digital – Analog – Hardware – Software (...equipment). Do you want to tell us which your incredients are and what is the prescription you follow?

My weapon of choice is analogue sounds digitally manipulated. I use a lot of typical sounds and loops that one may encounter in the traditional hip-hop or trip-hop sound, but i try to manipulate and combine them with a ‘wall of sound’ approach. I also love lo-fi sounds like noises, crackles and hiss but i cannot resist to clean lush sounds either. I do enjoy aggressive distorted instruments but i value the simple boldness of a violin. So... yes, my approach it’s a mix of everything - maybe except for traditionaly “80’s sounds”.

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hen Monsieur Barbu decided to open a restaurant, what he had in mind, was a space with a homey feeling, offering flavours and drinks that someone might have at his own balcony. He was thinking of something simple, relaxed, familiar and comfortable. An open space, for all those who love good food, nice drinks, music, long chats and big smiles. He wanted to create a place that one can go to after work to relax, go there for a break during work or end up there later in the evening to have fun. That's what everyone has in their mind when they think of the ideal place for a more beautiful everyday routine.

So Monsieur Barbu was created in Koukaki, in a neighbourhood with vivid past and even more vivid future. Its team, a group of young people that love to share their time, is its strong asset.

The chef, who daily looks for new flavours. The bar that continuously renews its cocktail list and a dynamic and friendly service.

Take your friends or come by yourself and together with us spend a few pleasant moments. For start, enjoy one from our cool cocktails. For instance, ask to have the special Chilly Cucumber Collins, a really stimulating cocktail which continuously wins more fans. Afterwards, try a delicious and juicy burger together with a fresh salad. Ask about the dish of the day or quest the cocktail based on the season’s fruits. Listen to the music that you enjoy for those moments that you leave all the problems of the day behind and realize for one more time that life in its simplest moments hides the bigger surprises. Actually this is the Monsieur Barbu’s philosophy. We move on with this in mind...

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To be continued

VOLTA

Stella Kyriakopoulos

A Few Words About “Volta”

Ice cream, heat, love and loss. A short film set in Athens, Greece. A love song and a lullaby to a city losing itself.

For Marissa, a struggling single mother living in downtown Athens, there is nothing more beautiful than seeing her 5-year old daughter, Nina, eat. Living in a rundown flat, unemployed and exhausted, it's becoming harder and harder for her to hope for what most people take for granted. Nina is a curious wide-eyed kid, who's constantly hungry.

Volta introduces Marissa and Nina as they prepare for a stroll, which seems like any other. But the stroll they take in Volta will be a very different one. Unknown to Nina it will be the last day she spends with her mother.

Want to come along for the ride?

Follow “Volta” here: http://tinyurl.com/q9s3rmt A Few Words About the Director Stella Kyriakopoulos grew up in NJ to Greek immigrant parents. Her father owned a diner and everyone helped out. Her creative pursuits began in the diner’s cookie and bagel display, which she was in charge of. The family moved back to Greece when Stella was 9. She got a scholarship to Swarthmore College, and received a BA in Studio Art/Film and Media in 2005. She went on to study Sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She started making movies when the school went on strike one summer and she didn’t have access to a studio. She made her first short film in Athens that summer, between stints as a nanny and work as a production assistant on Theo Angelopoulos’s fetaure film, “Dust of Time” (2008). She is now completing her MFA in Film at NYU, pre-producing her thesis film, “Volta,” which she plans to shoot in Athens this summer, and works as an editor in New York. Her first film out of Tisch "Bob Goes to the Parthenon" recently won this year's Greek America Foundation's film contest, while Stella was picked to attend the 2013 Sarajevo Talent Campus.

Follow Stella’s tumblr here: http://stellakyriakopoulos.tumblr.com

Marissa Triantafyllidou

Away We Go! Greek-American student Stella Kyriakopoulos goes on a digital walkabout to crowdfund her graduate film “Volta”, after state grants fall through due to Greek public television’s (ERT) unexpected shutdown.

