Photometria Φωτοbooks Exhibition
The Photometria Φωτοbooks Exhibition is an annual highlight of the Photometria International Photo Festival 2024, celebrating the art of contemporary photobooks.
Participants: 'L’ imbuto' by Collettivo Animale, 'Marie, Maman, Grand-mère' by Romane Bourgeois, 'today is my new favourite day' by Jennifer Drabbe, 'New Farmer' by Bruce Eesly, 'It was a lie' and 'Multiple' by Carol Galinanes, 'Zaunkonig' by Max Korndorfer, 'Come costruire un castello di carte' by Federica Mambrini, 'Η.Μ.' by Alessandro Mazzola, 'ZERO' by Alfonso Moral, 'ONE HUNDRED TRILLION DOLLARS' by Chloe Nicosia, 'The Yoshida Dormitory Old Darkroom' by Kanta Nomura, 'There Round the Corner in the Deep' by Katya Selezneva, 'Between Two Lakes' by Alexander Sharr, 'Summoning' by Yiming Zhu, 'DD-MM-YYYY' by Kostis Argyriadis, 'the field trip' by Christos Dimitriou, 'bitter almond day' by Yiannis Ioakeimidis, 'Transfiguration' by Antigone Kourakou, 'Beyond the edge of the city' by Sotiris Kousoulos, 'THE PRESENT' by Pelly Mandreka, 'GRAMIE' and 'Nette' by Artemis Pyrpilis, 'ΜΑΜ, ΚΑΚΑ & ΝΑΝΙ' by Ioanna Fragostefanaki, and 'Whispers in radiance: Unveiling lives unseen' by Erasmia Chouliara.
The selection was made by the jury: Achilleas Tziakos, Yorgos Yatromanolakis, Myrto Steirou, and Calin Kruse.
Opening: 10 January at 18:00
Duration: 10 January – 19 January 2025
Opening Hours: Friday to Sunday, 18:00 – 21:00
Zoetrope, Kimolou 17, 11362, Kypseli, Athens
Dear Eastern Europe, | Photobook Exhibition
Athens Photo Festival 2024 Satellite Program
Through a series of coincidental - and not so coincidental - meetings, we began to correspond, create, and establish relationships with artists, independent publishing projects, and artist-run spaces from Eastern Europe. Somehow, an unseen and diverse photobook scene unfolded before us. In this exhibition, we share a collection of some of the discoveries that came into our hands, with the desire to disclose and expand this correspondence to even more recipients.
Participants: Abi Shehu, Agata Ciastoń, Agata Grzybowska, Agata Kalinowska, Alla Mirovskaya, Andrian Wykrota, Beata Bartecka, David Molina Gadea, Hubert Humka, Igor Pisuk, Kacper Kowalski, Katerina Kouzmitcheva, Łukasz Rusznica, Matej Sitar, Matija Brumen, Michał Sita, Monika Orpik, Nikola Mihov, Nina Weymann, Olga Vorobyova, Olson Lamaj, Yuanyuan Yang
Curator: Alexandra Saliba, Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Assistant curator: Orane Grunenwald
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Hellenic Centre of Photography Library.
Opening 19 June at 18:00
Duration: 19 June – 29 June 2024
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 18:00 – 21:00
Zoetrope / Kimolou 17, 11362, Kypseli, Athens
Mystery 37 Voices of Elefsina
Open Call for Participation to the community radio of Elefsina
An online radio station, from which the residents of Elefsina will be able to broadcast live their own audio content, will start operating at the Old Railway Station of the city. People aged 5 to 105 years old, collectives, initiatives, associations and groups of all kinds from Elefsina and all those interested are welcome to attend, with free participation, a series of educational workshops (radio production, audio documentary, podcast etc.), which will give them tools, knowledge and inspiration to experiment with the world of sound and create their own broadcasts in the station.The sounds, voices and narratives that will be produced for the station will be transmitted outside in the public space, through a radio installation that will spread in Elefsina, thus creating an original radio adventure for visitors and residents. The Voices of Elefsina, however, will travel beyond the city’s borders, making their mark stronger through broadcasts on FM radio stations and online stations in Greece and abroad.
