Over the next few months, the TAVROS exhibition program is deepening its focus on ecologies and feminist practices, often intertwined:
Revolution is not a one time event
March–July, 2023
Revolution is not a one time event is a three-month public program, an experiment in form and format, that spans from spring to early summer and which honors the ongoing struggles of small-scale, inter-generational feminist practices in Greece and beyond. A conversation that began by thinking about female identities and the complexities of womanhood, opened up to include more and more individuals and communities with the hope of creating truly polyphonic and diverse occasions for coming together. The exhibition is an excuse for a public program with more than 50 participants: with screenings & discussions, performances and open mic sessions, education and research programs, as well as weekly community gatherings, in the hope of gathering as many female, feminist, queer, masculine, non-conformative, experimental, revolutionary voices as possible. Our program aims to foster knowledge production, joyful conversations and an environment for peer-to-peer, non-result oriented learning, insisting that creative and artistic practices can and do have an impact on the social and public sphere.
Contributors: Nina Papakonstantinou, Lena Maria Thüring / Nionia Films (Alkisti Efthymiou, Maria F Dolores, Smaro Papaevangelou, Sofia Dona) / Films by Gizem Aksu, Agustina Comedi, Cheryl Dunye, Panayotis Evangelidis, Su Friedrich, Marlon T. Riggs, Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams, Hito Steyerl / Yota Argyropoulou with Stelios Kratsas & Alex(a), Genderhood, Erica Scourti with Dimitra Ioannou & Evi Nakou / Eva Giannakopoulou, Nana Sachini / Konstantina Daouti & Melina Kollia / FRMK – conceived by Katerina Iliopoulou & Yiannis Isidorou (soundscape) with poets Phoebe Giannisi, Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou, Lenia Zafeiropoulou, Katerina Iliopoulou, Lena Kallergi, Niki Chalkiadaki, Iana Boukova, Olga Papakosta, Alexandra Plastira, and the translator Elena Vlachou, the choreographer Anna Tzakou and visual artists Iris Depasta and Mania Benissi, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas, Kostas Tzimoulis) with Leto Messini / Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, NTIZEZA, Olga Dalekou, Positive Voice / AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research), Haven for Artists, KIRIK & Zeyno Pekünlü, Mimosa House, Radical Sense, Tropical Papers, and others.
Revolution is not a one time event has been awarded with an Impact Grant, supported by Outset Partners.
Céline Condorelli and Angela Melitopoulos: AKIN
October–December, 2023
AKIN is the culmination of a two-year-long conversation between artists Céline Condorelli and Angela Melitopoulos, invited to think together critically about landscape, ecologies, extraction and different forms of intelligence. Their shared interest and investigation into the pre-modern, whether through matriarchal and matrilinear systems which allow for radically different approaches to land as forms of embodied kinship, or through the study of cephalopods whose surface skin functions as a form of intelligent landscape, leads to an immersive and dialogical environment where Melitopoulos’ expanded cinema overlaps with Condorelli’s situated environments. Divergent narratives on landscapes, surface areas, skin surfaces, technologies of seeing and representing the world intertwine, allowing for both a critical assessment of our enmeshment in the current political quagmire and impending ecocide but also the space for imagining a new environment of interconnectedness, otherwise.
…that creeps from the earth
Curated by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
January-March, 2024
The group exhibition …that creeps from the earth delves into uranium, the core element of nuclear technologies, through narratives of environmental and military violence, female labor, and transnational activism. Setting out from the pioneering work by feminist experimental filmmaker Sandra Lahire (1951–2001) in uranium mining communities in Canada in the 1980s, the show probes its uncanny resonances with today’s Janus-faced revival of nuclear energy. Spanning uranium’s deep time and scattered geographies, the exhibition tells intimate substance stories of landscapes of extraction and use. Wherever uranium is mined, lives and environments are sacrificed. Once inhaled by miners, particles of uranium irrevocably become part of them but also of their lineage, as genetic mutations are passed on to subsequent generations. Rather than being a singular event contained in time, exposure to uranium lives on through its effects, wreaking havoc over and over. Beyond stiff narratives of uranium’s global supply chains—from origins to endpoints—the featured artists channel the toxic underbelly of nuclear modernity through fleeting beginnings and ends. …that creeps from the earth is accompanied by a public program of informal gatherings, screenings, and a discussion on an unforeseen episode of nuclear history in Greece.
Contributors: Inas Halabi, Susanne Kriemann, Sandra Lahire, Sharon Stewart, Valinia Svoronou, International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
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 exhibition space dedicated to embracing and enriching relationships between similarly-minded institutions, with artists of diverse backgrounds and with the local community in Athens, Greece.