Born in NJ to Greek immigrant parents, Stella and her family moved back to Greece when she was 9 years old. She lived in various neighborhoods and even jumped back to the States for a year, before ending up in college there. Going back and forth became the norm. Even her language is a near perfect split down the middle of Greek and English. Instead of saying she’s Greek-American, she’d rather say she’s thoroughly Greek and thoroughly American.

Last winter she came back to Athens after having been away for 6 years, and found a city that was profoundly changed - and not for the better. Crashing on her brother’s couch in downtown Athens, she quickly discovered the apartment building didn’t have heating. Not the ideal situation if you’re trying to write your thesis for the NYU Graduate Film program.

Desperate to get rid of the chill that would stick to her bones, she’d walk around the apartment, then the neighborhood and eventually around the city. She’d set out wanting to make a film in Greece, for Greece and about Greece, but Greece was pushing her out on the streets. So she followed its lead and wrote her script while walking around the city.

“Volta” (Greek for a stroll) wasn’t written on a laptop, nor did she use pen and paper. It was made up of conversations, glances, eavesdropping and footsteps.

Everything that made it into the film is based on things she saw, heard and talked about on these very walks. She essentially had to give up control and let the city dictate what it wanted her to say.

She’s still taking long walks around the city, but they have now turned into location scouting expeditions. The people she’s met along the way include amazing cinematographer Thodoris Michopoulos, who has worked with directors such as Theo Angelopoulos and Richard Linklater, and brilliant actress Marissa Triantafyllidou who has appeared in major homegrown movies with international reach, like “God Loves Caviar”, “One Day in August” and “Wasted Youth”.

The last stretch of her journey is on Kickstarter, trying to make her goal of $25.000 that will finance her film. The initial plan was to get funding from state broadcaster ERT, but Greek public television was shut down before she got a chance to apply.

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Luckily she decided to keep moving forward, so if you want to go along for the ride, all you have to do is click on this link and away you go! http://tinyurl.com/ lpjfxtr

Lambros Fatsis

(Boulevard Soundsystem) Spinning theories out of sounds I would feel rather bad talking about myself in third person narrative, not (just) because I would feel like an unspecified entity; a product even, but because I fear (and loathe?) self-aggrandisement. When approached by Neu Tymes to write a little something about who I am and what I do (aren’t they one and the same?), I thought it wise(r) to tell my story as a person that is a person of sounds, as the Latin root of the word person (per son) gracefully invites us to do. I have three obsessions; sounds, sociology and soundsystems and it took a great deal of listening before I could sound them out convincingly for myself and others. Growing up in a country saturated with the sounds of cicadas, the sing-song of street merchants advertising their wares and hissing entreaties, Byzantine psalms sung in church, pompous populist political speeches delivered in public, roaring protest rhymes composed on the move, and the ubiquitous honk of car horns (yes, this is Greece!), I found an interest in studying glottal stops, clicks, phonetic variations while investigating the role of music as an instrument and conductor of socio-cultural norms and forms, all that through a joint degree in Linguistics and Sociology, which then became a Masters and a stillborn PhD in Sociology. Nothing could have prepared me however for the profound impression that another sound would have on me; the sound of bass as something three-dimensional, all-rounded, warm, ‘fat’ and quaky enough to make your spine vibrate and your drink dance in its own glass.

