Panos Sklavenitis

Starting point

Installation-action, CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point, 2013, Athens, Greece.

Photo by Giannis Hadjipanagis

Photo by Rilène Markopoulou

Photo by Miltos Athanasiou

Plasticine pigs

Made by my mother for the "Starting point" installation.

Photos by Giannis Hadjipanagis

Back to Athens 2013 / ATAXIA

19.4 – 28.4.2013

CAMP Contemporary Art Meeting Point

Curated by: Myrto Voudouri and Ioanna Gouzeli

Participating Artists:

Exhibition: Vincent Chenut, Remi Verstraete , Bert Janssens, Bram Van Meervelde, Eleni Bagaki, Ioanna Gouzeli, Nisos Vasilopoulos, Alexandros Kaklamanos, Yiannis Kokkalis, Thanos Kosmidis, Panos Sklavenitis, Marina Troupi, Panos Famelis, Lilian Hatzigeorgiou, Yiannis Chimonakis

Performances: Eva Giannakopoulou, Rilen Markopoulou, Angeliki Bozou, Giorgos Bougiouk, Ilias Polixroniadis, Kostis Sotiriou

Outside the building: Elma Petridou

d(ay)sign workshop

d(ay)sign workshop, University of Western Macedonia, Department of Applied and Visual Arts, Florina, Greece, 15-17 Dec, 2012.

Concept: PANOS SKLAVENITIS.
Curated by HARRIS KONDOSPHYRIS and PANOS SKLAVENITIS.
Participants: BARGIOTAS THODORIS, BOURMA VASO, BOUSIOS DIONYSIS, CHRISTOPOULOU MAGDA, DAMIANOU GEORGIA, DEDES NIKOLAOS, FOUNTOURADAKI EIRINI, FTELKOPOULOS GAVRIIL, GIOVANOGLOU ANASTASIA, GOUMPERITSI EIRINI, KAVOURIDIS VASILIS, KANOUSIS ASTERIS, KARASTERGIOU EVANGELIA, KAROULIA KATERINA, KONDOSPHYRIS HARRIS, KOLLIDA IRIS, KOUZOUNI MINA, KOUTSAFTI ANNA, KONSTANTINOF KRISTIAN, LAMPROPOULOU AIKATERINI, MANTHOU ELISSAVET-VARVARA, MESOLONGITI GEORGIA, MICHALAROU KATERINA, NISKA ELENI, NOSI EVGENIA, PAGOULATOU SOTIRIA, PAMPOUKA ALEXANDRA, PARASKEVOPOULOS KYRIAKOS, PAPADOPOULOS THEODOROS, PITTARA MARGARITA, SAMARA ANNA-MARIA, SKLAVENITIS PANOS, SPILIOTOPOULOS ANDREAS, STERGIOU PEGKY, TASCHOUNIDOU SOFIA, TENTOLOURI EVANGELIA, TSALKOUTIS PASCHALIS, TZANI CHRISTINA, TZELI FOTEINI, VEMPOS ANDREAS, VOGDOPOULOU KALIANTHI, VOUZOU DIMITRA, VOURNIAS KYRIAKOS, ZAZOS ACHILLEAS

Archive Tellers

Dialogues of video-art between memory and archives

VIDEO EXHIBITION

Archive Tellers. Dialogues of video-art between memory and archives is a video exhibition that will
be housed in the Opificio Telecom Italia, Spazio Contemporaneo, headquarter of the Foundation
Romaeuropa, on February 8 and 9, 2013 . Video works by Italian and international video artists will be
projected during the exhibition; such videos are clearly related to the central themes of the project. The
exhibition moves from a consideration of the existence of technology and the immateriality of documents.
The production of ephemeral and live works of art calls for a choice between preservation and temporary
fruition. If the document is both the purpose and the object of the performance, its objective physicality goes
along with a subjective preservation, entrusted to memory and transience: the individual memory becomes an
archive.

