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Kamariza, Lavrion. “Spontaneous Habitation”

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PIKPA, E1 Piraeus port. “To be there!”

Mıcrogeographıes ınvestıgate the sıtuatıon of the refugee camp ın Greece and in particular in Pıraeus, Ellinikon and Mytilene, Lesbos, through a series of visits, in situ installations and performances of the artists Maria Sarri and Angelos Skourtis. Theır activity emphasizes the observation and personal experience of the camps, creating a personal relation with refugees and

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E2 Gate Pireaus Port. “ΕΣΥ-ΕΙΜΑΙ (TU – IO SONO )” / Part2

Continuing the political action TU – IO SONO in locations that refugees live in Athens and Piraeus, Angelos Skourtis creates on April 05.2015in the port of Piraeus a human clothes retained by the teeth of his partners and which hangs the washed clothes of refugees. The performance took place in collaboration with Vilma Vassilakis and

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Angelos Skourtis, “Tu – Io Sono” (Part1), Victoria square

Mıcrogeographıes ınvestıgate the sıtuatıon of the refugee camp ın Greece and in particular in Pıraeus, Ellinikon and Mytilene, Lesbos, through a series of visits, in situ installations and performances of the artists Maria Sarri and Angelos Skourtis. Theır activity emphasizes the observation and personal experience of the camps, creating a personal relation with refugees and

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Bageion. Presentation

Presentation of Microgeographies narratives “Accidental Guide of Urban Commoning”(2013) and “Revification of Ancient Ruins”(WWSf, 2014) which are centered around Artemis Agrotera Temple and its incorporation at the everyday urban life. The presentation was at the context of “ILIS-SOS” project by the Residents of Mets Initiative. It was hosted at Bageion, a historic deserted hotel in

Green Park. “Spontaneous Habitation”, “Symbiosis”

Microgeographies participated at the Activation of GREEN PARK on 19-29 June 2015 with two performances on Thursday 25 June 2015 in the following chronological order: Spontaneous habitation by Hariklia Hari and Symbiosis by Angelos Skourtis (Symbiosis from Greek συμβίωσις “living together”) (Reading extracts from the text of the program of the Activation of Green

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Block 15. “The Return of Orpheus in Hades”

Haidari concentration camp (Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Χαϊδαρίου, stratópedo syngéntrosis Chaidaríou, German: KZ Chaidari) was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. Operating from September 1943 until it was shut down in September 1944, it was the largest and

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Haidari concentration camp – Block 15. Walk, public discussion and performance

Haidari concentration camp (Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Χαϊδαρίου, stratópedo syngéntrosis Chaidaríou, German: KZ Chaidari) was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II. Operating from September 1943 until it was shut down in September 1944, it was the largest and

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Foothills of Acropolis and Filopappou. Architectural Walk in Athenian Modernism

Pavement near Syntagma Square. Visit at the squat

First visit at the occupied pavement outside the Ministry of Finance at Syntagma square. With the artist Maria Sarri During the visit at the spontaneous settlement by the Cleaning Women at Syntagma square, we had the chance to discuss with them the reasons of their occupying the pavement and the ways they arrange their everyday

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Temple of Artemis Agrotera. “Gradiva walks through the wall of Stuart and Revett’s Lost Temple”

I was 19 years old, and studying architecture, when I began writing an essay on the Temple of Artemis Agrotera in Agrae (Panagia stin Petra). I was impressed by the elegence deriving from its harmonic Ionian structure, but neither the fragility nor the urbane proportions of the temple was what kept me keen on it..Nor

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The Athens Center. “Investigating the Context”

Microgeographies ch5 “ Revivification of Ancient Ruins ” explores the possibility of incorporating deserted archaeological sites in the everyday city life, starting from the remains of Artemis Agrotera Temple. Through a unity of site-specific art works and public discussions. At this context we presented the photographic presentation by architect Iosif Effraimidis and artist Panayiotis Lamprou

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Office. “Beyond Walden (on Thoreau’s Cabin)”

Beyond Walden (on Thoreau’s Cabin) is a site specific installation (video/sound installation, wooden cabin) by Rika Krithara. Based on Thoreau’s cabin, an installation about the safety of the shell. Constructing collectively a deserted, sinking cabin inside an abandoned architectural office, habitation widens negating the protective shell of a clear, expected structure. The potential of a

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Artificial Lake behind Athens School of Fine Arts. “Nowness”

Rafaella Constantinou organised a public intervention that focused on the most appealing, yet neglected and unfrequented part of the route: the pond or “construction site” as it is often referred to by the owner of the land – which is what it originally was before it was filled up with water. Constantinou sought to

