TIMELINE. LEDA PAPACONSTANTINOU

  • 1913
    • birth of Theodore / Lesbos – Mytilene
    • grandpa Thanassis Papaconstantinou from Roino village near Tripoli / Physics and Astronomy teacher / Member of Hellenic Society for Psychic Research [HSPR] founder Angelos Tanagras
    • grandma Aglaia Tsimonidi / from Athens → dentist to the Greek royal family
  • 1914
    • First World War
    • birth of Electra, T’s sister
  • 1915
  • 1916
    • Birth of twins / Phaedon and Criton (Criton dies) T’s brothers
  • 1917
  • 1918
  • 1919
    • End of First World War
  • 1920
  • 1921
    • Birth of uncle Creon / T’s brother
  • 1922
    • Asia Minor catastrophe / the Papaconstantinou family leave Mytilene and settle in Athens
    • Birth of aunt Anthi (Kontou) / T’s stepsister
  • 1923
    • HSPR founded
  • 1924
  • 1925
  • 1926
  • 1927
    • Uncle Costas born
    • NAVAL ACADEMY / telegraph operator
  • 1928
  • 1929
    • Enlisted as student Telegraphy Petty Officer 18.8.1929
  • 1930
    • trainee petty officer
    • AVEROF Armoured Cruiser 8.7.1930 – 17.5.1931 →
  • 1931
    • ships on which T served
    • PERGAMOS Torpedo Boat 17.5.1931 – 20.5.1931
    • PROUSSA Torpedo Boat 20.5.1931 – 29.6.1931
    • AVEROF Armoured Cruiser 29.6.1931 – 1.17.1931
    • ELLI Protected Cruiser 1.17.1931 – 8.12.1931
    • AVEROF Armoured Cruiser 8.12.1931 – 18.1.1932
  • 1932
    • second petty officer
    • THYELLA Destroyer 18.1.1932 – 29.1.1932
    • PSARRA Destroyer 29.1.32 – 1.5.33
  • 1933
    • PSARRA Destroyer 1.5.1933 – 10.8.34
  • 1934
    • AVEROF Armoured Cruiser 10.8.1934 – 17.8.1934
  • 1935
    • HEPHAESTOS Repair Ship 6.12.1934 – 25.3.1935 / First Petty Officer
    • LEON Destroyer 25.3.1935 – 6.4.1935
    • LEON Destroyer 6.4.1935 – 25.4.1935
    • IERAX Destroyer 25.4.1935 – 13.11.1935
    • LEON Destroyer 13.11.1935 – 18.10. 1936
  • 1936
    • Metaxas – Dictatorship
  • 1937
  • 1938
  • 1939
    • HYDRA Destroyer 31.12.1938 – 14.2.1939
    • SPETSES Destroyer 14-2-1939 – 8.5.1940 They meet in Volos / on the ship Theodore is serving on / Litsa is on a trip with the Metaxas Youth / they start exchanging letters
  • 1940
    • she is tender
    • Second World War
    • ASPIS Destroyer 8-5-1940 – 11.8.1940
    • HYDRA Destroyer 11.8.1940 – 22.4.1941
  • 1941
    • HYDRA SINKS
    • EGYPT CONVOY
  • 1942
    • death of grandpa Thanassis / Athens – famine – First Cemetery
  • 1943
    • Chief Petty Officer / 28 October 1943
    • Hidden wireless in the wash house / Theodore from 1942 – end of war / was Middle East liaison / “Omiros” resistance group
  • 1944
  • 1945
    • Volos – Kazaklar [Ambelonas] / through the snow, on foot / meets their daughter
    • Themistocles Destroyer 6.3.1945 – 4.4.1946
    • we all live in Volos
  • 1946
    • THEMISTOCLES Destroyer 4.4.46 – 20.8.46
    • exiled on Ag. Efstratios / Electra’s husband / Yorgos Sarantis, poet
    • THEMISTOCLES Destroyer 20.8.46 – 21.4.48
  • 1947
    • Move to Paloukia on Salamis
    • His brother Creon is arrested → Makronisi
  • 1948
    • Civil war
    • Costas is arrested / his brother
    • 22 April 1948 / arrested + imprisoned / – the Grand Navy Trial – / 117 charged / 20 executed
    • 21-6-48 / released / and discharged
    • Athens / odd jobs
  • 1949
    • sleeps at childhood home
    • falls into Ilissos [River] / by accident – FIX [Factory]?
