Phenomenon 4

The fourth edition of Phenomenon included a public program between 27 June and 4 July 2022 and an exhibition that opened on 2 July and ran until 10 July 2022. 

Taking as a starting point the island’s life and the way it has been reshaped over the years—from its yearlong agricultural cycle until the 1980s, to currently accommodating a seasonal tourist period followed by a winter migration to the mainland—Phenomenon 4 explored the notion of time and the construction of temporalities and their effects on our daily lives. Time is not the same for all. In times of radical socio-political shifts and after a long period of stagnation, the linear conception of time needs to be questioned. By establishing another way of relating that foregrounds a shared experience of collaboration and coexistence, Phenomenon 4 invited us to reassess our relationship with time. In a remote place like Anafi, where time has a different pace, we were asked to reconsider our normative rhythms, to think and act differently. 

Μία συνομιλία μεταξύ του Γιάννη Κωνσταντινίδη και των Ιορδάνη Κερενίδη και Piergiorgio Pepe (εδώ)

PROGRAM

MONDAY 27 JUNE, 2022 

20:00–21:00
A welcome gathering by Phenomenon and the invited participants, including a screening of the short movie Antintalo by Yorgos Bakalis and Anafi’s Cinematographic Workshop
Central Square, Chora

TUESDAY 28 JUNE, 2022

21:30–23:00
When there is no more music to write, film screening by Éric Baudelaire
New School, Chora

23:00–late
Live Greek music with Takis Kororos and Dimitris Kranidas
Mylos Bar, Chora

WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE, 2022

19:00–20:00
Lecture and conversation with Karen Barad online followed by a Q&A session co-hosted by Harry Dodge and Iordanis Kerenidis
New School, Chora

21:30–23:30
Horse Opera, film screening by Moyra Davey followed by a conversation between Moyra Davey and Maggie Nelson
New School, Chora

00:00–late
Mrs. Lover Lover, party curated by Agape Harmani
Mylos Bar, Chora

FROM TODAY AND THROUGH THE SUMMER
Share your life with an image, by Oriol Vilanova
Komvos Shop, Chora

THURSDAY 30 JUNE, 2022 

20:30
Water binds me to your name, performance by Jimmy Robert, duration 15 min.
Klisidi Beach

FRIDAY 1 JULY, 2022

19:00–20:30
Reading and conversation with Maggie Nelson
Pou Pas Karavaki Cafe, Roukounas Beach

SATURDAY 2 JULY, 2022

18:00–21:00
Exhibition opening
Works by Éric Baudelaire, Moyra Davey, Ian Kiaer, Karolina Krasouli, Jimmy Robert, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Oriol Vilanova, Marina Xenofontos
Old School, New School, Mantres, Komvos, Lower Square, and Corner House

23:00
Music performance by Nalyssa Green
Argo Bar, Chora

00:00–late
Kastro Street, party curated by Agape Harmani
Argo Bar, Chora

SUNDAY 3 JULY, 2022

13:30–14:30
Borrowed Words, performance by Oriol Vilanova
Margarita’s Restaurant, Klisidi

18:00–20:00
Exhibition
Old School, New School, Mantres, Komvos, Lower Square, and Corner House

20:00–21:00
One million years, sound installation by On Kawara
Kastro, Chora

MONDAY 4 JULY, 2022

18:00–19:30
Art workshop for children with Karolina Krasouli
New School

19:00–21:00
Exhibition
Old School, New School, Mantres, Komvos, Lower Square, and Corner House

TUESDAY 5–SUNDAY 10 JULY, 2022

19:00–21:00
Exhibition
Old School, New School, Mantres, Komvos, Lower Square, and Corner House

MONDAY 11 JULY, 2022

End of program. Journey back.

φαινόμενα

φαινόμενα was a one-week program of contemporary art that took place on the Aegean island of Anafi, Greece, between 5–12 July, 2021, in collaboration with the invited art spaces 3 137, EIGHT, Enterprise Projects, The Island Club and State of Concept Athens, from Greece and Cyprus. It reflected and responded to a period where space, social interactions, travel, and scale, had been warped and revealed as constructs of institutional powers. φαινόμενα hoped to explore these times as an opportunity to rethink space, in particular public space, not as an external container, but as something that both gets created by and shapes bodies in a continuous, political struggle. 

