“Head & Hand / Kairos” by Kyriaki Costa, parallel programme: 17-19/9/2021
Curated by: Sofia Eliza Bouratsis
Co-organized by
Culture Foundation of Tinos
Association of Tripotamians and Sberadians “O Kavos”
In collaboration with the Municipality of Tinos
PARALLEL PROGRAMME
the people
their place
caring for the common good
& contemporary art
Tinos, 17-19 September 2021
I am more interested in the role of the observer, the synergies and the participatory process than in that of the creator. The craftsmen define the intermediate space between the artist and the work. This spontaneous work of the craftsman, his aesthetics, his technical approach, aiming at functionality, his own “hands-on” way of thinking, “with his hands”, constitutes a force of deconstruction, which invites us to a new reading of the space around us.
Kyriaki Costa
The collective project Head and Hand / Kairos by Kyriaki Costa, which started as a residency of the artist and the curator in Tinos (June-July 2021), evolved into a route that starts from the Culture Foundation of Tinos and which, passing through the specially designed paths, reaches as far as the Hani tis Kyra-Xenis, Tripotamos, Ktikados and the medieval trail that used to lead to the castle of Xomburgos; it also encompasses an exhibition that is staged until next Sunday (19/9) in the village of Tripotamos, on the premises of the Association of Tripotamians and Sberadians “O Kavos”.
The flags that indicate the paths of this tour, which is accompanied by a map, have been inspired by Cycladic architecture and have been made with recycled materials used in the tourism industry, such as sheets, towels, tablecloths etc. from various hotels of the island. In addition, the village of Tripotamos was chosen to honour Cornelius Castoriades, who spent many of his summers there, while the rest of the trails came about through meetings the artist and the curator had had with the locals, who indicated the diachronic routes of the area.
At the heart of the project lies the people’ s association with their place and more specifically with public space – the landscape of the island, the architecture and the community areas. Its realization is achieved through “everyday rituals”, such as walking, meetings and storytelling, which are activated by the artist focusing on care practices and the way they infiltrate everyday life.
The exhibition is the result of the visual connection between the artist and the island. Before visiting Tinos, Kyriaki Costa researched weather forecasts for Tinos and the dominant role that wind plays in shaping forms in the everyday life of the island. However, through a mental game, the concept of “Kairos” (meaning weather in Modern Greek) takes the philosophical meaning of “adequate time” or that “unique moment”, a moment that, once it slips away, doesn’t come back. The present time of the place and the temporality in the everyday life of craftsmen, locals and visitors of Tinos, become the active centre of the project.
The results of the action, which is constantly in progress, are co-forged by Kyriaki Costa together with the inhabitants of Tinos, the air, which plays a dominant role on the island and the participant craftsmen and the artisans. Through this partnership, Head and Hand / Kairos raises questions regarding the relationship between functionality and beauty, contemporary art and everyday life, care and appropriation of common elements.
Kyriaki Costa’s Head and Hand / Kairos finishes next weekend (17-19/9/2021) with a programme of events, which includes a night of music, a public discussion and a workshop for the island’s teenagers.
Friday 17 September
Sunset at Koursaros bar, Tinos
Small project by Mark Brown
At 7 p.m.
Mark Brown undertakes to add music to the stories of the inhabitants of the island, which were recorded in the context of Head and Hand / Kairos and relate to their association with their place.
Saturday 18 September
At Tripotamos village, Tinos
Guided tour of the exhibition
At Association “O Kavos” by artist Kyriaki Costa and curator Sofia Eliza Bouratsis
At 7 p.m.
Public discussion at Tripotamos square
At 8 p.m.
DISCUSSION PROGRAMME
Head and Hand / Kairos, an artistic topography of care
Kyriaki Costa, artist
Sofia Eliza Bouratsis, art theorist curator
(Contemporary) art and (its) day-to day (routine): an artificial separation?
Enrico Lunghi, art historian
Tinos, architecture, and narrative
Maria Vidali, architect
Visit – Explore – Observe – Measure – Draw – Visit
Arch – ISLaND / Vasilis Benetos, architect
Sunday 19 September
The CARE project
Workshop in collaboration with Arch – ISLaND
for children 13-18 years old
At the entrance of Tripotamos, Tinos, (at the signpost) at 11.30 am.