    • salesman for WORRY BEAD MANUFACTURER IN LAVRION / Athens office: 2 Protogenous Street
  • 1950
    • P. ARVANITAKIS – Ε. GLYSTRIDIS
  • 1951
  • 1952
  • 1953
    • Costas released from prison / lives with us on Salamis later (1954)
  • 1954
  • 1955
    • buys 3 bicycles with money from the sale of the orchard / rents them out to workers at Naval Base
    • Carves wooden figurines and ships
  • 1956
  • 1957
  • 1958
    • awarded Naval Pension / (after court appeal) / 1.3.1958
    • model ships he made are exhibited / at the “Hellenic Maritime Museum” – Piraeus
    • sells first wooden figurines / “Knossos” store on Stadiou Street
  • 1959
    • Royal Social Service / Voukourestiou Street
    • Costas Avouris / EOMMEX [Hellenic Organisation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Handicrafts] collaboration
  • 1960
    • move to Athens / 64 Pantazi Street, Kato Ilioupoli / “Athinas” stop
  • 1961
    • productive
    • sales ’n’ exports
    • home built without permit in Loutsa 27m2
  • 1962
    • Papaspiliopoulos family / Old Man Yannis / happiness
  • 1963
    • another move / 45 Asklipiou Street – Kato Ilioupoli / Theodore has workshop in garden
  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1966
    • November / move to Spetses
  • 1967
    • First good clients
    • 21 April 1967 / Junta / police / here we go again
    • Their first shop
  • 1968
    • Theodore denied a passport
  • 1969
  • 1970
  • 1971
    • Move / house with workshop + garden / Telephone
    • Large shop / “Gorgona” [“Mermaid”]
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
    • 1st Boat “Lee” Makrothanassis boatyard
    • fishes and happiness
  • 1975
  • 1976
    • another house at the old harbour – Skarmoutsos
  • 1977
    • buy their own house at Kokkinaria / make workshops, chicken coop, rabbits, slide for Luke
  • 1978
    • upstairs home built / the two families / live together separately
  • 1979
    • “Gorgona” shop closes
    • splendid summers in Loutsa – FRIENDS + RELATIVES
  • 1980
    • gifts to Balinda, the gravedigger, his boat the “Lee”
    • “Lee2” Master Craftsman Sklias / bigger boat
  • 1981
    • they tour through Greece with friends
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
    • Uniform and cap / promoted to lieutenant and later to commander / receives commensurate pension
  • 1986
    • The Hellenic Republic awards Ret’d Commander Theodore Papaconstantinou / the commemorative CAMPAIGNS 1941–1945 medal. He often wore it out fishing and on Saint Nicholas Day
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1994
    • my father has Parkinson’s
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
    • good Friday / Theodore dies / at his home / on Spetses
  • 1922
    • birth of Litsa / (Triantafyllia)
    • grandpa Panayiotis Krithariotis / pharmacist / Kazaklariotis / Kazaklar = Ambelonas
    • Eleni Tsima / grandmother from Larissa / adopted
  • 1920
    • aunt Toula (Evanthia) / L’s sister
  • 1924
    • aunt Foula (Sofia) / L’s sister
    • summer holidays: Kokkino Nero, Platamonas, Rapsani
  • 1925
  • 1926
  • 1927
    • Family Tsalta [Family Parthenis /Loula Tsalta] Partheni
  • 1930
  • 1933
    • Litsa goes to Larissa / for high school stays with friends
  • 1934
  • 1935
    • becomes friends with my godmother-to-be Katitsa Kemou
  • 1937
  • 1937
    • Metaxas Youth
    • Larissa Officers’ Club balls
  • 1941
  • 1942
  • 1942
    • they are engaged in Ambelonas (Kazaklar)
  • 1943
    • they are married in the chapel of Saint Thomas / outside Ambelonas / meal on tablecloths / laid on the grass
    • they come to Athens / live in Vyronas
  • 1944
  • 1945
