Το Video Art Μηδέν προσκλήθηκε να παρουσιάσει μια ενότητα ελληνικής βιντεοτέχνης στο πλαίσιο του γνωστού ισπανικού φεστιβάλ PROYECTOR στη Μαδρίτη, που φέτος γιορτάζει τα 15 του χρόνια με ένα πλούσιο πρόγραμμα προβολών σε διάφορους χώρους στη Μαδρίτη, από τις 7 έως 18 Σεπτεμβρίου του 2022.

Το Video Art Μηδέν θα παρουσιάσει την ενότητα Greece is a state of mind, σε επιμέλεια Γιούλας & Όλγας Παπαδοπούλου. Η προβολή του Video Art Μηδέν είναι προγραμματισμένη για τις 17 Σεπτεμβρίου 2022, ώρα 17.30, στη Sala Equis (Calle del Duque de Alba, 4, Μαδρίτη).

Συμμετέχουν οι καλλιτέχνες:

Γιώργος Δρόσος, Black Sheep Escape, Ελλάδα 2018, 3.20

Άννα Βάσωφ, Vienna Hit, Αυστρία 2019, 2.07

Μάκης Κυριακόπουλος, What is a man without a shadow, Ελλάδα 2020, 3.19

Γιούλα Παπαδοπούλου, When I was the moon, Ελλάδα 2020, 5.57

Λήδα Πάττα, the view-er, Ελλάδα 2007-2015, 7.43

Μαργαρίτα Σταυράκη, Τάματα_Υπέρ Υγείας, Ελλάδα 2020, 3.17

Νίκος Γιαβρόπουλος, “Quarantine Self-portrait” No2, Ελλάδα 2020, 3.18

INAUGURACIONES  – EVENTOS
07 SEP 2022. 19:30h   White Lab                        Inauguración
08 SEP 2022. 19:30h   Cruce                                 Inauguración
08 SEP 2022. 21:30h   ¡ésta es una PLAZA!     Proyección
09 SEP 2022. 11:00h   Alcalá 31                            LAP I. Encuentros Profesionales
09 SEP 2022. 16:00h   Alcalá 31                           LAP II. Encuentros Profesionales
09 SEP 2022. 19:30h   NNNN                                Inauguración
10 SEP 2022. 11:15h   Colección Inelcom         Visita mediada
10 SEP 2022. 19:30h   La Imprenta                    Inauguración
11 SEP 2022. 12:00h   Extensión AVAM            Inauguración
13 SEP 2022. 20:30h   Sala Equis                        Presentación
15 SEP 2022. 19:30h   Secuencia de Inútiles  Presentación
16 SEP 2022. 12:00h   Alcalá 31                            LAP III – Encuentro Agentes Culturales
16 SEP 2022. 17:00h   Alcalá 31                            LAP IV – Encuentro Artistas
16 SEP 2022. 20:30h   Quinta del Sordo           Videoperformance
17 SEP 2022. 12:00h   Embajadores                        Visita mediada
17 SEP 2022. 17:30h   Sala Equis                         Festivales PLAY, FONLAD y MIDEN 
18 SEP 2022. 17:30h   Sala Equis                         Proyección 
18 SEP 2022. 20:30h  NNNN                                  Clausura con performance fílmica

ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ

Μαδρίτη,

 7 έως 18 Σεπτεμβρίου

Video Art Miden::
Greece is a state of mind

Curated by Gioula & Olga Papadopoulou
The title of the selection is a direct reference to the Greek official tourism campaign that was
released just while exiting the coronavirus strict lockdown. 7 well-known Greek video artists
synthesize through their videos and their personal visions an alternative approach to
contemporary issues of identity, culture, self-definition and self-placement in the world.

