Lying upon a Rock

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A documentary about Lazaretto, the desert islet near the city of Corfu that functioned for centuries as a quarantine station as well as a place of execution for political prisoners during the Greek Civil War. The identity of the place is approached through fragmentary testimonies and original sources.

Spyros Kavvadias, Dimitris Gkrintzos, Andreas Vouliakis, Margarita Chalakatevaki



Bouquets: Artifact Conglomerations
Bouquets: Artifact Conglomerations
Inner Journey
Eleni Mitrouska
Inner Journey
Where do I exist?
Sousana Romanidou
Where do I exist?
ZEN
Melina Nafsika Efthymiou
ZEN
Confusion
Fani Kesidou
Confusion
Bread And A Blanket
Dimitris Gkrintzos
Bread And A Blanket
Panopticon
Lampros Marios Pavlakis
Panopticon
Our garbage, the other's treasure
Thanos Tsigkas
Our garbage, the other's treasure
Outside from Space and Time
Loukas Drivas
Outside from Space and Time
One week in ten minutes
Giota Andriakaina
One week in ten minutes
Bouquets: Artifact Conglomerations
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The project composes a series of random artifacts relating to art and design history, used either ας decorative or utilitarian artifacts, turning them into a non-definitive object [bouquet] floating in space.

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Where do I exist?
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The title of this artwork is "Where Do I Exist?". This is a virtual space that explores the relationship between reality and virtual reality. Moreover, it the result of a pandemic society that tends to communicate through social media. It is the impression of our lifes into a virtual world, free from our body and the stereotypes it might follows it. Could we be free from our body and ideas such as gender identity and death? What is the meaning of touch into an immaterial world? Anyone can be part of this artwork with a twitter hashtag of the word #immaterial.

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ZEN
Views: 1151

A short portrait of a young person with artistic and existential concerns.

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Confusion
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An interactive symbolic work consisting of a wire brain construction is presented. 

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Bread And A Blanket
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It’s Monday, the 13th of December 1943, the small town of Kalavryta is set on fire by the occupation army of Nazi Germany while the entire male population is being gathered on a nearby hill and shot dead. This war crime will go down in history, along with the massacre of Acqui Division, as the largest mass killing in Greece during WWII. Three men who witnessed these events as kids, locked up with the rest women, children and elderly people in Kalavryta’s primary school, recall this traumatic experience.

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Panopticon
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It is an Interactive Installation that deals with the issues of immigration, wars and surveillance of citizens on a global scale.

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Our garbage, the other's treasure
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This documentary follows a young man who collects “useless” objects, like electronic devices that people throw away. To him, a broken hoover or a rusty stove is an opportunity to explore its “inner micro-world”, which is comprised of complex circuits, motors and other electronic systems. It is also a chance to alter those devices and give them a new life.

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Outside from Space and Time
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A portrait of Antonis, a homeless man living in the old town of Corfu.

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One week in ten minutes
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One week in ten minutes is a video in which the recording of unboxing, the act of opening the boxes, confronts the viewer with the repeated search in empty boxes that contain absolutely nothing. Each box is the promise of a gift which is to come, promising a gift whose dispatchment is always deferred.

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