    • grandpa Panayiotis dies in Ambelonas / Litsa falls pregnant and moves back to childhood home to give birth
    • we all live in Volos
  • 1946
    • living with grandma Aglaia / Mets
  • 1947
    • move to Paloukia on Salamis
  • 1948
    • civil war / Salamis with her child / darns socks
  • 1949
    • Summer in Lavrion / Mountains charred / small coconuts on the beach / RAW MATERIAL FOR BUTTONS
  • 1950
    • summer in Ambelonas / truck – overnight – to Bralos / Ambelonas / lots of food
  • 1951
    • Ambelonas / grandma Eleni + mum / harvest + export grapes (Debina variety [?]) / grandma has rented out the pharmacy (first already sold)
  • 1954
    • grandpa Panayiotis’s orchard sold / in Kazaklar
  • 1955
    • We all live together
  • 1956
  • 1956
    • Magiati family neighbours + friends
  • 1957
  • 1958
    • Pavlos Souris – friend + colleague of dad’s / invited us to emigrate as a family to South Africa / parents refuse / for ideological reasons
    • party
  • 1959
    • collaboration
  • 1960
    • Baxevanakis family / relatives ♥︎
  • 1961
    • house in Ambelonas sold / ↓ with Litsa’s share / they buy a plot of land in Loutsa
  • 1962
    • lots of friends visitors / Takis, Arleta, the Maraslis’
  • 1963
    • Sundays with the Sarantides’ / poets, Plaka, the Old University
  • 1964
  • 1964
    • House in Loutsa made legal
  • 1966
  • 1966
    • move to Spetses
  • 1967
    • table with works of theirs in front of the window in the kitchen
    • friends stay with them / Arleta, Takis, Paul.
  • 1968
  • 1968
    • Work is going well
    • Litsa paints / has commissions / Chantal + Michel Déon
    • London Leda + David wedding ↓ ᴖ
  • 1970
  • 1970
    • Move / house with workshop + garden / Telephone
    • ↓ large shop / “Gorgona” [“Mermaid”]
  • 1971
  • 1972
  • 1974
  • 1974
    • Litsa’s sisters / and grandma Eleni > visit often
    • Metapolitefsi [Regime Change – fall of the dictatorship] – Viva / Theodore has his [naval] position restored
  • 1975
  • 1976
  • 1976
    • they become grandparents
  • 1977
  • 1977
    • Buy their own house at Kokkinaria / make workshops, chicken coop, rabbits, slide for Luke
  • 1978
  • 1978
    • upstairs home built / the two families / live together separately
    • splendid summers in Loutsa – FRIENDS + RELATIVES
  • 1979
  • 1979
    • Continue to make–sell their works / in their daughter’s shop
  • 1980
  • 1980
    • grandma Eleni dies
    • Litsa has a breakdown
    • 1) First painting exhibition in London – Lower Bond Street/ 2) New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Sussex / everything sells / rejects any further collaborations
  • 1983
  • 1985
  • 1985
    • fur coat – a gift from aunt Foula
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1989
  • 1990
  • 1992
  • 1994
  • 1998
  • 2000
  • 2000
    • Litsa dies at their home on Spetses / on the eve of the Epiphany
  • 1945
    • 22.1.1945 Leda born / in her grandma Eleni’s house in Kazaklar
    • we go to Volos 40 days later
    • in Athens with grandma Aglaia / at the family home in Mets > for a short time / then in Vyronas
  • 1947
    • Vyronas – Athens
    • Salamis – Paloukia / house / of / Niatsa / wooden floors with gaps between the planks
    • House in Ambelakia with garden. Dark stranger / my father visits us, with dog
  • 1948
    • Psitalia Lighthouse / T is held there / Aunt Toula
    • Military tribunal, cigarettes. benches. bound men. / Santaroza Street
    • lawyer Costas Economou / leather armchair
  • 1949
    • another house in Ambelakia. / facing the “AVEROF”
    • on Sundays T would come / lots of friends and relatives – often – parties – intense debates – / happiness too
