DAI BULLETIN 5, January 2018: Thessaloniki
In this bulletin you will find the outline for the fifth roaming DAI Week of the 2017-2018 DAI Art Praxis trajectory. This time our program unfolds in Greece. Our 56 students, their regular tutors as well as guest tutors, all meet in Thessaloniki (a city rife with reminiscences of its multi-layered, multi-cultural past), for seminars, face-to-face meetings, curated city-walks, a public symposium, presentations and study groups interspersed with countless communal meals, the latter carefully prepared by the Thessaloniki based parents of alumna Viki Semou (DAI, 2010).
Staff & (guest)tutors on board:
Nick Aikens, Aslak Aamot Kjærulff, Bassam El Baroni, Ayşe Çavdar, Nikos Doulos, Galit Eilat, Köken Ergun, Florian Göttke, Annie Fletcher, David Hilmer Rex, Anthony Iles, Nataša Ilić, Victoria Ivanova, Navine Khan-Dossos, Ricardo Liong-A-Kong, Sven Lütticken, Marianna Maruyama, Savas Michael-Matsas, Ruth Noack, Rachel O'Reilly, Anna Pangalou, Emily Pethick, Julien Reid, Katya Sander, Peter Sattler, Gabriëlle Schleijpen, Mama's Taper, Silvia Ulloa, Leire Vergara and Hypatia Vourloumis.
Thanks to Galit Eilat's project Syndrome of the Present which partly merges with our Planetary Campus, we are able to re-connect with alumna Sonia Kazovsky (DAI, 2017), with Michailis Daskalakis as well as with Merel Eimers and Erden Kosova. For more information scroll to Sunday, 21 January.
We greet prospective student Eshan Rafi. They came all the way up to Thessaloniki in order to get a grasp on the DAI's educational praxis and daily routines, and we furthermore welcome Luca Napoli, master student at the Werkplaats Typografie, our sister program at the ArtEZ Graduate School, who from the 20th onward joins one of our COOP Academy study-groups.
During our stay Europe's precarious political reality is omnipresent: a huge mass demonstration took place on Saturday the 20th. Nationalists, including the fascists of Golden Dawn, had come to Thessaloniki from all over Greece in order to protest the inclusion of the word “Macedonia” in the name of the neighboring former Yugoslav republic. The same day a group of 60 to 70 extremists attacked the Libertatia squat in Thessaloniki and it was reported that the police did nothing to stop them. The building with a history of more than 100 years, and occupied by anarchist groups had been serving as a social center for the homeless and a school for migrants. It burned down to the ground. The next day clashes between anarchists and the police erupted throughout the city.
DAI WEEK 5 | 19 - 25 January 2018
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Friday, 19 January, 15:00 to Thursday, 25 January, 14:00
+ Three COOP ACADEMY extensions [information at bottom of bulletin]
Student accommodation: Stay Hybrid, I. Dragoumi 61
- No alcohol consumption at Stay Hybrid is permitted
- Realty & Practicing Articulation, Articulating Practice COOP groups Athens location: Hotel Orion & Dryades, Em. Benaki 105 & Anexsartisias
Tutor & staff accommodation: Hotel Olympia, Olympou St 65
Team on location:
Director & host: Gabriëlle Schleijpen
Supervising manager DAI WEEK 5: Nikos Doulos
Senior co-ordinator PLANETARY CAMPUS: Nikos Doulos
Guest curator PLANETARY CAMPUS: Galit Eilat
Facilitator COOP ACADEMY: Ricardo Liong-A-Kong
Co-ordinator internal communication: Ricardo Liong-A-Kong
Co-ordinator care: Peter Sattler
Documentation PLANETARY CAMPUS: Silvia Ulloa
Chef: Mama's Taper (lunches/dinners)
Program per day:
Thursday after lunch DAI Week 5 ends, but some students and tutors will stay longer in Greece for the so-called
COOP Academy extensions:
Participants of Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life and Topologies of Touch will continue their seminars in Thessaloniki, today between 14:00 to 22:00
Participants of Practicing Articulation, Articulating Practice will continue their seminar in Athens (until their departure on Tuesday, 30 January.)
Friday, 26 January
Participants of Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life and Topologies of Touch will continue their seminars in Thessaloniki, today between 9:00 to 22:00
Participants of Practicing Articulation, Articulating Practice will continue their seminar in Athens (until their departure on Tuesday, 30 January.)
Saturday, 27 January
Participants of Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life and Topologies of Touch will continue their seminars in Thessaloniki, today between 9:00 to 13:00. For them the DAI-week ends after lunch.
Participants of Practicing Articulation, Articulating Practice will continue their seminar in Athens (until their departure on Tuesday, 30 January.)
Additionally, Galit Eilat's SYNDROMES OF THE PRESENT seminar will take place from
Friday, 26 January - Sunday, 28 January
With the participation of DAI students Karina Sarkissova and Baha Görkem Yalim.
Helpful travelguide: https://thessaloniki.travel/en/