Reservations [email protected] and at 2283029070
speakers
ΚYRIAKI COSTA, artist/researcher
www.kyriakicosta.com
@kyriakicosta
Kyriaki Costa is an artist from Nicosia, Cyprus. She studied Byzantine and Applied Arts and holds a Masters degree in Art from Kingston University, London. She has exhibited extensively both in Cyprus and abroad, and her works may be found in private and public collections, as well as in the State Collection of Contemporary Art of Cyprus. She has received numerous awards, including many Biennale Awards. Costa’s work deals with stories, fiction, true and false, topography and the creation of “places”, using art as an anthropological practice and as a tool for mediation in the social and political spectrum.
SOPHIA ELIZA BOURATSIS, art theorist / curator
@sofiaelizabou
Sofia Eliza Bouratsis was born in Luxembourg. She works in the field of contemporary art as an art theorist, curator and consultant on cultural policies. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art Sciences from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, researching the body, its images and its social, philosophical and scientific boundaries, as expressed through contemporary art. Her research fields also concern the embodiment of incarceration and institutionalization, the aesthetics of public space, the contemporary transformation and gentrification of rural and urban sapces, and the artistic practices of appropriation of the commons. From time to time, she teaches at universities and schools of Penitentiary Institutions. She lives and works mainly between Luxembourg and Greece, based in Thessaloniki and, depending on the projects, collaborates with public institutions, municipalities, galleries, etc. From 2008 to 2021, she was edito of the French research journal for Human Studies Prétentaine.
ENRICO LUNGHI, art historian
Enrico Lunghi is an art historian. He was a research associate at the National Museum of History and Art in Luxembourg from 1991 to 1995 and the Artistic Director of Casino Lusembourg – Forum d’art contemporain between 1996 and 2008. He was the General Director of Mudam from 2009 to 2016. He curated the Luxembourg pavilion in Venice in 1995 (Bert Theis, Potemkin Lock), 1999 (Simone Decker, Chewing and Folding projects) and 2007 (Jill Mercedes, Endless Lust). In 2009, he curated for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (former French Community of Belgium) the project “100 Sexes d’artistes” by Jacques Charlier. From 2005 to 2011, he served as president of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art). He has published numerous articles on art and contemporary artists, as well as novels on his relationship with art. Since 2017, he has been in charge of studies at the Luxembourg Ministry of Education (SCRIPT and the University of Luxembourg).
MARIA VIDALI, architect
Maria Vidali studied architecture at Portsmouth and Kingston University. She holds an MPhil degree in history and philosophy of architecture from Cambridge University and a PhD in architecture and language from the University of Thessaly in Greece. She was a research trainee at McGill University with interest in architecture and narrative. Her research work Village and Land, The Outlying Chapels on the Island of Tinos was published in Greece in 2009. She has been running her own architectural office since 2007. Since 2017 she has taught at the Drury Centre in Greece, a study-abroad programme of Drury University of Missouri, Hammons School of Architecture, also at the University of Thessaly, School of Architecture, as well as at DIKEMES/ CYA, an educational institution in Athens, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is teaching until now.
ARCH – ISLAND / VASILIS BENETOS, architect
Born in Vancouver – Canada, Vasilis Benetos graduated with highest distinction at the School of Architecture of the Second University of Naples.
From 2013 to 2015 he worked for the construction of Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and this experience made him enter to the most innovative BIM design platform. From 2016 to 2018 he worked for the architectural project and construction for the Children’s Surgical Centre in Entebbe Uganda, a work of the architect Renzo Piano (RPBW).
Since 2018, focusing on a different architectural scale, he focuses on the creation and implementation of the Arch-Island architectural action which aims to offer knowledge of the architectural tradition of the Cyclades to each visitor of the island through the theoretical and practical approach of the Aegean architecture. Arch-Island is currently active on the island of Tinos. For the purposes of Arch-Island, the architect currently lives and works on the island of Tinos.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Opening hours of the exhibition held at the premises of the Association of Tripotamians and Sberadians “O Kavos”: Thursday to Sunday 7-10 p.m.
Additional Information
@head_and_hand_series
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Co-organized by
Culture Foundation of Tinos
Association of Tripotamians and Sberadians “O Kavos”
In collaboration with the Municipality of Tinos
With the support of
- Kultur | lx Arts Council Luxembourg
- i-Portunus – European Cultural Foundation
- Supporting Creative Mobility (European Commission)
- Cultural Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports
- Tinos Hoteliers Association
More specifically:
Golden Beach Hotel
Tinion Hotel
Oceanis Hotel
Cavos Hotel
Tinos Beach Hotel and Bungalows
Avra Hotel
- Local Community of Ktikados village