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“Working on site, TRIANGULAR will develop a series of workshops together with the participants in order to enhance spatial awareness (consciousness of the limits of our body and senses in space with the possibility of working, researching and creating at sites on the Kefalonian Island environment.)
Through various methodological models: actions/situations, spontaneous drawings, field recordings and ethnographic camera exploration; the aim is to concentrate on the impact of territory from an emotional , aural and mental state perspective.”

ELIGIBILITY

Visual/sound artists, designers, photographers, architects, performers interested in experimenting various situations and methodological models exploring the impact and possibilities of aural, visual and mental (emotional/psychological) spatial awareness.

OBJECTIVES

Working on site, TRIANGULAR will develop a series of workshops together with the participants in order to enhance spatial awareness (consciousness of the limits of our body and senses in space).
Through various methodological models: actions/situations, spontaneous drawings, field recordings and ethnographic camera exploration; the aim is to concentrate on the impact of territory from an emotional , aural and mental state perspective.
Applicants working in the fields of visual arts, design, photography, architecture, performance, theater, psychology and anyone who is interested to experiment space through subjectivity and the main fields of TRIANGULAR : auditory spatial awareness, psychological/mental space, optical/perceptual space, are welcome to participate.
The learning process will include presentations by the artists of the conceptual frame as well as technical workshops in order to provide the participants with tools to explore their own practice.
Participants will be encouraged to develop their own project out of these experiments: collecting, developing and selecting one specific experiment on site.
At the end of the master-class, the participants will be invited to present a gesture, a photography, a sound recording, a small installation, a video, a performance, an action or experimental act in a collective set up responding to TRIANGULAR’s original exhibition. The artistic experiments will then resonate and further the inquiries about spatial awareness.
Note: Participants are responsible to bring their personal laptop, software, digital camera and/ or microphone depending on the project they wish to develop during the master class.

PUBLIC OUTCOME

Class members will develop various methodologies to explore spatial awareness.
Participants will have the chance to exhibit their own work at the end of the workshop.
They will gain insight in a selection of works by international artists working the field of spatial awareness and will be exposed to a broad spectrum of ideas.
The workshop gives the participants the chance to meet and interact with other artists and potential collaborators from all over the world.
The participants will present and reflect on each other’s practice.
The workshop offers the opportunity to learn various practical as well as theoretical

techniques.

The workshop offers time to dedicate to an experimentation project.

A 7 DAYS MASTERCLASS PROGRAM

Daily action practice-based exploring spatial awareness.
Conceptual/ theoretical lectures related to contemporary art practices led by each artist from the collective Triangular in its field of interest (auditory spatial awareness,optical/perceptual space, mental/emotional space).
Specific methodologies and process experimentations related to Triangular artistic practice.
Practical workshops applied to conceptual and performative process including audio-visual field recording and editing. For example using field recording sound devices and microphones, filming with different cameras, gaining insight in different filmicapproaches such as camera ethnography, the participatory and/or observing camera.
Create a color study of daylight on site. Identify the specific colors in order to make a collection and elaborate a feasible map of the island´s tones. Make connections between the students and the locals color perception of their environment.
Triangular’s artist talk presenting the exhibition at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture.
Development by the participants of a personal project with support and inputs byTriangular’s instructors .
Preparation of a final presentation by the participants.
Exhibition by the participants of their personal project at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture with a final discussion of individual or collective produced works.

Certificate of participation will be available.

Note: Participants are responsible to bring their personal laptop, softwares, digital camera and/ or microphone depending on the project they wish to develop during the master class.

ΑPPLICATION- TERMS – CONDITIONS – FEES

Application is required through web application form at the address :

http://goo.gl/forms/q2f8aD9uzk

Email application is also acceptable to the email -address : info@ionionartscenter.gr

In all cases is required the follow information in word document :full name of the applicant , postal address, phone, country , email address, web site(if available), profession, discipline , short statement of the applicant no longer than 200 words , short cv no longer than 200 words. In case of group /collective project( group -school- organization) is required title of the group -school- organization, full name of the person representing OR leading the group , postal address, phone, country , email address, web site(if available) of the group -school- organization , short statement no longer than 200 words , short cv of every group member no longer than 200 words.

