On Sunday 27/8/2023 was the last act of this year Livadi of the Ephemeral VI!
We gothered and we hung all together all the works from mailart exhibition (about 150 works from 87 artists from all over the world) in a field, outside Livadi. They will be exposed to the nature, together with other' artists' work, in the frame of 'Livadi of the Ephemeral VI'.
In this fb group we can watch the procedure of the final absorption of the artistic works by the nature.
On Saturday 12/8 is the opening of the exhibition
Theme: 'Ephemeral in Art'
The catalogue pdf The catalogue (book)
https://www.facebook.com/events/809128027302251
Participants are 87 artists from all over the world.
Aria Fotiadou/ Greece,Adriana Kobor/ Hungary,Anna Piatou/ Greece,Andria Zachariou/ Cyprus,Angela Caporoso/Italy,Bernhard Zilling/ Germany,Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer /USA,Cecilia Bossi/ Italy,Christos Loizou/ Cyprus,Cristiano Pollara /Ialy, Cremilde Caldeira/ Portugal,Dimitra Papageorgiou/ Greece,Deborah Semel Demirtas/ Turkey, Dimitris Dimitriadis /Greece,Devin Cohen+Rebeca Martell/ Germany,Dorothee Mesander/ Greece,Efstathia Savidou/ Greece,Eri Papadopoulou/ Cyprus,Efthimis Mouratidis/ Greece,Elena Kasimati/ Greece,Fanstyre Stunit/ Poland,Gianna Alexopoulou/ Greece,Georgia Grigoriadou/ Greece,Giannis Stamenitis/ Greece,Guido Capuano /Italy,Hara Mpouka/ Greece,Irene Ribeiro/ Portugal,Irina Tall Novikova/ Belarus,Jeff Bagaio/ USA,Keiichi Nakamura/ Japan,Katerina Batziou/ Greece,Katerina Kourbeti/ Greece,Katerina Kalitsounaki/ Greece,Katerina Mandourik/ France,Katerina Zografaki/ Greece,Lars Schumacher/ Germany,Loula Papadopoulou/ Greece,Laura Pintus/ Italy,Lorenz Mueller-Morenius/ Germany,Mikel Untzilla/ Spain,Marina Debatista/ UK, Meni Tsigra/ Greece, Marcjanna Wysocka/ Poland,Michail Papadogiorgos/ Greece, Michelangelo Mayo/ USA,Melani Konstantinou/ Cyprus,Meral Agar/ Turkey,Magda Katabournioti/ Greece,Marina Bobou/ Greece,Maria Agisilaou/ Cyprus,Monica Rex/ USA, Mzia Valerian/ Belgium,Nieves Salvador Bayarri/ Spain,Nikos Basias/ Greece,Nicolas Malevitsis/ Greece,Olinvia Gianouska/ Poland,Oronzo Liuzzi /Italy,Pepi Karagiannaki/ Greece,Petra Kremer-Horster/ Germany, Picasso Gaglione USA,Palmira Pires/ Portugal,Paulo Teles/ Porugal,Pedro F. Bericat/ Spain,Ryosuke Cohen/ Japan,Peter Abajkonics/ Hungary,Rosalie Gancie/ USA,Rossana Bucci/ Italy,Roberto Scala/ Italy,Roberto Keppler/ Brazil,Robin Chuter/ UK,Sabine Remy/ Germany, Serse Luigetti/ Italy,Stavroula Mitsakou/ Greece,Simon Warren/ UK,Sabela Bana /Spain,Thanassis Raptis/ Greece,Uwe Hofig/ Germany,Vassiliki Sagioti/ Grrece,Vasilis Karkatselis/ Greece,Vanessa Touzloukof/ Greece,Veronique Pozzi/ Italy,Vasilis Moumoulidis/ Greece,William Lee/ Austria, Wolfgang Gunther/ Germany,Zhanhong Liao/ Netherlands,Zografia Popoli/ Greece, Zefi Tiftiksoglou/ Greece
Also on the same day: chamber music recital
Viola: Pavlos Metaxas
Piano: AlexandraTopouzidou
The program:
Johann Christian Bach: Viola concert, 1st part
Yann Tiersen: Amelie valse
Lee Evans: Blues walk
Mikis Theodorakis: Omorfi Poli
John Williams: Schindler's list
George Gershwin: Summertime
ΑΒΒΑ: Mamma Mia
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian dance n.5
The works will be presented during Virgin Mary week (11-16/8) at the village school. At the end of August we will all gather together, post them in the field (along with the existing works) and let them be absorbed by nature.
All submitted work will be exhibited. They will not be returned to the participants. After the exhibition they will be exposed to the nature, together with other' artists' work, in the frame of 'Livadi of the Ephemeral VI'.
Photography Center of Thessaloniki is organizing again this year, as every 2 years, in the village of Livadi (Municipality of Thermi of the Prefecture of Thessaloniki) a four-day residency / workshop of artists, in which participants create works of art, using materials collected from the surrounding area. In collaboration with colectiva artistika 'Koukos'
Permanent theme: 'Ephemeral in Art'
With the co-operation of Local Community of Livadi and the Cultural Association of Livadi.
Participants are: Eleni Tsiaxerli, Ambi Tsifgara, Eleni Theofylaktou Giannis Stamenitis, Thanassis Raptis, Vasilis Karkatselis, Vasilis Alexandrou, Giannis Monogios, Stefania Patrikiou, Eleanna Barba, Ismini Goula, Kostas Koumlis, Lea Kavadia, Eleni Perantzaki, Vasiliki Argyropoulou, Eva Maria Ocherbauer (DE), Stelios Dexis, Charis Kontosfyris, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Stavros Plarinos, Ektoras Mavridis, Marina Provatidou, Synthia Gerothanasiou, Elsa Tsitouridou, Eleni Klona, Andreas Laskaris, Chrysanthi Malama, Stavros Panagiotakis, Maria Adamou, Giorgos Pallis, Stella Apostolaki.
