An exhibition by the group En Dynami at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
A participatory, visual, interactive installation, which emerged from months of empirical research around the theme of mapping signs. The mixed-ability art group En Potential focuses on the concepts of the known and the unknown. What they mean and how each person manages these contrasting concepts. What is there between the known and the unknown, the familiar and the unfamiliar? Space, time, feelings, thoughts. How does each of us map the world, ourselves, our neighbourhood? What are the signs that we detect and recognize in order to reach our destination, the familiar, the known. Is it a hug, his home, a daily habit? What happens when he loses these signs?
Once I got lost in the centre because I couldn't find Aghia Sophia but I stopped, calmed down and continued and then I read the sign and found it.
I got lost downtown when my mom and I went to IKA and I lost it, but now I'm alive.
If I get lost I'll see that blue sign that says Orpheus Street.
Credits
Artistic Direction: Eleni Demopoulou
Artistic Supervision: Richard Anthony
Visual design-implementation: Vangelis Arvanitis, Fani Bounturoglou, Katerina Gagaki, Richard Anthony
Artistic Partners: Phaethon Vandoros, Katerina Bakaliou
Sound environment design: Ulysses Galios
Video projection design: Dimitris Zahos
Video portraits: Panos Bounduroglou
Design of architectural elements-Visual communication: loopostudio
Texts-research: Team Potential
Coordination officer: Annie Willis
The opening of the exhibition took place on 9 November 2018
Participants of the En En Dynamism group: Cleo Antonopoulou, Novi Vassiliadou, Chrysa Guma, Sofia Dagopoulou, Maria Dahlythra, Marina Theou
Panagiotis Ioannidis, Margarita Kaynadas, Anna Kalinceva, Theano Konta, Nikos Kyparissis, Efterpi Kosta, Alexandra Lucas, Dimitris Lyras, Dimitris Mixis, Sofia Bletsou, Thanos Nanasis, Michael Dolopoulos, Theano Papavassiliou, Maria-Nefeli Paraskevopoulou, Harris Serdaris, Lili Stravopodi, Natasha Topaltziki, Despina Triantafyllidou, Danae Tsorlini, Alexandros Hatzios, Maria Christofidou
The space between. I divide the world into the known and the unknown. A division that is both existential - narrowly spatial geographical and imaginary. The distance between what I know and what I don't know. The space where my reality can change. The map. The way I can recognize the world. My cosmology. The relationships. That which contains me, that which accepts me. What I accept and what I consciously or unconsciously reject. The unknown. What I don't know, what I can't even imagine. Signs.
