A Field Guide To Getting Lost Vol.2
Ώρες λειτουργίας: 19.00– 22.00,
Σινεμά Άνεσις: Αίαντος & Αιακού, Αίγινα
Ο θερινός κινηματογράφος Άνεσις φιλοξενεί την ομαδική έκθεση A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST VOL.2 που εγκαινιάζεται την Πέμπτη 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2019 στις 20.00. Σαν αποχαιρετισμός στο καλοκαίρι, τα έργα σύγχρονων καλλιτεχνών συναντιούνται στον υπαίθριο χώρο του για τέσσερις μέρες. Βίντεο, ντοκιμαντέρ, φωτογραφικά, ηχητικά και γλυπτικά έργα ανοίγουν ένα διάλογο για την ευρηματικότητα που ενυπάρχει στο άγνωστο και την αποδοχή ότι το ‘να χάνεσαι’ αποτελεί μια συνθήκη βαθιά ριζωμένη μέσα μας.
Παράλληλα με τα τελικά έργα, οι συμμετέχοντες χρησιμοποιούν τον λογαριασμό @afieldguidetogettinglost στο Instagram ως ένα ιδιότυπο online residency για να μοιραστούν στιγμιότυπα από την προσωπική τους έρευνα.
Συμμετέχουν: Αλέξης Βασιλικός, Αύγουστος Βεϊνόγλου, Στρατής Βογιατζής, Mustafa Boğa, Εύα Γιαννακοπούλου, Κατερίνα Καμπράνη, Ισμήνη Κινγκ, Kolbrun Inga Soring, Μαρία Νικηφοράκη, Ingrid Pumayalla, Γιώργος Σαλαμέ, Γιώργος Σαμαντάς, Μελίνα Φακίτσα Mosland, Αμαλία Χαρικιοπούλου, Ζωή Χατζηγιαννάκη
Επιμέλεια: Χριστίνα Δηλάρη & Αμαλία Χαρικιοπούλου
H οπτική ταυτότητα της έκθεσης στηρίζεται στο έργο ‘Landing in Sogroma’ του Αύγουστου Βεϊνόγλου
Η έκθεση πραγματοποιείται στο πλαίσιο της 11ης Γιορτής Φιστικιού της Αίγινας. Υπό την Αιγίδα της Κοινωφελούς Επιχείρησης Δήμου Αίγινας (ΚΕΔΑ).
Mε την υποστήριξη της Inter Alia.
12-15 September 2019
Opening hours: 19.00 – 22.00
Anesis cinema, Aiantos & Aiakou, Aegina
The open-air cinema ‘Anesis’ will be hosting the group show A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST VOL.2, which opens on Thursday 12 September 2019 at 20.00. The show brings together works by contemporary artists, reminding of a farewell to the summer that ends. Videos, documentaries, photography, sound art and sculptural pieces discuss practices that prove not-knowing ingenious and how being lost is a deep-rooted state.
Parallel to their final works, the participating artists use the account @afieldguidetogettinglost on Instagram, as a form of an online residency to share fragments of their individual research.
Participants: Mustafa Boğa, Amalia Charikiopoulou, Melina Fakitsa Mosland, Eva Giannakopoulou, Zoe Hatziyannaki, Katerina Kamprani, Ismene King, Kolbrun Inga Söring, Maria Nikiforaki, Ingrid Pumayalla, Georges Salameh, Yorgos Samantas, Alexis Vasilikos, Augustus Veinoglou, Stratis Vogiatzis
Curated by: Christina Dilari & Amalia Charikiopoulou
The visual identity of the show features the work ‘Landing in Sogroma’ by the artist Augustus Veinoglou
The exhibition takes place as part of the 11th Aegina Fistiki Fest.
Under the auspices of KEDA (Public Welfare Institution of the Municipality of Aegina).
With the support of Inter Alia.
MAESMAK by Georges Salameh
What is your name?
Life-changing events, such as advocating for peace and the loss of consciousness appear in the film ‘Maesmak’ that Georges Salameh completed in 2008. For the artist, ‘Maesmak’ has been “a short essay film”. The title is in Arabic and it means ‘what is your name?’
The starting point for the film was in 2002 when Salameh traveled to Iraq. It was then that he joined a procession for advocating peace. During the procession, he accompanied Pantelis, who is one of the central figures in the film. The procession would end with a symbolic gesture and a sign of peace; to plant an olive tree in Rutba, at the Western gate of Baghdad, in the middle of the desert. Strange as it may seem, the invasion of Iraq took place only a few weeks after Salameh’s voyage.
The title ‘Maesmak’ and ultimately the question ‘what is your name’ alludes to the groups of children the artist encountered in Iraq. The fact is that Salameh began to edit the film 5 years after his voyage and the invasion. However, throughout the years he could not disquiet the thought ‘what had happened to those he met in Iraq’.
It is not irrational to assume that for recreating the crudeness of war and politics -that neither a manual for humanitarian aid sufficiently names nor a political statement tackles-the artist sunk in thoughts.
In his effort to invent the best possible narration, and ultimately to disclose the essence of the events as well as the maleffect, he attempted to employ the title as a rhetorical device. In other words, by raising the question ‘What is your name?’ the artist facilitated himself to dwell on the past events and their never-ending wounding.
Taking into account that Salameh adopted the question for reconsidering the events, one realizes that the film is not the outcome of mechanical documentation or editing. In turn, when watching the film, it is like we observe the artist pondering on the events he experienced and trying to trace the meanings that evaded him throughout the years 2002 -2007.
During these years he purposefully trickled to oblivion, so as to witness forgetfulness. Once he reached that end, he recovered and finally propelled an alert for the mental numbness that stands opposite to sensitiveness and liability. The whole process he underwent was a lasting practice of sensitiveness and a lesson of learning how to recover the truth.
For the narration of the events, Salameh collaborated with Yousif Latif Jaralla; an Iraqi artist and storyteller. They met in Palermo, Italy in 2007. By that time, Yousif was already in exile for more than 20 years. In one voice over Goerges recorded Yousif narrating in Arabic the story he wrote for the film.
Taking into account the sense of fragility and the ephemerality the artist brings forth, ‘Maesmak’ is a tribute to utopian thinking and human rights. Ultimately, if we pay attention to the events of the film, it comes through that we should march on every occasion and commit ourselves in life-changing events, even if it is to march or build utopias on the sand.
*By utopian thinking, I refer to the motivation to remain ethical, sophisticated and sensitive, despite the hardships and ongoing challenges.
Amalia Charikiopoulou
Curator-Artist
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