The program
From Thursday 29/6 until Saturday 1/7 artists can come to the venue and work their work.
They should bring with them the special materials they will use. There will be available tools and consumables such as wire, rope, etc.
Ritual performance: 'Naked Eremites, the Temple of our Art,
the Model'. Every day. Visual curation: Konstantia Vlachidou, Ephimerios: Stamatis Χ.
On Friday 30/6, most of the activities and events have been gathered so that visitors can participate or attend them all with one visit.
Early in the afternoon ...
-3pm we will all work together on a large-sized group project in the adjacent forest. Concept/ realization: Thanassis Raptis, Vasilis Alexandrou, Giannis Monogios, Kostas Koumlis, Andreas Laskaris.
-5pm there will be the recombination of the works that were hidden in the field on the initiative of Lea Kavadia and Maria Adamou. These works derive from the action of the 'MOMus-Experimental Arts Centre' for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the influential artist Joseph Beyus and are symbolically linked to the planting of 7000 Oaks by Beyus in Kassel.
-6pm. performance "Grammatical_Fall". Evi Chatzimitakou - Giorgos Askounis
-At 8.00' in village school...
Vasilis Karkatselis will talk about his exhibition in the place: Title: 'From the EPHEMERAL to the POST'.
-Vasilis Alexandrou will make a presentation of his work. A discussion will follow.
At 9.00 pm, the documentary "Return to Earth" by Chrysa Tzelepi and Akis Kersanidis, starring the ceramist Hector Mavridis, will be screened at the school of the village. A discussion will follow.
On Saturday 1/7, 5pm, there will be art games in nature with the participation of the children of the village. Animated by Eleanna Barba and Stefania Patrikiou, visual artists
On Sunday 2/7, 12 noon there will be a tour of the works created in the field, in the presence of the artists.
On Saturday 12/8 the opening of the exhibition Theme: 'Ephemeral in Art'. https://www.facebook.com/events/809128027302251, with the participation of artists from all over the world.
Also the same day: chamber music recital
Viola: Pavlos Metaxas
Piano: AlexandraTopouzidou
The program:
Johann Christian Bach: Viola concert, 1st part
Yann Tiersen: Amelie valse
Lee Evans: Blues walk
Mikis Theodorakis: Omorfi Poli
John Williams: Schindler's list
George Gershwin: Summertime
ΑΒΒΑ: Mamma Mia
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian dance n.5
The works will be presented during Virgin Mary week (12-16/8) at the village school. At the end of August we will all gather together, post them in the field (along with the existing works) and let them be absorbed by nature.
All submitted work will be exhibited. They will not be returned to the participants. After the exhibition they will be exposed to the nature, together with other' artists' work, in the frame of 'Livadi of the Ephemeral VI'.
Photography and ephemeral art
Since 2013 -and every 2 years- artists from all over Europe are hosted at the highland village Livadi (a few kilometers out of Thessaloniki/ Greece) where they participate in a 5days symposium-workshop dedicated to ephemeral art. They create their artistic work in a private, fenced place next to the forest, using mostly materials they find at the surrounding area as well as their own materials they bring with them. Dirt, stones, water, organics, like pieces of wood or leaves, but industrial products as well, like metal, wires, cement, wooden constructions, fabrics, photos. These works have the character of ephemeral, as they gradually are being absorbed by nature. The transformation of the works is being captured photographically in all stages and consequently as different works - or as pieces of their rescued parts - they can be classified in the creation of the artists of the next events, years after!
Ephemeral art is characterized as the art which, from the beginning of the concept and creation doesn't have the preservation of the work in the long run as a priority - e.g. something that the artist wishes for his artistic work for sale. The ephemeral character of a work, especially when it is enrolled in nature with materials of the direct environment, partly defines both the life style of the artist and the way he practices his art and some elements of the form of the work its self as well. The artist enters into an existential dilemma, as he has to overcome his narcissism and to accept the fact that his work will be absorbed by nature and won't be the vehicle to his "immortality".
The ephemeral art is immortalized by photography, which gives another kind of life to the ephemeral work, as it is communicated through time to its public and to history. The ephemeral artistic work is build -we see it/it exists- for some time and soon, for various reasons it is disappeared , deteriorated and this is an indivisible part of an existence circle which has been pre-calculated during its creation. Photography is -by need- an indivisible and quantifiable part during the procedure of production, a necessary and supplementary means in order to realize the absolute circle of creation-corrosion, it is the side tool of transmission of the art of ephemeral.
Because of the character of the ephemeral which characterizes the works of artists of ephemeral e.g. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Julian Beaver and Andy Goldsworthy, photography takes decisive role in immortalizing its temporary presence, dynamics, beauty, or concerns that the compositions/installations exude. As Goldsworthy himself said: "Each work is developed, survives, is decomposed, part of a circle which photography can show us extensively, underlining actually and featuring the moment when the work has the most vividness ..."
We can realize how important and necessary is to see the (authentic) ephemeral art for as long as it exists and at the place it has been created, from the moment we will conceive that the work will not be there and as it is, forever. Through photography all these short presence pieces /works can be documented and shared with the next generations, not only as history but as a question as well, concerning the mission of art, its means, the issues and the questions which art poses to contemporary artists and its self as well.
Thanassis Raptis – Photographer
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