    • all together / parents very beautiful and in love
  • 1950
    • Ambelakia School. Two teachers / Ms Maria – awful
    • gives me books / “Dombey and Son” [by Dickens]
    • Sundays / church + bible school / in the evening cinema “Ta Pefka” [“The Pines”] / paradise
  • 1951
    • Kamatero / One-teacher School / strict, capable teacher / played truant for a week / mum smacked me ↗
    • Truant / smacking wasn’t allowed / in our house / T had been hit a lot
    • Kamatero kiosk / MICKEY MOUSE / the first ★ / Cavafy in secret
    • summer in Kazaklar – watermelons / we live in the family home where / I was born
  • 1952
    • Primary school year three – Ambelakia / soup kitchen– milk – cheese – butter / nits / Wonderful teacher Mr Vassilis Theocharis
    • UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration] / UNRRA [agency name written again in Greek] / American clothing / we were amazed / trousers!!
  • 1953
    • Bible school – Church / Confession – awful – / Father Alekos and Olympia (bible school teacher)
    • at school, poems, dramatics, / and nonsense / Father Alekos
  • 1954
    • To the cemetery for dessert after bible school / ossuary: the black hand, not yet decomposed.
  • 1955
    • Green bicycle
    • Girlfriends / Angeliki Sachtouri (niece of the poet [Miltos Sachtouris]) / Poppy Venetsanou
    • Electric power / + paraffin lamps
  • 1956
    • Wonderful parties with lots of shouting ↘ we all sleep together – poetry, politics, hardship and wine
  • 1957
    • High school in Koulouri
    • Grandma Eleni
    • The Cyprus problem / protest at high school / expelled
  • 1958
    • Nelly Galani / Athenian friend / 3 Admirals in the neighbourhood: / Galanis / Vergis / Moskovakis
    • Boys
    • Tragedies
    • Beethoven
    • Latin – brilliant
    • Rock
    • I learn English from uncle Costas
  • 1960
    • Athens, grandma Aglaia / Misery
    • Aunt Tassia
    • High school in Ilioupoli
    • holidays / Easter on Spetses / lovely!
    • Home with a bath
  • 1961
    • I like school / I draw stage sets / choir / ↓ literature teacher / Ms Marangoudaki / party at our house / blues kisses
    • Antigone / Evangelatos
    • Maths – Stress
  • 1962
    • English at an Institute / Lower + Proficiency diplomas
    • Finish high school / actress? no / painter? no / graphic designer? alright
  • 1963
    • 1963–1965 Doxiadis School
    • Elias Dekoulakos is my first teacher
    • Aspioti-ELKA [publishing house] / PATSIFAS LYRA [record producer Alekos Patsifas and his label] / THEATRO – Nitsos [magazine and its publisher, Kostas Nitsos]
    • Byzantine monuments / Tassos / M. Hadjidakis
    • 27-5-1963 / Grigoris Lambrakis assassinated [leftist anti-war activist]
  • 1964
    • 14.5.64 / Second Marathon Peace March / reached Athens late afternoon
  • 1965
    • International Sculpture Exhibition [Athens Biennale]
    • on Filopappou Hill / people everywhere
    • café on Dexameni [Square] / Yellow apartment block / Pilavios / Rania / The Psychopedis’ / Katzourakis / Voudouroglou / Kyritsopoulos / Savvopoulos / the painter Yorgos
    • the handsome Alexis Akrithakis / friends
    • Eleni + Yorgos Maniatis
    • Doxiadis School diploma
    • Working at the advertising agency / of Asadour Baharian opposite the “ORA” [cultural centre]
    • ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS [ASFA] – preparatory course
    • Nikolaou – expelled me
    • Moralis takes me in
    • ASFA entry exams I failed
  • 1966
    • I decide to leave / wake my parents and
    • Yanna Tsiomi / Barbara Papastefanaki / Arleta / Karabelas / Hara Baharian
    • End of September in London Shepherd’s Bush – people of all races!!
