❤️Sat 22 Feb – RAVE
— Alysidez: Dj Harama & Dj Katta
At sllip club – 22:30-04:30

💜Wed 26 Feb – LIVE AMBIENT
— Panayotis live + bbyDragon by Kasska live
At sllip club – 21:00-23:00

💚Sat 08 Mar – EXHIBITION OPENING
—Environment by Eleonora Antoniadou & Angeliki Koutsodimitropoulou
—Light by Andreas Petrou
—Sculptures by Shao-Chun Hsu and Orestis Telemachou
—STI DIAPASON presents “B2B2BS #1” Mix
—Curated by Nayia Savva & Nikos Stephou
At Thkio Ppalies – Starts at 19:00
Exhibition duration: 11/03 to 14/03 daily 18:00-21:00

🧡Sun 16 Mar – EXHIBITION CLOSING
—Brunch and discussion on resilience
—Speakers:
- Natascha Sadr Haghighian
- Marina Christodoulidou
- Dimitris Chimonas with Nikos Stephou
At Thkio Ppalies – Starts at 11:00AM (Sunday morning)

Encyclopedia, construction as knowledge. How are communities constructed and sustained across time and space? What material and discursive processes make the creation of human communities possible? And how are social gatherings central in creating and reproducing these communities?

We take the concept of the gathering as a keystone element in how communities are evoked and conjured in the historical time and the material space. The intentional coming together of numerous persons in specific locations and instances constructs cycles of sociality in what often becomes a ritualistic and periodical practice. Gatherings as observed by anthropologists include a variety of elements, some common across the vast diversity of human societies: food and drinks; ceremonial and religious practices; speeches and conversations; canonical codes in dressing, dancing, and singing amongst others; leisure but also serenity. In this sense, gatherings are not random events but highly organised and structured events. They conceal political intentionalities as well as desires for articulating a community in the present and in the days to come. As gatherings become the interface where human affect can be expressed, we propose to approach them as a form of creating resilience amongst each and every one of the participants.

Resilience, as quality and as constructed reality, appears to be a central objective in the experience of people in the contemporary world. It sounds like a cliché to speak of a world that is getting closer and closer to the apocalypse. We contend however that many people around us live their life as if the destruction of the world is more of a lived reality rather than an anticipated future. Climate destruction, wars and genocides, a cost of living that becomes unbearable, and a life which becomes harder and harder. Thus, people look for mechanisms to cope, for strategies to reclaim their right to remember but also to forget. In this context, social gatherings have a very significant role in canalizing human pain and building resilience. A resilience which persons know that it is not sufficient to revert the dire situation. It creates the possibilities though to sustain life.

Panos Achniotis

The project is built around the concept of resilience and proposes spatial tools that arise around questions concerning the ways in which a mobile structure engages with a community. Structure as ecology can be understood as a living organism to support a community and redefine what constitutes a community. These tools or modules are assembled to create structures to host multiple cultural events, even in the absence of any existing infrastructure. The modules can be reused in different situations, activated and moved by the input of other people, while introducing new spatial features to the existing space.

Evagoras Vanezis