I’m referring of course to the bass frequencies as emitted by the mega-wattage speakers of the Jamaican soundsystems I encountered in the UK upon my arrival. Leaving my drink and my company aside, I rushed to see what that record was turning

out to be Kojak and Lisa’s ‘Fist to Fist Rub-a-Dub’ on the Joe Gibbs label. I took a mental note of it and since then I’ve been living inside the dimensions of that sound! That’s how Boulevard Soundsystem started in 2005, initially as a club night (Boulevard) in North Wales with the intention of bringing together the traffic of black diasporic urban musics (jazz, funk, soul, latin boogaloo, afrobeat, highlife, kwela calypso, ska, rocksteady, roots, dancehall and hip hop) but then surrendering to the Jamaican side of things, hence the soundsystem postfix to my DJ alias. Three years later, I earned myself a residency (Rudy Tuesdays) at what is probably the best bar/club Athens has known (the legendary Bar Guru Bar) which felt like not being very far from the venues of South London, Angel and Old Street that I was accustomed to while in London, but with an extra lustre of chic added to the mix. That’s where I met selectress supreme Anna Mystic, probably the most serious person in the sound business, and we turned our musical romance into a collaboration which found us playing together initially at the European Music Day and then in (the) most unusual places with the aim of making the music we love available, relevant and enjoyable to people who aren’t reggae fans. That attitude still remains my main principle in doing what I do musically by the way! During that time, we flew extremely gifted British reg-

gae MCs, chatters, bubblers over to Athens (Ras Styler, Champian, MC Trooper and Brother Culture) to give ourselves and the crowd a slice of how that music is being played properly. In the meantime, I found myself holding residencies elsewhere (Belafonte, huge) where I cut, mix and blend a wide variety of Jamaican music in a seamless fashion until I came back to the UK to take up my position as a doctoral student of and an associate tutor in Sociology at the University of Sussex where I seek to make the link between social theory and sounds unproblematic and rather helpful for the enrichment of ‘how we do sociology’, by shifting the focus from speaking to listening as a different mode of making sense of each other, showing how soundsystem practices are in fact exemplary as a mode of social, cultural exchange and an extremely effective and affective political medium too which appeals to our humanity as an embodied democracy of the senses. This is where the ‘spinning theories out of sounds’ bit comes into play but speaking of playing, coming back to the UK (currently living in Brighton, well, Hove actually!) was a true blessing musically! I met up with Serocee (who I had previously worked with in Greece) and started the ‘Reggae Bombing’ night which was later given extra volume and weight with the inclusion of DJ Cut La Vis, while having the opportunity to showcase what I do with a host of brilliant MCs such as

WWW Mixcloud #1 #2

Facebook Twitter Sociological Imagination blog Recommended Listening #1 #2 #3

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MC Ishu and Brother Culture finding myself on the same line-up with people like Prince Fatty, Richie Phoe and Roots Garden records. Speaking of which, I was invited twice as a guest to their radio show which is always a sheer delight to do as I get the chance to play a strictly roots and culture selection there, while I am currently holding a weekly residency (Reggae Tunesdays) at Brighton’s No.1 all-Caribbean venue, Riki Tik, playing an all-vinyl selection of Jamaican music. Amid all this activity, really it’s just servicing a compulsion more than anything else, I am editing the Sociologists of Crisis series at the Sociological Imagination blog, teaching sociology to 1st and 3rd year undergraduate students, but where it all gels together I suppose is at my weekly radio show at radiobubble.gr, now at its fourth year (Fridays, 9-10pm) where I host an all-vinyl broadcast which addresses a different theme each week, all related to Jamaican music and culture. Incessant chattering aside, the morale of this personal story is that the art but mostly the act of listening can be heard as a celebration of the human experience through sounds, and the rewards it brings hover between thinking and doing, reason and grace, necessity and virtue; values that are essential for making sense of our humanity without doing injustice to others, in itself a vital component of citizenship and good action. And what the Jamaican musical paradigm shows us, is that for all this to happen we need to humanise ourselves and what we do by grounded experience, live and direct mediated through modes, sounds and frequencies that invite us to full and open participation, thus making no concessions to cheaper, compressed, computed versions of ourselves.

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Gogo Griva

Transformations and combination of materials.

Studied experimental floral creation,while attending jewelry art seminars evolving techniques.

Creating arifacts,jewelry and handbags using natural materials and combining various elements.

2G workshop John Kennedy st, Peristeri, Athens.