Our voices are heard:
The Mystery 37 Voices of Elefsina is a community-based project that focuses on broadcasting. Its aim is to create an experimental radio station that will be owned, powered and operated by the local community of Elefsina. Through a series of participatory artistic activities, experiential and interdisciplinary workshops, Voices of Elefsina encourages the development of an open space where the city’s residents can make their voices heard. The bottom-up production of radio content will illuminate and highlight different aspects of the city’s history, identity, collective memory and cultural heritage, strengthening the sense of belonging and contributing to its transition to a new era. Although local, Voices of Elefsina will travel beyond the city’s borders through collaborations – and live broadcasts – with other radio stations and networks in Greece, Europe and the world.
Blurring The Raster | Photobooks In Riso
Exhibition and Talks
Riso printing has become a popular choice for independent publishers, artists, and designers around the world. The technique is characterised by its imperfections, imprecision, and unpredictability, that is linked to the origin and the idiosyncratic function of the machine. Each riso print is thus unique, with shifts, smudges or odditie. Unlike traditional printing techniques, risography doesn't reproduce an image exactly but rather transcribes it differently. By using slightly or totally different colors, it creates alternative versions of the image, opening up immense possibilities to rethink the purpose of the printed image and its context.
Risography originated in Japan in the 1940s. It is a direct tone printing system that uses a stencil printer to create images with bright, fluorescent colors and textured rendering. The technique is eco-friendly, using vegetable oil-based inks that dry slowly by absorption into uncoated paper. Each ink uses its own drum, which is fed in and out of the machine as required, making it a low-cost method of producing large quantities of work using a limited number of colors.
The exhibition ‘Blurring The Raster | Photobooks In Riso’ presents 44 photobooks and zines from Greece and abroad, framed by a series of parallel talks, offering a glimpse into the diverse and creative possibilities and particularities of risograph printing while questioning the conventional notion and experience of the printed image.
Initiated by Zoetrope Athens in collaboration with Alice Laurichesse, Keda*Press, Dolce, Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Sleep On It Press, RNVP and Quintal Atelier from Paris, the library Herbarium Riso in Berlin and the nomadic collection of Zines of the Zone.
30.03.23 at 18:00 : Exhibition Opening
31.03.23 at 18:00 : Parallel talks, a discussion around Risography in Photobooks by Alice Laurichesse, Keda*Press, Dolce and Zines of the Zone.
Books: Augure I - Rodrigue de Ferluc, La dernière visite - Eliot Nasrallah, TAKO - Laia Bonastre, Dallol - Jeff Le Cardiet, The Girl You Lost To Cocaïne (2) - Maxime Muller, Arpenter - Alice Laurichesse, Greek dog days - Ilja Niederkirchner, Kuebiko - Evangelos Daskalakis, Island - Andrew O'Carroll, Blurry Territory - Georgios Plastok & Alfred Fabricius, Gestures of lover - Ellie English, Sometimes I take pictures of strangers too, but it's more difficult - Karina Golisová, Ten African shops - Rubén Montesinos, Routine - Alloprosalos nous / A*, Annie - Annie Tsevdomaria, The cemetery is a forest - Olga Vereli & Katerina Markoulaki, Metaphors - Dimitra Dede, Something I see through doors - Kati Akraio, The Rose - Nikos Nikolaidis, You are Mine now - Ioannis Karmaniolos, Strays- Folded City, Harry - Céline Guillerm & Alice Laurichesse, Domus Locked 2 - ΗΓΗ & Keda*Press, In Situ - Bertus Gressen, O tempo se fabrica - Bia Bittencourt, Kenned - Steven Dreux, Evan Lunven & Clément Le Page, Land of the setting sun - Miyuki Okuyama, Tatu Tita #1 - Jone Taberna, Miguel Orcal & Lorena Otero,Friture, Anarchie, Vandalisme - Anonymes, Plutati u Vremenu na zemljiI - Sergej Vutuc, 2 Niice - Gabe Gonzales, Around The Corner - Andrea Reza, OSOBb - Alina Gutkina, Tokyo Beach - Robert Blair, Place And - Suzanna Zak, Aún te Espero - Anaí Tirado, I wanna be sedated - Matt Plezier, Design Studies + Projections - Anne & Eugene Timerman, Semra For Life - Gloria Glitzer, Frumai - Yuri Manabe, Many dimensions of a soul people - Justin Samson, The basis of zero-point energy inventions - Benjamin Phelan, Untitled - Joseph Akel, Distribute with love - Dah Yee Noh
30-31/03/2023, 18:00-22:30
Zoetrope Kimolou 17, 11362, Kypseli, Athens
Verso of Perception
Photobook Exhibition
The terms "verso" and "recto" have traditionally been used within the context of book publishing to refer to the two sides of a sheet of paper. The recto side is typically considered the front side of a sheet of paper, as it is usually the side that is printed or written on first. In contrast, the verso side is the backside of a sheet of paper, typically the side that is printed or written on second οr even left blank.
