The exhibition in both venues will remain open from 18:30 to 21:00 during the evening events of the public program.
GUIDED TOUR IN THE SHOW, LED BY THE EXHIBITION ORGANISERS
No reservation needed; guests will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
FRI 21 JULY, 19:00-20.30
Meeting point: Temenos Hamidiye
Join us for a guided tour of the My Past is a Foreign Country exhibition. Learn more about the process and research behind the works, the artists’ methods and background as well as the curatorial framework of the show.
SOFIA DONA | KATARAKT (2023), 25’40’’
Screening and Q&A with the director at the courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
The film is screened in Greek and Turkish with English subtitles.
No reservation needed; guests will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
SAT 29 JULY, 21:00
Courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
The short film KATARAKT focuses on the coastal village of Chios named “Katarraktis” which is located only 6.8 miles across from the coast of Turkey and it relates its name to “cataract”, the eye disorder. It talks about blurred vision, memory, migration, contemplation and borders.
With the support of: Stiftung Kunstfonds, NEUSTART KULTUR and the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM)
Sofia Dona is an artist and architect. In 2018 she was awarded the City of Munich Prize for Architecture and in 2015 the Fulbright scholarship for Artists. She has exhibited in places such as the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; the Kunstpavillon of the Tiroler Künstler:innenschaft in Innsbruck, Austria (2019); the IMAC in Tijuana, Mexico (2019); the Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst
in Berlin, Germany (2017); the 5th Athens Biennale, Greece (2016); and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece (2013). Since 2018 she has been co-curating the queer feminist film festival “Aphrodite*” in Athens. As a member of
the Errands group, she has participated in exhibitions such as the 2nd Athens Biennial Greece (2009), the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey (2012) and the Gardentopia, Matera Cultural Capital, Italy (2019).
86th HERITAGE OF REFUGEE SETTLEMENT: CITY AND ARCHITECTURE
Talk of Dr Kalliopi Amygdalou at the courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
In Collaboration with the Association of Friends of the Koraes Library
No reservation needed; guests will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
MON 31 JULY, 19:30-20:30
Courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
The housing rehabilitation of more than 1.2 million Greek Orthodox refugees, displaced as a result of the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Population Exchange, transformed the urban and rural landscape of Greece. Dozens of cities were expanded with refugee neighbourhoods and hundreds of new villages were created. Refugees were housed in Muslim properties, government buildings and makeshift shacks that often lasted for decades. This presentation will focus on Athens and Piraeus and will examine the spatial and architectural heritage of a huge human displacement.
Dr Kalliopi Amygdalou is the architect and Scientific Director of the research project HOMEACROSS (“Space, memory and the legacy of the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey”), funded by the European Research Council and implemented by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). She has previously been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and has taught as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Izmir Institute of Technology (2015-2017). She completed her PhD in 2014 at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics (2010) and graduated from the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2009). She recently edited the volume Constructions
of Homeland: Architecture, Identity and Memory in the Greek Communities of Odessa and Marseille, 19th and 20th centuries (Futura, 2022).
GUIDED TOUR UNDER THE FULL MOON BY EXHIBITION CURATOR AKIS KOKKINOS
Meeting point: Temenos Hamidiye, 21:00
The exhibition will remain open from 21:00 to midnight.
No reservation needed; guests will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
TUE 1 AUGUST, 21:00-22:00
Temenos Hamidiye
Join us for a tour at the My Past is a Foreign Country, under the August full moon guided by exhibition curator Akis Kokkinos. Both monuments will remain open until midnight to celebrate the August full moon.
ETHNIC MUSIC CONCERT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CHIOS MUSIC FESTIVAL
No reservation needed; guests will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
MON 7 AUGUST, 19:30
Courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
DEO Projects continues for the third year its collaboration with the Chios Music Festival, starting a creative dialogue between visual
arts and music. At the same time, in recent years, the Chios Music Festival carries out an educational music program for child refugees in cooperation with METAdrasis Non-Formal Education Centre in Chios and the UNHCR. This year, these two initiatives will be combined and the children involved in the program will present a concert, taking us on a journey to the neighbourhoods of the world. The repertoire of the concert will be based on the themes of the art exhibition My Past is a Foreign Country.