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WONDERW

(by spyros paloukis)

THE STORY Something strange is coming about in the Gardens of King Midas. Time stands still, people are petrified and life dims as the clock's hands turn back to 1912. Midas's curse threatens Edessa with obliteration and its return to point zero. The Giant, Midas's adjutant, who has lived at the roots of Edessa's Rock for centuries, has awoken and wants vengeance for the ingratitude of men. The only ray of light is a girl from the future, Margarita, who comes from 2012 and is appointed the task of saving her homeland by seeking the Karkaya Witch and her spell in the primeval Wonderwood. On her way, she shall cross the Black Lake, the Underworld and the White Peak and, bearing the radiant coin of Macedonia, she shall confront the Grim Reaper, Narcissus and the Sphinx.

But can this place be saved, when the people that inhabit it prefer to remain indifferent?

The motive behind this fairytale is the liberation of Edessa a hundred years ago; a photographic book that links folk culture with contemporary artistic aestheticism. Traditional notions and mythological allegories are depicted in Wonderwood and unravel a commandment of three prophecies, a path through three worlds, a story of magic.

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THE BOOK Almost a year ago (October 2012), on the occasion of the celebrations for the one hundred years since the liberation of Macedonia, Â a very special book was released by The Magic Box publications entitled "Wonderwood", which is a story of magic through photography; a caleidoscope of folk legends, dark allegoric narration, loans from recognizable artworks, powerful photographic compositions, hidden and evident messages.

Spyros Paloukis, photographer, writer and publisher, Panagis Koutsokostas, archeologist, museologist, curator, and Aimilios Gallipis, graphic designer, joined their forces based on the idea of Spyros Paloukis and created a unique edition for the standards of the publishing industry, full of secrets, symbolisms, and magic.

THE WONDER PROJECT Wonderwood is a traditional allegory. This particular photographic book bears in its core all those elements that indwell in fairytales. The structure of its fictional and iconological corpus was entirely based around a folkloric fairytale, an original narrative story with many miscellaneous semantic elements and subtle symbolisms that link and coexist harmoniously. Wonderwood constructs, narrates, edits artistically and literarily the traditional-folk culture, and

reintroduces these facts integrated into a photographic fairytale. Familiar local and national images are redefined in the present and converted into global ones, gradually reaching a level that is everlastingly panhuman and symbolically universal. The photographs of this book include natural and man-made sites of Edessa and its surrounding region, historical traditional dress, people that hail from or live in the city, so as to create a fictitious representation -almost magical- beneath the sight of the modern observer.

THE INSPIRATION

(Wonderwood & Guillermo del Toro) In 2008 Spyros Paloukis published a travel photo book about Edessa. For a year, he was strolling in the city and it surroundings, trying to find special locations, beautiful spots, and interesting locals to portray in a way he inner beauty of the area. In these wanderings he found out a lot of nature secrets and listen many stories about local myths.

From the beginning of his artistic career, his dream was to make a photo fairytale. Time passed, while he did several projects and published four books till the moment that the main idea for Wonderwood blossomed from his fantasy. When he watched Guillermo del Toro's movie "Pan's Labyrinth" he figured out what that he wanted to tell a story through images and combine History and Fantasy, Dream and Reality, the World we know and the Underworld, all in one concept. So, that's how the project started. He choose as a protagonist a local female historical figure, Margarita, who has sacrificed her life to keep her freedom from Turkish hands throwing herself from a cliff. So, that girl is a spirit, who comes from the past and wants to help Edessa's people who are in danger due to a magical curse of King Midas and the Karkaya Witch.