The exhibition "Verso of Perception" subverts this traditional understanding of the verso as secondary or less important, instead presenting it as a powerful site for alternative perspectives and counter-narratives. The exhibition features works by 21 Greek women artists, including rare photo books, photo-zines, and dummies, revealing and empowering neglected, overlooked, and oppressed points of view.
Mostly through the act of self-publishing, the participating artists attempt to reflect their own experiences and offer alternatives to the dominant cultural representations of gender, sexuality, and identity in Greece. By framing their work as a "verso" to the predominantly male-dominated and patriarchal "recto," the exhibition aims to create a temporary space of sharing and compassion that can inspire social empathy and understanding.
Participants: Eirini Angelidi, Aimilia Balaska, Klavdia Balampanidou, Evangelia Biza, Anna Georgiou, Loukia Goni, Galateia Iatraki, Foteini Korre, Tonia Koinaki, Maria Kosmidi, Alexandra Masmanidi, Persephone Michou, Katerina Moschou, Antigoni Papantoni, Ariadne Pediotaki, Antonia Petriti, Georgia Ponirakou, Alexandra Saliba, Maria Siorba, Eliza Tamo, Ania Vouloudi
Initiated by ZOETROPE ATHENS & Co-curated by Abigaël Coeffier and Alice Laurichesse within the framework of their internship program.
Friday 03.03.23 18:00 / 22:00
Saturday 04.03.23 17:00 / 21:00
Zoetrope, Kimolou 17, 11362, Athens
Kassel Dummy Award 2022
International Exhibition Tour
The Kassel Dummy Award, founded by Fotobookfestival Kassel, is an annual competition for the best unpublished photobook mock-up of the year.
In 12th edition of the Awards a total of 226 books from 32 countries were submitted and 52 books were selected for the shortlist by an international jury. The books are currently part of a traveling exhibition partnering with a number of international photography events and venues. Zoetrope is pleased to host the International Exhibition Tour of Kassel Dummy Award 2022 in Athens.
Artists: Alberto Moretti, Alessandro Cirillo, Angelo Bonetti, Anna Fritsche, Anna Strand, Barbara Debeuckelaere, Bebe Blanco Agterberg, Bente Tas, Caroline Heinecke, Chris Shaw, Corinna Mehl, Dillon Marsh, Doğa Deniz Gönüllü, Eliot Nasrallah, Florian Dürkopp, Franziska Rieder, Frederike Finster, Helena Manhartsberger, Ilkay Karakurt, Isabell Hoffmann, Jakob Ganslmeier, Jan Ladwig, Jana Mai, Jef Van den Bossche, Johann Süßebecker, Julia Autz Kanta Nomura, Kathleen Alisch, Leonie Lisette Göttling, Linda Zhengová, Lou-Lou van Staaveren, Mads Holm Marcello Coslovi, Martina Zaninelli, Melina Papageorgiou, Nick Somers, Nico Buurman, Nicolas Guiraud, Nikolaos Kachrimanis, Peter Pflügler, Polina Rukavichkina, Rahier Pierre, Stefan Weger, Steffi Drerup, Steven Natusch,Thu Hien Hoang, Tim Wagner, Tobias Eineder, Uta Genilke, Victor Morales García, Vitor Casemiro, Yura Kolomiets
Opening: Wednesday 20 of July at 19:00
Duration: 20.07.22 - 25.07.22, 19:00-22:00 & by appointment
Zoetrope, Kimolou 17, 11362, Athens
Blind Spots
Photobook Exhibition
“The books went up in sparkling whirls
and blew away on a wind turned dark burning.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Book burning in public view is a typical practice for exercising power and censorship in authoritarian and fascists regimes. Today, censorship, propaganda and control of information are still being practiced even within the contemporary liberal democracies with the use of technologies and unseen methods.
