Public Programmes

akin

Digger by Georgis Grigorakis, 2020, film still
INFRACTIONS by Rachel O'Reilly, 2019, HD video, split screen with text, Dolby 5.1, 63 min
INFRACTIONS by Rachel O'Reilly, 2019, HD video, split screen with text, Dolby 5.1, 63 min

Duration

5 October - 20 December 2023

Curation

Maria-Thalia Carras, Eirini Fountedaki, Manto Psarelli

Communications

Eirini Fountedaki

In parallel to the exhibition akin, TAVROS is initiating a public programme with a series of film screenings, guided tours of the exhibitions and panels.

Schedule

Saturday, 4 November 2023, 12:00 | Guided exhibition tour in Greek
Led by Manto Psarelli

Saturday, 11 November 2023, 12:00 | Guided exhibition tour in Arabic
Led by Nardine Meshreky in collaboration with the organisation Melissa Network

Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 20:30 | Film screening and discussion
Speaker: Maria Kadoglou

Digger, directed by Georgis Grigorakis, Greece, 2020, 101 min. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Maria Kadoglou, who is involved in the movement against the extraction of gold in Chalkidiki and is a member of the Hellenic Mining Watch.

Saturday, 25 November 2023, 12:00 | Guided exhibition tour in Greek and in Greek sign language
Led by Eirini Fountedaki with liminal

Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 20:30 | Film screening and discussion
Speakers: Fotini Tsibiridou and Iris Lykourioti

Infractions, directed by Rachel O’Reilly, Australia, 2019, 60 min. The film will be introduced by Fotini Tsibiridou (Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies University of Macedonia, Culture-Borders-Gender/LAB) and Iris Lykourioti (Architect, Associate Professor, University of Thessaly – A Whale’s Architects) who will also lead a post-screening discussion around the film’s themes.

Thursday, 7 December 2023, 20:00 | Discussion
In collaboration with Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, there will be an open conversation around the themes emerging from the exhibition Akin.

Saturday, 9 December 2023, 12:00 | Guided exhibition tour in Greek
Led by Maria-Thalia Carras

Saturday, 16 December 2023, 12:00 | Guided exhibition tour in Albanian
Led by Pati Vardhami


INFRACTIONS, 2019
Settlers fishing on Gooreng Gooreng country, Yallarm (Gladstone harbour, where large scale gas infrastructure was first approved for onshore CSG in 2008).
Voiceover, Professor Irene Watson: “As Western Europeans you are so long in your disconnection from your own stories or laws of the land…At the critical time that we are now, globally, with climate change and the destruction of local ecosystems, when we think about what we have, to hold on to the future, to care for country, we have a Western European legal system that has no concept of those responsibilities.”

Support

ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and Goethe Institut Athen. Céline Condorelli’s participation in the exhibition Akin is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council programme (12th edition, 2023), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.