MAKING OFF The concept for Wonderwood comes three years ago, when Spyros was already doing the Daydreaming project for the Greeks of Belgium. That period has started writing the story with lots of on and offs. In the begging of 2012 they met with Panagis, and arranged to cooperate for this book about their birth town. The story was almost written by Spyros, and after endless discussions with Panagis about the artistic and academic result of the photography of the book they proceed to the next step. Practically Wonderwood photo shootings lasted 4-5 months (February - July 2012). The most difficult part was to program, arrange and prepare everything before the shootings. All the details have to be filtered mainly by Spyros and Panagis. Communication with people, location shooting, purchase materials, and finally produce and picture something worthy for the book was a difficult task. Weather conditions were never ideal, volunteers time schedules did not fit sometimes with the main plan, and -what's very important- the cost of every photo production should be kept in the minimum way.

PAST & FUTURE Wonderwood was exhibited in Thessaloniki's Photobiennale 2012 (Kalos & Klio showroom, curated by Panagis Koutsokostas). It was presented to Thessalonikis’ international bookfair (May 2013) and in Veroia, Edessa, Florina, and Kozani.

Furthermore it has become a theater play by a modern dance school in Edessa. In the autumn of 2013 is going to presented in Athens, Brussels and Rotterdam and in various cities in Greece.

VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8FtefXqm10

INFO & ORDERS www.spyrospaloukis.com www.themagicbox.gr

BEHANCE http://www.behance.net/gallery/Wonderwood/5526955

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/spyrospaloukis

So far he has released five books. His first novel Charlemagne and the Camera of Secrets, placed Spyros among the ten best new authors of the year according to the Diavazo literature magazine. In 2009, he released the photographic book Edessa which focuses on his native town in north Greece. The photo book entitled Daydreaming: one hundred Greeks of Belgium dream of Greece, was published in five lan-

guages and it was presented in European Parliament (Brussels) and it was exhibited in "Symbiosis?" 15th Biennale de la Mediterranée (Thessaloniki). In 2011 he released his novel entitled Black Out Generation. Wonderwood is his fifth book, which was published in October 2012, and it is a unique photo fairytale who combines history, mythology, allegories and legends through contemporary photographic aesthetic (Thessaloniki's Photobiennale - Kalos & Klio showroom). In 13.04.2013 he delivered a speech for TEDx Thessaloniki, entitled "the Chamber of Dreams" about fairytales in contemporary life and his creative path as a multidisciplinary artist.

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CV

Spyros Paloukis (b.1980) is a Daydreamer, Wanderer and Visual Storyteller. He lives in Greece and in Belgium. He works as a freelance photographer, writer, journalist, and he is the publisher of Magic Box Editions.

As part of ReMap 4 Kunsthalle Athena invites Daily Lazy Projects artists’ team to a co-produced exhibition under the title In the Studio

September 8 - 30, 2013 Opening hours: Monday - Friday 17:30 - 21:00, Saturday - Sunday 12:00 - 21:00

Participating artists: Loukia Alavanou, Athanasios Argianas, Erik Binder, Clara Broermann, Stephane Calais, Lizzie Calligas, Thomas Chapman, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Michael De Kok, Christina Dimitriadis, Oana Farcas, Petra Feriancova, Shannon Finley, Dimitris Foutris, Torben Giehler, Helidon Gjergji, Stelios Karamanolis, Vassilis P. Karouk, Michalis Katzourakis, Jan Kiefer, John Kleckner, Caroline Kryzecki, Marek Kvetan, Daniel Lergon, Sifis Lykakis, Mathieu Mercier, Svätopluk Mikyta, Ilona Nemeth, Yudi Noor, Ilias Papailiakis, Angelo Plessas, Tula Plumi, Vassilis Salpistis, Georgia Sagri, Frank Selby, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Daniel Steegmann, Henning Strassburger, Joulia Strauss, Morgane Tschiember, Brent Wadden As part of the exhibition, a talk under the title Artist Mathieu Mercier in a conversation with Marina Fokidis and Daily Lazy Projects will take place on Monday, September 9, at 19:30, in the French Institute of Athens (Théo Angelopoulos Auditorium), 31 Sina Street, Athens (www.ifa.gr).