The main characteristic of these methods is that they no longer focus on limiting or blocking information, but rather on dissolving everything in an absolutely chaotic avalanche of data, where anything unwanted gets lost, becomes fragmentary and thus dormant.
We live in a distracted world, in which reality considered partially deploys itself in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart. One of the dominant elements of this reality are images. Images that we are bombarded with on a daily basis unable to respond but individually, instantly and affectively, ending – up into some kind of blindness and apraxia.
In this world a photobook seems to be able to act as a blind spot for the mechanisms of control and normalization of the intensity in the flux of information. This is because the book, as a medium and a narrative system, can construct solid and pluralized narratives, awakening concentration and inviting the reader to produce meaning. In this sense a photobook can build resistances while cultivating conditions of praxis and suggesting possible ways out.
In the exhibition “Blind Spots” we attempt to present a collection of such photobooks from Greece and the world. Books that preserve and shed light to different layers, point of views and temporalities of historicity, books that renegotiate and restore in the present repressed or traumatic events, books that deconstruct and fluidify dominant identities and ideologies and books that break imposed silences strengthening and giving credence to suppressed voices.
Alexandra Saliba – Yorgos Yatromanolakis
MedPhoto Festival
Contemporary Art Museum of Crete
Duration: 11 December 2021 - 06 March 2022
Photobook boom | The Greek case
THESSALONIKI PHOTOBIENNALE 2021
The global boom in photobooks is a growing reality in Greece as well, with its own facets and multiplicities.
The independent Greek self-publishing scene, which seems to be the most active in terms of diversity and number of produced photo-books, is of particular interest. More and more artists are systematically exploring handmade and experimental artistic practices, to create photobooks while they seem to be tracing in parallel an alternative way to display their photographic work in which intimacy, storytelling and materiality are central.
The sequencing of the images, the nature and the choice of the materials, the design, the methods of bookbinding and the printing techniques that the artists employ are key elements of their artistic process. Because of this organic relationship between the content and the materials, photobooks are autonomous and idiosyncratic objects and their reading is an immersive experience.
The multitude and the range of these editions as well as the personal-political element that they exude, is related on the one side with the quest of many artists for more inclusive and pluralized spaces, in which the audience can encounter their work and on the other side with an urgency of reflecting upon the current socio-political life.
The exhibition Photobook Boom | Τhe Greek Case presents an indicative collection of photobooks and dummies of the last three years, in an attempt to equally represent the wide spectrum of the domestic self-publishing photobook community, which is now leaving its own considerable mark on the contemporary history of the photographic medium.
Artists: Mary Chairetaki, Panos Charalampidis, Anargyros Drolapas, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Haris Kakarouhas, Yorgos Karailias, Charalampos Kydonakis, Alexandra Masmanidi, Dimitris Mytas, Stefania Orfanidou, Athanasia Papadopoulou, Stylianos Papardelas, Antonia Petriti, Artemis Pyrpilis, Georges Salameh, Alexei Siozov, Dimitris Tairis, Sophia Tolika, Annie Tsevdomaria, Ania Vouloudi, Eva Voutsaki, Spyros Zervoudakis
Curation: Alexandra Saliba, Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Self - Publishing as an act of collective resistance
Saturday 12/12 at 11:00 Live on F.A.R. Radio - 3137.GR
Αthens Zine Bibliotheque & Zoetrope Athens talk together about zines and artist books by unfolding their parallel universes. Moderator: Alexander Strecker
F.A.R. is an atlas of the city of Athens mapping the evolving economy, the housing market and the various communities living in the city. It's a storytelling action around the present and future of the city and unfolds in three successive independent episodes: A community radio along with an intervention in the outdoor area of 3 137, a series of actions and performances in public spaces of Athens, and finally a group exhibition next fall.