Contributors: Participants in the educational program of the Chios Music Festival
Instructor: Andrianna Neamoniti
GUIDED HISTORICAL TOURS IN CHIOS CASTLE
Meeting point: Temenos Hamidiye, 10:15
Free Admission
FRI 11 AUGUST, 10:30-11:30, in English
FRI 18 AUGUST, 10:30-11:30, in Greek
Meeting point: Temenos Hamidiye, 10:15
Whether you are a resident of Chios or a tourist visiting the island, we invite you to join the licenced tour guide Yorgos Brillis for a spectacular tour, to learn more about the multilayered history of the Chios Castle.
To reserve a spot, please send an email at info@deoprojects.com with Subject line: “Guided tour in Chios Castle” and include the following: names of participants, date of participation and contact number.
ARTIST TALK WITH MARO MICHALAKAKOS
Courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
The talk will be held in Greek
No reservation needed; guests will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
SAT 26 AUGUST, 20:00-21:00
Courtyard of the Ottoman Baths
The artist Maro Michalakakos talks about her practice and her work in a discussion
with the curator of the exhibition My Past is a Foreign Country, Akis Kokkinos. The talk will focus on the artist’s career, from her first steps and her choice to become an artist, to the inclusion of her works in some of the world’s largest museums, and her participation in the exhibition through the commissioning of the large-scale installation, titled To All of Us, at the Temenos Hamidiye.
In collaboration with the Chios Music Festival / Serapis Maritime | Untitled
Concert-Video projection
MON 8 AUG, 21:00
Vigla of Pachi Open Air Theatre in Tigani, Sidirounta
The collaboration between DEO Projects and the Chios Music Festival started with great success last year and laid the foundations for a creative dialogue between visual arts and music. Serapis Maritime’s video Untitled will be projected for a second and final time alongside live music from the maritime migration routes: from Pontos and Crete to Scandinavia and North America. Sofia Sarri (voice), Petros Lampridis (double bass) and George Kontogiannis (Cretan lyra) will share with us the fear and anxiety of people before the power of the sea and its magical creatures. A ritual of returning to the humble, primitive relationship of humans with nature and the sacred unknown.
Educational Workshop for Children
Every Tuesday at 11:30 am, from 19 July for four consecutive Tuesdays (last Tuesday: 9 August). The duration of each workshop will be approximately 1 hour.
20 Kontogianni Street
Taking Dominique White’s art exhibition as a starting point, DEO Projects organises an educational workshop for children aged 6-12 years old. The children will visit the exhibition at the Old Horse Stables of Choremiko and stay in the lobby of the venue to interact and express themselves on the axes of “drawing-painting-sculpture”.
The materials to be used by the children are provided by DEO and participation is free of charge.
Workshop coordination: Nafsika Saliari, architect-visual artist
Reservation at info@deoprojects.com
Maximum number of participants per day: 12 children
LIVE SOUND INTERVENTION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHIOS MUSIC FESTIVAL
FRI 6 AUG, 19:30
Old Slaughterhouse of Chios
Chios Music Festival collaborates with DEO projects to present an audio-visual experience and a dialogue between visual arts and music. Chios Music Festival undertakes a live sound intervention on the exhibition of Paulo Nimer Pjota at the Old Slaughterhouse of Chios allowing the audience to make space for alternative narratives and connections about the current identity of the island.
PROTOCINEMA OPEN AIR SCREENING TOUR 2021
Permanent Spring, Delayed Bloom
TUE 10 AUG, 21:30
Old Slaughterhouse of Chios
Protocinema Open Air Screening Tour 2021, titled Permanent Spring, Delayed Bloom, is curated by Asli Seven, of single channel videos by: Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Minia Biabiany, Emre Hüner, Sofia Gallisá Muriente, Ahmet Öğüt, Deniz Tortum & Kathryn Hamilton. Each film in its own unique texture of language, narrative and technique reflects on our severed relationship to land, climate and bios (life) as permeated by narrative and information technologies, along with the entanglement of labor and entertainment in our global extractivist context.
Chios island, Greece