Every submission requires an application/entry fee of euro 30, non refundable.

Each Application toward been considered must be completed including the follow:

Short submission notice -3 lines- in word document addressed via email to the address info@ionionartscenter.gr

The transfer confirm of the entry fee payment, Euro 30 for every separate application.
CV/Biography of the participant or CV/Biography for each of the group members in case of group project(text in word document non exceeding the 200 words)
A short statement (text in word document not exceeding the 200 words, short description of the expectations of the participant).

PARTICIPATION FEES/ INFO: info@ionionartscenter.gr

GRANTS ELIGIBILITY

All the completed participations on the program are eligible for the year Grants 2017 of the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Grants connected to the residency of the year program : Starting from 1000 up to 30.000euro.
Grants connected to the SEA(S) FORUM: Starting from 2000 up to 50.000euro per year(in case of participation in the SEA(S)2017).

For detailed info about APPLICATIONS,TERMS, CONDITIONS, FEES , PAYMENTS METHODS &

PERSONAL SUPPORT : info@ionionartscenter.gr

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

APPLICATIONS BY EMAIL :info@ionionartscenter.gr

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SEA(S) ARTS

2016/02/24 ionioncenter Leave a comment

SEA (S) ARTS

The endless relationship between the Man and the Sea.

The Sea, explored in a systematic interface between Human Civilization, Nature, Technology throughout the various landscapes of the Planet, virtual or physical,connecting People, Eras and Continents. Topics such as Environment, Incipient, Contemporary and Potential World Seas will be explored, documented and presented in multiple artistic or scientific ways.
SEA (S) ARTS 2019 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
SEA(S) GRANTS 2019
General info: http://seas.ionionartscenter.gr/

SEA(S) ARTS

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM

Image 2016/01/18 Editor

THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM OF THE IONION CENTER

GLOBAL PROGRAM INCLUDING SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL AND ADVANCED RESEARCH ASPECTS, ADDRESSED TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF ALL LEVELS IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCES AND ARTS, TO ART’S ADVANCING OR ΤΟ INTERESTED IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ORGANISATIONS.

The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture operates in a Global environment in the fields of Higher Education, Arts, Sciences and Research.

The International Strategy of the Institution in accordance to its Establishment Act is embracing the Globalization needs of the Academic and Art’s World. Knowledge, Academic Research and Innovation in a cross border model constitutes the core program of the Institution.

GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND TOPICS

Economic, geopolitical, social transformations, migration, fast changing multicultural societies, high demands of industry and work rights, arts and design in production and markets, social involvement.
Sciences and Arts in conjunction with advanced technologies, social consciousness, past, present and future.
Climate change, toxic environments, continents, seas, oceans, sustainable planet.

EDUCATION

Education is the key point of the leading program of the Ionion Center, advanced through the establishment of paths connecting Sciences and Art’s within the Academic World. The significance of the communication and connectivity, the intercultural understanding, new training languages and practices, creativity, innovation, new technologies and experimentation are adopted into the International program of the Ionion Center.

Τhe Ionion Center International Program aims to:

-Increase the international institutional collaborations in the fields of Creation and Research in Arts and Sciences.

-Adopt new academic fields through new academic partnerships and linkages.

-Enrich and expand a strong international network with mutual benefits for the connected Institutions and Communities.

-Offer to the collaborating Institutions an alternative leading model in Education.

METHODS & MODELS

– Flexible methods embracing the World (academic exchange –mobility- recruitment-innovation)

– Cutting edge practices in higher education (adapted to the specific needs of the partner institution).

– New models & training programs operating in new learning environments.( Teaching – learning-practicing, approaches aiming the intercultural experiences for students and professors)

– Past and new frameworks co-existing (professional frameworks and associations, acting in conscious management toward planning and improving the future)

PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES

A Team of leading and renowned Educators from all over the world are planning and developing the core program of the Institution.

The program is based on Arts (fine and applied Arts) , Sciences, Natural, Social and Cultural Environments.

It is a program open to innovation, experimentation and new ideas of the Academic Partner Institutions, Researchers and Scientists.

