Following on the first international Conference of the \u0391\u0391\u039f project: Ethics \/ Aesthetics, held at the Athens School of Fine Arts, the six Academic Workshops currently under way, and Athens Here and Now with interactive works in downtown Athens, the \u0391\u0391\u039f project organizes a main exhibition, two parallel ones, and one performance action. They are held at the Benaki Museum, Pireos Street Annex in Athens, from June 8 to July 31, 2011.<\/p>\n
Main\u00a0Exhibition<\/strong> Activism. Groups with vision<\/strong> Society & Aesthetics<\/strong> Identity. Professional Ethics<\/strong> Action\u2013Reaction<\/strong> Parallel Exhibition<\/strong> Parallel Exhibition<\/strong> Performance Action The A\u0391O project provides no certainties. On the contrary, its principles call upon us to a collective engagement so as to contribute to the resolution of our crucial, challenging problems and urge us to go from idle contemplation to thinking through synergy. All actions are based on a model of expanded collaboration within a network of professionals, public and private bodies, educational institutions and museums.<\/p>\n 8 June \u2013 31 July 2011 Official exhibitions Opening: 6 June 2011, 20:30<\/p>\n Performance Action by Rebar \u2018Commonspace\u2019 Benaki Museum Opening hours: See photos of main exhibition Ethics\/Aesthetics<\/em> here<\/a> Following on the first international Conference of the \u0391\u0391\u039f project: Ethics \/ Aesthetics, held at the Athens School of Fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aao-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11141,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions\/11141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaoproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEthics \/ Aesthetics
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Curated by Lina Stergiou, the main exhibition is structured to explore the impact of the new participatory processes on the field of spatial practices and the points of convergence and differentiation between aesthetic form and ideological background with regard to self-reference and identity. It consists of four thematic units:<\/p>\n
\nParticipants:
\nTEDDY CRUZ, USA, architects
\nARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY, USA, architects
\nDARRYL SMITH\/LAURIE LAZER, USA, artists
\nREBAR, USA, designers\/artists
\nNOMADIC ARCHITECTURE NETWORK, Greece, architects<\/p>\n
\nParticipants:
\nPUBLIC ARCHITECTURE, USA, architects
\nRECETAS URBANAS, Spain, architects
\nFUTUREFARMERS, USA, artist
\nWORLDBIKE, USA, designer
\nPPC_TLab, Greece, architect<\/p>\n
\nParticipants:
\nDROOG, Netherlands, designers
\nFRANK HAVERMANS, Netherlands, artist
\nSARAH WIGGLESWORTH, UK, architect
\nALEXANDROS TOMBAZIS, Greece, architect
\n\u0395\u039c\u0395CO-THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, USA, designers<\/p>\n
\nParticipants:
\nDO-HO SUH, Korea, artist
\nJASON MILLER, USA, designer
\nEELKO MOORER, UK\/Netherlands, designer
\nJODI, Netherlands\/Belgium, artists<\/p>\n
\n Slow Down Rooms<\/strong>
\nCurated by Iris Kritikou, this parallel exhibition presents Greek artists who adopt handmade approaches and experiment with various materials as they focus on the idea of recycling and create installations inspired by the specific exhibition sites.
\nParticipants:
\nMarios Angelos Voutsinas
\nPenny Gheka; Apostolos Papageorgiou
\nGeorgia Gremouti
\nVangelis Theodoridis
\nEleni Karayanni
\nPanos Kombis
\nElena Papadimitriou
\nChristos Simatos
\nDimitris Skouroyannis
\nAmalia Stavroulaki<\/p>\n
\nAthens Here and Now<\/strong>
\nThis second parallel exhibition presents in five installations the process and the outcomes of the five academic workshops of the AAO project with five universities, that dealt with the current pressing urban and social issues in the city of Athens.
\nParticipants:
\nParsons The New School For Design, New York
\nUniversit\u00e9 de Paris 8, CITU research center of Paragraphe laboratory
\nUniversity of Thessaly, Department of Architecture
\nThe Athens School of Fine Arts, Postgraduate Program on Digital Art Media<\/p>\n
\nRebar \u2018Commonspace\u2019
\n<\/strong> This is a paraformance\u2014a kind of action\/performance designed to reveal the unspoken social codes. Paraformances come at various degrees of complexity, from subtle coordinated group behaviors to complex organized events; among these, Commonspace is a space for an afternoon nap, open to everyone.<\/p>\n
\nMain exhibition \u2013 Parallel exhibitions
\nGround floor gallery, Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex, Athens<\/p>\n
\n9 June, 16:00 and 17:00
\nGround floor gallery, Benaki Museum, Pireos St Annex, Athens<\/p>\n
\nPireos Street Annex
\nPireos 138 & Andronikou St<\/p>\n
\nWednesday, Thursday, Sunday 10:00 \u2013 18:00
\nFriday & Saturday 10:00 \u2013 22:00
\nMonday & Tuesday closed
\ntel: 210 3453111<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>of parallel exhibition Slow Down Rooms <\/em>here<\/a>
\n<\/strong>of parallel exhibition Athens Here and Now<\/em> here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"