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GRANTS 2015- 2016/Reframing the History of Civilization through the Contemporary Art In the Islands Kefalonia and Ithaca .

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INTERNATIONAL  PROGRAM

ANNOUNCEMENT  /   OPEN CALL

GRANTS  ΥΕAR 2015-2016

Reframing the  History of Civilization through the Contemporary Art

In the Islands Kefalonia and Ithaca .

VENUE : Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture /Greek Island Kefalonia

ELIGIBILITY : All disciplines and interdisciplinary projects in Arts, Sciences, Education  and Research, included Environmental projects, Literary Arts , Performing  Arts and Music, Applied Arts, Visual Arts , New Media.

Are invited  projects personal of collective, academic projects,  Schools,  Colleges, Universities and in Arts, Sciences and Research  involved  Institutions and Organizations from all over the  World.

TIME : Year 2015 – March  1st to December 30th

OPENING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS : November 1st  2014 [limited space for participations]  DEADLINES : On going

GRANTS : euro 30.000  grants available. 10.000  for the best project upon realization.

ACCEPTABLE : a.  Proposals  connected to the open programs of the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture .b. Innovative  Proposals – all disciplines- not connected to the existing programs.

 

Information –Contact : www.ionionartscenter.gr, info@ionionartscenter.gr

Applications: http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

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Finding your Unique Voice Master Workshop – Choreography/Creative Process/ March 29th-April 4th , 2015 AT the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture /Greek Island Kefalonia.

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Master Workshop – Choreography/Creative Process/ March 29th-April 4th , 2015 AT the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture /Greek Island Kefalonia.

 

‘’Finding your Unique Voice’’ is a 6 day intensive Master Workshop

Instructor : Emily Berry

 Venue : The Ionion Center for The Arts and Culture ,   Island Kefalonia, Greece .

Time : ( March 29th April 4th 2015,  Mediterranean Spring ,Greek Easter, when the island is transformed in a mild weather Paradise in full  blossom.

Eligibility :This unique Master Workshop is open to 12-15 participants from transdisciplinary  or dancing/ performing arts background,  that are interested in exploring the creative process and to introduce /communicate /demonstrate a personal or professional project on the explored theme.

The selection will be based on the originality  and innovation of the project.

Award: The best personal  project will be warded by the Ionion Center with the opportunity of a personal presentation / performance  and  residency.

The workshop ‘’Finding your Unique Voice’’ will focus on a process to pull out of the participants their unique movement/ creative  voice as well as discovering their own unique creative process into the new –early Spring environment of the Island .  Participants will share in daily classes of movement, improvisation, discussions, and time to explore and create. The week will culminate in a public sharing of the movement/work that was discovered over the course of the week.  Participants will also have an opportunity to traverse the Island, using its rich landscapes and history as inspiration for creative explorations.  Participants will also engage in creating a site specific performance in relationship to the natural/architectural/cultural environment .

Open call is inviting applications . Dead line for applications : March 25th 2015.

Participation fee is euro 380(tax and registration fee  included), includes full housing accommodation, breakfast  and one local  traditional  hot meal(lunch).

Traveling , insurance, leisure  and local transportation expenses are not included.

The Master Workshop will offer Official Certificate of Participation

For details and the  full program  please contact: info@ionionartscenter.gr

Applications :  http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

 

Emily Berry, MFA – Department of Health, Physical Education, and Dance

Associate Professor ,  Queensborough  Community College NY

Education:

Master of Fine Arts: George Mason University
Bachelor of Dance Arts: University of Michigan School of Music
Bachelor of General Studies in Women’s Studies and Political Science: University of Michigan School of Literature, Science, & Arts

 

 

 

Emily Berry : www.b3w.org

 Emily Berry is the Artistic Director of B3W Performance Group, which has performed in the

US, England and Mexico. In New York City, B3W has performed at Henry Street Settlement,

Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, BAAD!, the 92nd Street Y, The Irondale Center as part ofFlicFest, the International Dance Festival NYC, the DUMBO Dance Festival, the Manhattan

Movement Arts Center, and the Cool New York Dance Festival. The company has also

premiered two dance films in Maryland and in Switzerland. B3W received the Mondo Cane

Commission from Dixon Place where we premiered Confined in September 2010 with a threeweek

run. Emily was also commissioned to set a piece on Ann Arbor Dance Works in May of

  1. Spin Art, B3W’s newest evening length work premiered at the Irondale Center January

30th, 2014 with live music by DBR. Spin Art will premiere as a creating public art through

performance piece with paint inside of a cube in Queens in the fall of 2014.

Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Infinite Body) describes Berry’s work as “Memorable, intelligent, strong”.

“Violent but engaging” are the words attached to Berry’s work by Clare Croft in the Washington

Post. Maura Donahue (Culturbot) writes about Confined as, “Clear expression of idea in

movement”.

Emily has performed with danceTactics Performance Group/Keith Thompson, Boris Willis

Moves, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company, Restless Native Dance/Tamieca McCloud,

Lesole’s Dance Project, and Ashe Moyubba/Alafia Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance Ensemble.