Yiorgos Drosos, Black Sheep Escape, Greece 2018, 3.20

White and black, opaque and transparent, the internal frame and an obscure external space
converse on a journey to the final exit, an escape which is feasible only by the opposite and the
different, by collision and friction. The video focuses on what we cannot comprehend, on what
is different, on what belongs to a group other than ours. In a region like the Balkans, where
multiculturalism is a reality, the idea of being different in all its manifestations – culture,
religion, sexual preference or gender – is a fact that cannot be skimmed over, perhaps because
these different elements led to constant disputes and conflicts in the region. Therefore, black,
which is unlike every other color, takes the form of all the features that are unknown to us,
vitiates our own stereotypes as to the meaning of boundary, since its own boundaries lie in a
different semantic space.
BIO: Yiorgos Drosos is a New Media Artist, video artist. He specializes in digital video, New
Media, image and sound. He has created educational applications and has supported digitally
two Museums, the State Museum of Contemporary Art and the Natural History Museum of
Axioupoli. The core of his work is the correlation between time and space. He has participated
in solo and group exhibitions. He works in the Visual Arts department of Aristotle University in
Thessaloniki, Greece.

Anna Vasof, Vienna Hit, Austria 2019, 2.07

“Vienna Hit” is part of a wider project by Anna Vasof, entitled “Hitting my Head on the World”.
As Anna Vasof explains:

‘I visit several cities and I hit my head on different surfaces. A microphone, which is mounted on
my head, records the sound of these head-beats. A camera, located off to the side, records
each action. In this way, all is made visible: the action, the sound recording, the surface upon
which I hit my head, and the urban ambiance of the location. I make one episode for each city
that I visit. The titles consist of the names of the cities and the word “hit”. For example,
“Vienna-Hit” or “Berlin Hit”. For each episode a music piece is composed from the head-beats.
The music is also used to structure the video editing. Each episode is around 2 minutes long.
Hitting one ́s head upon a wall is a worldwide known gesture. Desperate people who do not
know what to do next might hit their heads against walls. This is not always literal. It is more
often a metaphor for not knowing how to get around a strong sense of frustration. But if we
observe this movement as an instrument, a hopeless action begins to transform into an absurd
repetition. In the compositions, my head is played as instrument in multiple contradictory
locations and creates an audiovisual urban “landscape” of the world.’
BIO: Anna Vasof is an architect and media artist. Born in 1985, she studied architecture at the
University of Thessaly (2010) in Greece and Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in
Vienna (2014). Since 2004 her videos and short movies have been presented in several festivals,
some of them winning distinctions. She’s working on designing and building innovative
mechanisms for producing critical and narrative videos, actions and installations. She works and
lives in Vienna, Austria.

Makis Kyriakopoulos, What is a man without a shadow, Greece 2020, 3.19

In the video work “what is a man without a shadow”, a digital morphogenesis is being used as a
method, taking its inspiration from biology, and it is used to describe the process of the
evolutionary development of organisms and polymorphic systems. In digital morphogenesis,
new forms replace the former ones, through the logic of optimization, via an open system of
states of constant interaction. These organized structures are turning radically into disorganized
ones, creating general disorder. Images get gradually degraded, revealing entities that change
the consistency of space and time, with an average entropy value, enabling new realities to be
tested in a virtual space, allowing consecutively the evolution of the beings who strive to mark
their existence in sequences that interact, passing from one situation to another, generating
the genetic material of the project.
BIO: Makis Kyriakopoulos was born in Patras, Greece in 1975. He studied at the Athens School
of Fine Arts, where he also completed his MA in Digital Arts. He has presented his work in solo
shows in Greece and has participated in several group exhibitions and festivals in Greece and
abroad, such as: IBRIDA FESTIVAL, Forli, Italy (2019), 6th Taiwan International Video Art
Exhibition / Hong-Gah Museum / Taipei, Taiwan (2018), STOCKHOLM FRINGE FESTIVAL | STOFF
2018, Summer Collection-Ospizio Giovani Artisti /Rome / Italy (2018), ART ATHINA 2018,
KODRA 2017 (Thessaloniki / Greece), Bideodromo Festival / Bilbao / Spain (2016), and many
others.

Gioula Papadopoulou, When I was the moon, Greece 2020, 5.57

A symbol of light and darkness at the same time, interwoven with romance, love, but also with
the chthonic deities and magical powers, the moon, bright and seductive, has always attracted
special attention from all people around the world. Its movement in the sky is a bright thread
that connects us all and immerse us in a global magic.
It has been said since ancient times that witches had the power to influence the movement of
the moon and bring it down to earth. In “When I Was the Moon”, the moon becomes
autonomous, descends to earth and wanders into familiar landscapes in a magical journey, an
adventure that repeats itself forever, bouncing softly between the mountain tops and the sea.
The work was produced on the occasion of the art project & exhibition “Catageios”, scheduled
to take place at “Pramantha Arte” contemporary art center in Calabria, Italy, in 2020.

