ONASSIS AiR, the (inter)national artistic research residency program in Athens (Greece), announces the participants of the second iteration of The School of Infinite Rehearsals, which will convene from September 2021 until June 2022. Inspired by the title of a novel by Wilson Harris, The School of Infinite Rehearsals is conceived as a collective research program that brings together an interdisciplinary group of participants to exchange knowledges and practices around two research topics that we find urgent and necessary to address today.
For our second year we want to look inwardly and also outwardly, for the spatial and temporal structures that affect the ways we live, the ways we act and the ways we come together. The School of Infinite Rehearsals 2021/22 delves into two research topics from different focal points. During Fall 2021, Movement V & VI groups will collectively explore issues of “governance,” through the lens of self-organization (Movement V), and institutions (Movement VI). In Spring 2022, Movement VII & VIII groups will tackle areas of economies, with a focus on community economies (Movement VII), and philanthropy (Movement VIII).
Governance: Self-Organization & Institutions
Movement V: Self-Organization (September 6–October 24, 2021)
Participants: Nuno Cassola, Joseph Lubitz, Harry Isra Muhammad, Asli Ozdoyuran, Margarita Pita, Paz Ponce
Movement VI: Institutions (November 1–December 19, 2021)
Participants: Marta Keil, Vishal Kumaraswamy, Vladimir Miller, Moad Musbahi, virgil b/g taylor, Nikolas Ventourakis
Economies: Community Economies, & Philanthropy
Movement VII: Community Economies (February 28–April 17, 2022)
Participants: Orestis Athanasopoulos, Marcela Menezes, Stella Ioannidou, Theo Prodromidis, Felipe Steinberg, Amanda Vincelli
Movement VIII: Philanthropy (May 2–June 19, 2022)
Participants: Julian Hetzel, Miguel Gutierrez, Saba Khan, George Papadopoulos
The selection was conducted in two phases. The first phase consisted of a peer-to-peer blind selection by the previous participants of Onassis AiR. All the applications that passed from selection Phase I were reviewed in detail by the team of Onassis AiR, together with an advisory board consisting of Grégory Castéra, Binna Choi & Marianna Takou (Casco Art Institute), Ilaria Conti, Karthik Pandian, Piergiorgio Pepe. Finally, all the pre-selected participants that passed the two first selection phases were interviewed by the Onassis ΑiR team.
All participants receive a research fee, housing, travel to/from Athens, a collective research budget, and other resources.
ONASSIS AiR news
Continuing to support time-sensitive, volatile and unanticipated research needs of artists, curators and art workers around the world, who do not usually have access to immediate and unrestricted research funding, Onassis AiR awarded nine Emergency Fellowships in the period of 2020/21. The recipients are: Khaleb Brooks, Oscar B. Castillo, Vala T. Foltyn, Pepper Levain, Reem Mahmood, Suhail Naqshbandi, Okwei Odili, Tabita Rezaire, and Selma Selman. Each Emergency Fellοwship consists of a stipend of up to 3.000 EUR, as well as support from the Οnassis AiR team to prepare anything that can help the fellow to engage in the research activity they are about to embark on. The applications for the Emergency Fellowship program are currently closed.
After 3 years of inspiring and intense work, we are now in the phase of dissemination of the results of Reshape Network, a research and development project that aims to respond to today’s challenges, aligning fairness, solidarity, and sustainability with the civil role of the arts. The tangible results of this three-year process are now presented in the form of Prototypes.
Onassis AiR was established by the Onassis Foundation in September 2019. Onassis AiR team: Ash Bulayev, Nefeli Myrodia, Georgia Giannakea and Myrto Katsimicha.
