EMST invites you to the workshop entitled The Museum Roars. Narrative Approaches to the Museum as a Living Organism.
Does the museum roar, exclaim or is silent?
Ιn collaboration with artist Nikos Arvanitis, the participants in the workshop will investigate the experience, place, time, functions and discourse of the museum through sound and post-literature practices, with the aim of producing audio micro-narratives.
Can a museum purr? And if so, then where is its belly located?
The parcours, meeting and viewing points, exhibits, visitors and museum employees, information, accompanying texts and press releases are all part of the museum experience.
By recording the sound environment of the museum and processing the speech it produces, how can we, reflect on our experience of it?
If the museum has a language then what is the timbre of its voice?
Participants are asked – through field recordings, text reconstructions and voice recordings – to produce sound collages spanning a wide range of practical and aesthetic approaches.
A creative workshop by artist Nikos Arvanitis
PROGRAMME
Part One | Saturday 3 December 2022 | Time: 11.30 – 14.00
Presentation of the workshop. Wandering and observing. Collection, management and reconstruction of the “word”, printed and digital, of the museum.
Part Two | Sunday 4 December 2022 | Time: 11.30 – 14.00
Introduction to the use of recording media and audio editing applications. Field and voice recordings.
Part Three | Saturday 10 December 2022 | Time: 11.30 – 14.00
Content editing and production.
Part Four | Sunday 11 December 2022 | Time: 11.30 – 14.00
Presentation of results and discussion.
Participation
The workshop The Museum Roars. Narrative Approaches of the Museum as a Living Organism is addressed to adults. No previous experience of using audio recording media and audio processing applications is required, but commitment and participation in all meetings is important. The use of participants’ personal laptops and headphones is recommended.
To participate you need to register by email at: learning@emst.gr [Name, Age, Contact Phone].
Participation is free.
Maximum number of participants: 12 people.
The workshop will be held in Greek.
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UPDATE (17.11.2022): Attention please. The workshop is fully booked.
Artist’s Biography
Nikos Arvanitis was born in 1979 in Athens, where he lives and works. He studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and at the MFA “Public Art and New Visual Strategies” graduate department of the Bauhaus University in Weimar with scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD and the A. Onassis Foundation. He won the first prize in the ZeitGenosse Schiller Competition for art in public space, Weimar, 2005, was nominated for the 5th DESTE Prize of the DESTE Foundation, Athens, 2007 and won the Second G. Spyropoulos Award, Athens, 2009. In 2014 he was Artist in Residence at Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria.
He is co-founder of the artistic duo Barking Dogs United with Naomi Tereza Salmon.
Since 2018, he has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual Arts of the School of Fine Arts in Athens.
Among others, his works have been presented at the 2nd Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes (FR), 2nd Athens Biennale (GR), Halle 14, Leipzig (DE), Locust Projects, Miami (USA), State of Concept, Athens (GR), Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo (EG), DESTE Foundation, Athens (GR), BWA Wroclaw Galeria Awangarda, Wroclaw (PL), Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, “Le Commun”, Geneva ( CH) and the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (RS). Solo exhibitions were presented at at a.antonopoulou.art galleries, Athens (GR), artcore, Bari (IT), ACC Galerie, Weimar (DE).
