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Πρόσκληση εκδήλωσης ενδιαφέροντος για την πλήρωση θέσης Διευθυντή/Διευθύντριας Μουσείου Φωτογραφίας στον Μητροπολιτικό Οργανισμό Μουσείων Εικαστικών Τεχνών Θεσσαλονίκης

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:00:45 +0000

Summary of the Call for Expression of Interest for the position of Director of the Museum of Photography at the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki. Determination of specific qualifications, formation of an evaluation commi dimitra.samsaki Wed, 05/29/2024 - 16:11

he Administrative Board of the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki

Taking into consideration:

1.The provisions of articles 1, 4, 8 and 14 par. 5 of Law 4572/2018 “Establishment of Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki and other provisions” (GG A' 188).

2. The necessity of appointing the Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (MFA) for a four-year term of office in application of article 14 of Law 4572/2018

We address an international open call for expression of interest to fill the position of Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, which operates as a subdivision of the Directorate of the Metropolitan Organization of Thessaloniki Fine Arts Museums (MOMus), a public legal entity (N.P.I.D.) supervised by the Ministry of Culture.

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Ανοιχτό Κάλεσμα | Thessaloniki International Digital Arts festival (THEDAF)

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:58:28 +0000

Call for Submissions | Thessaloniki International Digital Arts Festival (THEDAF) dimitra.samsaki Wed, 05/15/2024 - 11:08

THEDAF #1 “Thessaloniki: Affective Atmospheres (Part 1)”

To public space, digital art, and circus artists.

To historians, thinkers, communities, residents, and visitors of Thessaloniki.

(in situ and metaverse experience)*

The international Eye's Walk Digital Festival and the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art embark on a unique collaboration: The quite new Thessaloniki International Digital Arts Festival (THEDAF) is sought to expand the concept of heritage and become a meeting point for contemporary art with the public history of Thessaloniki today, through digital art, performance, circus art, and psychogeographical wandering.

We invite participants to share affective atmospheres and personal and collective experiences around the city, its connection with the rest of the world and ultimately its future.

Because the future for us is never merely idealistic or local but encompasses action and the possibility of coexistence with the world.

Encouraging participants to create through multiple voices and perspectives and uncensored emotions, we urge them to:

• Collaborate multidimensionally with other artists, thinkers, activists, and communities.

• Explore uncharted parallels, asynchronous encounters to broaden the notion and framework of what we call a place's heritage.

• Express themselves and their worldview, exploring the vulnerability of art in public spaces, surpassing the artist alone to create spaces for meetings and collaborations.

• Be playful, bold and relevant by "connecting" the psychological, emotional, social, and political atmospheres of Thessaloniki, with our world and the present time.

• Tune into the Affective Atmospheres of Thessaloniki, the way the body feels its own emotions. "Atmospheres" that concern the geographical, historical and emotional space of the “Thessaloniki International Fair” are particularly welcome.

Information about artistic works:

• Digital works submitted can have a maximum duration of five (5) minutes.

• Performances can have a maximum duration of thirty (30) minutes.

• Proposals concerning Audio Routes, as described below, have flexibility in their duration.

• Proposals combining artistic work with educational activities will also be included in the final production.

What we provide to selected participants:

• The festival will provide accommodation for artists in Thessaloniki and partially support their transportation.

• A compensation of 150€ will be provided to selected artworks.

• We facilitate artists’ contacts, if desired, with local artistic groups, residents, and communities.

• (*) The entirety or part of the specific production will also be presented in the new metaverse (digital and three-dimensional) environment of the Eye's Walk Digital Festival, available to the public on a special platform.

• The Eye's Walk festival team and curator Filia Milidaki, in collaboration with MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, are responsible for curation and artistic supervision.

Spaces - points of inspiration and artistic creation

Artistic activities will unfold in spaces of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, spaces of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF Helexpo), and in spaces of cultural and collaborating entities of Thessaloniki (to be announced at the end of the Open Call).

Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF Helexpo): a dialectical landscape

TIF constitutes a vital space in Thessaloniki, with commercial and political implications for the city and Greece. However, due to its specific use - mainly for commercial purposes - the pulses of the city and its residents have not permeated this location, despite its central location. What are the possible new stories of this space? Instead of seeing it as a space we already know through a memory-screen, we dare to explore new perspectives beyond the relationships that define it.

Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF Helexpo): an inter-artistic space. The art of contemporary circus along with digital art.

While the art of contemporary circus is internationally popular, it remains relatively underdeveloped in Greece. Our country lacks accredited schools or artistic tradition, although the few circus artists in Greece are exceptional and beloved.

The innovation of the above action is based on combining European expertise in the art of contemporary circus with the experimentation of the Eye's Walk Digital Festival in digital art and public space.

Circus is related to TIF Helexpo and the public memory of the city, as the presentation of international circus artists in its facilities was widespread and highly anticipated until the 1970s.

MOMus: Sensory wanderings/ Routes within the museum's spaces

Participants are invited to create wanderings, routes (auditory, visual, verbal, performative, and combinations thereof) that will evolve within the MOMus spaces. These can constitute a new map of the affective atmospheres of the city and our world, inspired by the museum itself.

Routes can incorporate a variety of media such as verbal text, music, sounds, video art, sound art, oral narratives of the city's residents, etc.

Submission of works via the form here: https://forms.gle/9Rk68xZGVs5U6fgF7

Submission deadline until June 30, 2024.

For inquiries, send us a message at info@eyeswalk.gr

At this link, you can find material to understand the curatorial approach of the artistic production: “Thessaloniki: Affective Atmospheres (Part 1)”

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8xikb18avpqe8t0xo2duw/Material-to-understand-the-curatorial-approach.pdf?rlkey=ah2cijxrjhhmkf8xgqkaogkbn&dl=0

THEDAF is based on an idea by the Eye's Walk Digital Festival and is supported by the Eye's Walk Digital Festival and the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art.

For more information about the Eye's Walk Digital Festival, you can find here: https://www.eyeswalk.gr/index.php/el/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/@eyeswalkdigitalfestivaleye418/videos

For more information about MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, you can find here: https://www.momus.gr/museum/museum-contemporary-art .

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INSPIRE PROJECT 2021 | ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ INSPIRE 2021 | ΑΝΟΙΧΤΗ ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 22:04:31 +0000

INSPIRE PROJECT 2021 | INSPIRE PRIZE 2021 | OPEN CALL admin Tue, 08/03/2021 - 01:04

Along with the presentation of the exhibition “DOMΑ: From Plato’s cave to modern ‘reality’” until September 5, following the Inspire Project 2021 workshop run by this year's guest artist Stathis Mitsios, the MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts and the Inspire Project invite artists who have produced works in the context of workshops or residency programmes to submit their applications for the Inspire Prize 2021.

The Inspire Project, introduced in its first version in 2012, functions as a platform for the support and promotion of contemporary Greek artistic creation through two main areas of action: a) the organisation of workshops for younger artists, guided by distinguished artists and aimed at younger artists, encouraging the production of new projects through participatory, workshop, educational processes and b) the promotion of works of art produced in the context of other workshops or residency programmes through the institution of the Inspire Prize.

The Inspire Prize is awarded to a visual artist, of any age or nationality, for artistic work produced in the context of any workshop or residency programme worldwide and distinguished for its conception, originality, the questions it poses and its relation to the space in which it has been presented and with which it potentially converses. The Prize is accompanied by a cash prize of 3,000 euros and will be awarded in a special ceremony in October 2021.

Previous winners of the Inspire Prize are Kostis Velonis (2017) for his work produced in Mexico, in the context of the Casa Maauad Residency Programme of the City of Mexico in 2016, Zoe Giabouldaki (2019) for her work produced in Bamberg, Austria in the context of the Internationales Könstlerhaus (Villa Concordia) Residency Programme, and Kyriaki Goni (2020), for her work produced in London, in the context of Delfina Foundation Residency Programme assigned by the Onassis Stegi.

The Inspire Project is co-funded by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund).

APPLICATION PROCESS

The candidates are required to:

Fill in and submit the application form, which can be found below, and
provide visual documentation in print or electronic form.

Application submission deadline: September 5, 2021 (18:00 EEST).

The candidates can submit their applications to the MOMus–Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki Port) or electronically at info.experimental@momus.gr , with the indication “Inspire Prize 2021”.

Information: info.experimental@momus.gr or 0030 2310 546683 & 0030 2310 593270, Tuesday-Friday 12:00-15:00.

