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Perátis! A solo show by Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki I curated at Or Art Space / ¡Perátis! Una exposición individual de Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki que curé en Or Art Space

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On December 5 we opened Perátis (Περάτης) : Exploring the exchanged practices of midwives between Cappadocia and Nea Ionia at Or art space in Athens. The exhibition included a performance done by Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki based on a score I created for her.

A hundred years after the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece, Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki visited Capadocia as no one in her family had ever done before, after they were forcibly taken to live in Greece. She followed in the footsteps of her great-aunt, a midwife (mami), and tried to learn how the women who helped people through birth, illness, and death played a role in caring for communities deeply connected to the customs and the land they would eventually leave behind. 

How did these communities, families, and women create a new sense of home here? Vasilikí has been grappling with this question every day since she opened the Yellow Brick artist-run space in Nea Ionia, one of the Athenian neighbourhoods shaped by refugees and their stories.   

For the interdisciplinary project “Perátis (Περάτης): Exploring the exchanged practices of midwives between Cappadocia and Nea Ionia.”, she shared her concerns and intuitions with the working team, inviting them to a collaborative process in which creative research is approached as an affective task capable of strengthening ties to past, present, and future belongings.

Curated by Eliana Otta, the project “Perátis (Περάτης): Exploring the exchanged practices of midwives between Cappadocia and Nea Ionia,” was developed by Yellow Brick initiator and artist Vasilikí Sifostratoudaki, working in close collaboration with Elpida Rikou as research consultant and Nuno Cassola as director of photography and coeditor. A part of this project took place in Cappadocia in collaboration with the professor Bulent Ozcelik of the University of Cappadocia, and the historian Sanem Su Avci.

The interdisciplinary project includes video, installation, photography, and texts that will be shown in an exhibition at Or.artspace and performances that will take place at Yellow Brick.

Supported and funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture

An intimate closing on Antigones: Workshop of Performative Poetics

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With an intimate reunion at the multicultural library We need books, we closed the process of work made through spring and the last couple of months around Antigone, experimental writing and migration stories in Athens. The workshop was guided by Marios Chatziprokopiou and is part of the project ANTIGONES: BODIES OF RESISTANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD [ANTISOMATA]

Pictures by the wonderful Eva Giannakopulou.

Unearthing memories at Pact 21

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In the context of IMPACT 21, which happened in 10-14 November, Imayna Caceres, Nuno Cassola, Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki and me showed some results of our shared research Unearthing Memories, Feeding Practices for Plural Knowledges and Beings. This research was part of JUNCTIONS 21, a generous opportunity organized by PACT Zollverein.

You can read something about our research here!Download

Palabras de Mujeres en Γ γυναικόπαιδα/ gynaikopaida

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Thrilled to participate in this encounter at Twixt Lab:

More info: https://gynaikopaida.tumblr.com/

gynaikopaida

Neutral noun, in plural, gynaikopeda, women and children (in conflict times the reference indicates them as the most common, helpless and defenseless victims).

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Departing from an artistic and theoretical approach of parenthood, the presentations aim to question the prevailing motherhood and fatherhood conceptualizations, the social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and the condition of biological and non-biological parenthood in social and legal context. Adopting a dialectical method between personal and political, we will attempt rethinking “art and parenthood” in a context where roles and identities are highlighted as topics of open and continuous negotiation.

Talks, interventions, performative actions, films and videos, painting, sculpture, photographs and literature, will constitute a field of meetings where moms and dads, daughters, sons, cousins, brothers, aunts and further relatives, will converse on gender identities, birth, medicalization and performativity of the female, feminized or effeminate body. Which is the role of works and expressions approaching body and memory politics, stereotypical -or not- representations of kinship and children, in a social context redefined by “different parenthood”? How can these “kinship articulations” constitute a referential artistic field that can be studied or archived?

The gynaikopeda encounters will take place in TWIXTlab on the 30th of May and the 6th of June, with the contributions of groups, duos, individuals, parents, those who want or don’t want to become parents, as well as those who held a position in respect.

^^^^^The talks and presentations will be held in greek or in other languages (unless decided otherwise during the events)

Participants

Rainbow Families

Stella Bellia (Rainbow Families president, kindergarten teacher, McS theater in education)
Paraskevi Damaskou (Rainbow Families member, actress, ΒcS in psychology)
Vanessa Veneti (Rainbow Families member, self-defense instructor)

OVO Hellas: «Gynecologic and Obstetric Violence: Now and then»

The Pink House, Antwerp, Ersi Varveri and Gijs Waterschoot

Ianthi Aggelioglou (visual artist), Sam Albatros, Ayşenur Babuna (entrepreneur, activist), Aggeliki Bozou (visual artist, performer), Despoina Gamvroudi (visual artist), Fotini Gouseti (visual artist, researcher), Sofia Grigoriadou (visual artist, PhD candidate, Panteion University), Tatiana Ilichenko (visual artist), Dimitra Kondylatou (visual artist), Αpostolos Lampropoulos (academic, professor of comparative literature, Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Tatiana Mavromati (photographer), George Miliarakis, Persefoni Myrtsou (visual artist, PhD candidate, Humboldt University), Μaria Nikiforaki (visual artist), Eliana Otta (visual artist), Κelly Ousantzopoulou (social anthropologist), Μaroula Papanastasi (aesthetician), Nikos Polymenakos (musician), Prokni (performer), Εlpida Rikou (social anthropologist, visual artist), Panos Sklavenitis (visual artist), Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki (visual artist), Naira Stergiou (visual artist, PhD candidate, ASFA), Maria Tzeferi (photographer), Μichailangelos Vlassis-Ziakas (visual artist), Τina Voreadi (visual artist).

organized and curated by Eva Giannakopoulou