In the Studio focuses on the conditions under which artworks are produced and it investigates the fundamental relation of their production to the artists’ work spaces (the artists’ studios). The project finds conceptual ground on a twofold approach; on the one hand, displaying art as a time-based process and activity, and on the other, documenting the private milieu of the studio - the place where this process is unveiled. The exhibition In the Studio will display the work of selected artists, focusing on unfinished pieces, works in-progress, sketches,

In the Studio

maquettes, models, and other objects taken from the artists’ studios. It is one of the few opportunities to present a curatorial project where the artwork and the labour of the artist share one immediate and intact space, a space now cohabited by the artist and the audience.

The ongoing project In the Studio was launched in December 2011 and it currently includes more than 130 renowned and upcoming contemporary artists, based in Athens, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Zürich, Basel, Frankfurt, Florence, Valletta, Cluj-Napoca, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, New York, Rome, Washington, North Carolina, Stockholm, Bratislava, Rotterdam, Tampere, Düsseldorf, San Francisco, and more. Α project originally initiated by Daily Laizy Projects in the form of an online documentation and showcase of individual distinctive practices (“In the Studio”: http:// daily-lazy.blogspot.de/search/label/In%20The%20Studio), it will be presented for the first time as an extensive and multidimensional installation in Kunsthalle Athena. The final aim is to create an active environment, where both the artist and the visitor simultaneously bear witness to the very early stage of the conception and creation of the artwork, before it leaves the studio to enter institutions, museums and galleries around the world.

In the Studio attempts to reveal the invisible facets of art and it concerns a curatorial proposal which covers a variety of research, conceptual, aesthetic, creative and experiential interests, inviting us to meet art in a manner of utmost immediacy.

Daily Lazy Projects was founded in 2011, in Athens, Greece. The current DLP team comprises artists Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Stelios Karamanolis, Tula Plumi, Yorgos Stamkopoulos. Its goal is to present projects touching on contemporary art issues through collaborations with artists, curators, organisations, and other practitioners involved in the arts. Its scope of activities includes three residences: in Athens, Cluj-Napoca, and Berlin, and will involve other cities in an endeavour to negotiate the notions of “art scene” and “art centre”. http://dlprojects.tumblr.com/ & http://daily-lazy.blogspot.gr Kunsthalle Athena is a flexible art centre dedicated to the visual culture of our time. Its major objective is to reintroduce contemporary art and its significance to a genuine public sphere, prioritising the possibility of co-producing and thus extending culture. Drawing on creative sources of varied origins and providing a vital core of social interaction and exchange, Kunsthalle Athena is constantly informed by the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness of Athens and its public. Its desire is to emphasise the constant transformation of ‘the polis’ as a symbolic location for the production and dissemination of contemporary culture worldwide.

A series of performances under the title Political Speeches will take place as part of the parallel events program. September 2013participating artists: Yorgos Koumentakis, LAFIDKI (Saphy Vong), George-Icaros Babassakis, Angela Brouskou,

Parthenopi Bouzouri, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Dimitris Papadatos, Angelo Plessas, and many more to be announced soon.

The exhibition is curated and organised by Daily Lazy Projects with the support of Kunsthalle Athena’s curatorial team: Marina Fokidis, Apostolos Vasilopoulos, Eleanna Papathanasiadi. Daily Lazy Projects collaborated with Lydia Pribisova for the selection and support of the Slovak artists.

Social media: Maria Passarivaki For more information and visual material, please contact: Eleanna Papathanasiadi +30 6974 387364, Apostolos Vasilopoulos +30 6978 806178 press@kunsthalleathena.org Tula Plumi +30 6938 091305 dailylazy@live.com Or visit www.kunsthalleathena.org (Press category) Duration: September 8 - 30, 2013 Opening hours: Monday - Friday 17:30 - 21:00, Saturday - Sunday 12:00 21:00 Free entrance

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Kunsthalle Athena, 28 Kerameikou Street, Kerameikos - Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece www.kunsthalleathena.org

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