The Center will be closed from August 9 to August 16.

- The application documents will not be returned to the candidates unless asked for.

- The Prize committee, composed of selected MOMus curators, will evaluate the applications on the basis of the criteria set for the Inspire Prize. The winner will be announced on the MOMus website, www.momus.gr, and will be personally notified by email.

Information: info.experimental@momus.gr or 0030 2310 546683 & 0030 2310 593270, Tuesday-Friday 12:00-15:00.

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INSPIRE PROJECT 2020 | ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ INSPIRE 2020 | ΑΝΟΙΧΤΗ ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:04:37 +0000

INSPIRE PROJECT 2020 | INSPIRE PRIZE 2020 | OPEN CALL admin Fri, 07/31/2020 - 01:04

Following the opening of the exhibition of the Inspire Project 2020 workshop, titled "Dream Archives", under the guidance of the invited artist Mary Zygouri, the MOMus - Experimental Center for the Arts and the Inspire Project invite artists who have produced works in the context of workshops or residency programmes to submit their applications for the Inspire Prize 2020.

The Inspire Project, introduced in 2012, functions as a platform for the support and promotion of contemporary Greek artistic creation through two main areas of action: a) the organisation of workshops for younger artists, guided by distinguished artists and aimed at younger artists, encouraging the production of new projects through participatory, workshop, educational processes and b) the promotion of works of art produced in the context of other workshops or residency programmes through the institution of the Inspire Prize.

The two previous winners of the Prize are Kostis Velonis (2017) και Zoe Giabouldaki (2019) for their works produced in Mexico, in the context of the Casa Maauad Residency Programme of the City of Mexico in 2016, and in Bamberg, Austria in the context of the Internationales Könstlerhaus (Villa Concordia) Residency Programme, respectivelly.

The Inspire Project is co-funded by Greece and the European Union (European Regional Development Fund).

APPLICATION PROCESS

The candidates are required to:

Fill in and submit the following application form and
provide visual documentation in print or electronic form.

Application submission deadline: 10 September 2020 (20:00 EEST).

The candidates can submit their applications to the MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts (Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki Port) or electronically at info.experimental@momus.gr , with the indication “Inspire Prize 2020”.

- The application documents will not be returned to the candidates unless asked for.

Information: info.experimental@momus.gr or 0030 2310 546683 & 0030 2310 593270, Tuesday-Friday 12:00-15:00.

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Πρόσκληση εκδήλωσης ενδιαφέροντος για την πλήρωση θέσης Διευθυντή/Διευθύντριας Μουσείου Φωτογραφίας στον Μητροπολιτικό Οργανισμό Μουσείων Εικαστικών Τεχνών Θεσσαλονίκης

admin — Wed, 27 May 2020 22:04:37 +0000

Call of interest for the position of Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography forming part of the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) admin Thu, 05/28/2020 - 01:04

The Board of Administration of the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus) launches an international open call for expressios interest to fill one position of Director of the MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, which operates as an individual unit –at the Directorate level– of the legal entity governed by private law registered as the MOMus, full and exclusive employment, for a four-year tenure, with the option to renew for one year tenure.

Download the full text of the procurement from here.

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ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ PERFORMATIVE (ΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΣΤΙΚΗ) ΠΟΡΕΙΑ "ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗ ΑΠΟΥΣΙΑ, ΕΝΟΧΗ ΣΙΩΠΗ"

admin — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:04:43 +0000

OPEN CALL PERFORMATIVE PARADE: MAXIMAL ABSENCE/GUILTY SILENCE/SILENT APOLOGY admin Sun, 11/03/2019 - 01:04

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3, 11:30 a.m. AT ELEFTHERIAS SQUARE (I. Dragoumi - Nikis Avenue)

All the citizens and Authorities are invited to participate in the Performative parade:maximal absence/guilty silence/silent apology

Thessaloniki was liberated from the Nazis on October 30, 1944, with a maximal absence of almost fifty thousand Thessalonian Jews.

The site of Eleftherias Square (a foreshadowing of the Holocaust) as the beginning, Agias Sofias Square (the liberation of Thessaloniki in the absence of our Jewish fellow citizens who were killed in the Holocaust) as the middle, and the AUTh Campus (Jewish Cemetery) as the end, form the structure of a narrative course as a trauma and, therefore, as a drama of the city of Thessaloniki. The performative parade maximal absence/guilty silence/silent apology constitutes a contingent living poetic structure of this kind of drama.

Co-organization: School of Architecture, AUTh. Informal Studio of neoPoetics, Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, Laboratory for the Study of Culture, Gender & Borders, UoM, School of Drama, AUTH, Faculty of Fine Arts, AUTh, National Theatre of Northern Greece, ΜΟΜus- The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, School of Film, AUTh, School of Political Sciences, AUTh, Thessaloniki Film Festival

Reading of Giorgos Ioannou text: Dimitris Naziris

Recitation of Raquel Angel-Nagler, Jorge Luis Borges,Manolis Anagnostakis, and Markos Meskos

poems: Christina Sotiriadou, Christos Papadopoulos

Sephardic Song and Hymn-Lament: Savina Giannatou

Concept, performative text and procedure: Filippos Oraiopoulos

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ΑΝΟΙΧΤΟ ΚΑΛΕΣΜΑ ΚΑΛΛΙΤΕΧΝΩΝ: Συλλογική performance Silence, and silence | Andrigo & Aliprandi

admin — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:04:44 +0000

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS: Collective performance Silence, and silence | Andrigo & Aliprandi admin Thu, 10/24/2019 - 01:04

We are an artist duo and would like to invite artists to collaborate in our new performance to be presented in occasion of the Thessaloniki Performance Festival of the 7th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. The collective performance Silence, and silence is a performative act to investigate the dichotomy between decision-action, intuition-reaction. The body-instrument is treated as a vehicle to explore and define the relation to itself and to others, as well as the internal balance between the beginning-development-conclusion of each action. Through physical and concrete practices we aim to co-create a space-time map where collaborators are encouraged to deepen to the concept of responsibility: to frankly respond to the role of self, to the Ego in its leap over the ego to meet the Ego as an opportunity for change, critical action and responsibility. The idea of this project is intended to foster coherence and intuition, which serve as essential tools to creatively generate reactions and responses to events.

• We are looking to work with artists with no specific skills besides an active, critical and curious spirit.

• Full availability is required in the period: 21 - 24 October 2019.

• Preparation under our guidance: 21 - 24 October 2019, every day from 10:00 to 18:00.

In this preparation period, the selected artists will work intensively on physical practices which are centred on the body, the movement, the sound, the relation generated amongst them and the transition from the concept of an action to the realization of it. We will work on the production of both individual and collective actions-reactions through specific exercises dedicated to enable a conscious and responsible performative act. Dialectic confrontation, as well as observation and listening to the work/method/ideas of the others are part of the practices of this workshop.

The days will consist of:

moments of dialectic confrontation;

exploration of the body instrument in relation to itself and to others;

specific exercises dedicated to conscious and responsible action;

creation of both individual and collective actions-reactions;

moments of active observation and listening to the work/methods/ideas of others.

• Final set-up and performance: Thursday, 24 October 2019, 21:00.

• The preparation of the performance will be in English.

• Accommodation in Thessaloniki during the working period is at the collaborators’ own responsibility.

For questions, please write to eirini@greekstatemuseum.com

To be considered, please fill in the form until October 13, 2019: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1a_PZMMJRb6qPsjX3oddLCtvLwUQaPMj81LwTVK7aSvo/edit

ANDRIGO, ALIPRANDI

Dancer and performer Marianna Andrigo and multimedia artist and sound performer Aldo Aliprandi,have been collaborating since 2009. Their oeuvre and artistic research intertwine various performative languages, deepening the relationship between body movement and sound-motion. Durability, strength, precision and transformation are the cornerstones of their work.

Andrigo and Aliprandi's live performances are mainly conceived site-specific, often in places characterized by the full verticality and the consequent shiver of vertigo that it produces.

In their reference landscape, they move between philosophy, theatre, sound and movement experimentation by investigating an aesthetic that falls in love with detail and silence, as well with an entropic dynamic energy moved by emotions as enlightenment in the creative process. Their work favors shifting from comfort zones to places unknown yet — those invisible places where the performer needs to stand on the alert to trigger the creative act. They founded Vertical waves, a vertical dance company presenting performances all over the world.

mariannandrigo.it | aldoaliprandi.it | liveartscultures.org | verticalwavesproject.com

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