Visit PCAI’s vimeo channel to dive into the organisation’s latest programming and exhibitions. Recent additions include videos documenting Sheltered Gardens (2022-2023) hybrid exhibition and performances in Athens and Oh, tranquility! Penetrating the very rock, A cicada’s voice (2023) cultural programme in Delphi.
Sheltered Gardens exhibitions and performances
Sheltered Gardens was a hybrid, visual arts exhibition featuring more than 35 international artists, writers and performers. Inspired by H.D.’s poem Sheltered Garden (1916) and curated by Kika Kyriakakou, the programme took place in J. & A. N. Diomedes Botanic Garden, one of the largest and most important botanical gardens in the Mediterranean, PCAI’s multimedia programme included numerous commissions and performances and was unfolded through an online, digital exhibition available at pcai.gr, a limited edition publication, a contemporary art group exhibition and a series of performances at the Diomedes Botanic Garden in Athens. The performance programme was curated by Kika Kyriakakou and VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis), while it featured onsite performances by artists Phoebe Giannisi, Ermira Goro, I broke the vase, Dimitra Ioannou, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Leda Papaconstantinou, Aris Papadopoulos & Martha Pasakopoulou, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis), VIGIL (Despina Sanida-Krezia & Fotini Stamatelopoulou), Iria Vrettou. The exhibitions and the performances were supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Flunet Productions and the British Council.
Oh, tranquility! Penetrating the very rock, A cicada’s voice exhibition and performances
The programme unraveled through commissioned performances and an exhibition inspired by Dimitris Pikionis’ environmental concerns, expressed through his essays Gaia’s Atimosis (1954) and Sentimental Topography (1935), as well as his architectural and artistic work. All performances and activities took place in the former Pikionis pavilion in Delphi, a recently restored monument of modern architecture designed by the leading Greek architect and his son, Petros Pikionis, in the late 1950s. Visual artists, architects, poets, sopranos, designers and performers were invited to create new works in dialogue with the refurbished Pikionis landmark and the unique heritage and natural landscape of Delphi. The programme, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, PCAI artistic director, includeded works by Angelo Plessas, Anna Pangalou, HOPE, Digitaria, Phoebe Giannisi, Zissis Kotionis, Natalia Papadopoulou, Serapis Maritime, Kostadis, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis). The programme was realised in the framework of the 2023 programme of the Ministry of Culture “All of Greece One Culture” institution. The production was part of the programme “All of Greece One Culture”2023 of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and was supported by Amalia Hotel (Hospitality Partner) and Muses Estate (Wine Sponsor).
A Letter from Yene Greek Premiere and Discussion between Manthia Diawara and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Diawara’s recent film is a Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative (PCAI), Serpentine and MUBI co-commission created in the context of Serpentine’s Back to Earth programme. Diawara’s documentary unfolds as if it were a letter written to the viewer. In A Letter from Yene, the filmmaker is not only the storyteller, but also the owner of one of the houses along the beach. Following encounters between fishermen, pebble collectors and himself, Diawara explores how their intersecting lives collectively and unknowingly contribute to the undermining of their shared environment. A Letter from Yene premiered in Athens in April 2023 at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, followed by a fruitful discussion between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine’s artistic director, and the artist.
ICHTHYOLATRY Performance Premiere in Athens.
ICHTHYOLATRY: A hybrid performance of Water Deities is a research-based performance conceived and directed by Eva Giannakopoulou. The performance is inspired by the theorist Astrida Neimanis’ book “Bodies of Water”, who coined the concept of Hydrofeminism, according to which water, femininities, embodied practices and ecology are interconnected creating “new” future synergies. The performance premiered in Athens (2023), was presented in Teatro Cine (Portugal), Oxto (Greece), and in the Thessaloniki Biennale. It is a co-production between PCAI, Artemrede (Portugal – in collaboration with the Municipality of Torres Vedras) and L’Arboreto (Italy) in the context of the Stronger Peripheries Programme, financially supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Activity aligned with Goals 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17