F.A.R. explores the ways in which Athens is inhabited. It stems from the need to understand the different types of transformations that have been taking place in Athens in the past recent years. Despite the economic recession of the last decade and the political instability in the wider Mediterranean region, the city has become a place to be. At the same time, over the last five years, we have seen the local art scene changing; the number of art spaces is growing and venues and initiatives of varying scale are developing.
Invited guests of F.A.R. RADIO are several art initiatives of the city, individuals with a research interest in housing and collective/individual property, as well as employees or owners of small businesses in Exarcheia neighborhood. The guests will develop a 50-minute show -featuring sounds, music and discussion-about their activity, their daily habits, and the city networks within which they engage.
Archives, Process: Images of the African and Black Diaspora
by Anietie Ekanem & Ariana Kalliga
“According to Bell Hooks, photography provides the opportunity to create an empowered, portable self-history. There is a personal and cultural reclamation of Black history through an artistic eye. As it stands: time, memory and decolonisation come together in play through photography and photographic reproduction to construct new identities.”
-Anietie Ekanem
We are pleased to announce our two-day program, “Archives, Process: Images of the African and Black Diaspora”, organized by British-Nigerian artist Anietie Ekanem and Greek curator Ariana Kalliga. The program will consist of a workshop and reading night, which aim to introduce photography past and present, as a dynamic site of black cultural formation and diasporic identity.
The workshop will take place at 19:00 on September 24, 2020.
Anietie will introduce participants to his approach of producing cyanotypes using Southeastern Nigerian archival photographs, demonstrating how to expose photo-negatives onto light-sensitive paper. Participants will learn how to produce cyanotypes through their interaction with a variety of mediums and archival images.
The following day on September 25, 2020 at 18:00 we will host a reading night outdoors in Zoetrope’s neighbouring Pedion Areos Park. We will read and discuss a selection of texts in an open format, including Bell Hooks’s essay: “In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life,” thinking about questions of identity, memory, and diaspora, among other collective themes that emerge from our discussions.
How to talk about the past and the present of art in Athens?
A participatory workshop around an ethnographic film
In the summer of 2017, Herbert Ploegman and Grigoris Gkougkousis made an ethnographic film about a participatory artwork in the Athenian public space: a tent in Plateia Kotzia where meals were served daily. Now, in Zoetrope, their film turns into a collective exploration of what art means in Athens.
This workshop is an invitation to collectively think about the arts in Athens in the current moment and the recent past. It aims to create a space for collectively outlining aspects of this moment and a discussion of their significance. Amongst these may be the disappearance of that artwork from the Athenian public space, and the appearance of art spaces in the city. Another may be the difficulties that exist around screening the film and the repercussions for the workshop and the debate at large.
This workshop links art initiatives with anthropological research on art in Athens. It originates in Herbert's PhD project on artist-run spaces and their significance in Athens. The workshop aims to make room for questioning the ways we talk, think, and learn about art practices in Athens.
Saturday 14.03.20 at 16:00
and Sunday 15.03.20 at 16:00
Free Entrance
Seats are limited! To participate please reserve your seat by sending us an email to zoetropeathens@gmail.com
Death in Athens Festival
New Archives - Exhibition
MEDphoto Festival
The flourishing of photobooks dealing with archival works reflects the desire and the urge of many authors to develop artistic practices, that transcend the archive from a place of storage to a place of production and discourse with the past under the effect of the shifting present.
The archival image liberated of its strictly factual and bureaucratic function, is activated in photobooks to introduce counter-narratives, to uncover untold or repressed stories, to negotiate collective or personal trauma or even to establish grassroots social, political and emotional archives.
What’s really interesting about the photobook as an artistic medium is that by enabling the production of complete narrative holes, especially through the editing, the sequencing as well as the interrelation of the images, it opposes the overall static and taxonomic archival format. In this very condition, montage and storytelling almost necessitate a repositioning and a critical reflection towards the archival material.