Pavement next to industrial ruins of Athens School of Fine Arts. “Relocation I : pic nic”

Relocation I: pic nic, a public, participatory action planned and organised by Evangelia Raftopoulou took place on that cloudy Wednesday afternoon on the sidewalk that is part of the route followed by the Itinerant Photography Lab. Raftopoulou cooked stuffed tomatoes (“gemista”, a traditional Greek dish) and invited friends and fellow students from the Athens School

Athens School of Fine Arts. Performative discussion

Panos Charalambous upon the invitation of Microgeographies@Storefrontnyc narrates the activation of the autoorganised space of the Athens School of Fine Arts (256 Pireaus str) from a group of teachers and students back in the 90’s. The narrative is performed on the top of a tree in the garden. Panos Charalambous invites Hariklia Hari to climb

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synomilontas me ta fantasmata tou kentrou; Μία διαδρομή στο κέντρο της Αθήνας με αφορμή την εκπομή της Αλκυόνης Καραμανώλη

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Ardittos Association, Mets. Discussion on the disenchantment of the archaeological site of Artemis Agrotera, Mets.

Discussion at the space of Ardittos Association which focused on the gradual disenchantment of the site over the years ,and the processes by which we attempt to re- vivificate ancient monuments through the therapeutic use of art work. In the discussion we referred to examples delineated and actions made in this and other sites, we

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Artemis Agrotera. “The Procession”

On the road head behind the temple of Artemis Agrotera was produced “The Procession”, an urban mural by Marianna Lyra. “The Procession” frames Kefalou str, one of the four streets that define the specific archaeological site, and captures two processions, the past and present that offer symbolic gifts to the future. The artist Marianna Lyra,

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Artemis Agrotera. “Rising”

“Rising”, is an interactive performance by artist Nikos Stathopoulos. It took place at the Courtyard of Artemis Agrotera Temple-Mets (at the side of Ardittou Street at the elevated part of the pavement that forms the courtyard of the temple of Artemis Agrotera). Rising is a work where the artist as well as the viewer experiences

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Pireaus and Microlimano. “Reveries and Realities” research trip (day 2)

At the context of World Wide Storefront, Microgeographies presented “Reveries and Realities”: a unity of in situ installations, performances and routes, personal and collective, regarding the lived experience of deserted places, starting from the remains of the ancient Sacred Way and ending to the coast of West Attica-Chaidari and Piraeus. This research and experiential trip

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Korydallos Prison. “Prison as an Invisible Island”

«Φυλακή σαν ένα Αόρατο Νησί»* Το ταξίδι μου στο «Αόρατο Νησί» ΣΔΕ (Σχολείο Δεύτερης Ευκαιρίας) φυλακών Κορυδαλλού, κράτησε τρεις ώρες. Τρεις ώρες σημαντικές για μένα και ελπίζω και για τους 25 ενήλικες έγκλειστους, που συνεργαστήκαμε μέσω της τέχνης. Το θέμα με το οποίο συμμετείχα σε αυτό το πρόγραμμα είχε σαν αφετηρία, το περίκλειστο σχήμα ενός

Orizontas autoorganised space. Discussion on Polis and Democracy and presentation of the project “Invisible Islands”

Orizontas autoorganised space is located in Metaxourgeio, one block from Demosion Sema. Microgeographies have continually collaborated with Orizontas, as also on the events of October 31; in the evening after the Public Reading of Pericle’s Epithaph at Demosion Sema, we continued there our performative reading and discussion, and reflected on our recent wandering in time,

Demosion Sema. Public Reading of Pericles’ Epitaph (Thucydides, II.34-46)

Reveries and Realities research trip@Storefrontnyc, day 1, evening: we performed the second (1) public reading of the funeral oration of Pericles. The public performance was held on October 31, 2014, at 19.45, at Demosion Sema, the public cemetery of the ancient city of Athens. In his famous speech, known from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian

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Sanctuary of Aphrodite at Skaramagas. “Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire; Ophelia II”

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Yiannis Theodoropoulos, “Raw fruits memorial”, Sanctuary of Aphrodite (Skaramaga)

The totem sculpture “Raw fruits memorial” is a metaphor, a relocation of the actual sculpture from Yiannis Theodoropoulos garden. It consists of raw fruits that the artist for personal reasons decided not to eat, and in deep sorrow, decided to devote them to the sculpture in the garden of his house in Pefki. Parallel to

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Office. “Sentimental Topography” part1

Hariklia Hari’s Reveries at Ilissia Forest by the Office. It is narrated with photos, drawings, writings and microsculptures. Part of the Office’s installation “Sentimental Topography” (in collaboration with A.Giannakouros)