BIO: Gioula Papadopoulou is a visual artist and art director/curator of Video Art Miden. She was
born in Athens (GR) in 1974. She studied Painting at Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) &
Conservation of Works of Art (TEI Athens) and holds an MA in Digital Arts (ASFA). Her artistic

practice focuses on video art. As an artist, she has presented her work in many exhibitions, site-
specific projects and video art festivals in Greece and internationally.

As a director/curator of Video Art Miden, she has organized/curated numerous screenings,
exhibitions & events in Greece and has collaborated with significant festivals, museums and
institutions globally, including: MOMus (Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts
of Thessaloniki), Biennale of Thessaloniki (GR), Re-Culture (GR), Now & After/ CCI Fabrika &
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (RU), Videoforma/ Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art
(RU), Cairo Video Festival (EG), Madatac (ESP), Espacio Enter/Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
(ESP), [.BOX] Project Space & Visualcontainer (IT), Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino (IT), IFFR –
International Film Festival Rotterdam (NLD), DAF (CHE), Strangloscope (BR), Torrance Art
Museum (USA), Cologne OFF (DE) and many others.
Since 2020 she works as special teaching staff at the New Media Laboratory of the School of
Visual & Applied Arts / Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR).

Leda Patta, the view-er, Greece 2007-2015, 7.43

This is an old footage from a stormy winter afternoon at the small island Anafi where I used to
live for a couple of years in the past. I added Melina’s voice-over (6 years old) eight years later,
using extracts and notes from Robert Elias Najemy’s speeches.
BIO: Leda Patta was born in Stuttgard, Germany, in 1972. She studied Painting at the Athens
School of Fine Arts (where she won a scholarship for academic performance from the Greek
State Scholarship’s Foundation) and Social Anthropology at Panteio University of Athens. Got
her Master in Digital Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts, as a scholar for postgraduate
studies from the Greek State Scholarship’s Foundation.
Lived and worked in Athens, Anafi, Düsseldorf and Thessaloniki. Her work has been exhibited in
several galleries and institutes.

Margarita Stavraki, Vows_Offerings for good health II, Greece 2020, 3.17

Man’s need to keep close to him, “alive and in good health”, what he loves, leads him to turn to
forces beyond the natural. Somehow he sets up temples, shrines, composes hymns and
prayers, offers sacrifices, offerings and vows. All of these are nothing more than the
“implementation” of his faith, worship, and tendency to transcend the everyday and the
natural, which contain decay, restraint, and death.

BIO: Margarita Stavraki completed her first studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts / Greece
and at the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera / Italy. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from
Central Saint Martins / UK-Netherlands, specializing in New Media from the HGK Zurich /
Switzerland. In 2000 she received the scholarship of the Association “Friends of Music” (Athens
Concert Hall).
She participates actively on-site specific installations and presents video art works in exhibitions
in Greece and abroad. She is a founding member and co-director/curator of Video Art Miden.

Nikos Giavropoulos, “Quarantine Self-portrait” No2, Greece 2020, 3.18

The rhythm, the connection with oneself prior to the internment.
The identification with oneself, during the internment.
The disorganization, dismantlement of the connection with oneself.
BIO: Nikos Giavropoulos is a visual artist, based in Athens. He has presented 15 solo shows and
participated in various group exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad (Cyprus, Romania,
Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, Turkey, Finland, Spain, Norway, Latvia, Australia, Kosovo, Korea,
Senegal, USA, Denmark, Austria, UK, Italy, France, Sweden, India, Peru, Brazil, Holland,
Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, China). As a curator, he was in charge for 7 group exhibitions in
Athens and Thessaloniki. He has won 2 awards for best video art, one in Greece (Mediaterra
festival-Fournos Athens 1999) and one in England (Greek film and video festival London 2013).

Video Art Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video
art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest

specialized video-art festivals in Greece, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of
original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.
Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it
has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms
internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video
art. Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world,
and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.
(*Miden means “zero” in Greek)
Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou – Margarita Stavraki