    • Mornington Crescent / off Portobello Rd.
    • Museums
  • 1967
    • Music / everything other
    • Paddington Station / newspaper / extra extra / = coup d’etat in Greece = / ᴖ
    • May 1968 / Amsterdam / because Paris airport is closed
    • my books are burned / by my mother / police make visits /to their house
    • teachers
    • David Hughes / Jerry Ratter (Penny Rimbaud) / Terry Day / the canvas and I eye each other
  • 1968
    • April 1968
    • May 1968
    • Rembrandt
    • Andy Warhol
    • 1968–1971 / Maidstone College of Art / Kent / Epping forest / house in the countryside / white deer
    • David Hockney / Stuart Brisley / Paul Harris
    • wedding bells ☼ / civil + church wedding / London / Marc Chaimowicz
  • 1969
    • Lesley Walton / the consummate co-performer / love her
    • Holloway Rd / horrible housing block
    • Tom Osborn
    • Sally Potter
    • Arts Lab
    • Film Co-op
    • house / Finsbury Park / sharing with Barbara and Yanna
    • The Round House
    • Black Panthers / Feminism
    • Slaughter House / hard work and happiness / when do I sleep?
    • John Cage
    • Merce Cunningham / a revelation
    • Brighton Festival for Stuart Brisley / Speed / The Royal Court Theatre
    • Nikos Giagos Dimitra Marasli in London
  • 1970
    • The Slade?
    • I cut and paste Super 8
    • Paul Harris – the teacher
    • Andy Warhol’s films / Non-stop Arts Lab
    • Carlyle Reedy
    • I buy a good Super 8 camera
  • 1971
    • National Film Theatre / Sally – Mike
    • “Last Performance”
    • Fine Arts diploma
    • We buy / an old VW Transporter – Fill it with the bare essentials – set off via Austria–Yugoslavia
    • August 1975 / HELLAS!
    • parents / the sea I love the sea
    • home
  • 1972
    • police
    • Barbara and Elias Papastefanaki / we open a shop
    • Deplorable politics / Censorship
    • Kiss Takis
    • Friendships with foreigners
  • 1973
    • The “Kafkalithra” [“Hartwort”] shop
    • Law School squat
    • I want to do performances / in public spaces – no joy / [artist Giorgos] Varkitzis at the Attikon [cinema] → no / Dionysis at the Kyttaro [“Cell” nightclub] → no / Baharian at the ORA [cultural centre] → no / finally YES
    • [Athens] Polytechnic uprising
    • Spetses / Maraslis / Veruschka / Holger
  • 1974
    • England / Sally / Rose English / Jacky Lansley / Marc Chaimowicz “La Perla” / Soho
    • ORA Cultural Centre installation
    • Michail Mitras / Natasha Hadjidaki
    • C. Karamanlis returns
    • I return to Spetses
    • The Spetses Players
    • First Spetses Festival →
    • The Woods / Dimitris Konstantinidis / Natalia Mela
    • Remy Charlip
    • Dimitra
  • 1975
    • Nikos Soulis – captain / I can set sail in June – Hostess / cruises on the Atlantic
    • the shop is going very well
    • I don’t set sail / I’m pregnant and happy
    • productive future parents
    • leather bags, belts / jewellery / top quality
  • 1976
    • birth of Luke
    • Carnival, party at the house / of aunt Toula + uncle Mimis
    • We rent a large house with a workshop
    • We work non-stop
    • Grandma, grandpa. Luke.