Emily is a Certified Movement Analyst. She also has a MFA in dance from George Mason

University. Her Bachelor of Dance Arts was earned from the University of Michigan along with

a Bachelor of General Studies in Women’s Studies and Political Science. She has taught at

Oakland University, George Mason University, Coppin State University, Montgomery College,

and the Community College of Baltimore County. She has also taught master classes for

ACDFA, Goucher College, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, and

numerous dance intensives. She is currently an assistant professor of dance and the director of

the dance program at Queensborough Community College.

 

Program

 

Sunday  March 29th

10:00am -11:00 am – Welcome and Introductions

11:00 am-1:00 pm – Movement class

1:00-2:00 pm – Lunch

2:00pm-3:30pm – Improvisation Class

3:30pm-3:45pm – Coffee Break

3:45pm-5:00pm – Creative Process – Discussion and Exploration

5.00pm-12.00 free evening / free exploration of the area / Argostoli by night

 

Monday March 30th

10:00am-11:45am  – Movement/Improvisation Class

11:45am-12:00noon- Break

12:00noon -1:00pm – Creative Process – Journal writing/Discussion

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm – Exploration/Experimentation of Creative Process/Movement Development

4:00pm-4:15pm – Coffee Break

4:15pm-5:00pm – Sharing of Explorations

5.00pm-12.00 free evening / free exploration of the area

 

 

 

 

Tuesday  March 31th

Excursion to Explore the Island

Journal Writing of Inspiration – Site Specific ideas for improvisations/performances/or inspiration for creative process/movement

9:00am-6:00pm

 

Wednesday  April 1st

10:00am -11:15 am – Movement/Improvisation Class

11:15am-12:15pm – Discussion/sharing of discoveries from Excursion

12:15pm-1:00pm – Planning of 2nd excursion – creating a collective response through movement

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm – Time to Explore Creative process/Movement

4:00-4:15 – Coffee  Break

4:15pm-5:00 pm– Sharing of explorations – final planning of 2nd excursion – creating a collective response through movement

5.00pm-12.00 free evening /free exploration of the area

 

Thursday April 2nt

10:00am -1:00pm – 2nd Excursion – Performing Site Specific Work

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-5:00pm – Exploring a new creative process – Developing an Idea

5.00pm-12.00 free evening / free exploration of the area

 

Friday April 3 th

10:00am-11:15am – Movement/Improvisation Class

11:15am-1:00 pm– Developing an Idea/Concept

1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00pm-4:00pm – Finalizing what to show

4:00pm-6:00pm – Coffee Break

6:00pm-7:00pm  warm – up

7:00pm  – Public event / Showing of explorations from the week

 

Saturday April 4th

 

Evaluation process – awarding the best participation

Certificates of participation

Good buy cocktail

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EMILIΑ ΜΑRYNIAK :PLACES /ARCHE

Exhibition  of drawings and paintings inspired from the island Kefalonia

Lecture – presentation-  open dialogue entitled

//The Grecian Myth at the XX and XXI Century Art//

IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE

Saturday  October 18,  2014, 19.00- 22.00pm.

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Born in Poland, 1982. Graduated from the College of Fine and Visual Art in Warsaw and from the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. Completed Continuing Studies Programme at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London.

As an art historian she works for the National Museum in Warsaw.

As an artist she had a several individual exhibitions (including the Bankside Gallery in London) and group shows (including TRAFO, Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Poland). Her works are at the privet collections in England, Spain, Switzerland and Poland.

 

At the Cephalonia island into the frame of the International Program of the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture she’s working on the series of drawings and paintings named <<arche >>(as a part of the Places project). This art is based mostly on her fascination by Ancient Greek Philosophy.

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VIENNA FORRESTER: Fragmented Myths and Memories

                                                    Fragmented Myths and Memories

                                  A Fractal Exploration of Kefalonia

 

Lincolnshire artist Vienna Forrester will be exhibiting her digital fractal art at the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture from the 16th to the 30th September 2014.  The official opening of the exhibition will be on the 20th September , 20.00 pm

Vienna ‘s work has been described as ‘stunning’, ‘vivid and attention grabbing’ and ‘beautiful, mysterious and metamorphic’.  Her unusual approach to image making results in vigorous, explosive colour formations.  Using latitude, longitude and the time/date stamp from her digital photographs as integers, she produces fractals which are further manipulated to represent aspects of place.  The resultant art has an ethereal, luminescent quality which is ideally suited to being displayed using the latest electroluminescent technology.  What evolves is a fusion of two distinctly differing fields – the absolute rules of the fractal algorithm and the imagination of the artist.

The Title IO refers to the Priestess Io of Greek mythology -The Ionian Sea is said to be named after her.  The IO logo represents the universal symbol used on electrical devices for power on/off – being the binary digits 1 and 0.

