Exhibition Opening November 4th 2012
CHRISTOFOROS BALABANIDIS //TANKER//
MASK AND THE WORLD -SPERANZA SPIR, Holistic movement and butoh workshop.
The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is proud to announce
the project of Speranza Spir : MASK AND THE WORLD – Holistic movement and butoh workshop.
A HOMMAGE TO KEFALONIA: 60 YEARS AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
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. This short 2-day workshop will focus on bodywork that will encourage one to encounter parts of the Self through interaction with the natural environment of Kefalonia (and possibly that of Ithaki) relative to consciousness (through the body) of the randomness of a natural disaster, such as the one experienced in 1953 on Kefalonia Island. 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 survival, belonging and root-identity, and articulating 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.
Details :
The workshop will take place at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
Dates :13 – 14 May, 2013.
Time: 9h-14h. Maximum participants: 10
This workshop will be given in English.
If participants are willing, we may plan a site specific public performance.
The site and day will be determined as we evolve as a group.
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 and enrolment please contact Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture , info@ionionartscenter.gr, www.ionionartscenter.gr
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.
Speranza Spir – Éducatrice Somatique
Motricity & Dance movement educator
Ehrenfried Method Holistic Gymnastics
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BILL FRAVEL WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE
International Art’s Festival
KEFALONIA WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
AND HERITAGE JOURNEY
Bill Fravel Watercolors-Marilyn Fravel
In memory of the 60th anniversary of the destructive earthquake on Kefalonia- Ithaca islands, Bill Fravel Watercolors desires to conduct an educational watercolor painting workshop at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture in the Greek Island Kefalonia
Eligible are artists and interested from around the world to earn more about painting in the watercolor medium. Students at all painting levels of learning are invited to participate. This workshop will create work from painting plein air , from free inspiration or from photographs of the Island during the workshop.
WORKSHOP DATES:Sunday, September 7 to September 13 2013
WORKSHOP/EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Group instruction, demonstration, individual mentoring
Painting day trips to Fiskardo and Poros
Afternoon/evening group critiques
Painting outdoors at Ionion Center, in Metaxata
Public exhibition “Pin-Up & Post It Show” of Bill Fravel & students works
Marilyn Demos (Dimitratos) Fravel, wife of Bill Fravel watercolorist/instructor , will also take interested students/participants to area of Poros to explore her family roots and the ancient history and archaeological sites of the area, where her paternal grandfather was born and raised before immigrating to the central coast of California in the early 1900’s.
Detailed information: Bill Fravel Watercolors
Marilyn Fravel, WOFA
2510 El Paso Grande Ave.
Henderson, Nevada 89074 USA
(702) 468-6041 studio/text
bill.fravel Skype
PLANETARY COLLEGIUM – I-NODE GREECE- OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES
PLANETARY COLLEGIUM – I-NODE GREECE
OPEN CALL FOR PhD CANDIDATES
Syncretic strategies towards art, science, technology, and consciousness research.
Applications are invited for the post of PhD candidates of the – I-Node, Planetary Collegium PhD Program.
I-Node is the new Node of Planetary Collegium PhD Program of Plymouth University, UK.located in Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) on the Greek island Kephalonia.
INFORMATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Collegium
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/273
http://www.facebook.com/ionionode
http://www.ionionartscenter.gr
You can download the I-Node prospectus and the newsletter via sendspace: http://www.sendspace.com/
The Planetary Collegium is an international platform for research in art, technology and consciousness, with its hub (CAiiA- Advanced Inquiry in Integrated Arts) based in the University of Plymouth. Its president is Roy Ascott.
The Collegium consists of artists, theoreticians and scholars who meet online and periodically face-to-face in many parts of the world, to develop their research in the practice and theory of art, technology and science with special interest in telematics and technoetics. Their doctoral research leads to the award of the University of Plymouth PhD. Post-doctoral research is also pursued. Within the context of transdisciplinarity and syncretism, the Collegium promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research within a post-biological culture.
Applicants should have a MA degree and proven fluency in English language (in case English is not their native language).
Applicants eligibility is not limited to any particular field. It is based on the innovation of the proposals in connection to the Planetary Collegium research high standards, accepting students or academics.
All part-time doctoral research candidates attend three mandatory ten-day face-to-face Composite Sessions each year over a continuous three year period. Typically, each session involves three days of individual research updates presented for discussion by the group; a three stage critique by all members of the group in respect of each other’s work; individual supervisory tutorials; a two-day public symposium; and a one-day cultural visit.
Doctoral candidates are required to submit progress reports to the University of Plymouth Research Committee at regular intervals.
