Residency
Medea Electronique Offers in the Fall of Each year a 10 day residency offering a week’s retreat for media artists in rural Sparta, Greece.
For Koumaria 2009 participants and info press here
A Small Documentary can be viewed
Voice Over / Original Footage -Eric Lewis
Editing – Kleopatra Korai
At the foot of Mount Taigetos, a huge private olive garden will be transformed into a laboratory for contemporary art. Offering a 400 square meter residency made into a modern mixed media art studio, we aim to bring together artists of different disciplines in order to develop a collective mixed media art project.
We are interested in the process itself, as a hypothesis and as an in the search for an emerging work ethic, as an intense and refreshing experience that will serve as a for future creative gatherings.
We are looking for practitioners active in such diverse fields as: storytelling, and performance. Accepted artists will work with the I.S.E (Instant Synthesis Ensemble) and Audiovisual artists from the Medea Electronique collective. The list is non exhaustive and we will be happy to consider any interesting proposal.
This year we decided to use as a theme what could be generally titled as “Contemporary stories of Tradition”. The storytellers will have to create a tradition for a new ethnicity emerging from the remaining of a vast Climate Change that has destroyed all past civilizations. As a hypothesis we take that there is no visual memory of how the world was and new Common History, Tradition, Religion has to be created.
The outcomes we are looking for include:
- A public performance on 23d of November in Athens, Greece
- Material and ideas for further research and processing
- Recorded improvisations and other emergent pieces of work to be shared and distributed in appropriate forms between the participants
- Documentation of the whole process to be analyzed and elaborated on
- Further inspiring and productive collaborations to be initiated