    • Lesley comes
    • Yulia
  • 1977
    • Women’s group
    • WOODS
    • Expats + Athenians
    • Ina Fritsche
    • Timberlake Wertenbaker – playwright
    • “The Third” at Nikos Maraslis’ house / we stage her first work
  • 1978
    • monumental discussions
    • Florica Kyriacopoulos / Spetses
    • wedding of Dimitra Marasli + David Hersey / I am maid of honour
  • 1979
    • shop at full tilt
    • Spetses Festival
    • Sima magazine
    • Gazetopoulou
    • Eleni Saroglou
  • 1980
    • PASOK [Panhellenic Socialist Movement]
    • Families [in] London
    • Commune
    • Jud
    • Spetses
    • Luke falls ill and is cured ♥
    • purple hyacinth
    • Ileana Tounta
    • Athens Workshop / 38 Nikiforou Ouranou Street
  • 1981
    • Gallery 3 / 3 Fokilidou Street
    • Roussopoulos
    • Carole video + French feminism
    • Florica + Tim / Spetses
    • Nikos Kessanlis
  • 1982
    • “The Box” / Gallery 3
    • Alekos Xydis
    • Efi Strousa
    • EUROPALIA – GREECE 82
    • Sally Potter Antwerp
    • David and I break up
    • We move to Athens / Neapolis, nearby houses
    • LIZZIE CALLIGAS
    • Kessanlis invites me to work for 5th ASFA workshop
  • 1983
    • David teaches at “Tasis School” / international school / in Kifissia / Luke goes there too
    • Crazy hours
    • School, home, work / my child is a blessing
    • Dakis Joannou
    • Efi Strousa
    • Gavrilos, Diohandi
  • 1984
    • Dracos Art Centre
    • Ileana Tounta / 48 Klefton Street on corner of Armatolon Street
    • Eleni, Lizzie, Ileana, Leda / we meet regularly
    • Shop
    • Shop
  • 1985
    • Workshop on Dafnomili Street / shared with my students
    • I paint / hearts / foxes / asteroids
    • Lots of work, shop / at the karnagia [traditional shipyards] on Spetses / wooden arrows
    • Solid wood hearts / videos – hands hearts
  • 1986
    • Installation with paintings, sound, videos / things sell well
    • Spetses and shop
    • I quit ASFA
  • 1987
    • I fall ill with breast cancer
    • Operation – Radiotherapy therapy
    • I’M CURED ☻ / → Markos Gastin / + Hara Angelousi
    • I put the pedal to the metal
    • Production designer for American film / Nikos Giannopoulos
  • 1988
    • I am saved
    • Move to Exarchia / 4 Ioustianou Street / Aleka Bania
    • Civil wedding with Tassos / Monemvasia
    • Sculptures in cement / temporary studio [in] old bakery / Plapouta Street / Marios Voutsinas / Nikos Sklavenitis
    • Tounta exhibition
    • The National Gallery [of Greece] buys 2 drawings
  • 1989
    • SÃO PAULO BIENNALE / BRAZIL
  • 1990
    • Workshop in Gazi
  • 1991
    • David returns to England
    • The forest on Spetses burns down
  • 1992
    • “LIQUID FOREST” sculptures and wall-mounted works / Ileana Tounta / pieces of wood from the charred forest / materials tar and more
    • My “Kafkalithra” landlady / evicts me / I win the case. / I let the shop go
  • 1993
    • I move to Mets / on the floor above / Haris Vrontos, piano, Claire, cello — / – Florica lives nearby / – Café Odeon [on] Markou Moussouri Street
  • 1994
    • Theodore at Naval Hospital
    • At my Athens home: parents, Luke and our dogs Floppy + Gogo
  • 1997
    • Luke goes to London to study
    • “Genet’s Toaster” / installation Nicosia / Athens / belongs to the MMCA [Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art]
    • Hearts made out of bread
  • 1998
    • Kazakhstan with Sally Potter / 1st Eurasia [International] Film Festival
  • 1999
    • EPIKENTRO [contemporary art space], Michalis Gavrilos Angeliki Antonopoulou / “MEMBERS” EXHIBITION