Void – 1rst Floor. “The Neighborhood, the Inhabitants and their Stories”

photos by Kazeron In “Urban Stories from the Center of Athens”, Microgeographies narrative unfolds in both “Arch_06 Lab” and “Void@1rst Floor”. These places are located almost door-to-door in Psyrri area at the center of Athens; an area and a community that undergoes gentrification. Void@1rst floor hosted the Action-Installation of the work in progress “The

Arch_06 Lab. “Urban Stories from the Center of Athens”, a Workshop on Methods on Public Space

In “Urban Stories from the Center of Athens”, Microgeographies narrative unfolds in the sites “Arch_06 Lab” (A) and “Void@1rst Floor”(K) that are located almost door-to-door in Psyrri area at the center of Athens; an area and a community that undergoes gentrification. In collaboration with architectural and artistic groups and residents that continually work on public

Arch_06 Lab. “5-7 Riga Palamidou str.”, a site specific work by Katerina Zafeiropoulou

Starting from Microgeographies focus on “Urban Stories from the Center of Athens” curated by Hariklia Hari, Katerina Zafeiropoulou created the site specific work “5-7 Riga Palamidou str.” at Arch_06 (A). Located in the gentrified area of Psyrri, Arch_06 was included into Microgeograpies narrative as a paradigm of a new model of working space resisting the

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Deserted Building. “Persistence Obscura” by Rika Krithara

Persistence Obscura: video projection at the facade of the Deserted Building of 6 Neofronos str by the visual artist Rika Krithara. The Deserted House is a small eclecticist house that was donated in the 70s to the Municipality of Kesariani, to become an Infantry station. It remains closed and exists in a state of gradual

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Street in front of the Office. “Social Memory Design” by Metoo

Social memory design by Metoo (Aliki Kakoulidou – Dimitra Vasilakou) Pictures everywhere; In grandmother’s wovens, in family’s embroideries, during our trips, while visiting a museum… We were always interested in the revival of traditional folk art motifs as part of our heritage and their use in our everyday life.Working as graphic designers during the past

Office. “8 Stenon Portas str”, a site specific work by Katerina Zafeiropoulou

Katerina Zafeiropoulou, “8 Stenon Portas str”, site specific work Katerina Zafeiropoulou intermingles the view of the window with the actual space, creating an inner perspective. The leaves of the forest are reflected and drawn on the window.

Office. “Transperancies and the Sacred” (Exhibition no2)

The narrative of the Office “Transperancies and the Sacred” is centered around the site specific installations by the artists Christos Kotsoulas (Capten), Katerina Zafeiropoulou and Metoo (Aliki Kakoulidou, Dimitra Vasilakou) and a performance by Angelos Skourtis. Curated by Hariklia Hari Capten created a cage-mousetrap. Within it the artist incorporated an old furniture deriving from the

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Storefront for Art and Architecture. WWSf exhibition installation

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The Courtyard of Artemis Agrotera Temple. “MetsGiving (The Gift)”

Site: Artemis Agrotera Courtyard (Diana Agrotera)

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Storefront for Art and Architecture, NY. Microgeographies announced as part of WorldWideStorefront (WWSf)

Storefront for Art and Architecture | Programming: Events: Winners: WorldWide Storefront. Storefront for Art and Architecture announces the 10 selected projects that will be part of WorldWide Storefront (“WWSF”), a new initiative to provide a simultaneous, multi-locus of alternative spaces around the globe and a digital platform for the expression and exchange of latent desires

Loft. A celebration

Angela Svoronou: “About the celebration at the Loft” The invigilator of the exhibition was unable to fulfil his duties. So I took the responsibility to invigilate the exhibition for a day; it seemed rather natural, since I was one of the exhibitors. Thus it was arranged: on Saturday, November 9th, I would open the exhibition,

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Former Bookshop Estia. Installation and Performance

Άγγελος Σκούρτης, Εγκατάσταση – Περφόρμανς “Συχνά οι Δεσποινίδες της Αβινιόν έβλεπαν την Τραβιάτα”. Στο κλείσιμο του βιβλιοπωλείου “Εστία”. Στο πλαίσιο των Μικρογεωγραφιών “Toi et tes Epaves” σε επιμέλεια Χαρίκλειας Χάρη, πραγματοποιήθηκε στο χώρο του βιβλιοπωλείου της ΕΣΤΙΑΣ επί της οδού Σόλωνος, την Πέμπτη 31 Οκτωβρίου στις 9 το βράδυ η ποιητική περφόρμανς και εγκατάσταση του

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Tatoi Palace. “Agamemnon”

