The “Kritamon Chrismos” exhibition, the first public project of the Kerkis Echo community, marks the beginning of a three-year exhibition project in Marathokampos Samos. The series is curated by the artists Susi Gelb and Niko Abramidis &NE and this year the exhibition will be open at least until the end of August.
An artistic and philosophical community of discourse, inspired by the spiritual aura of Pythagoras and following the tradition of legendary mountain collectives such as Monte Verita of Switzerland (1900-1920) and Black Mountain College of the USA (1933-1957), is introduced to the public this year of Samos from Mount Kerkis, to the small mountain town of Marathokampos.
The “Kritamon Chrismos” exhibition, the first public project of the Kerkis Echo community, marks the beginning of a three-year exhibition project in Marathokampos. The series is curated by the artists Susi Gelb and Niko Abramidis &NE and this year the exhibition will be open at least until the end of August.
In this context, artists, writers, philosophers, filmmakers, architects and designers of all kinds, come together to develop interdisciplinary project ideas together with the residents of Marathokampos, on the occasion of the aromatic and wild succulent, the kritam that grows and thrives along the rocky Aegean coasts around the sea. In the same way that kritam finds fertile ground to grow on the roughest surfaces, the community’s goal is for the small town to bloom again with life and art.
The exhibition and the events that surround it revolve around the concept of an oracle, as the word describes at the same time a premonition, an announcement, uncertainty and locks within it the magic of the place and time in which it is given. Hybrid art forms, interventions, sculptures and new media works are mixed and presented alongside local discoveries, references to ancient Greece, Pythagorean mathematics, flora and fauna of Samos. Point of contact, fabrics, ruined houses of the city, the carcass of the building in front of the monastery of Panagitsa that turns into a virtual cave, a pre-Christian prayer room and the narrow streets of Marathokampos in which the artist Pollyester gives a performance singing odes about the numerous bedrooms in the houses of the small mountain town, a phenomenon that is historically found only in this region.
Over the years Marathokampos has shrunk from 5,000 inhabitants to just 900 and its empty cafes, fountains, olive groves and ruins with an irresistible view of the Aegean are the ideal space to create and redefine together with the locals and their expectations for a better present and future in the place where they were born and grow up, now with the void of friends and relatives who left.
The artists participating in the program and live performances are Xenophon Giannoulis (aka Fonda Mentalism), Niko Abramidis &NE, Anastasia Tsoukala (aka Nouvelle), Tatjana Vall, Justin Urbach, Gülbin Ünlü, Katrin Savvulidi, Susi Gelb, Pollyester and Mikko Gaestel . The exhibition is located in the Old Market, in Lakka Square of Marathokambos village, and is open from 7pm to midnight, however, after contacting the artists, it is possible to organize separate experiential events.
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