Recent : Rika Krithara

Counter Fugue

video installation 2023
a project on water fugues and deep time

On show as part of Microgeophies Unmapping project at the exhibition "Wet Heart" of the interdisciplinary and interartistic program "The Office of Hydrocommons" curated by Eleni Riga, which focuses on issues of environmental and social change in relation to water and the body.

Opening
World Water Day
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
ATOPOS cvc
Salaminos 72, Metaxourgeio, 6 PM - 9:30 PM.

The Office of Hydrocommons
Curation: Eleni Riga
March 22 – July 1, 2023

ATOPOS cvc invites you to the opening of The Office of Hydrocommons, an interdisciplinary and interartistic program focusing on climate and social change in relation to water and the body, to be held at its premises (72 Salaminos) on World Water Day, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 18:00. The program is actualized following an invitation and commission by the ATOPOS cvc artistic director Vassilis Zidianakis to the independent curator Eleni Riga in the context of #ΟccupyAtopos.
In an era of environmental and social crisis, the “modern water” has become an abstract notion; an easily recognizable chemical formula (H₂O); a commodity. In this crucial moment when water is in the frontline of climate change and at risk of being privatized, we are called to re-define what water is. It is worth thinking that it is not only a necessary natural substance, a common good, or a human right, but also a powerful metaphor that allows us to envision a different future – more fluid, inclusive, and resilient.
Taking different forms and manifestations, the Office of Hydrocommons is the fruit of the guest curator’s ongoing research into ecofeminism: a theoretical and political movement, an amalgam of feminism and ecology. Departing from the “wet heart,” the well in the center of the ATOPOS cvc premises, the program attempts to explore different aspects of climate change in relation to water, and the impact that affects bodies of women, queer, trans, and indigenous people. Informed by the properties of water’s liquidity, the program unfolds in different manifestations: an exhibition, an international artist residency, a series of weekly public events, and the Research Office. “Hydroresearchers'' from different fields, such as the arts, marine biology, agronomy, urbanism, sports, and activism, are invited to participate in the program.
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Exhibition Participants
Ileana Arnaoutou and Ismene King, Despina Charitonidi, Eleni Mylonas, Maria Nikiforaki
Artists-in-Residence
Maëlle Gross, Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, Kasia Wojcik
Event Participants
George Alexopoulos, Manos Bazanis, Olga Evangelidou, Catriona Gallagher, Maëlle Gross, Hariklia Hari, Rika Krithara, James Lane, Naiads, Giorgis Noukakis, Nefeli Papaioannou, Irene Ragusini, Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, Joulia Strauss, Margarita Tsomou, Kasia Wojcik
Program Collaborators
Avtonomi Akadimia, Goethe-Institut Athen (Atlas of Mediterranean Liquidity project), Microgeographies
Curation
Eleni Riga
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The Office of Hydrocommons takes place in the framework of the program #OccupyAtopos, and is realized with the financial support of the G. & Α. Mamidakis Foundation as part of the Research Residency Program 2022, the Region of Crete, the Municipality of Chania and the Chania Culture Organization (KEPPEDIH-KAM), the Municipality of Apokoronas, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Pro Helvetia, and Goethe-Institut.