PERCEIVING ACADEMY
by Eric Ellingsen
[Artist-in-Residency]

About the project

Ellingsen will build a Summer Academy focusing on community building through bottom-up self-organisation practices of creativity and arts education. The artist will organise workshops and interventions in public spaces with the participation of students from various disciplines, young professionals and members of the community. ​​

SUMMER RESIDENCIES CLOSING FESTIVAL: 14.07.2016

The Event
Photos: George Kogias
CLOSING FESTIVAL - PREPARATIONS
Photos: George Kogias

Building the Structures at LABattoir

# 5 Water Walk

# 4 Rotunda

# 3 Turtles

# 2 Blind Walk

Walk with trainer for the blind Foteini Baxevanou - National Association for the Blind
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# 1

About the Artist

Ellingsen's work is informed by collaborative learning through experienced experiments, relational thinking, walking, ecology and ecological economies, translation, performance and perception. The heart of Ellingsen's work involves learning how to learn. This takes place through the design of site and institution specific works, in which learning learns across different creative spatial practices. These projects involve growing languages and the ability to translate meanings across disciplines. 
From 2009-14, Ellingsen co-directed and taught at the Institute for Spatial Experiments (University of the Arts, Berlin), an art education experiment for learning how to learn, started by Olafur Eliasson. Currently he is Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously he taught at Cornell University, AAP; the Illinois Institute of Technology; and the University of Toronto, Daniels.
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki /  Old Municipal Slaughterhouse / public spaces around the city of Thessaloniki, Greece
June-July 2016 
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Artecitya Residency organised by:
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki 

Artistic direction & Co-Coordination:
ArtBOX

Curators:
Lydia Chatziiakovou, Christos Savvidis

​Scientific Advisor:
Sotirios Bahtsetzis 

Artist:
Eric Ellingsen

PARTICIPANTS Chrysoula Athanasiou, Vasilis Alexandrou, Dimitra Bairaktari, Maria Chatzikalia, Eleni Chatzineofytou, Dimitris Chatzinikolis, Georgia Damianou, Eleftheria Gavriilidou, Giorgos Gkiouzepas, Odysseas Glykas, Spyros Kazantzis, Chrysa Kotoula, Konstantinos Kotoulas, Anna Lioka, Fenia Nevrokopli, Konstantina Nouskali, Sofia Papadopoulou, Elvira Paschali, Christos Polymeris, Maria Ritou, Stergios Seretis, Katerina Sideri, Yorgos Toyias, Rodi Tsitouridou, Despoina Vatti, Katerina Voulgaridou

INVITED EXPERTS
Foteini Baxevanou (Trainer of Mobility, Orientation and Daily Living Skills - National Association for the Blind), 
Leon Kapetas (Water Resources Management, Ph.D., Consultant of Urban Resilience),
Giorgos Lagoudakis (Lawyer),
Theofanis Oikonomou (Engineer - Thessaloniki Water Supply & Sewerage Co)

PRODUCTION TEAM
Production Coordination: 
Maria Lazaridou

Production Assistant: 
Giannis Fourkiotis

Photographer: 
Giorgos Kogias

Cinematographer: ​
Giorgos Manos - Cre8ive Studios

Technical Advisor: 
Giorgos Kosmidis - Diapason

Technical Advisor - Constructions: 

​Giannis Katranitsas
Technical Support: Diapason
In collaboration with:
The project is funded with support from the European Commission. 
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