Multi-thematic discussion for the relationship between heterotopias and the arts, derived from Michel Foucault’s text, Of Other Spaces (Des Espaces Autres), Heterotopias (1967). Artists, curators and art historians, sociologists, historians and architects are going to participate in this conference.
 
   
CLOSING MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
“HETEROTOPIAS”
22-23 SEPTEMBER 2007 | WAREHOUSE C, SEMINAR ROOM, THESSALONIKI PORT AREA

PROGRAMME

SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2007

11.00 - 11.10 | Maria Tsantsanoglou, Heterotopias: the title of the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
11.10 - 11.30 | Catherine David, Heterotopias: di/visions (from here and from elsewhere)
11.30 - 11.50 | Jan-Erik Lundström, Heterotopias: society must be defended
11.50 - 12.10 | Syrago Tsiara, Heterotopias within public space.Two projects of  the Thessaloniki
Center of Contemporary Art for the 1st Biennial
12.10 - 12.30 | Vlad Sofronov, Art as Heterotopia
12.30 - 12.50 | Sophia Kaitatzi-Whitlock, The Internet as the Rising Heterotopia: Virtual ‘Communities’ With No Frontiers, but Without Norms?

12.50 - 13.00 | discussion
13.00 - 13.15  | coffee break

13.20 - 13.40  | Antonis Liakos, Searching a Place for Hope
13.40 - 14.00   | Ioanna Laliotou, Cosmos and the politics of expectation in the twentieth century: utopia between the East and the West                      
14.00 - 14.20  | Urs Lindner, Heterotopias and Foucault’s Analytic of Power      
14.20 - 14.40  | Alexei Penzin, The Babel: Heterotopias of the Global?
14.40 - 15.00  | Oxana Timofeeva, Other Sides Inside: Non-human Places Now

15.00 - 15.20 | discussion
15.20 - 16.00 | lunch break with tastes from Pontos and Armenia, cooked by the women from the repatriated community of Greek –Pontians from former Soviet Union in Farkadona (Thessaly). (M. Gasparian, K. Mihailidou, G. Mihailidou, S. Datianidou)

16.00 - 16.20  | Louis-Michel Nourry, Les hétérotopies ont une histoire
16.20 - 16.40 | Anna Grazyna Piotrowska, Gypsy Camp as a Heterotopia
16.40 - 17.00  | Nazareth Karoyan, Mobilité artistique: les espaces, les pratiques et les discours
17.00 - 17.20 | Mikhalis Papadakis, Art as 'common place'. The role of the museum

17.20 - 17.40 | Elena Tonikidi-Pavlos Vasiliadis, Heterotopias of the Soul
17.40 - 18.00 | discussion
 

   18.00 - 20.00 | visit at the Biennale exhibitions at Thessaloniki Port: Heterotopias: Di/visions
      (from here and from elsewhere), curator Catherine David (Warehouse B1& C),
Heterotopias: Beholders of other places, curator Maria Tsantsanoglou (WarehouseC), Other Places, curator Apostolos Kalfopoulos (Old Ice-Chambers
      building), Project PPC_T / Farkadona,  coordination Hariklia Hari (container & Old
      Pump House) 

20:30      | opening of the Biennale’s guest artist’s work, Leda Papakonstantinou
       “In the name of” (Pier A, behind Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki Port),  
 curator Syrago Tsiara
  
22:30 | party with dj-set MIKAS, from the repatriated community of Greek-Pontians from former Soviet Union in Farkadona (Thessaly)(Old Pump House, Thessaloniki Port)

Parallel events
20 & 21 September | “The concept of symposium” / happening- 20.00 - Navarino Square/
       theatre- 21:30- Warehouse C, Thessaloniki Port/
          Direction: Isavella Martzopoulos
21 - 22 September  |”House on the cloud”: performance with graffiti on the PPCT / Farkadona
       container (Thessaloniki Port), Yiorgos Papadopoulos – Hariklia Hari
22 - 23 September  | Art group event “The snake” , by the Scientific Non for Profit Organization
       “Psychology and Art”, Thessaloniki Port , on the kindergartner fence
            (Saturday 11:00-18:00, Sunday 10:00-14:00)
23 September   | Printmaking workshop on fabrics: PPC_T / Farkadona / Natalia Iliadi, Old Pump House, Thessaloniki Port
23 September        | music and dance happening-exhibition “Other Places”- 21:00 (Old Ice- 
           Chambers/ Dance: VIS MOTRIΧ group- Xenia Themeli - Chrysa Badeka -
       Christos Strinopoulos. Music: Chrysanthos Christodoulou, Dimitris Tatsis 

Conference coordination: Katerina mavromichali | Guest Office: Athina Ioannou |  
Public Relations: Chrysa Zarkali  | Press Office: Yiota Sotiropoulou |                            
Technical equipment: Kostas Kosmidis 

MAIN SUPPORTER OF THE 1ST THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
HELLENIC MINISTRY OF CULTURE

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