The theme of the exhibition is based around the seismic nature of Kefalonia and the stone and rocks that were displaced, built, ruined and rebuilt over generations.  From tiny pebbles on a beach to the mighty Mount Ainos; Roman villas decorated with mosaics, to stone quarried and used for houses, many of which still lie abandoned after the devastating earthquake of 1953.

“My interest in and observation of patterns in the natural world led to my work with fractals, and the evolution of technology based art using PC’s, Tablets and digital cameras opened up a wealth of ideas.

 

My exhibition, funded by Arts Council England, the National Lottery and North Lincolnshire Council, seeks to celebrate the enduring nature and beauty of this ‘Stone Kingdom’ that is the beautiful island of Kefalonia.

I am thrilled to be given this opportunity to exhibit my work at the Ionion Center for Arts and Culture”.

 

Vienna Forrester

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GIAN SPINA <>

                                              GIAN SPINA

‘POIESIS’

 

CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ‘POIESIS’

ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ ΜΕ ΘΕΜΑ ΤΗΝ ‘ΠΟΙΗΣΗ’

…………………….……………….το χρόνο σε κύκλους της  αβύσσου

ας μην στοχαζόμαστε  για τα νερά, για τα φύκια, για την άμμο, για τη φάλαινα, για το φεγγάρι

δεν είναι να δούμε την έκρηξη της  ζωής και την επιστροφή της στη στέγνη

του εδάφους και στο σκάμμα που άνοιξε

ας μην οσμισθούμε τον αέρα τη βροχή

τα όστρακα  των ψαριών που  ξύνουν  το αλάτι

ας μην επανερχόμαστε  στο δειλινό  που χάθηκε στο διάβα  των χρόνων

στις  άλλες παραλίες  και τους άπειρους  ήλιους τους

ας μη  συλλογιστούμε  για το θάνατο  με  την ματαιοδοξία των θεών

στο ανόητο έργο τους να δημιουργούν  σκόνη από τις πέτρες  από τα οστά…………………

……………………………the time in abyss cycles    not to think

on the waters, on the algae, on the sand, on the whale, on the moon

not to see that life explodes   and returns to drain 

within  into the ground of the hole that it opened 

we should not smell the wind  the rain

the shellfish of the fish scratching the salt 

not to smell the evening which was lost in the years

the other beaches  and their infinite suns 

we should not think about death  on the vanity of the gods

on their stupid job of making dust out of stones

out of bones……GIAN SPINA

ΙΟΝΙΟ ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΤΕΧΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ–  IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE

Πέμπτη -Thursday 28th,Παρασκευή -Friday 29tηΑυgust . 2014

20.00pm to 22.00pm

seminar/conference,

ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ ΜΕ ΘΕΜΑ ΤΗΝΠΟΙΗΣΗ’ – CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ‘POIESIS’

Gian Spina was born in São Paulo (Brazil) and lived, studied and worked besides others in

San Diego (USA), Vancouver (Canada), Bordeaux (France), Berlin and Frankfurt (Germany). His work and research are an interdisciplinary combination of different artistic languages and theory with the aim of creating a poetic-existence. In 2002 he studied photography at the Senac Institut in São Paulo, afterwards film from 2003 to 2005 at the Vancouver Film School with Prof. Roy Hunter,

from 2005 to 2006 filmtheory with Prof. Carlos Augusto Calil at the University of São Paulo and from 2007 to 2008 architecture at the Escola da Cidade. In 2010 he moved to Germany, where he studied with Prof. Sigfried Zielinski in the Vilem Flusser Archive at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Prof. Ulrike Gabriel and Prof. Juliane Rebentisch at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach am Main (Germany), where he received a scholarship from the Rotary-Club

Nowadays he is finishing his master in art while studying philosophy with Prof. Fabien Vallos and his praxis with Daniel Dewar at the École des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux.

Site:  http://gianspina.com/

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ΥASUNORI KAWAMATSU<>

Yasunori Kawamatsu  at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Friday August  8 , 2014 , 20.30

 

‘’My work aims to express one key concept :

EQUALISATION[ FLAT]=NOTHING =PICTURISATION

TITLE : << DIFFERANCE >>

Title: differance

Video

act in video : Typing My name on Plaster

11:58 seconds

typing sounds

I use language as a symbol and starting point to build my work. I then  remove  the  context of this language , flattening it’s meaning[equalization].Once the meaning and context have been removed [nothing] I develop a new visual language  reappropriating it’s meaning[picturisation].These works reference autopoiesis , a representation of self renewal and regeneration. This is the key process for my work .

Yasunori Kawamatsu keep becoming Yasunori Kawamatsu.

What’s the beautiful things?

If Beautiful-things happened in my perceive, I can say that my mind have Beautiful-things.

If subject have Beautiful origin, What’s the [subject]? and what’s [not subject]?

in this case, Subject is myself. What’s the relation of me to me? This make relation is get perceive to me by myself.

Being myself,,, keep certain and make relation of me to me.

I guess,,, Beautiful be happening by being myself .

www.kawamatsuyasunori.com

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