In this collection we attempted to gather works that represent the main strands of archival art as reflected in photobooks. These works break free of the concentrative format of the archive to move towards to its reinvention and rearticulation.
Zoetrope
Alexandra Saliba - Yorgos Yatromanolakis
Books: Top Secret - Simon Menner, The Longest Way Round - Chris Dorley-Brown, Let Me Fall Again - Julia Borissova, Libya - Stella Chronopoulou, Where Mimosa Bloom - Rita Puig Serra Costa, Sangre - Leslie Spak, Everflow - Alexandra Saliba, Encyclopedia - Charlotte Lybeer, The Bοοκ of Fantastic Antiquities - Antonis Theodoridis, Conquistador - Nicolas Savary, Dotter - Aimilia Balaska, Fantastic Woman - Nelson Morales, Every Body is an Archive - Liz Orton
MedPhoto Festival 2019-2020 | Archive: Between the Public and the Private
Main Exhibition: Critical Archives IV: Documents
Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete
The right to be Radical
Black Feminism Workshop
The United African Women Organization – Greece and the European Network of People of African Decent invite you to three days of events in Athens, Greece with Dr. Carole Boyce Davies over the course of October 11, 12 and 13, 2019. The events centered on the theme of “Sisterhood and Struggle: Writing Black Women’s Political Leadership” mark the first visit of Dr. Carole Boyce Davies to Athens, Greece.
Esteemed scholar of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), and author of prize-winning books such as Left of Karl Marx: The Political Activism of Claudia Jones, Dr. Boyce Davies will be presenting a historical examination of Writing Black Women’s Political Leadership, centering the historical struggles and causes of erasure of Black Women’s activism legacies, posing pressing questions leading to action in the present.
The events take place in the context of UAWO’ s ongoing study of Black and Afrofeminist traditions.
A continuation of UAWO’s 1st Black Feminist Skillsharing Workshop, which took place in Athens over the course of five weeks in 2018, the initiative aims to address issues concerning the politics of space, and function as a platform to access knowledge and histories of political struggle often unacknowledged in many activist spaces in Greece and elsewhere. The event series includes workshops, womxn’s circles, reading groups and public talks.
The upcoming events also mark the first visit of ENPAD to Greece. ENPAD’S annual meeting will be taking place over the weekend, with members gathering from over 15 countries in Europe.
Matter of time
Αn aquatic cartography
In the work in progress ‘Matter of Time. An Aquatic Cartography’ the fundamental property of material is its duration. Yannis Stournas explores the traces and the inscriptions of the encapsulated rivers and streams in the urban environment of Athens. By collecting and photographing matter from the soil and the subsoil covering the rivers, he attempts to reinstate and solidify parts of the buried aquatic geography of the city.
The pre-industrial photographic technique of ambrotype, being employed for this work, on the one hand is monumentalizing the material findings and on the other hand it is pointing out their variable state. Each object appears in the wet plate of the ambrotype not only as a visual but also as a material memory, as a sort of a paradoxical archaeological find. At the same time, the singularity of each plate which can’t be mechanically reproduced along with the fact that it is developed in water from different springs, rivers and seas seems to be mystifying somehow the objects which depict something unseen and in constant mutation.
‘Matter of Time. An Aquatic Cartography’ will be presented as an installation at Zoetrope which has been transformed into the lab of Yannis Stournas for the past weeks. The opening will take place on Friday, September 13nth at the walk of Time Takes Time initiative within the framework of which it is realized.
About Time Takes Time
TIME TAKES TIME is a momentum around paper & words with a focus on the processes, materiality, touch and smell of prints, letters, inks and stained fingers.
Time Takes Time connects Greek and international artists and designers for a moment of co-creation within various workshops and print studios around the city of Athens. It takes place within strong local-global interconnections and seeks to weave between them a relationship and a possibility for tuning-in. Time Takes Time operates as a creolization of points of view, techniques, skills, and imaginaries, not to be seen as distinct entities. It merges layers of technologies from print ambrotypes, fax machine thermal ribbon, up to 3d printing and algorithm data poetry. Time Takes Time aims to combine diverse intimate feelings and subjective relations to the city of Athens through the lens of printed matter as to let waves of resonance emerge between alternative but complementary processes of work.