The program has a deep focus on the Cultural Development of Kefalonia under the general plan: “Plan for Creation of Permanent Infrastructures for Rescue and Exploration of the Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Islands of Kefalonia and Ithaca”.

The implementation of the project leads step by step to a long-term strategic basis for the sustainable development of the natural and cultural areas of the islands Kefalonia and Ithaca in absolute harmony with the natural, residential, social, financial, educational, cultural environment.

The challenging program of the Ionion Center is adopted by the local Community, recognized as initiator for social- economic growth and prosperity through the broad frame of Culture. It is a plan opening new paths to the Academic Institutions and researchers, artists, thinkers and activists offering:

Connectivity through the academic collaborations and professors active within the Ionion Center global network.

Educational/ research collaborations, will be in permanent basis open to students and professors, while they will enjoy all the benefits of the Ionion Centre’s links worldwide and the opportunity to experience a new understanding of the Global and European Civilization

Benefits of the existing international programs of the Ionion Center, sharing knowledge, and creation, while new teaching methods and strategies will transform in positive ways.

Access to the existing natural and cultural wealth of Kefalonia and Ithaca

ACADEMIC FIELDS

(Proposed fields, subject to additions according to the programs of the collaborating institutions )

Architecture/ Design/ Arts/ New-Digital Media/ Communications / Sustainability/Environment/Agriculture/Tectonics/Biodynamics/Seas-Oceans/ Poetry-Literature/Archaeology/History/Health/Statistics. (All the above fields are included in the operational frame of the Center with academic support in PhD level).

Activities on annual basis:

Higher Education Institutions, Artists, Scientists, Researchers with personal or group projects are encouraged to participate by submitting proposals:

Short and long term research and training programs

Exhibitions, Festivals, Symposiums, Conferences

Master classes, Thematic workshops, Short courses, & Seminars

Faculty led programs

International Summer schools

Field Studies and Semester abroad programs ( archaeology , environment, energy, natural resources management, new technologies, arts)

Volunteering, Cultural training, Social involvement (creation of art works in public sites of great significance for the Island and the Community, Social research and improvement)

Sea Sports Training (Professional Seas Sport Training –swimming- kayaking – rowing in collaboration with the Nautical Club of the Island Kefalonia )

Plastic Free Island Kefalonia (2015) from Pam Longobardi on Vimeo.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

PROGRAMS ON SUSTAINABILITY

1st International Conference ”Stray Paws Awareness Care” (SPAC) 2017

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SANJA HUREM “METAMORPHOSIS”

2016/01/07 Editor Leave a comment

Sanja Hurem September 2015

https://www.facebook.com/sanjahurem/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5rRcSLyge8

Sanja Hurem (www.sanjahurem.com)

https://vimeo.com/108893890

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NICHOLAS JONES : ‘’IONIAN ODYSSEY’’

2016/01/07 Editor Leave a comment

NICHOLAS JONES : ‘’IONIAN ODYSSEY’’
All who wander are not lost
For over 15 years, Melbourne artist Nicholas Jones has been making his unique work out old and unwanted books. His current body of work follows the history of navigation and mapping in the Ionian Sea, focusing on the island of Kefalonia.
Inspired by studies of the journeys of Odysseus and the collection of the Corgialenos Library in Argostoli, Jones Odyssey brings him from Australia to Greece in search of the Old, the New and the Forgotten.
*Nicholas Jones *
www.bibliopath.org <http://www.bibliopath.org/>
John Buckley Gallery – Nicholas Jones
<http://www.johnbuckleygallery.com/…/nicholas-jones-mining-t…>
State Library Exhibition – Nicholas Jones
<http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/event/conspiracy-cartographers>
Meanjin – Nicholas-jones
<http://meanjin.com.au/…/well-readan-interview-with-book-sc…/>
Where They Create – Nicholas-Jones
<http://wheretheycreate.com/Nicholas-Jones>
Facebook Page – Nicholas Jones Book-Sculptor
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nicholas-Jones-Book-Sculptor/328129883874336>

Documentary on Nicholas Jones 2011 <http://vimeo.com/27334681>

Thoughts by the Art Critic George Kakis Konstantinatos,
introducing the work and exhibition of Nicholas Jones entitled<< IONIAN ODYSSEY>>
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture ,Greek Island Kefalonia
August 31 2015

Just as the Antikythera Mechanism, where we see something rather very small, that hides a vast knowledge, specificity, precision, wisdom, thus – under similar terms- we should see the work of Nicholas Jones.
Like something very small, that hides his hard work, talent, knowledge
and the study of the object, which is the artistic sculpture – ‘surgical’ ‘- interference
mainly in old books.