At the exhibition will be shown video works by the following artists:

Francis Alÿs, Meris Angioletti, Matteo Basilé, Elisabetta Benassi, Rossella Biscotti, Botto & Bruno,
Gea Casolaro, Laura Cionci, Collettivo Gemelli Kessler (Simona Bertozzi, Marcello Briguglio, Celeste
Taliani), Paola Di Bello, Rä di Martino, Flavio Favelli, Mariana Ferratto, Silvia Giambrone, Gerald
Guthrie, Ibro Hasanović, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Dimitra Kondylatou, Dana Levy, Euan Macdonald,
Vincent Meessen, Daphna Mero, Astrid Nippoldt, Francesco Paolucci, Luana Perilli, Nicolas Provost,
Enrique Ramirez, Sara Rossi, Mariateresa Sartori, Marinella Senatore, Panos Sklavenitis, Tereza
Stehlikova, Danilo Torre, Kyriakos Tsiftsopoulos, Bianco-Valente, Ersi Varveri, Valentina Vetturi,
ZimmerFrei, Artur Zmijewski.

The students of the Master Course in Museum Curator and Events - IED Rome are: Anna Arabia,
Silvia Berardi, Giusy Bernabei, Michelangelo Bevilacqua, Francesca Blandino, Claudia Caliciotti, Jamila
Campagna, Daniela Iannella, Giusi Lavalle, Emanuela Murro, Valentina Pagliarani, Jessica Pentangelo,
Agata Petralia, Micol Rispoli, Mark Salustri, Sasvati Santamaria, Alessandra Vaccarella, Serena Zuliani.

url: http://www.archivetellers.it/index.html
http://www.archivetellers.it/panos-sklavenitis.html

d(ay)sign poster

An artist can die from a broken heart (you: wtf r u - stranger: a cat)

Performance, Technopolis - Municipality of Athens, Athens, 2012

This performance is actually a reading of the text called: " you: wtf r u - stranger: a cat" and the presentation of the application "An artist can die from a broken heart". "you: wtf r u - stranger: a cat" is a text concerning the limits of artistic practice, the asian elephants artists, Diogenis, Acropolis and humanity as the last boundary of contemporary artistic practice. "An artist can die from a broken heart" is an application connected to twitter that collects the twits that include the word "elephant" and replaces it with the word "artist".

Photo by Giannis Hadjipanagis

self_portrait_as_a

selfportraitasa.tumblr.com

selfportraitasa.blogspot.com

AN ARTIST CAN DIE FROM A BROKEN HEART -Tumblr

Photography As Performance

Technopolis, Municipality of Athens
19 - 28 of October, 2012

Curator: Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Co-curator: Andreas Pashias
Participants:Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Maria-Louiza Biri, Christina-Amalia Charikopoulou, Sofia Iliana Georgiadi, Nikos Gikas, Rosina Ivanova, Angelos Krallis, Jennifer Nelson, Maria Nikiforaki, Andreas Pashias, Panos Sklavenitis, Nikolaos Stathopoulos

Url: http://www.ekthesis-online.com/#!photography-as-sperformance/cghe

Things of this world - Tumblr

pARty

shARe fix summer pARty.
http://www.facebook.com/ShaReFix

shARe fix

Geo based augmented reality installation, kallirrois st., building of Fix, Athens, 2012

(with George Bobetsis and Babis Korovesis)

URL: http://sharefixproject.blogspot.com

you: wtf r u - stranger: a cat

Original text from Panos Sklavenitis altered into video for the Work of art alterations by Thalia Raftopoulou.
Video still.

VOICES - Invitation to "EXCHANGE"

Painting on the Blind Facades of Buildings

"Visual Art Interventions in Public Urban Space - Painting on the Blind Facades of Buildings"

(a collaboration between Athens School of Fine Arts and the Greek Ministry of Environment,

Energy & Climate Change). Publication about the project.

PDF (in greek with an english summary)

NO SIGNAL mural in CATASTROΪCA documentary.

VOICES/ Platform [You - Cocktail party]

Theatre building of Embros, Athens, 2012

Combined presentation of two art projects: Cocktail-party by Panos Sklavenitis, You by Elpida Rikou.
In order to bring forth complementary of contradictory dimensions of the role of voice in the construction of social relations.

