Date/Time
04/04/2024 - 31/05/2024
10:00 - 17:00
A solo exhibition by Yorgia Karidi
Curated by Angeliki Tzortzakaki
4 April – 31 May 2024
Opening
Thursday, April 4 2024, 18.00 – 21.00
Live musical act: 19.30
I want to meet you in this place. I want to meet you where we leak, where we are almost nothing, here in someone else’s story. A place where I have given up almost everything: body, self, clarity, every component.
Jenny Hval, Girls Against God, Verso Books, 2020
Taking as starting points the voice, music and feminist literature around friendship, the exhibition Ode to friendship: Α score to speak from presents a new body of work by Yorgia Karidi for the first time in Greece at the THF RAW, the contemporary art series at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Arts and Music.
The artist, musician, performer and radio producer often refers to her work as “live sets”. Driven by a study on performativity, the live sets focus on vocals and are characterized by an original lively manner that stems from her interdisciplinary practice that includes painting, performances, ceramics and other media.
The present exhibition, Ode to friendship: A score to speak from, has been conceived in dialogue with curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki, as an anthology of proposals for meeting and connecting subjectivities in order to empower them and at the same time soften the boundaries that separate them, including and further exploring, the one of language. The multiple points of contact that develop through this process of connection give voicing and listening a shifting spatial dimension while relocating and activating latent processes of emotional and cultural charge, particularly that of gender. The above proposals, which take the form of graphic and verbal scores, an audio piece and sculptural installation and a performance program, invite the visitors to participate in a personal, yet shared, condition where the stage and public space merge.
The term “graphic score” was first encountered as a musical sheet marked with drawings and words, instead of notes. Now the term is more widely used in the performing arts as a set of instructions or tasks […] related to the creation of a performance and serving as a starting point for possible improvisation or as a communication tool for the creation of movement and action*. In the exhibition Ode to Friendship: A score to speak from, Karidi’s verbal scores are used as an artistic medium while they propose a recurrent state of rehearsing the creation of an attempted common space for connecting fluid bodies and subjectivities. An ode to gathering, invisible microstructures of support and intimacy resonate with a proposal of voicing while listening, echoing a pulse that permeates the transactions of today’s affective economies.
The exhibition is based on a sound walk, therefore we strongly advice that you bring your personal headphones.
*Dancing Museums Glossary by Susanne Franco and Gaia Clotilde Chernetich. Edited by Ariadne Mikou, accessed on 13.01.2024, free translation by the author https://www.dancingmuseums.com/artefacts/score/
Artist: Yorgia Karidi
Curator: Angeliki Tzortzakaki
Artistic Director: Marina Miliou Theocharakis
Exhibition Production Assistant: Nefeli Siafaka
Duration: April 4 – May 31 2024
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:00 – 17:00
Thursday: 17:00 – 21:00
General Admission: 2€
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PARALLEL EVENTS PROGRAM
Discussion with Danae Stefanou and Yorgia Karidis, screening of the documentary That Riff Ensemble and Live Set
13 April 2024
Saturday, 19.00 – 21.00
Workshop with Yorgia Karidi
26 April 2024
Friday, 18.00 – 20.00
Guided tour with the curator Angeliki Tzortzakaki
11 April, 30 May 2024
Thursday, 18.30
Finissage Ode to Friendship: concerto on the terrace of the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation
30 May 2024
Thursday, 19.30
BIOS
Yorgia Karidi is an artist, musician and performer based in Athens. Her practice transverses and combines painting, sculpture, video, performance and verbal scores and looks into how we perceive folk and pop music culture and literary lyricism, constructing a dictionary of rizom connections between memory, desire, consciousness, in order to offer this affect as a basis for transformation. Karidi has worked extensively with the human voice with a desire to understand the historical, political and cultural context that lies within the coexistence of a group of individuals. The exploration and encounter with her voice that originated from the body itself and the consciousness of the technical and artistic media, led to a connection with the community in which she belongs καɩ created collaborations with artists and musicians. Capturing and amplifying the poetics in the spontaneity, directness, and instinctiveness of the human affective gestures becomes for Karidi an important material to work with. At the same time, she works on similar themes with a group of teenagers from the KETHEA’s transitional prevention school, creating a documentary with them. Her work has been presented at: Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Greek National Opera, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, CAN Gallery, National Theatre, Matter [HYLE], French Institute, Goethe Institut, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Elefsina European Capital of Culture, Knot Gallery, Romance, Memphis (Leeds), HFF (Munich), Forum Stadtpark (Graz), Team Titanic (Berlin) and has been published on labels such as Nutty Wombat, Seagrave, Inner Ear Records, Trial & Error, Ecstatic and Bokeh Versions. She studied theater and film methodology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Patras and the Freie Universitaet Berlin, and is a graduate of the MFA in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Angeliki Tzortzakaki is a Cretan born curator and writer working in Amsterdam and Athens. Her practice often materializes in performative ways and explores narratives that wish to defy the nature-culture dichotomy. In this context, she investigates positions of agency as well as that of desire, (dis)embodiment, mutability and invisible labour, using elements such as fiction and autotheory in order to rethink one dimensional or binary approaches to knowledge production. In Amsterdam she is part of the curatorial team of the 2024 biennial Sonic Acts The Spell of the Sensuous; she works at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Fine Arts and collaborates closely with artist Mercedes Azpilicueta. She occasionally teaches at art academies on gender and writing. Her – often collaborative – work has been shown at Fries Museum (Leeuwarden), 2023 Elefsina Cultural Capital, HIAP (Helsinki), Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck), 19th Mediterranea Biennale (San Marino), among others, Onassis Foundation (Athens), Italian Institute (Tokyo), Ecofeminist Festival (Baku), JaJaJa NeeNeeNee Radio (Amsterdam), Theatrum Mundi (London), Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, etc. and her writings have been hosted by Flash Art International, Arts of the Working Class, ATP Diary, Lugemik, Building Fictions, Archive Books, If I Can’t Dance, Sandberg & Rietveld Research and De Appel, among others. Angeliki has co-organized the bi- artist residency program in peripheral areas of France and Italy from 2018 to 2022 and was a founding member of the research initiative Scores for Gardens.
