This year’s SNF Nostos Conference frames a set of interactive installations, exhibitions, and VR experiences. The program of the SNF Nostos Conference and the parallel program of events, have been designed in collaboration with the non-profit journalistic organization iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development).
What will hospitals look like in the future? Do you want to try surfing on the Channel of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), without getting wet? Is it possible to feel another person’s pulse without touching him?
You can learn all this through your participation in SNF Nostos, the established open event of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (ISN), which this year becomes SNF Nostos Health and focuses on the most important human good: health.
This year’s SNF Nostos Conference frames a set of interactive installations, exhibitions, and VR experiences. The program of the SNF Nostos Conference and the parallel program of events, have been designed in collaboration with the non-profit journalistic organization iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development).
During “SNF Nostos 2022”, the public can browse the exhibition “A Template for Future Hospitals” of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) which presents the three new hospitals of the ISN Health Initiative, to take part in Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Remote Pulse” and “Recorded Assembly” interactive installations to play tennis, dance, surf, yoga and climb in a virtual reality environment with the VR experiences proposed by this year’s SNF Nostos program .
At the same time, he will have the opportunity to travel on a world map with health data, in the exhibition “An Interactive Global Experience with Health Data”, from Johns Hopkins University and to visit the photography exhibition “On Peace” by Theodore Nikolaou, for a multifaceted view of the world of mental health.
The above actions open with free admission to the public on June 17.
Detailed program:
Exhibition: “A Template of Future Hospitals” by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) (June 17 – July 3, 2022, 10: 00-22: 00, Reception of the National Library of Greece (EBE), SNFCC)
In 2017, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (ISS) in a shared vision with the architectural firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) and in collaboration with Betaplan began to collaborate, in the framework of the ISS International Health Initiative, with the aim of creating model hospitals for the future and the delivery of three of them to the National Health System. The General Hospital of Komotini ISN, the General Hospital of Sparta ISN and the University Pediatric Hospital of Thessaloniki ISN will operate as state-of-the-art, public hospitals of international standards, based in areas with limited access to health services, located in the Greek region, providing for all. With their completion and delivery scheduled for 2025, the three hospitals aspire to become international benchmarks in the field of hospital infrastructure. The exhibition includes architectural models, floor plans and drawings, as well as 3D illustrations of the three hospitals.
Interactive Installations: “Remote Pulse” & “Recorded Assembly” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
(June 17 – July 3, 2022, All Day, Canals & Market, SNFCC) – Remote Pulse
A large number of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s artistic installations and works are presented on a large scale, captivating the viewer, while in order to put them into operation, they require the participation of the public. Creating works of art that include biometric elements is especially timely. The artist, however, uses this technology, not to make measurements, but to increase the connection and communication between people. In this interactive installation, two people in different locations can feel each other’s heartbeat without any other identifying indication. A complex idea is communicated with a simple heartbeat. The Remote Pulse project was originally presented as part of the Lozano-Hemmer Border Tuner facility on the US-Mexico border, with one station at Chihuahua Ciudad Juárez in Mexico and another at El Paso, Texas.
Recorded Assembly
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Recorded Assembly public installation presents an enlarged face of each member of the audience, gradually mixing up to 600,000 faces, in a final result that could be considered a collective portrait of humanity. The work serves as a reminder that we are all one, as one sees multiple features and gestures coming together, making us wonder where each of us starts and where the others. The project will be a lively and constantly changing portrait, which will be created every night, activating the public space, during the SNF Nostos Health.
VR Experiences at SNF Nostos (June 17 – 26, 2022, 10:00 – 14:00 and 18:00 – 22:00, Dome & Channel, SNFCC)
At this year’s SNF Nostos Health, visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy unique experiences in an exciting Virtual Reality environment that promotes physical and mental well-being, combining health and fun, into a comprehensive program of activities.
Exhibition: “Peace of Theodore Nikolaos” (June 17 – July 31, 2022, 10:00 – 22:00, 4th Floor Atrium, SNFCC)
The work Epi noos irini (“Wish peace in mind”) by Thodoris Nikolaou is a multifaceted view of the world of mental health. Through nine sections – representations, part of which is the personal experience of the photographer, the creator introduces us and acquaints us with the “other”, who by reversing the photographic image, may ultimately be each of us.
For the last five years, Thodoris Nikolaou has been systematically visiting psychiatric hospitals and departments throughout Greece, and researching a fragmented public health psychiatric system, documenting the contradictions, personal impasses, stigma and social exclusion that this creates. But he does not stay there. He is not only interested in the dark. In his work he includes life after the foundation. A bright life, in the community structures of reintegration and psychosocial rehabilitation. There he will see and meet people who work, fall in love, travel, hope. To them, the photographer will give the camera and integrate their gaze into his work, while wondering about the democracy of photography, the definition of art and documentary, who their body is and whether there can finally be a mediated depiction of world of mental health, created by the protagonists themselves.
Exhibition: Johns Hopkins University and ISN present: An Interactive Global Experience with Health Data (June 17 – July 3, 2022, 10:00 – 22:00, EBE Book Tower, SNFCC)
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the true extent of health inequalities around the world, bringing to the surface systemic inequalities in the health care infrastructure and living conditions provided. The data and imaging methods of this report highlight some of the most pressing health inequalities today and attempt to encourage debate about how to address them.
See the SNF Nostos Health syllabus here: https://www.snfnostos.org/programma/.
