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ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 12 pm

— Ecological thinking through video art production

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
Participants
Igor Grubic, Kika Kyriakakou, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Adriana Rispoli, Yunnia Yang and Anna-Lena Tsutsui
Moderator
Amanda Masha Caminals
Date and hours
Tuesday 20 November 2018, 12 pm Add to calendar
Additional info
Meeting in Sala 2

This year LOOP takes part of the debates on the anthroposcenes —a new ethics and understanding of human beings and the human condition— through its annual prize LOOP Discover. Under the title “Towards a more sustainable future” LOOP Discover poses questions to the participating artists such as “How can we make the Earth a habitable place?” or “How can we direct ourselves towards a sustainable future?” This talk aims to broaden and deepen into the discourse initiated by the prize to promote new imaginaries and narratives that address the environmental crisis of the planet. Does art contribute to create environmental awareness? May it go further and transform our reality by an accompanying action through its production? What is the role and weight of video art production in this context?

Igor Grubic

Participant
Igor Grubic

Igor Grubic (Zagreb Croatia 1969) has been active as a multimedia artist from the beginning of the 1990ties. His work includes site-specific interventions in public spaces, photography, and film. In 2000 he started to
work as a producer and author of documentaries, tv reportages and socially committed commercials. His work has been exhibited in various international institutions among which Manifesta 4 (Frankfurt);
Tirana Biennial 2; 11.Istanbul Biennial; 4.Fotofestival (Mannheim); Manifesta 9 (Genk); Gwangju Biennale 20th Anniversary Special Project; ‘East Side Stories’, Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Thessaloniki biennale 5- Ident-
alter-ity; ‘The Value of Freedom’, Belvedere 21 (Vienna); ‘Zero Tolerance’, Moma PS1 (NY).

Kika Kyriakakou

Participant
Kika Kyriakakou

Member of ICOM
Collection & Exhibitions Manager Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Arts Editor Artnews newspaper
Kika Kyriakakou (BA, MSc) has been working in the cultural field as a Project Manager, a Communications Director and an Arts Writer and Editor for almost 10 years. She is a Member of the International Council of Museums and the Collection and Exhibitions Manager of Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative supervising all the arts and education related projects of the organization and undertaking its international expansion and
promotion. She is also contributing as an Arts Editor with articles on new media, film and contemporary art in the Artnews newspaper (Greek edition). She was a Mentor during the second culture hackathon organized by the British Council and Google in Athens. She has organized and curated various film festivals, screenings events and exhibitions related to moving image, contemporary art, sustainability and fashion partnering with ART21 NYC, Kunstlerhaus Vienna and the British Council amongst others. A self-taught photographer and videographer, she is particularly interested in urban imagery and gender history.

Athanasios Polychronopoulos

Participant
Athanasios  Polychronopoulos

Executive Chairman Polyeco Group
Director Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative
Mr Polychronopoulos is the executive chairman of Polyeco Group, a leader in provision of field services for waste management and oil spill response. He is the vice-president of Global Development and a member of the BoD of Polyeco S.A. He is also a member of the BoD of Environmental Protection Engineering S.A.
As an avid supporter of the Arts, in 2014, Mr Polychronopoulos founded Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative (PCAI), a non-profit organisation which aims to raise environmental awareness through art. Since 2015, Mr Polychronopoulos has been a member of the board of directors of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) Business Council for Sustainable Development. Mr Polychronopoulos studied business administration at the University of Piraeus and has since participated in a number of business administration and management seminars at the Universities of Stanford and Harvard.

Adriana Rispoli

Participant
Adriana Rispoli

Adriana Rispoli (Naples 1977) is an independent curator and art historian whose interests are mainly focused on art in the sphere of public space with social engagement though video art and performance. Since from the foundation in 2013, she is curator at Quartiere Intelligente, a non- profit association and urban regeneration space in the historical center of Naples with a mission on sustainability in different field. Among others, for Quartiere Intelligente she conceived Q.I. Vedo, a video art format in which national and international artists interpret the relationship between man, nature and culture by projecting visual messages on an urban wall and MontesantoArte a six months residence for young Italian artists focused on cross languages between visual arts, architecture, design, involving the local community in the process.
Focused on the dynamics of public art and the use of new languages ​​in unconventional contexts with the aim to develop contemporary art to a wider public, she curated the selection of contemporary art works for the undergrounds and exhibitions in the Railway Stations in Naples and abroad as well as the annual project Skins Taste in Rome for a 150 square meters façade of an ex factory.

Yunnia Yang

Curator
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Yunnia Yang

Yunnia Yang is a curator, art historian and art critic based in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1997 she received a MA in Art History from the St. Petersburg State University in Russia, and in 2009 she completed her PhD in Arts from National Taiwan Normal University with a thesis on the paranoic criticism of Salvador Dalì, with which she was awarded a S-An Aesthetics Award in 2010. Since 2011, she runs the long-term curatorial research on ‘ The Postmodern Condition in the contemporary art of Russia and Eastern Europe’. Among her most representative curatorial projects are: “ The Apocalyptic Sensibility: The New Media Art from Taiwan” (WRO Media Art Biennale 2013, Taipei Fine Art Museum in 2015), “Imagining Crisis” (MOCA Taipei in 2014, the contemporary art centers in Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Colombia and 34th Asolo Art Film Festival during 2014-2015) and “ TAIWAN VIDEA: the Taiwanese Avant-garde Video Exhibition” ( 2015 Asolo Art Film Festival). In 2016, she was invited by Asolo Art Film Festival Committee to present “Eco as a verb” and another video project, “TAIWAN VIDEA2.0:Cultural Encounter”. In May 2017, Yunnia was incited to present these two projects in the official program of the St. Petersburg Museum Night 2017. In 2017, her curatorial project “TAIWAN VIDEA 2017 Selection” has been touring internationally in Macedonia ( The Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje), Croatia (Galerija AŽ in Zagreb), Slovenia ( SCCA-Ljubljana), Germany (Rosalux in Berlin), and Italy (36th Asolo Art Film Festival). In 2017, Yunnia was also guest curator at the Yo-Chang Art Museum in National Taiwan University of Arts. Her latest curatorial project is The Eastern Europe/Russia Video Research “The In-Between State of Mind” commissed by 36th Asolo Art Film Festival in 2018 for the special program of BRICS ART. Dr. Yunnia Yang is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Sculpture at the National Taiwan University of Arts.

Anna-Lena Tsutsui

Participant
Anna-Lena  Tsutsui

In a life made of concrete and blinking advertisement, Anna-Lena Tsutsui identifies the traces of a natural force, in which human action has degenerated. Through her videos, photographs and sculptures she observes the residues of this force in a society that is
ready to transform everything into products. In the form of videos or photographs, the images proposed by the artist are evidence of what we have made of this primordial energy, of its variations and its forms.

She was born 1985 in Mainz, Germany, where she graduated in 2013 as a „Meisterschülerin”of Prof. Dieter Kiessling. In the same year she also graduated of the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts de Paris. After her studies she joined the residency program of SeMA Nanjii in Seoul. AT participated in group shows as VideoZone (Kunsthalle Mainz), Videomedeja, (Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina), 4th Festival for Young Art (Beijing), Circular Hands, Centripetal Eyes (Seoul Museum of Art), GREEN CITY (Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen) and personal shows as Ménagère, (Kunstverein Schwerin) or Sabine, es
kommt noch schlimmer. (Peng, Mainz).