http://vyrsodepseio.com/en
Hub location
Orfeos 174, Athens, Greece/23.694284299999936,37.9799171,4/1000x300.png)
About this hub
Activities
Site-specific performances/theatre/dance, artists in residency, support new dramaturgy, live music, festivals, seminars and educational programs, visual arts/exhibitions, community and activist projects, media, clubs, etc.Former use
Vyrsodepseio has been the largest tannery in the Balkans in the 19th century and has been claimed as a preserved building from the Ministry of Culture (all activities run under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture).Artist Network
YRSODEPSEIO is an independent space for the arts, for artists/ by artists. VYRSODEPSEIO is an old tannery, a space, where animal skin was torn off. The art produced there, tries to keep that tradition alive.In times, when Greece has become a project, -an experiment, -a work in progress (progress? – or regress?), our work is inevitably an experimental project in progress…VYRSODEPSEIO is a pool of people, who work together, and then part. People from different disciplines (theatre, music, dance, fine arts, film/video, literature, architecture and also politics). The common ground to work together is the space, – the old tannery – and also the effort to find new ways to produce independent art. The MC of VYRSODEPSEIO (MC =Master of Ceremony), the person who connects it all is Elli Papakonstantinou. – Artists come and go, the MC stays. As people go, come back, go again or stay, gradually a “group” is forming. VYRSODEPSEIO itself is an experimental project in progress…Aims
(-of course we have!)
– to work together with others and create a frontline of new aesthetics – in other words: to do what we want.
– to create a network of artists, to become a collectivity, to gather more groups – in other words: to be strong.
– to have the ability, to point out social structures, habits, political situations, which we want to change
– to have artistic articulation – in other words: to be heard, be seen.
– to become so strong and independent, that we can do what we want and still be heard and seen – in other words: to become famous and rich.
Activities organized by this hub
Creating art with children with special skills.
film
interviews
music
performance
photos
sound
theatre
workshops
writing
Performance with the students of the Special vocational high School of Eleusis
film
interviews
making
music
performance
photos
public art
sound
theatre
A short film from documentations of workshops with borderline children
drawing
film
interviews
music
photos
workshops
writing
The Visual artist Malvina Pountzikoglou makes a 15th day workshop with borderline adolescents (aged 12-21).
drawing
film
making
workshops
A workshop by director Elli Papakonstantinou at Vocational School of Eleusina working with borderline children
archiving
film
interviews
making
music
sound
workshops
writing
“Workshop Green Planet”: a visual arts workshop
drawing
music
public art
workshops
Awarded cultural program for musician Tilemachos Moussas Musical Workshop with children with special skills .
film
interviews
making
music
sound
workshops
Artistic workshops at a school for troubled children in a suburb of Athens
Activities involving this hub
Informing and choosing artists via an open call for mobility and artistic residencies between the Arab world and Europe
interviews
travel
writing
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