What one can see with a glance touch in the work of Jones is that his books carry
dust of the time were written, along with the meander of the life struggle of that time,
things that both the artist brings to day light , to accept on their leaves the fresh air
in a renewed journey where their new life is starting now!

The paper cutting sculpture of Jones is respectfully taking into account what is written within these books,
The theme of the book, together with the material on or by which this occurs:
The old paper, the ink, the era fonts, etc. all been brought in today.

Given that the books printed under the photosynthesis process ,
none of them will stay permanently throughout the upcoming centuries …
(The destruction will happen under very slow process, already determined by all of us as fact regarding the
first fax printings or the payment receipts).
Only pages that are printed in the classical way in printing pressure machines- as
Example the Heidelberg type- will survive.
… the use by the artist of this specific type of classic books and their emergence in a new context, setup a play with the knowledge and the time , that posses a considerable importance.

In the present exhibited work entitled “”IONIAN ODYSSEY’’ we have a Maritime travel and Mapping.
The Navigation <>, needs the Mapping the <

>.
Sailing and Map. Content and Form.
The sailing as content, and the map as an illustration of the ride.
One creative element is the ‘’Dionysian’’ a sailing, travel experience to the material synthesis and the same time travel within us,
The other element the ‘’Apollonian’’ is the map…. counting the miles, from here to there …

With the assistance of the mapped knowledge, this visual navigation, searches and claims
through this Odyssey an opening in the horizons from the Old and Forgotten to the New,
still possessing the inherent seed decay.
But even so according the subtitle of the exhibition: Those who wandered were not lost!

In the Ionian Odyssey of Jones, Kefalonia Island is referred to as the Central Point.

The Creator has a clear inner sense leading him – perhaps without knowing it – and holding the papers of
Corgialenios Library, implements with his work achievements the fact that during the Greek Empire(so called by the famous Englishman Byzantinologist Sir Steven Ransiman), Kefalonia was the Center in the Ionian Sea, under the administrative title <>.

The artist is conversing- maybe- with his own “”red dressed” people, commanders of the Islands between 1810 to 1864. These people had among them the negative “Maitlands”, rejected by the local collective conscience and the positive “Napier”, saved by the consciousness of the island’s world.

Nicholas Jones works on what only through true art can be operated: He returns to the World clear the body of the Ionian Islands, expurgated by removing with his work any fainthearted geopolitical considerations.

His instrument to achieve this apologetic clearance, patience and art is his scalpel-cutter, cutting paper of his last as prayer, passing hundreds of times over the leaves of his books, chiseling and cutting them, one by one!

The book, a book, any book, tells us “something”. This same “something” is what Jones points out, interfering with his paper cutting, highlighting –after his long study-geographical, historical, cultural elements.
Let’s take as example of his work the little booklet that molds the Lion of St. Mark,
On it is printed the play “Othello” by William Shakespeare.
Yes but Othello is an official of Venice, entity having as emblem of St. Mark’s Lion.
So Jones succeeds to connect in a “talk” Shakespeare, Venice and Othello on the same scene that is the Ionian Islands, underlining the fact of the Venetian occupation on the Ionian Islands, thus putting the project in the body of this report entitled ‘’Ionian Odyssey’’.

Making one digression here to say that Othello, the famous “Black” of the famous Shakespearean tragedy, it would of course never been black. The places reserved to those black people by the Republic of Venice was rather the role of the ship rowers. What is true is that the coat of arms of the historical person , who Venice entrusted the management of Cyprus of acquisition, was represented by three berries, with underneath the word “Mauro”, in Greek means “Black”. The detail, together with the black deed of the murder of his wife Dysdaimona from undue jealousy, gave the Othello the feature of Black!

