As part of its public programme, ΕΜΣΤ is pleased to announce an one-day conference on Saturday 13 April, entitled Leda Papaconstantinou: co-op, in the context of the artist’s retrospective exhibition Time in my Hands, on view at the museum until the 21st April. Through a series of lectures, discussions, screenings and presentations of unpublished material, this event aims to expand and investigate timely aspects of Leda Papaconstantinou’s practice, regarding corporality, her negotiation of gender, identity, social memory and history, and art as a field of social reflection and coexistence. In addition, the programme also includes a presentation of her work-in-progress Athosian Subject, which is part of the ΕΜΣΤ exhibition. The event will close with the launch of the exhibition catalogue, designed by MNP.
Coordination: Tina Pandi, Curator of the exhibition Time in my Hands. Leda Papaconstantinou. A Retrospective
PROGRAMME
12.00-12.10
Tina Pandi
Introduction
12.10-12.40
Katerina Zacharopoulou
Save the Dates, 1995-2024
Video, colour, sound, duration 12’ 42’’
As part of the use of the audio-visual archive entitled Save the Dates – An Audio-Visual Archive on Contemporary Art, comprised of the TV arts programme presented by visual artist Katerina Zacharopoulou on Seven X channel (1995-1999) and Greek National Television, ERT (2000-2024), Zacharopoulou presents a video with a selection of excerpts from her interviews with Leda Papaconstantinou over the years for the programmes ARt-φιλ on Channel Seven X and the The Era of Images on ERT TV.
12.40-13.30
Angela Dimitrakaki
Lecture: Her world is our world: Political aesthetics and social dynamics in Leda Papaconstantinou’s work
What social issues intersect with an individual’s need to express and produce an art as multifaceted as Leda Papaconstantinou’s? With that question as its starting point, this lecture attempts to relate the political aesthetics of the artist’s work to the trajectory of its time, seeking connections with visible and invisible subjects, the history of art and society, possibilities of transition from the personal to the political, in half a century’s worth of an artistic journey which, nonetheless, continues – just like history.
13.30-13.40
Break
13.40-14.30
Theophilos Tramboulis and Denys Zacharopoulos
Presentation of the exhibition catalogue and discussion: Oral accounts – written documents
On the occasion of the publication of the catalogue Time in my Hands. Leda Papaconstantinou. A Retrospective, Theophilos Tramboulis talks with Denys Zacharopoulos about Leda Papaconstantinou, their dialogue, and the complimentary relationship between oral accounts and written documents in the historisation of the work and the era.
The exhibition catalogue, edited by Tina Pandi, includes essays by: Katerina Gregos, Angela Dimitrakaki, Denys Zacharopoulos, Claire Macdonald, Tina Pandi.
14.30-15.00
Break
15.00-16.00
Discussion: Athena Athanasiou, Angela Dimitrakaki
Moderation: Tina Pandi
Three black folders
Prompted by the work of Leda Papaconstantinou, Athena Athanasiou and Angela Dimitrakaki talk about gendered bodies, performativity and the public space, history and memory, the suppression and elimination of female subjects in history/art history, and exhibition curation as a practice of memory disruption.
16.00-16.10
Break
16.10-16.50
Leda Papaconstantinou, Makis Faros
Athosian Subject
Leda Papaconstantinou and Makis Faros present her work-in-progress entitled Athosian Subject, casting light upon its material evidence, its testimonies and its exhibits.
16.50-17.00
Break
17.00-19.00
Leda Papaconstantinou
Interview with Sally Potter, 2002
Video, colour with sound, duration 1: 51’ 07’’
The video recording of the insightful discussion between Leda Papaconstantinou and the British director Sally Potter, with whom she has enjoyed a long collaboration and close friendship since the time of her studies in England, in the mid-1960s, will be presented for the first time.
BIOGRAPHIES
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Panteion University, Athens. Among her publications are: Agonistic Mourning (2017), Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Judith Butler, 2013), Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (2007).
Angela Dimitrakaki, is a Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Gender, ArtWork and the Global Imperative (2013), Art and Globalisation: From the Postmodern Sign to the Biopolitical Arena, (2013) and, forthcoming in 2025, Feminism, Art, Capitalism. She is the recipient of an Athens Academy Award for her fiction writing.
Makis Faros is a multimedia artist, electronic music composer, and filmmaker, member of the “For Cancel” art group, and co-founder and curator of the TILT platform, and technology consultant in museums, festivals, etc. He was a co-founder of the independent record label Elfish Records. His works can be found in museums and private collections.
Tina Pandi is an art historian and curator at ΕΜΣΤ since 2006. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University Paris Nanterre. She has curated and co-curated numerous retrospective, solo, and group exhibitions. Her texts have been published in international journals and numerous catalogues. She is the curator of the exhibition Time in my Hands. Leda Papaconstantinou. A Retrospective.
Theophilos Tramboulis is Publications Advisor at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMΣT), Athens. He has edited catalogues of major contemporary art exhibitions and his writings on issues of cultural and political criticism are published in Greek and international publications.
Denys Zacharopoulos is an art historian, art critic, curator, writer. He has been a museum director in France and a university professor in many European countries. He has written numerous books and essays and had published texts in magazines such as Artforum, Domus, Artistes, Parkett, Furor, Museum journal, Arti. He was co-curator of Documenta IX, Kassel, and curator of French Pavilion at the 48th Biennale, Venice. In 1996 he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France; Other awards include: Ehrenkreutz für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Austria (1999); HD of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece (2010), Fellow at the World Academy of Art and Science (2021).
Katerina Zacharopoulou is a Greek visual artist and producer of educational programmes and television-radio series on contemporary art. She curates and presents the TV programme The Era of Images on Greek National Television. From all her broadcasts (1995-2024) she has created the audiovisual archive Save The Dates accessible at EMΣT and The Athens School of Fine Arts, as a research and education platform.
TIME IN MY HANDS. LEDA PAPACONSTANTINOU. A RETROSPECTIVE
ACCESS
Entry is free with admission tickets that will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis half an hour before the event.
