Phenomenon 5
24 June–7 July, 2024
Phenomenon 5 included a public program, featuring readings, performances, screenings, and other events, free and open to the public, between June 24-30 and an art exhibition across the island from June 29 until July 7.
For its fifth edition, Phenomenon reflected on the ten years since its conception, exploring the notion of re-turning, not as in going back to a specific past, but as a performative practice that (re)configures reality. Beginning with the histories of Anafi —from antiquity and the Argonauts, through the interwar era and the exiles, to modern times and seasonal migration— phenomenon has aimed at broad explorations throughout its editions: seeking alternative ways of seeing, understanding how collective and personal histories are socially constructed, and looking for strategies through art to create a shared experience of collaboration and coexistence. After ten years, not only do these explorations retain their affective potential, but the need for their re-contextualization, re-thinking, and diffractively re-turning is vital.
PARTICIPANTS: Majd Abdel Hamid, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, CAConrad, Pierre Leguillon, Zoe Leonard, Valentina Magaletti, Iris Touliatou, Maria Toumazou, Trevor Yeung.
Full exhibition program here.
This program is realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, NEON Organization for Culture and Development, Pylon Art & Culture, Argo – the friends of phenomenon (Pedro Barbosa, Daniel Bosser and Boris Borisavljevic, Elisabeth and Yves Monlibert, Elia Mourtzanou, Olivier Provendier, and Andre Zivanari), Institut français de Grèce, Spiti tis Kyprou, Trampoline – Association in support of the French art scene, Paris, the Kerenidis Pepe Collection, Quantum Ethics, and Blue Star Ferries. All details of funding are available upon request.
Press Kits to download here, in Greek and in English.
PROGRAM
MONDAY 24 JUNE
20:00–21:00
Welcome gathering
Lower Square, Chora
21:30
The Custom of Klidon and St. John’s fires
Traditional music night organized by the Cultural Association of Anafi, with the support of Phenomenon
Upper Square, Chora
TUESDAY 25 JUNE
20:00–21:00
Poetry reading by CAConrad
Ktima Roukounas, Roukounas beach
WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE
24:00
Slay 4 U, party
Mylos Bar, Chora
THURSDAY 27 JUNE
18:00–20:30
A Queer Anthology of Drums
Screening by Valentina Magaletti
Arsenale, Port
20:30–22:00
Screening and conversation with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz and Zoe Leonard
Cafe Florans, Port
FRIDAY 28 JUNE
17:00–18:00
Basta Now (Women, Trans & Non-Binary in Experimental Music)
Playlist by Valentina Magaletti and Fanny Chiarello
Loupa Bar, Roukounas beach
22:00–24:00
La Promesse de l’écran by Pierre Leguillon
Mylos Bar, Chora
24:00
ReWind, party
Mylos Bar, Chora
SATURDAY 29 JUNE
18:00–21:00
Exhibition opening
Corner House, New School, Old KEP, Old School, Stomochi Bar, the streets of Chora, some light poles around Chora, at the petrol station and on the way to the port, and the island’s bus stops
SUNDAY 30 JUNE
18:00–20:00
Exhibition
Corner House, New School, Old KEP, Old School, Stomochi Bar, the streets of Chora, some light poles around Chora, at the petrol station and on the way to the port, and the island’s bus stops
20:00-21:00
One Million Years
Sound installation by On Kawara
Kastro, Chora
MONDAY 1 JULY
18:00–19:00
Children’s workshop by Paky Vlassopoulou
New School, Chora
18:00–20:00
Exhibition
Corner House, New School, Old KEP, Old School, Stomochi Bar, the streets of Chora, some light poles around Chora, at the petrol station and on the way to the port, and the island’s bus stops
TUESDAY 2–SUNDAY 7 JULY
18:00–20:00
Exhibition
Corner House, New School, Old KEP, Old School, Stomochi Bar, the streets of Chora, some light poles around Chora, at the petrol station and on the way to the port, and the island’s bus stops
Design of the Lower Square wall piece by Goda Budvytytė.