6 JULY, 2021
Organised by STATE OF CONCEPT ATHENS

11:00–15:00
Her Name
Sound piece by Maria Sideri
House with palm tree, Chora

20:00
For the Exilius Mind
Poetry readings and video projection
Margarita’s restaurant, Kleisidi

A set of postcards were available in stores throughout the week

7 JULY, 2021
Organised by EIGHT

20:00
Given: 1. The Momentary Immobility, 2. The Cracks
A performance by Nova Melancholia and a work by VASKOS
New school, Chora

8 JULY, 2021
Organised by THE ISLAND CLUB

10:00–12:00
Self-portraits by Kyriacos Kyriakides
Aperanto Galazio rooms, Chora

12:00–14:00
Virtual navigation of online 3D models on Mozilla Hubs by Adonis Archontides
Argo cafe, Chora

20:00–21:00
One Minute, One Hour, One Month… One Million Years, 2019
Catalogue launch of the exhibition held at The Island Club with works from the Kerenidis Pepe Collection
Florans cafe, Port

22:30
Other Aspects of Reality
A live audiovisual performance by Androula Kafa
Port

All day
A series of posters by Ariadne Diogenous
Port jetty

9 JULY, 2021
Organised by 3 137

20:00
A mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events
Tombola game, light ray
Upper square, Chora

10 JULY, 2021
Organised by ENTERPRISE PROJECTS

All day
Over there
A communication campaign about the Archaeological Collection of Anafi (neon installation, posters, etc.)

20:00
A discussion with Markos Sigalas, in charge of the Archaeological Collection of Anafi
The Archaeological Collection of Anafi, Chora

11 JULY, 2021

23:00
Video screenings, curated by the Phenomenon team and the participants and featuring works by Vera Chotzoglou, Lola González, Basim Magdy, and VASKOS, amongst others
Port

Phenomenon 3

The third edition of Phenomenon took place on 1–14 July, 2019. The project investigated the role of art in times of political urgency. By questioning singular points of view and naturalized concepts, art offers new ways of imagining a collective life, producing forms of social engagement, counteracting authoritarian and populist ideologies. Phenomenon looked for strategies through art that enable encounters of differential forces and interests, circumvent constructed binary oppositions and realize the creative and political potential of the unstable in-between.

1 JULY, 2019

19:00–20:00
Ανάφης αρχαιολογίες
Presentation by Ιordanis Kerenidis
Politistikos room, Chora

20:00–21:00
Phenomenon 3: Indices
Presentation by Iordanis Kerenidis and Piergiorgio Pepe
Politistikos room, Chora

2 JULY, 2019

22:00–23:00
Far from God
A film by Margaret Kenna 
Lower square, Chora

3 JULY, 2019

11:30–12:30
Breakfast co-hosted by Paky Vlassopoulou
Monastery

20:00–21:30
Poetry reading by Eileen Myles
Margarita restaurant, Klisidi

4 JULY, 2019

11:00–12:00
Activity with watercolours by David Horvitz
Roukounas beach

20:00–21:00
I was alone/But I am alone
Real time activity by Vittorio Santoro
Upper square, Chora

23.00
DJ set by Deimantas Narkevičius
Mylos bar, Chora

5 JULY, 2019

19:00–21:00
Exhibition opening
Works by Eva Barto, Jason Dodge, David Horvitz, Florence Jung, Stelios Kallinikou, Jochen Lempert, Eileen Myles, Deimantas Narkevičius, Vittorio Santoro, Paky Vlassopoulou
New school, Chora

23:30–04:00
Opening Party
Argo cafe, Chora

6 JULY, 2019

22:00–23:30
Video screenings
Works by Francis Alÿs, Andres Barón, Detanico/Lain, bell hooks, Jay-Z (Arthur Jafa), Theo Prodromidis, Hito Steyerl
Port

7 JULY , 2019

20:00–21:00
One million years
Sound installation by On Kawara
Kastro, Chora

8 JULY, 2019

20:00–20:30
Mapping/Erasing
Real time activity by Vittorio Santoro
New school, Chora

23:00
Rebetika night with Dimitris Kranidas, Takis Kororos
Mylos bar, Chora

9 JULY, 2019

17:00–18:00
Touching the sky with your eye
Performance for children by David Horvitz
New school, Chora

10–14 JULY, 2019

At different times
I was alone/But I am alone
Real time activity by Vittorio Santoro
Chora

Phenomenon 2

The second edition of Phenomenon took place on 3–16 July, 2017. Phenomenon 2 looked at how histories, collective and personal, are socially constructed and constantly renegotiated. Anafi, at its small but telling scale, is a prime example of cultural stratification, where the Apollo temple quietly serves as the foundation of an orthodox monastery, while the history of the exiles that were held in Anafi has silently cohabited with the island’s local history. What are the forces at play that actualize the visible and the discursive and construct historical formations? How can history be retold and the master narrative denaturalized? The project investigated the circulation of images through space and time and argued for a multiplicity of partial and irreducible archaeologies that create new connections and open up the world to new kinds of imaginaries. 

