ΕΜΣΤ invites you to an alternative guided tour of its collection based on seminal texts of modern feminist theory. The curators of ΕΜΣΤ together with the researchers of the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices (Athens and Volos) will provide a guided tour of the Museum collection and will analyse the work of specific artists as well as the history of contemporary Greek art through the essays of publication Feminist Theories, Aesthetic Practices and Globalised Technologies published by Thessaly University Editions. The tour will adopt alternative approaches to important works in the collection and will propose new readings of works by Aspa Stassinopoulou, Niki Kanagini, Nan Goldin, Köken Ergün, Mona Hatoum or Vlassis Kaniaris, based on texts in the publication written by Judith Butler, Sylvia Federici, Donna Haraway, Sarah Ahmed, Athina Athanasiou, Elena Tzelepi, Christina Grammatikopoulou, Angela Dimitrakaki and others.
“The Tools and the House” tour is the first in a series of thematic and performative tours by ΕΜΣΤ whose aim is to stir the debate on key fields of knowledge and to highlight hidden aspects of the collection. Moreover, ΕΜΣΤ is launching its new program “Saturdays at EMΣΤ”, with events, talks, panels and art activities held on selected Saturdays of each month.
A discussion will follow and participants will be offered a complimentary copy of the volume.
The event is named after Audre Lorde’s essay The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.
CONTRIBUTORS
The tour will be conducted by the editors of the volume Elpida Karampa and Iris Lykourioti, the members of the research team Ioanna Zouli, Valia Papastamou and Marianna Stefanitsi and ΕΜΣΤ curators Anna Mykoniati and Stamatis Schizakis and education curator Marina Tsekou.
Details and contributors to the edition
Feminist Theories, Aesthetic Practices and Globalised Technologies
Edited by: Elpida Karampa and Iris Lykourioti
Research team: Ioanna Zouli, Valia Papastamou, Kostas Stassinopoulos, Marianna Stefanitsi
Thessaly University Editions & Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices, Volos 2021
This project has received funding from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI), under grant agreement No 2284, host institution, University of Thessaly.
ACCESS
Time: 13:00
Duration of the guided tour: 90΄
Entry is free with admission tickets that will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis half an hour before the guided tour.
Meeting point: Foyer
IMAGES
Images from above:
Central image: Nan Goldin, All by Myself, 1995-1996, ΕΜΣΤ Collection, Photograph: Anna Primou
Niki Kanagini, At Home, 1975, ΕΜΣΤ Collection, Photograph: Olympianna Miliaki
Aspa Stasinopoulou, Untitled, 1980, ΕΜΣΤ Collection, Photograph: Olympianna Miliaki
Mona Hatoum, Fix It, 2004, ΕΜΣΤ Collection, Photograph: Olympianna Miliaki
