TRAVEL ART – THE ATHENS CONFERENCE
Fourth and last station of the long-term art project in the Kostas Palamas building in Athens.
The Athens conference took place on 12 days in February 1995 as fourth and last station of the long-term art project Travel Art (previous stations were Vienna 1986/87, Frankfurt 1988 and London 1991)
Artists from the fields of visual arts, film, video and music as well as scientists from the fields of philosophy, social geography and sociology from Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Switzerland were invited to present a project covering the topic. The term “conference” was extended to all forms of presentation seen as an autonomous form of art. Every participant was part of this collective work and represented various positions and attitudes concerning the theme. The public forum consisted of the presented projects which were the basis of discussion and thought exchange with the visitors. The events took place in the Kostis Palamas building of the University of Athens as well as in the Goethe Institute, Athens and the Fournos Theater.
Interested individuals unable to attend the conference were given the opportunity to send their contributions to the Odyssey Today Magazine published after the conference. The contributions were made available to the public for the duration of the conference.
The Athens Conference and the Odyssey Today Magazine can be understood as cultural-political statement against nationalisms and pro intercultural dialog.
CONCEPT, REALISATION, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS: Gustav Deutsch / Hanna Schimek,
Der Blaue Kompressor, Floating & Stomping Company
COOPERATION PARTNERS: Institute Goethe Athens, Fournos TheaterPUBLIC RELATIONS: Irene Strobl
COORDINATION ATHENS: Christina dePian
EXHIBITION CONSTRUCTIONS: Gavrillos Michalis
MUSIC COORDINATION: Fournos Theater
SUPPORT:
Austrian Federal Ministery for Science and Art, Curator Stella Rollig, European Community / Kaleidoskop Programme, The J.F.Costopoulos Foundation, Austrian Ministery for Foreign Affairs, Austrian Embassy Athen, PRO HELVETIA Arts Council of Swiss, OLYMPIC Airways
EXHIBITIONS, COSTIS PALAMAS BUILDING, 15.2. - 262. 1995:
Andreas Baumann / Eva Wohlgemuth: Systeme I – V
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber: Gymnasion - Urban Exercises, LOT project
Gustav Deutsch / Hanna Schimek: Waters / Paths / Plants / Borders of the desert
Artistic research works in the saharien oasis Figuig
George Hadjimichalis: Crossroads
Description and history of the itinerary. (Argos), Corinth, Delphoi, Thebes, Corinth.
Wolfgang Herburger: Pirgi
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE CONFERENCE; COSTIS PALAMAS BUILDING, 16.2. - 19.2.1995:
Gerassimos Kouzelis / Panayotis Poulos: Art, a travel of knowledge?
Hans Hopfinger: Partir pour revenir - Partir pour rester?
Gustav Deutsch / Hanna Schimek: Waters / Paths / Plants / Borders of the desert
Paolo Bianchi: Crossroads - or the evolution of a nomadic culture
Eva Wohlgemuth: Systems I-V
Anton Jakob Escher:Travel rituals of a social scientist
George Hadjimichalis / Yanis Pikoulas: Crossroads
Gerhard Kuhn:Cultural self-abandonment - The only way to emancipation of a backwards society?
Sabine Bitter / Helmut Weber: Gymnasion - Urban exercises
Demosthenes Agrafiotis: Travel – Artvel
Wolfgang Herburger: Pirgi
Dimitris Kamarotos: HXE a sound-scape Odyssee
FILMS IN THE INSTITUTE GOETHE , 16.2.1995 and 17.2.1995:
On the Way - internationales Kurzfilmprogramm, mit Filmen und Videos von:
Karsten Bott, Robert Cahen, Christina dePian, Gustav Deutsch, Wolfgang Herburger, Thomas Korschil, Panos Kouros, Pandora Mouriki, Nino Pezzella, Manthos Santorineos, Hans Scheugl, Hanna Schimek, Vouvoula Skoura, Mostafa Tabbou
Experimantal documentary films:
Augenzeugen der Fremde (Eye wittnesses in foreign countries), 16mm, Farbe, 33min, 1994 / Gustav Deutsch, Mostafa Tabbou
Transes- Rider on the dead horse, 16mm, s/w, 89min, 1981 / Clemens Klopfenstein
CONCERTS IN THE FOURNOS THEATER, 18.2. and 19.2.1995:
Kairo / Kyoto, Werner Kodytek
Lost Memories, Isabella Bordoni, Roberto Paci Dallo, Maria Pambouki