Ο Γιάννης Θεοδωρόπουλος μας μιλάει για το έργο του “Αγαμέμνων”: “Πήγαινα για πολλά χρόνια για περπάτημα στα Βασσιλικά κτήματα στο Τατόι. Φωτογράφησα αυτό το συμβολο κτυπημένο από σφαίρες πολεμικού όπλου, έτσι νόμιζα τότε, τελικά ήταν από κυνηγητική καραμπίνα με σφαίρες για αγριογούρουνα. Το σύμβολο είναι τυπωμένο σε μία τεράστια μαρμάρινη γλάστρα στον κήπο ενος από

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Open Case 303. An Accidental Guide to Urban Commoning @ White House Biennial: Exercises on Democracy

Microgeographies II: An Accidental Guide to Urban Commoning. Microgeographies is a work in progress on the transformations of specific socio-geographic environments. It focuses the action of local communities, as well as on some small-scale, minimal actions by social and artistic groups which assert a more poetic and political aspect of everyday life and function as

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CAMP!. Exhibition “An accidental guide to urban commoning”

Microgeographies II. An Accidental Guide to Urban Commoning. Part I: Camp, exhibition installation Microgeographies II. An Accidental Guide to Urban Commoning. Part I: Camp, exhibition installation from Microgeographies on Vimeo. Microgeographies is a work in progress on the transformations of specific socio-geographic environments. In particular “An Accidental Guide to Urban Commoning” refers to the archeological

Faliron. SEANATK. “Desert”

“The temporary action «Desert» took place within the project Microgeographies I which was curated and produced by Hariklia Hari as a parallel event of Art Athina 2011. The area of New Faliron was intensely rebuilt for the Athens Olympic games of 2004. While this massive reconstruction scheme brought a radical change in its old usages,

Faliro Pavillion Tae Kwon Do and Nautical Club SEANATK. Microgeographies parallel exhibitions and events, ART-ATHINA 2011

Microgeographies is a work in progress on the transformations of specific socio-geographic environments. In particular it refers to the area of Faliron bay after the massive changes that followed the Olympic Games 2004. It focuses on the action of local communities, as well as on some small-scale, minimal actions by social and artistic groups which

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Kamariza, Lavrion. “Spontaneous Habitation”

August 23, 2016October 17, 2016 Hariklia Hari

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PIKPA, E1 Piraeus port. “To be there!”

May 7, 2016November 4, 2016 Hariklia Hari

Mıcrogeographıes ınvestıgate the sıtuatıon of the refugee camp ın Greece and in particular in Pıraeus, Ellinikon and Mytilene, Lesbos, through a series of visits, in situ installations and performances of the artists Maria Sarri and Angelos Skourtis. Theır activity emphasizes the observation and personal experience of the camps, creating a personal relation with refugees and

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E2 Gate Pireaus Port. “ΕΣΥ-ΕΙΜΑΙ (TU – IO SONO )” / Part2

April 5, 2016October 6, 2016 Hariklia Hari

Continuing the political action TU – IO SONO in locations that refugees live in Athens and Piraeus, Angelos Skourtis creates on April 05.2015in the port of Piraeus a human clothes retained by the teeth of his partners and which hangs the washed clothes of refugees. The performance took place in collaboration with Vilma Vassilakis and

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Angelos Skourtis, “Tu – Io Sono” (Part1), Victoria square

March 6, 2016October 21, 2016 Hariklia Hari

Mıcrogeographıes ınvestıgate the sıtuatıon of the refugee camp ın Greece and in particular in Pıraeus, Ellinikon and Mytilene, Lesbos, through a series of visits, in situ installations and performances of the artists Maria Sarri and Angelos Skourtis. Theır activity emphasizes the observation and personal experience of the camps, creating a personal relation with refugees and

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Bageion. Presentation

November 25, 2015October 6, 2016 Hariklia Hari

Presentation of Microgeographies narratives “Accidental Guide of Urban Commoning”(2013) and “Revification of Ancient Ruins”(WWSf, 2014) which are centered around Artemis Agrotera Temple and its incorporation at the everyday urban life. The presentation was at the context of “ILIS-SOS” project by the Residents of Mets Initiative. It was hosted at Bageion, a historic deserted hotel in

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Green Park. “Spontaneous Habitation”, “Symbiosis”

June 25, 2015January 23, 2017 Hariklia Hari

Microgeographies participated at the Activation of GREEN PARK on 19-29 June 2015 with two performances on Thursday 25 June 2015 in the following chronological order: Spontaneous habitation by Hariklia Hari and Symbiosis by Angelos Skourtis (Symbiosis from Greek συμβίωσις “living together”) (Reading extracts from the text of the program of the Activation of Green

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