Beneath the black (or dark red or green or dark anyway -compared with white pages-) cover of his books, Nicholas Jones highlights the whiteness of the pages.

If we want to integrate his artistic work we would say that certainly belongs to the genre of sculpture.
The micro – graphic sculpture.

My opinion is that ,we still can connect this kind of sculpture with one of the art styles :
The “Op Art” (Optical Art).

Τhe fact however is that, Jones finds with his work,His Globally recognizable figurative mannerism.
(Which I’m sure started playing as a kid …!)

And the playfulness between Micro-graphic Sculpture and “Op Art”, in the postmodern era in which we are already, brings to mind a sense from the History of Art:

As Humanity nowadays is attending all her past passing in front of her eyes in a speedy way, we can consider as war signal the return of all styles….!

George Kakis Konstantinatos

Actor- Director –Visual Artist

kakis111@gmail.com

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Siren / Earthquake / Radio, Craig Dongoski – John Roach

2016/01/07 Editor Leave a comment

Siren Earthquake Radio
sirenearthquakeradio.com

Artists Craig Dongoski and John Roach propose a series of events on the island of Kefalonia that explore its environment, culture and history. The project, which would run from July 22nd 2015 to August 12th 2015, is structured around the three words that make up its title: Siren Earthquake Radio. Each of these ideas suggest an energy or signal that will frame our engagement and our understanding of the forces that make up Kefalonia’s history.

The project includes four main activities: a fluid participatory event in the Melassani Cave; a performance at the Ionion Center which will bring these two U.S. artists together with local Kefalonian artists, musicians and poets; a series of radio broadcasts that present the daily and evolving work produced during the project; and a schedule of workshops and events in which the artists work with the people of Kefalonia.

1. Event at Melassani Cave
Dongoski and Roach will respond to their experiences, observations and impressions of the cave. The movement of boats through the cave’s watery enclosure will serve as the physical and metaphorical material for a performance and sound installation. The goal is to augment the tour of the cave through sonic interventions. This begins with the understanding that visitors travel and experience the cave visually as a loop. This continuous and predictable path of the boat is a circuit interlaced with small hesitations and deviations. The boats travelling this circuit will become the shifting components of a system of feedback loops, unexpected sonic collisions, music and light.

The flow of visitors will dictate the structure of this performance-intervention and will necessitate our access to and cooperation with the authorities who manage the tour schedule. On the other hand, a discrete performance using the cave as an amphitheater is of equal interest and enables other possibilities. We could engage Melassani as a controlled performance venue in addition to, or in place of the aforementioned visitor-dependant proposal.

2. Performance at Ionion Center
Dongoski and Roach will design an event for a live audience at the Ionion Center. While the shape of the performance will be determined during the residency, the goal is to work with local artists which might include musicians, dancers, poets, etc. Of particular interest is the language and music of the island, which the artists will meld with their own revelations that arise during their explorations in Kefalonia.

An initial starting point is to use the wind as source material. To this end we would like to begin a conversation with authorities that might grant us access to document wind turbines and allow us to temporarily install wind harps for collecting sound. We also want to put the geological reality of earthquakes (eg seismic activity) in the foreground of at least one of our performance pieces. Access to a facility that possesses a seismograph is of great interest for the artists and would connect the geology of the island to drawing and graphic notation.

3. Radio Broadcasts
The artists will be in constant dialogue with Kefalonia as a place: its weather, its goats, its land, its water; and will be recording and experimenting throughout their stay. Each day Dongoski and Roach will create a mix from the material accumulated so that it can be shared over the airwaves.

4. Workshops, Events and Actions
While many of our projects incorporate collaboration with the people of Kefalonia, we would like to encourage direct and organized participation through workshops the results of which can feed back into our work. One example is an instrument building workshop for children followed by an improvisation session. Another is a Greek language pronunciation workshop in which the two artists work with local participants to attempt to enunciate words in Greek.

5. Exhibition at Ionion Gallery Space
Exhibit preliminary sketches
Field Drawings
Graphic Scores
Drawings made from nature