Diana Dudek through her project // A WORLD BEHIND// is leading to the wonderful world of ornamental creation,answering questions as:
//Is the absence of the ornament an indicaror of spiritual strength?
The adornment did, however, survive and took on a new form, – intellectual, poetical and visual … So surface ornament gained in depth.
Craig Dongoski at IonionCenter for the Arts and Culture July 2012
Art exhibition 11- 21 July 2012, official presentation 19 July 2012 , 21.oo , open invitation
// My plan is to produce drawings on terrestrial/geological samples of Kefalonia.
I am particularly interested in making drawings on top of photographs
of the earthquake in Kefalonia 1953//.
Craig Dongoski
Here is my new link http://vimeo.com/m/36607683
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About
The journal is one of the writer’s greatest tools. It can be a storehouse for ideas, a way to document of your writing process and a safe place to experiment and explore your creativity. This workshop will introduce various journaling techniques including using maps, memory, automatic writing and visioning. We will create new writing from eclectic source material. and be inspired by our environment’s geography and mythology. The Writers Journal is a hands-on, experimental and relaxed workshop. Whether you are an absolute beginner, on brink of a new project or facing writer’s block, this workshop will guide you towards results and new vistas.
Topics covered:
– automatic writing
– generating ideas
– visioning
– mapping
– finding and keeping inspiration
About the Artist
Simmone Howell is the author of Everything Beautiful and Notes from the Teenage Underground
In the summer 2011, Pamela Longobardi (US) swam to a massive sea cave from Liakas with Maria Rigatou (GR). It was immense and filled with many pieces of plastic, some very large. The two women swam out several large bags of material and large plastic objects. For Drifters Project/Kefalonia Phase II, Longobardi plans to clean the entire cave with a team of swimmers and to remove all the material and transport it to the Ionion Art Center to document, analyze and create a single large-scale art installation in the gallery.
In July 2012 the materials will be floated out of the cave as a giant raft of plastic, a floating island chain transported by swimmers – Pamela Longobardi herself and Claudia Lamas Cornejo (GE/PE), a Berlin-based culture manager and curator of the environmental exhibition project PACKET-SOUP.
This action will be documented by underwater and above water video to create a film that will be projected in the gallery with the array of plastic that is removed and sorted.
A forensic study will be done of the modern-day archeology of the cave, with statistical analysis, object identification of all components, and presentation of the findings.
The artist and Plastic Pollution Coalition founder Dianna Cohen (US) will in addition display her abstract paintings made of plastic bags in half of the gallery space.
Pamela Longobardi
Artist and Professor of Art (* October 1, 1958 in Glen Ridge NJ, USA)
Pam Longobardi’s work encompasses multiple mediums from painting, to photography and installation to address the psychological relationship between humans and the natural world. Her artwork was and is shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions all over the world (e.g. Venice Biennale 2009). In 2006, upon discovering the vast hoards of plastic the ocean regurgitates on remote beaches, she founded the Drifters Project, creating environmental interventions and exhibitions in Hawaii, Alaska, Costa Rica, China, Italy and Greece. Her work has been shown recently at Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Gallery Diet in Miami, and Savvy Contemporary in Berlin.
Claudia Lamas Cornejo
Curator and Culture-Manager (* October 16, 1983 in Munich, Germany)
Since the foundation of SAVVY Contemporary, Claudia Lamas Cornejo is responsible for Management and Public Relations as well as for fundraising exhibition and performance projects at this non-profit space in Berlin-Neukolln. She participated as a media- and press-manager in numerous national and international exhibitions and publications. In 2012 she curated the exhibition PACKET-SOUP, an environmental exhibition project about plastic pollution. She has completed a B.A. in Intercultural Communication and a Master of Culture and Media Management at the Freie Universitat Berlin.
Dianna Cohen
Artist and Founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition (* May 13, 1965 in Los Angeles CA, USA)
Dianna Cohen is a Los Angeles-based multimedia visual artist, painter and curator. She is best known for her works using recycled plastic bags ranging from small hanging pieces to room-sized installations. In 2007, Cohen expanded into making wearable art pieces using recycled materials. Solo shows include Post, Art Affairs gallery in Amsterdam, the Sutton Gallery in Melbourne, and Frank Pictures in Santa Monica, CA. She has shown in group exhibitions at Affirmation Arts in NYC, the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, the Bronx Museum in NYC and the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida and many other places around the world.
http://plasticpollutioncoalition.org
http://www.diannacohen.com/_portfolio/bio.html
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is the only Arts and related Sciences Institute on the Greek island of Kefalonia.
It forms a broad and effective program of innovative activities in Arts and Sciences and announces and supports projects in Arts and Sciences in all disciplines. Exhibitions, presentations, art events and festivals, educational programs and research are into the activities program.
http://www.ionionartscenter.gr/en/
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
July 23-31, 2012
The process of understanding one’s anatomy and the experience of soul and genealogy of place involve a prying apart of the self to uncover the ever resonating essence of personal identity and biological genealogy. In this week-long workshop we will encounter parts of our Self through interaction with the natural environment of Kefalonia. Through holistic movement explorations based on the Holistic Gymnastics Ehrenfried method, as well as Butoh dance practice, participants will ponder questions and notions pertaining to belonging and root-identity, and articulate response through collective and individual creation and choreography to uncover and inform the relationships between the body and self, place, identity and belonging. The use of these two methods suggests the shape-shifting and somatic potentials that will come together and accrue specific meaning for all participating.
Ehrenfried Holistic Gymnastics is a movement approach bringing equilibrium via the intelligence of the body. It is based on simple movements, verbally suggested by the practitioner, encouraging proprioception and personal awareness. In turn, this exploration of movement enables the participant with musculoskeletal agility, aiding the body to liberate itself of automatisms and habits which can be a source of tension, pain, and compression. The repertoire of movements encourages active rest, joint alignment, mobility & muscle toning, all the while rhythmic breathing guiding the way movements are executed. Gradually, the internal organs regulate from the effects of rhythmic breathing; behaviour modifying itself in tandem with changes in physical habits giving way to the joy of movement and discovery of self. Butoh is a form of dance theatre originating in Japan out of the post-World War II era, partly as opposition to America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as in protest of Western materialism. Butoh work calls on the body’s work, its changing conditions through stillness and physicality, and linking one to the essential and raw experiences of physical and spiritual states.
The workshop will take place at the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture from July 23-31, 2012.
Every day: 9h-14h.
Maximum participants: 12
This workshop will be given in English.
Fee for the 8 day atelier 450 euros (due by day 2 of the workshop)
Day 8 will involve a site specific public performance.
The site and time is to be determined as we evolve as a group.
1 day drop-in participation is permitted exclusively on July 23rd. Cost is 75 euros.
Open to all. Please forward your name and contact information with a short bio and why you are interested in doing this workshop.
For furthers inquiries please contact the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture here.
ICAC (Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture) in cooperation with the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, England, is hosting a conference in the series of Consciousness Reframed International Research Conferences, with the title of “TECHNOETIC TELOS: Art, Myth and Media”.
The conference will take place at Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) on the Island of Kefalonia, Greece, from April 30 to May 2, 2012.
For more information please visit the Conference’s dedicated pages at www.ionionartscenter.gr/conference/
Or click here to visit the dedicated website we have created with all information relating to the conference.