    • “TRAVELS WITH MY FATHER” / Spetses works
    • Litsa passes away painting
    • Gavrilos took us to the island
  • 2000
    • Lizzie is a huge help
    • Sally + Christopher Shepard marry / Isles of Scilly / Saint Agnes / – I am maid of honour
    • Brazil Abadiânia
    • Giannopoulos marries / Chrysi Tsiota
    • Meeting with Denys Zacharopoulos
    • Luke comes back / for good / studies to become a cameraman and / director
  • 2002
    • Past Revisited” / Lola Nikolaou / Thessaloniki
    • “The Pioneers” / in Kalambaka / Leonidas Beltsios collection / curator: Denys Zacharopoulos
  • 2003
    • Loutsa house is sold
  • 2004
    • “EYE WITNESS” / a.antonopoulou.art / video of the same title / camera: Luke Hughes
    • OLYMPIC GAMES “Athens by Art” curator: Efi Strousa / sculptures in the space in front of the [Odeon of] Herodes [Atticus] theatre / “Running Chairs”
    • August 2004 / Luke has an accident at work – / working at the A.O.B. Athens Olympic Broadcasting
  • 2005
    • Biennale in Seville “Clothes House” / Las Atarazanas [Shipyards] / video work “She Who Cries” / shot by: Luke Hughes
    • Aunt Foula dies
    • Eleni Saroglou / Cube [Art] Editions / Book title: “LEDA PAPACONSTANTINOU / PERFORMANCE – FILM – VIDEO 1969–2006’’
  • 2006
    • site-specific installation → curator Denys Zacharopoulos
    • Benaki Museum / Bey Hammam Thessaloniki
    • Maria Tsantsanoglou / Syrago Tsiara > become friends – begin working together
    • refugee situation clear to eyes that see
    • I move to Spetses
  • 2007
    • Happiness and hard work
    • “LIVE ART ON CAMERA” / JOHN HANSARD GALLERY, U.K. / curator Alice Maude-Roxby
    • preparing work for 1st Thessaloniki Biennale
    • 5 days of performances: / 1st: 21 April 2007 – laying of wreath / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 > I walk through the cemeteries of foreign nationals in Thessaloniki | captured on video by Luke Hughes / Final form of work: shown on screens floating on the sea
    • TASHKENT BIENNALE
  • 2008
    • “Barbie’s Dead” / a.antonopoulou.art / so much sewing
    • “SECOND SEX DINNER” / London “The Slade” / PERFORMANCE
    • → Claire MacDonald Andros / walking + talking →Athosian Subjects = work in STAGES.
    • Tassos dies
    • Carole too
  • 2009
    • ELEFSINA, AESCHYLIA [FESTIVAL], “FOREVER” / At the Old Oil Mill / site-specific installation / video: Luke Hughes
    • I fix up the house downstairs / Good friend Areti Efstathopoulou
    • Gavrilos marries Gogo / big party
    • There goes Toula too
    • Work for the Monastiraki station / on the [Athens] Metro / Title: “Time in My Hands”
    • The night of the opening, Athens is ablaze
    • Museum of Greek Folk Art The Bath House of the Winds – Plaka / “YES + NO” site-specific installation / video Luke Hughes
    • The Dawn Turns Golden
    • Luke marries Katerina Avramopoulou / the downstairs house comes back to life
    • Luke starts his own business / on the island – Theodore’s workshop becomes his
    • Ionas is born / I am a grandmother ᵕ
    • Athens Biennale AGORA / archival material: The Spetses Players / Bouboulitses 1, 2, 3
    • “VISITORS” exhibition a.antonopoulou.art / so much sewing again
    • I send postcards / to girlfriends / in Reykjavík
  • 2015
    • Birth of Pigi
    • THESSALONIKI BIENNALE / LAZARISTES MONASTERY / ARCHIVAL MATERIALS FROM “PERFORMANCE 1969–2011”
    • systematic work on this piece here
  • 2016

 

 

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