TENDING TOWARDS project launches on: gruppemagazine.com/tendingtowards/
Online exhibition TENDING TOWARDS curated by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė and GRUPPE collective, hosted by Tinos Quarry Platform, in partnership with Athens Museum of Queer Arts.
TENDING TOWARDS concludes with the launch of the online exhibition. Throughout the summer the project unfolded across multiple locations both virtual and actual presenting artistic research carried out in the local context of Tinos Island. Mapped through the specifics of the North Cycladic topography but also the many arbitrary traces of online life, TENDING TOWARDS considered how to address the fluidity of contemporary embodiment and artistic production within. Subject to data collection mechanisms and through face or voice recognition the body is translated into text. We can no longer be understood as finite unities, but instead fluid cartographies or else distributed networks of corporate agency. TENDING TOWARDS opens up a conversation on where our bodies are tending towards and the potential for new trajectories.
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TENDING TOWARDS is hosted by Tinos Quarry Platform and co-organized and curated by the artist duo Dorota Gawęda/Eglė Kulbokaitė and Berlin based GRUPPE collective, in partnership with A.M.O.Q.A – Athens Museum of Queer Arts.
The project was introduced on 29th of September in Athens at A.M.O.Q.A – Athens Museum of Queer Arts with a programme of performances by Esben Weile Kjær and DAGLARA with Georges Jacotey, Rafael Papad and Lefteris Vokas, as well as performative presentation by GRUPPE with Judith Shyambala Heinemenn and Lukas Stoever.
Participating artists: Eva Collé, DAGLARA, GRUPPE, Deborah Joyce Holman, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Esben Weile Kjær, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Ceylan Öztrük, Dimitra Petsa, Petros Touloudis.
Photography: courtesy of the artists
This project is conceived with the generous support by Outset Contemporary Art Fund – Greece, NEON – Greece and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Ceylan Öztrük
DAGLARA
Deborah Joyce Holman
Dimitra Petsa
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė
Esben Weile Kjær
Eva Collé
Gruppe
Julian-Jakob Kneer
Petros Touloudis
TENDING TOWARDS / A.M.O.Q.A.
Performances by: GRUPPE with Judith Shyambala Heinemenn and Lukas Stoever _ DAGLARA with Georges Jacotey, Rafael Papad and Lefteris Vokas _ Esben Weile Kjær
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