During the presentation of the project “Voices” at the Theatre building of Embros at spring 2012, we have proposed on Saturday 10 March a combined presentation of two projects: “Cocktail-party” by Panos Sklavenitis and “You” by Elpida Rikou. This presentation demonstrated similarities and differences between the two projects , bringing forth the role of voice in the construction of social relations.A sound installation of registered voices and several video recordings of an actress’s performances that represented different modes of address to “you” constituted the environment for a performance resembling a “cocktail-party” where a group of people wearing earplugs narrated simultaneously the story of their lives. Finally, one more voice of a person present in these surroundings was introduced via the microphone, commenting on the whole situation from an anthropologist’s point of view.
“Cocktail-party” is a project commenting on contemporary dominant forms of autobiography. Nowadays, the question of whether we are able to plan a life of our own finds an answer through a variety of websites inviting us to upload daily versions of our life-stories, reconstructing them as we please. What might happen if we find ourselves in another context and attempt to verbally construct our life story in a situation of co-presence?
A voice might not only be a sound produced by a living being but a gesture of address to you, an elementary relational form posing moral and political issues to reflect upon and discuss with different partners. The project “YOU” proposes a juxtaposition of different modes of elaboration of this elementary gesture of address.

VOICES

Poster by Thalia Raftopoulou, for the presentation of the project “Voices”

at the Theatre building of Embros at spring 2012.

Models for the Heidegger's table

Models for Panos Sklavenitis' "Heidegger's Table" constructed by the architect Andreas Spiliotopoulos.

I Do That I Do

11- 16. 12. 2011
One week residency at Embros theatre building, Athens.
A collaboration between Giannis Mouravas, Thalia Raftopoulou and Panos Sklavenitis.

The starting point for the action I do that I do was the work Screen by Panos Sklavenitis, which was presented in 2009 at the Mirar Sinan University in Instanbul.
This action is the first of a series towards the examination of the creative process and its self-representation. Being based on the modes of function of an apparatus [input - process surface - output] we use this schema as a route that could define the way that we move from one phase to another. There is a 'material' analogy of this schema to each of the different phases. At this first phase the apparatus came into operation by improvising on the surface of the canvas while using different things as inputs and outputs (seasonal material, fruit, projected images, voices, samples etc.)
We worked with the canvases that were being used as theatrical scenery models for the theatrical play MESA by D. Papaioannou, thus utilizing the function of a sideline as a main element for the creation of new work.
A succession of improvisational interventions of ours and of guest artists on a series of canvases on a back lit ramp comprised the main action. In parallel to that, a series of more brief actions took place. The last day of the residency the documentation of the actions and constructions were presented. After the end of the residency we transferred the canvases at the school of fine arts so that they could be re-used for the creation of new artwork, applying the same thinking of re-using the sideline for the creation of new work.

We thank Kinisi Mavili for hosting us in the building of Embros theatre, Christina Spiliakopoulou, Stella Chronopoulou, Phanis Dalezios, Alexia Sarantopoulou for participating in the actions, the people that carried the canvases of D. Papaioannou as well as him for providing this material.

Zine about the residency in greek:

Things of this world

Things of this world is a work in progress which consists of a series of performances, actions and installations.

url: http://thingsofthisworldproject.blogspot.gr

Things of this world, Mixed media installation, St George Lycabettus Hotel (Rooms 2012 contemporary art show),

Athens, 2012.

Curated by Margarita Kataga.

Action, Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens, 2011

Things of this world - Performance in ASFA, Athens, 2009

Participants: Nikolina Bairaktari, Nikos Gikas

What is Man?

What is Man?" is a work in progress which reinstates the question of the definition of the human subject. It forms part of an ongoing project, aiming to explore ways in which contemporary artworks, particularly in their relational and dialogical aspects, may provide new contexts for philosophical and scientific debates.

URL: http://aforgottenquestion.blogspot.com

What is Man? performance, Vistonida Lake, Komotini, 2011

What is Man? mixed media installation, ASFA, Athens, 2011

NO SIGNAL

Mural in Kriezotou st., Athens, 2011

Part of the project "Visual Art Interventions in Public Urban Space - Painting on the Blind Facades of Buildings" (a collaboration between Athens School of Fine Arts and the Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy & Climate Change).

Photo by Giannis Hadjipanagis

Other works

Counting
Performance, Psiri square, Athens, Greece, 2011
concept: Panos Sklavenitis, performance: Nikolina Bairaktari, Nikos Gikas, Panos Sklavenitis

Aesthetics of collapse - Edge
Skype self-portrait
concept: Panos Sklavenitis, performance: Dimitra Kondylatou, Panos Sklavenitis
ITS-Z1 gallery, Belgrade, Serbia, 2010

How to face Acropolis anew
Exprerimenting against stereotypes, aided by visual arts and anthropology
Panos Sklavenitis, Kostis Sotiriou
Mixed media installation - Presentation , University of Zadar, Croatia, 2010