- At the conclusion of each Composite Session, candidates submit their Research Update (ppt) and Critical Response (Word).
- The Transfer Report (5,000 words), accompanied by independent expert commentator’s report, is submitted to support the transfer from MPhil to full PhD status.
- After a minimum of four year’s research, a candidate is eligible to submit a thesis for Final Examination, which includes a viva voce examination. The final submission may consist in either a written thesis of 80,000 words, or a thesis consisting in two parts: a digital portfolio of practical work which has been initiated, researched and developed exclusively within the candidate’s registered research period, and a linked narrative of no less than 35, 000 words.
Application materials, timeline and all additional information will be announced on further notice.
Applicants should send their declaration of interest to Katerina Karoussos,
Director of I-Node: kkaroussos@gmail.com
ACADEMIC BOARD OF THE I-NODE
Professor Roy Ascott ,
Founding Director, Supervisor, President of the Planetary Collegium, CAiiA Hub, Plymouth University.
Katerina Karoussos
Executive Director of the I-Node
Dr. Iannis Zannos
Director of Studies – First Supervisor (DoS/S1)
Professor at Masters Programme in Sonic Arts and Technologies, Music Department, Ionion University, Corfu, Greece
Georgos Papakonstantinou
Second Supervisor (S2)
Professor in the University of Thessaly Greece
Archtecture, Director in documentary films and multimedia projects .
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As a part of Planetary Collegium, I-Node is supported by its Advisory and Academic Board which includes all its Honorary members form CAiiA hub as well as from its two other nodes the M-Node and The Z-Node. Each one of the members is a leader in his/her respective fields. This board stands not only as inspiration to PhD candidates,but also it could provide mentorship and support.
STONE KINGDOM KEFALONIA 1953-2013 60 YEARS MEMORY OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT – OPEN CALL
for participation in the
INTERNATIONAL ART’S FESTIVAL 2013-2014
title
STONE KINGDOM KEFALONI1953-2013 60 YEARS MEMORY OF THE EARTHQUAKE 
LOCATION: Greek Island Kefalonia
The Festival will be held in different places, included Archaeological and Historical sites of Kefalonia, Specific Venues to be announced.
ELIGIBILITY: The Festival is open to all disciplines and interdisciplinary projects in Arts, Sciences and Research. Expected Artists, Designers, Musicians, Writers, Researchers Educational Institutions, Art Institutions, Art involved Organizations from all over the World. The selection will be based on innovative proposals.
Projects of special interest will be the based on the Natural,Historical,Cultural wealth of the Island, included physical stone complexes part of the natural environment, stone made architectural structures, Ancient and Cyclopean Walls, Medieval Castles, stone wells………….
The works selection and prizing will be conducted by a prestigious International Committee [to be announced].
PRIZING :From 1000 euro up to 10.000 euro for the best project upon realization.
Opening date for applications: 01/02/2013
Deadlines : on going
Application for individuals:http://bit.ly/hQwuoX ,
for organizations: http://bit.ly/hX3owW
application fee required
Information : www.ionionartscenter.gr,
Contact : info@ionionartscenter.gr
http://www.wooloo.org/open-call/entry/307136
GΕORGE ANDREW MAKRIDIS- PAINTINGS
I am a painter with an affinity towards Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Brice Marden,
Matisse, Moralis, Cezanne, Richard Diebenkorn, Caravaggio, Rembrandt,
Tintoretto, Masaccio, Whistler, Monet, Pollock, Rothko, Mondrian, Bazaine,
Giacometti, Morandi, and many more.
I have gradually moved towards non-objective abstraction, but carry realistic tonal
relationships. I think painting is like philosophy. To make it one has to be serious
about it, even when mocking at it, and has to operate within certain boundaries for
the work to compare to its ancient, past, and late history.
When ever I am called to write something about my work, there arise the same
questions: Should I talk about something which after all is only silent? Am I helping
anyone talking about it? The answer to both questions is no.
The more I read about it, the more I pass on to my students. Only a handful of them
are willing to accept the difficulty that comes with it. Fewer will take on the task of
thinking and writing about it. Looking isn’t hard. Seeing is harder. Demystifying art,
now this I’d like to be there when it happens.
Perhaps what makes it interesting is its democratic character. There is no one way
of interpreting it. Painting is safe, in a way; safe from Plato, Lyotard, or any other
person who has written about it. The same goes for people who practiced it,
Picasso, Duchamp, Miro.
It will always be there for someone to study, to try to see, to listen to the subtle
nuances that give it that special character only compared to music, seducing the
senses, analyzing it.
George-Andrew Makridis
Exhibition opening 14 January 2013
IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE.