2021-2022 upcoming exhibitions, screenings, community programs
TAVROS’s autumn 2021—spring 2022 exhibition program focuses on critical thinking about shifting landscapes, uncertain outcomes and the processes of time. In parallel it continues its commitment to working alongside its local communities with public screenings, educational programs, workshops, participatory design projects and a polyphonic archive.
Exhibitions:
Biosentinel by Hypercomf: navigating the macro and the micro via microbes, Hypercomf create a carnivalesque laboratory and cartography where the somatic, the terrestrial and the intergalactic are interlinked, probing the interconnecting synapses between the fermentation processes of bread, yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, NASA’s Biosentinel mission, DIY solar ovens and territorial brews.
Biosentinel is the final chapter of a three-year exploration into the biological, social and political implications of bread, part of a broader program La Table et Le Territoire, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
Counting Days by Raqs Media Collective & Naeem Mohaiemen: a dialogue between Raqs Media Collective’s The Untold Intimacy of Digits (2011) and Naeem Mohaiemen’s Jole Dobe Na/ Those who do Not Drown (2020). This Athens iteration proposes a thread between Raj Konai, whose handprint is the locus of Raqs’ video, and Qazi Azizul Haque, a co-inventor of fingerprint classification, in Mohaiemen’s film. These two events are under the sign of the British Empire in India, intuiting technological facets of intimacy and control, foreshadowing an afterlife within ruin. This pairing is homage to slow gestations of influence, with a decade gap between the two works.
There is Nothing Inevitable About Time: an exhibition unfolding in three chapters with works in-flux meditating on “being” in time. Functioning as spatio-temporal forces, the dialogue of works suggests that progress is undular, looking forward sideways and back, with the possibilities of our futures refracted through knowledge past. Etel Adnan, Meriç Algün, Francis Alÿs with Julien Devaux, The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Sena Başöz, Eric Baudelaire, Euphrosyne Doxiadi, FRMK, Konstantinos Giotis, Karrabing Film Collective, Lala Meredith-Vula, The Otolith Group, Malvina Panagiotidi, Corinne Silva, Praneet Soi, Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam, Sasha Streshna.
The Water from your Eye by Jumana Emil Abboud: an exhibition of drawings that explores oral narratives passed down by generations of women tracing water sources from the Mediterranean basin. Carried inside the eye of water, the talismanic tales protected all entities living within the landscape, now forever changed.
Screenings:
“Who Knows What Yesterday Will Bring?” curated by Delphine Leccas: screenings spanning several months with films from southeast Europe in public spaces around Tavros. The films (documentaries, features and shorts) allow for a vibrant conversation regarding regional commonalities, an exploration of shared and contested memories and the indelible impact of the past on a shared present. Correspondences in the form of online texts, podcasts, visual essays by artists, film-makers and historians commissioned by the curator and locus athens provide a historical and theoretical framework for the films screened. Partners: Dokufest (Prizren), Harabel Contemporary Art Platform (Tirana), Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA (Sofia), Subversive Film Festival (Zagreb).
Community programs:
i-Speak (From Hamlet to Greta) by Yota Argyropoulou, co-founder of Blind-Spot theater group: a three-month workshop at a local high school allowing students the opportunity to develop relevant contemporary codes and languages to speak about their lives and concerns, culminating in a new production scripted and performed by them.
Public Design Support Tavros (Tavros Community Program II), curated by Olga Hatzidaki: a community program designed in collaboration with the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Jesko Fezer and Studio Experimentelles Design which intends to make a practical contribution to the neighborhood’s reality in cooperation with local residents and initiatives. Following Open Library, which was realized remotely in collaboration with Valentina Karga and her students, the second part of this community project now takes the form of a two-week site visit to Tavros with multiple exchanges with locals, artists and activists.
Stories by filmmaker and photographer Theodore Scrivanos: a long-term research program into the area of Tavros creating an archive of oral histories in collaboration with local inhabitants, through images, text and video-documentations, recording a neighborhood in Athens on the cusp of change.
TAVROS is the project space of locus athens. By using a variety of tools: exhibitions, research, commissions, educational programs, talks, screenings, development funds and community work TAVROS aims to be a welcoming space dedicated to embracing and enriching relationships between similarly-minded institutions, with artists of diverse backgrounds and with the local community.
