Sun 26th - Mon 27th June 2022, 4:00 - 6:30PM GMT
Over two days of conversations in the context of 'Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data' exhibition, artists, scholars, authors, and researchers are coming together to discuss what kind of bodies we are creating through technologies and technological worlds.
image: Happiness by Dries Verhoeven (photography credits Pinelopi Gerasimou)
Plasmata: Bodies Re-imagined is a series of conversations and debates taking place in the context of Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data, an outdoor exhibition at Athens’ biggest public park exploring the body – individual, collective, human, non-human, planetary – and how technology and technologically constructed worlds are shaping, affecting and impacting our bodies, identities and place in the planet.
Plásmata focuses on the body not just as the locus of subjectivity, but also as the field of identity, political, and social conflict, as the core of both pleasure and pain, and ultimately of our very existence.
Over two days of conversations, artists, scholars, authors and researchers are coming together to discuss what kind of bodies we are creating through technologies and technological worlds; bodies that are unequal, invisible, absent, controlled or defined by binaries. How are artists reinventing bodies and subverting online worlds? What kind of bodies are we envisioning, creating and engineering? Can new human manifestations – organic and machinic, human and non-human, integrated in nature, help us rethink humanness and envision multiple perspectives and equity across all forms of life?
The conference and the Plásmata exhibition has been curated by our FutureEverything Creative Director Irini Mirena Papadimitriou.
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16:00 (GMT) Introduction with Prodromos Tsiavos (Head of Digital and Innovation at Onassis Foundation) and Irini Mirena Papadimitriou (Creative Director at FutureEverything)
16:05 Absent bodies: Value, (in)equality, control and bodies.
Provocations by artists Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Caroline Sinders and Ekene Ijeoma
Followed by conversation and audience Q&A
Chaired by Irini Mirena Papadimitriou, curator, Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data
17:05 Brave new worlds
A conversation between Keiken and Lucy Sollitt on metaverse imaginations, online worlds, bodies and identities.
16:00 (GMT) Introduction with Prodromos Tsiavos (Head of Digital and Innovation at Onassis Foundation) and Irini Mirena Papadimitriou (Creative Director at FutureEverything)
16:05 Breaking the binary: Technoscience, future bodies and gender politics.
Provocations by artists Dora Bartilotti, Mary Maggic and Ani Liu
Followed by conversation and audience Q&A
Chaired by Helen Kaplinsky, curator, writer and researcher
17:05 More than human: rethinking humanness
A conversation delving into the practices, theories and meaning behind ideas of hybridity, post-humanism, interspecies entanglements and symbiosis.
With Piritta Puhto, curator and senior producer at Bioart Society, artist and researcher Saša Spačal, and Ariane Koek, Initiator and Founding Director of Arts at CERN.
The ‘Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data’ exhibition is a journey unfolding through Pedion tou Areos – Athens’ largest public park – presenting work by international artists exploring themes and ideas around bodies after technology, constructed worlds, identities and boundaries, but also imagining new territories, connections and places of co-existence. The exhibition will be on display in Athens until July 10th, 2022.
Plásmata: Bodies, Dreams, and Data’ has been commissioned by Onassis Foundation and curated by FutureEverything Creative Director Irini Mirena Papadimitriou
Image credits
Happiness by by Dries Verhoeven (image taken by Pinelopi Gerasimou), Breathing Pavilion by Ekene Ijeoma (image taken by Stelios Tzetzias) and We Are Having The Time Of Our Lives by SUPERFLEX (image taken by Pinelopi Gerasimou)
