X&Y CURATE! Seminars - Winter 2011/2012

X&Y CURATE! | Organised by ΑΚΤΟ | Duration: 20 hours, Winter 2011/2012 (December 2011 to January 2012)| Information & Registration: 210 52 30 130 | info@akto.gr | www.akto.gr

X&Y (Xenia Kalpaktsoglou & Poka-Yio), the co-founders of the Athens Biennial,  are presenting a series of seminars on curating, in AKTO College of Art and Design from December 2011 to January 2012.
The seminars cover a range of material on contemporary curating. They are held in Greek. More info here.

XYZ OUTLET #23: Nicolas Vass // Re-constructing Hasil: a performance by The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble // Tuesday 6 December

XYZ OUTLET #23: Nicolas Vass // Re-constructing Hasil: a performance by The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble // Tuesday 6 December // 20:00 - 21:00

XYZ Outlet continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. On Tuesday 6 December we are presenting, in conjunction with the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME, Nicolas Vass’ work Re-constructing Hasil: a performance by The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble.

XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.

About Re-constructing Hasil: a performance by The Hasil Adkins Traditional Ensemble.

Re-constructing Hasil is a tribute to Hasil Adkins (193? – 2005), a one man band who began performing in the Southern USA in the 1950s. Born in West Virginia during the Great Depression, Adkins’ performance style, where all instruments and vocals are played by him alone, is based on a mistake he made as a young boy when he thought that the music he heard on the radio was performed by a lone musician. The motif of people traveling across the U.S. carrying their very few worldly possessions on their back, characteristic of the Depression period as narrated in books like Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, recurs in Adkins’ self-schooled, self-made and self-reliant form of musical performance. Arms, legs, vocal melodies, harmonies, beats, guitar riffs and harmonica croons emerge energetically from the performance of a single man.

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XYZ OUTLET #22: Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis and a Group of tutors and students from the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly // DE HOMINIS APPARATUS // Tuesday 22 November

XYZ OUTLET #22: Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis and a Group of tutors and students from the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly // DE HOMINIS APPARATUS // Tuesday 22 November // 20:00 - 21:00

XYZ Outlet continues, “DRY: No drinks, no party, just an art quickie”. On Tuesday 22 November we are presenting, in conjunction with the 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME, the performance DE HOMINIS APPARATUS by Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis and a group of tutors and students from the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly, at XYZ Outlet #22.

XYZ Outlet will be open to the public for one hour only, as always, between 20:00 and 21:00.

About DE HOMINIS APPARATUS

The structure of the performance DE HOMINIS APPARATUS, by the group of the Architecture School of the University of Thessaly, is a type of a labyrinth with no ‘outside’, where each person’s narratives and research start from a different concept each time (such as Dispositif, Eco-nomy, Biopolitics, Sovereignty, Desecration, Law, Body, Knowledge, Desire,Fear, Dignity, Subject, Object, Thing, Disaster etc, concepts described by Giorgio Agamben) , to be led back into the same centre, the Apparatus. During the performance a type of an archive will be compiled from online resources and a printer will become the “nightmare of documentation”.

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