Artisti Diner
Thursday, September 14
from 6 p.m. visit of the sailboat Bise Noire
(Kon/nou Zervaki 5, Ermoupoli)
7:30 p.m. group walk to the Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre
(Ir. Politechniou 84, Ermoupoli)
8 p.m. performance installation and aperitif at the Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre.

Project description 

“Escales” is a multidisciplinary residency of artistic research and exchange founded by Laurine Landry, Lucas Verheij and Nourya White Khaldi aboard the sailing ship Bise Noire.
In collaboration with Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre, Bise Noire presents the work in progress of the four artists currently in residence.
During the three-week journey from Athens to Ermoupoli through the Cycladic islands, the four companions faced adverse winds, two mutinies and the confined space on board. This experience led them to draw inspiration from the “Ship of fools” by the painter Hieronymus Bosch.
The ship of fools is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato’s Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge.

Mileva Testas (Toulouse, 1992) is a designer. She works on this exhibition with different ephemeral medium as base for sculpture and painting. She is interested in artisanal and industrial shapes.
She experimented sailing knots shaped in bread and memories pictures of the residence trip painted on rectangular crackers bread.

Swiss artist Nicolas Steullet (La Chaux-de-Fond, 1995) is currently researching into childhood states. For the Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre, he presents a research project in progress: a logorrhea in simili-French intended for humans under the age of 2. Using language, he is trying to create a secure cocoon. He is trying to extract the subjectivity of words to rediscover that place in childhood when language was charged solely with the emotions provoked by sounds.

The work “Softly and tenderly” by Lucas Herzig (Zurich, 1988) consists of remnants of fishing nets and threads collecting objects found along the places visited during the residency. Among them are bound stone figures depicting parts of the human body, referring to our senses, the means at our disposal to perceive and explore the space around us. The found objects are of human origin, reflecting our way of thinking, producing and exploiting the resources at our disposal.

From the figure of the mermaid, Ludovic Vial (Geneva, 1994) will present a performance incorporating different movement’s qualities, from Voguing, to the sail of the boat on which they have travelled until here. Somewhere between a monster and an object of desire, they will seek to bewitch as well as to warn of an imminent danger.