Asthenia No. 07 ‘Cosmology’ 28 April - 5 May at City Surfer Office, Prague

Organised by Amalia Vekri, Alexios Papazacharias & Antonín Jirát

‘Dance first, think later. It’s the natural order’ Samuel Beckett

Dance is an inhibition, thinking is pragmatic. Do these boundaries meet? Inhibitions morph from autonomous fragments of the brain. We all have them but to what extent do we utilise them? Thinking is a process of logic, some form of reason for that...

Do you dance with your eyes closed or with your eyes open? Cavities erupt from the subconscious when you close your eyes. Yet when you open them do you see it for what it is worth? You are standing on the tight rope and you slip. Do we fall with our eyes open or have we just forgotten to open them?

A consciousness grows out of rhythm, the foetus dances in the womb.

Participating artist: Benedikt Bock, Manolis D. Lemos, Christos Delidimos, Alex Eagleton, Florent Frizet, Pinelopi Gerasimou, Delia Gonzalez, Charles Irvin, Ula Lucinska and Michal Knychaus, Albert Mayr, Natasha Papadopoulou, Lukas Panek, Tula Plumi, Erica Scourti, Goncalo Sena, Valinia Svoronou, Alexandros Vasmoulakis with Paris Koutsikos & Christina Theisen, Vincent Verhoef, Faye Wei Wei

Curated by Amalia Vekri & Hugo Wheeler

Asthenia No. 05, Athens

30 May - 8 June 2017

Grace

Filadelfias 2 & Liossion

Tjorg Douglas Beer, Dimitra Dimopoulou, Dora Economou, Natasa Efstathiadi, Socrates Fatouros, Lakis & Aris Ionas/TheCallas, Spiros Kokkonis, Harrie Kourkoulis, Michael Landy, Stamos Michael, Rallou Panagiotou, Panos Papadopoulos, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Ilias Papailiakis, Alexios Papazacharias, Sofia Simaki, Sofia Stevi, George Tigas, Sofia Touboura, Iris Touliatou, Amalia Vekri, Nikolas Ventourakis

Curated by Amalia Vekri

‘Paradise is exactly like where you are right now only much much better’ 

Laurie Anderson

Asthenia No. 04, Online

31 January 2017

Dimitris Ameladiotis, Margarita Bofiliou, Pavlos Nikolakopoulos, Amalia Vekri

To conclude the presentations for the fourth issue of Asthenia artist Amalia Vekri and architect Alexandros Gerousis created an imaginary temple of health and reflection, away from the asthenia of a city such as Athens. Previously, a number of presentations and events took place at Enterprise Projects, Fokidos and Circuits and Currents.

The artists presenting their work at the temple were asked to ponder on the notion of ‘asthenia’, its extensions and how it can be interpreted. 

Asthenia as deviation, cure, threat and the final demise all interwoven with a space outside the realm of the urban architecture, outside of time. The temple connects the earthly with the otherworldly, the living time with the after life. It washes away the sins and this way it alters the consciousness but its space is remote and circular. It is repeated thus the change is precarious.

A performative event initiated and organised by Antigone Theodorou. It took place at Circuits and Currents on the 3rd of December 2016, as part of Asthenia’s No. 04 parallel events. 

Asthenia No. 04, Fokidos, Athens

7 November 2016

Curated by Alexios Papazacharias

Hope, PhotoHarrie, Alexios Papazacharias, Sofia Stevi, Petros Touloudis, Amalia Vekri

Asthenia No. 03, Athens

26 April 2016

Romantso

Anaxagora 3-5, 10552

Artists: Margarita Myrogianni, Antonakis, Hope, Ilias Koen, Amalia Vekri, Philippos Papadopoulos, Hara Piperidou, BachliTzanakou, Nar, Daphne Stergides, Aristomenis Theodoropoulos, D’ Arcy Foxx, Tzef Montana, Rowan Wood, Irini Karagiannopoulou, Maria Efstathiou, Sofia Touboura, Augusta Atla

Curated by Amalia Vekri

‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman᾽ Simon de Beauvoir