Time Takes Time organizes city walks through its interconnected workshops and spaces as to allow the various processes to be experienced by the public. Each walk is max 4 hours.
PLATEAU 0 3 4
An exploration of Greek self-published photobooks
Artists’ self-publications are disorderly phenomena. They are defined by freedom, discovery, creativity, and experimentation as they move away from narrow, predefined structures. Unclassified and unseen, most self-publications entail their own multiplicities, occupying a space of their own.
Self-publishing is a growing practice in Greece, as many photographers and artists are becoming increasingly engaged in exploring and discovering new tools as well as collective initiatives to experiment with their own book production.
In many cases, self-publishing is clearly an act of resistance against formal and conventional structures of publishing. Self-publishers are manifesting new ways of artistic expression and sending out distinct signals, sometimes via just a handful of printed copies.
Despite the fact that many self-published editions are exceptionally designed, by way of introducing lesser-known materials and techniques which move beyond the limits of traditional display and storytelling, their exposure and distribution is extremely limited.
The exhibition ‘Plateau 034’ is a first attempt to map Greek photographic self-publications. Through the presentation of a non-hierarchical and non-complete assemblage, it constitutes a converging point of small, individual gestures. Our aim is to continue this exploration, via a developing rhizomatic platform, which, detached from conventional publishing practices, can set the conditions for the creation of multiple paths, branches, and plateaus.
Books:
Michael Almiroudis - Genius Seculi / Konstantinos Doumpenidis - Halt / Nikos Deltakapa - NO TURNING BACK / Pavlos Fysakis - Land Ends / Nicholas Faraklas - Athens Hates Pigeons / Panos Charalampidis and Mary Chairetaki - Second Chance / Giorgos Gripeos - a Kind of You / Yiannis Hadjiaslanis - Drive / Zoe Hatziyannaki - To kakovoulo / Antonis Kourkoulos - Roubabikia / Charalampos Kydonakis - WARN'D IN VAIN / Zisis Kardianos - In Limbo / Natasha Killova and Ritsa Blue - A diary of a nighttime / Elena Kollatou & Leonidas Toubanos - Avoid Area / Christos Lialios - Same but Different / Ilias Lois - Golden Peak / Fotis Milionis - 81 / Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis - Vaskos / Margarita Yoko-Nikitaki - Soil / Stefania Orfanidou - Pendulum / Nikos Papanikolaou - Tagada / Sarantis Raftopoulos - Street Food / Spyros Rennt - Another Excess / Ioanna Sakellaraki - The Truth is in the Soil / Alexandra Saliba - Everflow / Olga Stefatou - CHRYSALIS / Stamatis Schizakis - Athens Porn / Danai Simou - Romance / Myrto Steirou - Cruel Nature / Eliza Tamo - hEy yoU / Dimitris Tairis - The Urge / Antonis Theodoridis - The box of curios / Ellie Tsatsou - Alphabet / Dimitris Tsoumplekas - Texas / These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things - Spata / Alexis Vasilikos - Variations of Presence / Irina Vosgerau - Timetraveller / Yorgos Yatromanolakis - Not provided / Apostolos Zerdevas - State
Curators:
Evangelia Biza, Yiannis Hadjiaslanis, Kostas Kostopoulos, Georges Salameh, Alexandra Saliba, Alexander Strecker, Yorgos Yatromanolakis.
With the participation of The Athens Zine Bibliotheque
APhF 2019 Satellite Programme
Talk: Book-making practices in self-publishing modes
With Evangelia Biza (bookbinder) and Kostas Kostopoulos (printer).
Open Discussion: Meet the self-publishers
To conclude our exhibition Plateau 034 / An exploration of Greek self-published photobooks, a first attempt to explore Greek self-published photobooks, we invite you to an open discussion. Sixteen self- publishers share questions, emotions, thoughts, intentions, successes, and failures stemming from their experiences of their self-publishing initiatives..
