The itinerant urban planning workshops Revisiting the Landscapes of Elefsina seek to establish new links between urban planning, architecture and the performing arts, placing the artists as well as the people of Elefsina at the core of a drive to develop and regenerate suburban areas.
Artistic Direction: Eleftherios Kechagioglou, Patrick Bouchain
Architects: Dimitra Kanellopoulou, Loïc Julienne, Amine Slimani
Production Management: Le Plus Petit Cirque Du Monde
From Monday 12th to Saturday 17th June 2023, the artistic and scientific team of the renown French architect and urban planner Patrick Bouchain, accompanied by Eleftérios Kechagioglou, director of Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Loïc Julienne, Construire Agency, Alexis Gouin and Guillaume Barnavon of Ya+k collective, Valia Kardi of Mains d’Oeuvres association, Dimitra Kanellopoulou architect and associate professor at ENSA Paris-Malaquais, and Amine Slimani, architect specialized on contemporary heritage, returns for a new cycle of the “Revisiting the landscapes of Elefsina” urban design and place-making workshops.
With the participation of artists and architects but also Elefsina’s inhabitants, the action aims to highlight the city’s human, industrial and ancient heritage, as an extension of the work carried out during the two first editions, based on encounters with local residents and their desire to activate the abandoned landscapes of Elefsina through art, sports and leisure activities.
The project will take the form of a one-week in situ workshops, involving the construction of poetic, user-friendly and playful installations based on the concepts of climbing, crossing and walking in the city. In this third session of Revisiting the landscapes of Eleusis, we aim to bring together all the plural voices discovered during the last years, and give them the floor of expression in two ways.
First, by inviting them to be the guides on some new paths traversing the city and visiting new emergent ‘Symbols’
Secondly, by inviting them to come to the site of Arkopolis, and participate in the activation of this public space under construction.
An artistic event is scheduled on Friday 16th of June at 8:00 pm in order to celebrate the end of the workshops and the upcoming Arkopolis site and the future skate-park.
Monday 12/06, Tuesday 13/06, Wendesday 14/06
09:45 am to 2 pm
Morning walks
Meeting point: Iroon Politechniou and Thoukididou, in front of Paneleusiniakos
Morning walks with citizens to trails linking important unexplored spaces of Elefsina
5:00 to 9:00 pm, Arkopolis site, In Situ Workshops
Meeting point: Find out here the specific location
Build together the new sacred path and the public space at Arkopolis, in cooeparation with the team of TimeCircus
Thursday 15/06
10:00 am to 2 pm Morning walks
Meeting point: Entrance of the archeological site
Sotiriou Gkioka 3, Elefsina
We’ll walk guided by Greek artist Alexandros Mistriotis starting from the the archeological site to the sea front
5:00 to 9:00 pm, Arkopolis site, In Situ Workshops
Meeting point: Find out here the specific location
Build together the new sacred path and the public space at Arkopolis, in cooeparation with the team of TimeCircus
Friday 16/06
10:00 am to 2 pm Morning walks
Meeting point: Entrance of the archeological site
Sotiriou Gkioka 3, Elefsina
Exploring the hidden treasures of Eleusis
5:00 to 8:00 pm, Arkopolis site, In Situ Workshops
Meeting point: Find Out here the Specific Location
Build together the new sacred path and the public space at Arkopolis, in cooeparation with the team of TimeCircus
8:00 pm Official Pre-opening of the new sacred path and the public space at Arkopolis
Saturday 17/06
Place to be Defined
5 to 7:30 pm -5 to 5:45
Open Presentation of the results of :
Mystery 57 Revisiting the Landscapes of Elefsina
5:45 to 6:30
Presentation of SPARK- cross-sectorial laboratory about Place Making and Performing Arts in Elefsina, co-organised by Circostrada, European Network for Contemporary Circus and Outdoor Ats with Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, and INSTITUT FRANÇAIS
6:30 to 7:30
Conversation with the audience
8:00 at Open Air Theatre – Old Elaiourgio
Final Performance of Climbing over Elefsina
This project is supported and funded by Eleusis European Capital of Europe 2023. Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde, Périféeries 2028, the European Union, the French Institut, and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
Further Info
From 17 April to 19 May, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents Mystery 199 Vangelis Tsakos – Thanos Tsingos, an exhibition – tribute to two great artists of Elefsina, the award-winning photographer Vangelis Tsakos and the internationally acclaimed artist Thanos Tsingos at the Old Town Hall of Elefsina. Photographic and painting works, testimonies, publications, exceptional editions and valuable materials, products of extensive research, describe their history and highlight just a small part of the particularly rich but also unique work of the two artists.
The artistic installation “Voices of Elefsina” by Berlin artist Karl Heinz Jeron, is presented in the context of the project Mystery 37 VOICES OF ELEFSINA of 2023 Eleusis, in collaboration with the team of the Zoetrope Athens art space. A live experience, in the form of a sound walk, which will be inaugurated in Elefsina on 28 April.
From April 13th to April 16th, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture presents an exhibition with artistic creations by Nicoletta Granitsa (aka Magemeli, a name that is inspired by the “alchemical” society of bees), under the title: Mystery 197 Paper World – A Letter to Eleusis, at the Canteen – Art Hub.
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