3 JULY, 2017

20:00–21:00
Notes on Phenomenon
Presentation by Iordanis Kerenidis and Piergiorgio Pepe

Notes for Phenomenon
Text by Margaret Kenna
Old school, Chora

4 JULY, 2017​

20:00–22:00
Rivers (A Conversation)
Video program curated by Grégory Castéra
Work by Oscar Muñoz, Haris Epaminonda, Deimantas Narkevičius, Theo Angelopoulos, Clément Cogitore, Patricia Esquivias, Laura Huertas Millán, Allora & Calzadilla
Waiting room, Port

5 JULY, 2017

11:00–17:00
Translation/Exile,
Performance by Dora García
Around the island

19:30–21:00
​Sirens, Symbols, Serendipity
Lecture workshop by Paul Feigelfeld
Politistikos room, Chora

6 JULY, 2017

22:30–00:00
Five Feet High and Rising
DJ lecture by Mario García Torres
Mylos bar, Chora

7 JULY, 2017

19:30–22:00
Dying on Stage
Lecture performance by Christodoulos Panayiotou
Old school, Chora

8 JULY, 2017

19:00–21:00
Exhibition opening 
Works by Ignasi Aballí, Dora García, Mario García Torres, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Julien Nédélec, Christodoulos Panayiotou
New school, Chora

20:00–20:30
Analphabète
Dance performance by Lenio Kaklea
New school, Chora

00:00–04:00
Colourblind
Opening party
Argo cafe, Chora

9 JULY, 2017

19:30–21:00
White Cat
Listening session by Grégory Castéra
Waiting room, Port

10 JULY, 2017

20:00–21:00
One million years
Sound installation by On Kawara
Kastro, Chora 

​23:30–01:00
Readings and music
Glaros bar, Chora

11 JULY, 2017

22:30–01:00
Rebetika music night by Takis Kororos
Mylos bar, Chora

THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAM
Analphabète (excerpts)
Dance performances by Lenio Kaklea
Chora

Phenomenon 1

The first edition of Phenomenon took place on 6–19 July, 2015. A phenomenon is something that is made appear or brought to light, but that can, as easily, fall back into obscurity or oblivion. On this remote island, suddenly brought out of the darkness by Apollo to provide shelter to the Argonauts, the project explored contemporary art as a lens that reveals the invisible, blurs the apparent, gives access to unimaginable worlds. Confronted with its limits, through the sensorial shock of the bright white light and the infinite sea, the mind was summoned to experiment, trace multiple cartographies, displace its perspective and (re)create memories. Acting from the outskirts of the outskirts, art can propose new experiences and produce knowledge. In offering alternative ways of seeing and investigating the possibilities of the infinitesimal space between visible and discursive, the project looked to overcome established hierarchies, generate unexpected connections and be a force for change.

8 JULY, 2015

19:30–21:30
Screens and Phenomena in the Public Space (Athens, ca. 2009-2013)
Presentation by Kostas Ioannidis

The feeling of isolation in a place of exile, Anafi
Presentation by Sapfo Tavouti

Ways of Looking at Rocks, 
Presentation by Wendy Tronrud
Politistikos room, Chora

9 JULY, 2015

19:30–21:30 
An Idea of Phenomenon
Presentation by Théodora Domenech

Quantum Light, between Visibility and Statement
Presentation by Iordanis Kerenidis

Saying Almost the Same Thing (Translation as Experimentation)
Discussion with the invited participants
Politistikos room, Chora

10 JULY, 2015

20:30–22:00 
Video screenings with works by Anthony McCall, Ignasi Aballí, Mario García Torres, Michael Snow, Douglas Gordon, Robert Barry, Dora García
Politistikos room, Chora

11 JULY, 2015

19:00–22:00
Exhibition Opening
Works by Kostas Bassanos, Alejandro Cesarco, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Detanico/Lain, Haris Epaminonda, Nina Papaconstantinou 
New school, Chora

00:00
The Blitz Replay
Opening Party
Argo bar, Chora

12 JULY, 2015

20:30–21:15
One million years
Sound installation by On Kawara
Kastro, Chora