Wednesday 28th of April at 8.00 pm Zaimi 7, Exarcheia, Greece
On the occasion of Antonio Riello’s exhibition “Ordinary Things” the non-profit organization for arts and culture art.emis, invites you to attend the Symposium entitled Seeing: Contemporary Disarming Systems.
Your presence will be an honour for us.
Instructors: Antonio Riello Alessandro Vincentelli: Curator and art critic Konstantinos Tzamiotis – Author
art·emis Zaimi 7, Exarcheia, T: 210 3307 390
Broadcasting Live from Athens - Seeing: Contemporary Disarming Systems 28.04.10, 8 p.m. Eastern European Time (EET)
Broadcasting Live “On Philanthropy” – 17.12.09, 7pm
Presentation of the bilingual edition On Philanthropy
Thursday 17 December 2009 at 7 pm Zaimi 7, Exarcheia
Speakers: Gianis Varoufakis, Professor at the Athens University Anthony S. Papadimitriou, President of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Eugenios Trivizas, Author The discussion will be chaired by Katerina Koskina, Artistic Director of the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
In philanthropic terms, our age of Corporate Responsibility and international humanitarian campaigns seems far removed from the era in which Saint Paul wrote to the Galatians exhorting them to “remember the poor”. And yet what Bataille calls the “accursed share” (la part maudite) and the use to which it is put remain a valid cultural barometer. So is “money the nerve of things” (nervus rerum pecuniam), as Cicero wrote? Perhaps so; perhaps not. Philanthropy is often cited in public discourse in which it can figure as a value or a demand, but also as a critical parameter in our social and political activities. Convinced that the rhetoric of philanthropy draws some of its arguments from the same tanks of ideas and perceptions that feed into the theoretical and practical framework of our cultural production, art•emis set out to explore various historical, political and ethical aspects of this complex and often ambiguous notion. Espousing the Fundamental Principle that creativity presupposes cooperation, art•emis has prioritised an exploration of the sphere of contemporary cultural processes and the production of original cultural discourse. In this context, contributions were sought from authors, academics, thinkers and representatives of philanthropic organizations in the belief that this would lead—irrespective of the degree to which their views converged or diverged—to a fruitful, though unavoidably fragmentary, collective thesis on philanthropy. For giving, as the sociologist Marcell Mauss would write in his An essay on the gift , isn’t one-dimensional, it’s part of a triadic process: we don’t just give, we also receive and reciprocate. On Philanthropy features contributions from Yangos Andreadis, Gianis Varoufakis, Filippos Drakontaeidis, Theodoros Ziakas, Vasilis Karapostolis, Dionysis Kapsalis, Vaso Kinti, Ioannis Metaxas, Marios Begzos, Vasilis Papavasileiou, Anthony S. Papadimitriou, Stephanos Pesmazoglou, Konstantinos Tzamiotis, Eugenios Trivizas and Ioanna Tsivakou.
art•emis Zaimi 7, Exarcheia, T: +30 210 3307 390
1 Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques [An essay on the gift: the form and reason of exchange in archaic societies].
Broadcasting Live from Athens - On Philanthropy 17.12.09, 7 p.m. Eastern European Time (EET)
Broadcasting Live “On Philanthropy” – 17.12.09, 7pm
Cutty Sark- the “Joy” Centre for Special People: “Different Artists—Same Inspiration. Together for a Cause”
A charitable initiative “dedicated to sameness through difference” with the participation of “art•emis: how to do things with others”
The historic ship Cutty Sark chose as its trade-mark, a symbol of the golden age of commercial shipping and a vessel much admired for its elegance and speed, will be disembarking once again. Its new voyage is set to bring people together who, though very different, share a common goal: the joining of art and charity.
Cutty Sark commissioned fellow citizens to create art, and though it specified dimensions and subject-matter (its trade-mark: the “Cutty Sark”), no restrictions were placed on how they chose to express themselves. These artists who aren’t artists produced their unique works in the available time, proving themselves devoted to their common cause: raising funds for the “Joy” Centre for Special People. Each work came accompanied by a text written or selected by its creator.
“art•emis: how to do things with others”, a not-for-profit company engaged exclusively in non-profit-making cultural and charitable activities, undertook to connect Cutty Sark with art and charity.
The resulting exhibition, curated by art•emis and sponsored by the Consular Corps, will be staged at the Tsichritzis Foundation for the Visual Arts, February 9-15, 2009. The show will be subsidized, with the sum of €30,000 to be donated to the “Joy” Centre. The individual works will also be available for purchase at €500 each, with the proceeds also going to the “Joy” Centre.
art•emis, Cutty Sark and the Consular Corps intend their charitable initiative to remind all of us how very fortunate we have been on life’s voyage and how vital it is—in the words of the “Joy” Centre’s vice-chairperson—to actively support those children to whom life has been less kind.
An invitation to a silent auction
Thursday 11 October 2007 at 21.00
In association with art-emis, a not-for-profit arts company, Potnia Thiron contemporary art gallery invites you to the opening of the silent auction of ‘art-emeis’, a triptych jointly created by Alecos Fassianos and a group of children aged 2 to 12. The work was painted at Potnia Thiron (Zaimi 7, Exarcheia) on 23 June following an open invitation to the public. Proceeds from the sale will go to “Mazi gia to Paidi”, a children’s charity. The silent auction is to be held in parallel with Sirens, a show by the British film artist Maria Marshall, whose work stands out for its startlingly critical approach to the complexities of childhood, innocence and the challenges of growing up. Finally, a special publication is in preparation entitled On Philanthropy—an original anthology of texts and testaments relating to the role of charity in contemporary societies. The volume is due for publication in December 2007. Duration of the Silent Auction: 11 October – 20 December 2007.
