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SARCHA launches an open call for DEMOS

An ideas only competition open to architects and non architects alike to

imaging/design/describe the connection of the Athens Town Hall

with the adjacent Kotzia square in ways that

bring forth the transformative power of city inhabitants and enhance their involvement in city matters and self- government.

Experiment with the potential of reassembling the city ‘in common’

Draft your proposal in just one A3 form and e-mail it at demos.sarcha@gmail.com by Monday June 24, 2013DEADLINE

See details at www.demos.sarcha.gr

All submissions will be presented and discussed in a three hours event in London in the context of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA2013) at the end of June. http://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/

Please forward this call to those that might be interested to participate

9.30hs Introduction/Opening/Welcome
Adrian Lahoud

Session 01 10:00 – 12.00
Chaired by Godofredo Pereira
Costas Douzinas “Space, time and forms of resistance in Athens”
Aristide Antonas “Archipelago of Protocols”
Response: Yannis Stavrakakis

COFFEE BREAK

Session 02 12:30 – 14.30
Chaired by Charles Rice
Yannis Aesopos “Athens: Public Space and Crisis”
Orsalia Dimitriou “Whose commons?
Dilemmas of self-organization practices in public spaces and urban commons”
Platon Issaias “Τwo buildings and a movie: alienation, conflict and architectural form”
Response: Penelope Haralambidou

LUNCH BREAK

Session 03 16.00 – 17.30
Chaired by Lorenzo Pezzani
Maurizio Lazzarato “Debt and immaterial Labour”
Pier Vittorio Aureli “Less is Just Enough: Notes on Architecture and Asceticism”
Response: Ross Exo Adams

17.30 – 19.00
Open Debate

Reblogged from Yanis Varoufakis:

Vital Space is founded on the belief in the power of art to change the world. At a time of major confluence of economic and environmental crises,Vital Space deploys the artist’s perspective so as to dissolve the polarisation typifying the current dialogue on our relationship with Nature and with one another. Vital Space is dedicated to the initiation of art projects designed to reach and influence a wide and diverse audience. It strives to demonstrate in the most practical manner that art has its finger on the planet’s pulse and can mediate human deliberation on the course of our future.

Vital Space invites all artists to participate in the first of a series of open call competitions in the context of our ‘Raising Awareness‘ theme. For our first competition we invite short, one-minute video submissions under the broad title EAST | WEST – NORTH | SOUTH : Imperiled Viatl Spaces.

DEADLINE:MIDNIGHT (EST) 7th September 2013

THE THEME

EAST | WEST – NORTH | SOUTH: Imperiled Vital Spaces

ABOUT THE 60″ VIDEO COMPETITION

Participants are requested to submit an original sixty-second (one minute) video that reflects the theme’s spirit and helps raise awareness on our common predicament in this time of global crisis. Indeed, submissions from all over the world are encouraged, with our theme acting only as a general guide to the idea of a ‘local collapse’ following a global crisis. Participants are asked to complete and to submit this electronic Registration Form (including a link to their video on YouTube, Vimeo or any other video hosting service website). The deadline expires at midnight (EST), 1th September 2013

PRIZES, AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS: THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

ROUND 1 – Videos go live: Vital Space will upload the approved videos on vitalspace.org by15th September 2013. The videos will remain on our site for two months. ROUND 2 – Viewers’ Prize: The general public will then be invited to vote amongst the contenders for the Vital Space 60’’ Video Competition Viewers’ Prize for 2013. The vote will be completed by, and the winner will be announced on, the 16th of November 2013. ROUND 3 – Panel Prize: On 1st October 2013, a five-member panel of jurists (drawn from Vital Space’s Board of Advisors) will announce the winner of the Vital Space 60’’ Video Competition Panel Prize for 2013, as well as two runners-up. These three videos (including the winner of the Viewers’ Prize) will then be added to the permanent collection of Vital Space’s Art Projects. ROUND 4 – EXHIBITION: The winners of both prizes in all competitions, and possibly the runners up will be exhibited, during 2014. Athens will be the starting point of an exhibition series in Greece and abroad. Vital Space will announce details about the exhibition as soon as all competition results are announced.

 

VITAL SPACE’s PREVIOUS 60″ ‘RAISING AWARENESS’ VIDEOS

The idea of one minute, 60’’, videos for the purposes of raising awareness was first introduced to Vital Space by its founder, Danae Stratou, who posted two such videos as part of the ‘inauguration’ of vitalspace.org. These two videos focused on public awareness regarding Climate Change and Urbanisation equivalently. The material shown is original, taken from Danae Stratou’s archive from shootings in hundreds of strategically chosen areas worldwide.

Raising Awareness in 60” (1)  |  Addressing Urbanisation

Raising Awareness in 60” (2)  |  Addressing Climate Change

 

FUTURE COMPETITIONS

Vital Space is pleased to announce that this one-minute video competition is the first in a series of three annual competitions. The other two will involve photographic stills, with suitable captions, and short 100–word texts. For more, watch this space. You will soon receive our next Photographic Competition Announcement: Raising Awareness with One Image.

Terms and Conditions

Submitted videos must be one minute in length. Any spoken words heard in the submitted video that are not in English must be accompanied by the relevant subtitles in English. The video must not contain gratuitous violence, profanity, or defamatory statements (including racism or sexism) on individuals or organizations. Any entries deemed gratuitously offensive will be immediately disqualified. Videos submitted must be original works – no copyrighted music, video, sounds or images may be used without prior, full permission from the author(s)/owners of said copyrighted music, video, sounds or images that you wish to include. Submitted videos must not infringe on any third party rights. Submitted videos that are the result of a group effort need to have a nominated representative.

 

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“This is why the solution is not just more regulation to prevent money laundering and so on, but a radical change in the entire banking system – to say the unsayable, some kind of socialisation of the banks. The lesson of the worldwide crashes after 2008 is clear: the whole network of financial funds and transactions, from individual deposits and retirement funds to the functioning of all kinds of derivatives, will have to be somehow put under social control, streamlined and regulated. This may sound utopian, but the true utopia is the notion that we can somehow survive with only cosmetic changes.”  Slavoj Žižek

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/cyprus-crisis-symptom-rotten-eu

Posted at Roarmag.org  08 May 2013

A collective of researchers, photographers and filmmakers comes together to launch a powerful new multimedia research project on the crisis in Athens.

In recent years, Antonis Vradis of Occupied London has brought us invaluable reports from the front-line of the popular uprising(s) in Greece, while Ross Domoney, a member of the documentary photography and film collective Aletheia Photos, has produced some of the most paradigmatic short docs and video reports on the crisis and revolt currently under way in Athens. Now, the two join a team of researchers who have just launched the website for a very exciting new multimedia project.

In an emailed announcement, the research collective describes their initiative as follows:

Crisis-scape is the website of the “The City at a Time of Crisis”, a collective, cross-disciplinary ESRC-funded research project that traces the transformations of public spaces in Athens. By focusing on urban public spaces, we aim to study the rapid, wider social and political transformations that are under way in the crisis-ridden Greek society today.

The website so far features metronome, the first in a series of short films corresponding to each of the project’s research strands; a full interactive time-line of the crisis in Greece since 2008; a documentary explaining the ongoing social meltdown taking place in the country; an interview with Professor Stavros Stavrides of the NTUA; two blog-post series (état de siege: public space user manual and metronome) and much, much more.

Crisis-scape is updated every Monday with first-hand ethnographic accounts, theoretical interventions, digital interactive material, videos and photographs from the ground here in Athens.

We rely on your help to spread the word!

The www.crisis-scape.net team

Jaya Klara Brekke, Ross Domoney, Christos FiIippidis, Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou

Metronome. from Ross Domoney on Vimeo.