the Milena principlepartners
Introduction befriended partners.
Tres [
Spain ]
Tres is an interdisciplinary artist known for his work on silence; a practice of enquiry and experimentation which has been his sole focus for over two decades. His investigation began in 1986 by collecting information about this extensive phenomenon. In 1998 he organized MUTED – a factory of silences – at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, an installation that evolved into a bi-edition festival on Silence. From then onwards, Tres has relentlessly produced many different events that he has called Silent Actions: Silent Cocktails, Silent Concerts, Blackouts or public “turn-offs” of noisy spots and lights, performances, video pieces, exhibitions and various kinds of ceremonies. These all have a common denominator; experimenting with alternative ways in which the individual usually relates to himself and to others. His silent actions and performances have been presented in many of the main cultural institutions of Spain as well as in other countries like Finland, Germany, France, UK, Italy, China or the USA. Often mistaken for an apologist of silence and conscious of the creative limitations he has undertaken in order to produce his work with the coherence and rigour that a concept such as ‘Silence’ demands, in 2008 he presented a radically new piece. The performance, which took place at Galeria Antonio de Barnola in Barcelona, involved shooting at close range a blank gun against a white wall forty-seven times. Damned Silence, as the action was titled, intended to point at and metaphorically destroy the negative aspects of silence with the power of the most deafening, yet unamplified, sound he could find. This new action meant a change of direction in his work which has since become more concept-driven. No More Silence, his current work in progress project has two main purposes: to free his creativity from all self-limitation and to point at and denounce silence as a prime strategy for domination.
www.elsilencio.com
Dr. Rhea Thöngens Stringaris [ Greece ⋈ Germany ]
Dr. Rhea Thönges-Stringaris [*1934] studied art history and archeology in Bonn and Munich. Until 1974, museum activities in the State Art Collections in Kassel. Since 1972, friendship and cooperation with Joseph Beuys. 1977 Establishment of the FIU - Branch office in Kassel. 1979 Founding Member of the 'Green'. 1980-1987 Member of the Documenta's Supervisory Board. 1982 Participation in Action: '7000 Oaks'. 1989 Establishment of the FIU-research firm. Lives in Kassel Germany and Athens Greece. Numerous lectures and publications on Joseph Beuys and the archaeological research [including: The Greek monument to the dead-relief ', Berlin 1966]. 'Lester Raum' [Last room] Joseph Beuys. dernier espace avec introspecteur', Stuttgart 1986> The longer but the event is removed. .. <To Joseph Beuys, Peter Handke, Wangen 2002].
Yiannis Melanitis [
Athens Greece ]
Yiannis Melanitis is a Greek performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, digital artist, born in Athens. He has been referring to Marcel Duchamp, Iannis Xenakis, James Joyce, Joseph Beuys and was influenced by their work. He was the organiser and one of the main exhibitors of a very successful and impressive exhibition at the Andreas Syngros hospital in Athens "Dermatographies, Art meets Medicine". His latest works include an interactive performance installation and exhibition called Kryographia (The Conductivity of Writing), which presents writing as a metaphor for absolute coldness, in 2010, a project to be elaborated with Geert Vermeire in Belgium, Portugal and Brasil. Dans Le Jardin d’ Epicure / Les elements comme des metaphors, a personal exhibition at the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève), Switzerland, 2006. Also, Pleasure Machine, performed at The Eighth New York Digital Salon in Madrid, and at the Blue Stage in the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Also Touch Terrain at the Monaco Dance Forum in Monaco, a multi-user interactive environment in 2006 and performance videos at Generative Arts,Milano, 2005. Melanitis exhibited at the first Bienale of Modern Art in Thessaloniki, organised by the State Museum of Modern Art of Greece. He was one of the artistic directors of an exhibition dedicated to Joseph Beuys in Greece. As an artist, Melanitis also exhibited his own art at the same exhibition.
Maria Aloupi [
Cultural Art Center ⋈ Athens Greece ]
Maria Aloupi Composer, pianist, director of Centre for Music Composition & Performance Born in Athens. She has given several recitals and chamber music concerts as a pianist in Europe. Since 2002 she has presented her works as a composer in concerts and festivals in several countries around the world, including the attendances in Stockhausen’s homage tour with Nicholas Isherwood in Greece, USA, Spain, France (2008), as also in 3rd ISCM - Romanian Section International Festival (December 2007) and in the frames of events of Sibiu of – cultural capital 2007. She has collaborated with artists as Daniel Kientzy, Nicholas Isherwood, Gerard Pape, Rex Richardson, Christophe Roy etc. She was artistic director of Conservatoires from 2000 until 2006. Since November 2006, she has been acting as artistic director at the Centre for Music Composition and Performance (www.cmcp.gr) in Athens. In 2008 co-founded the international mixed media festival ElectroMediaWorks '08 in Athens. In 2010, togerther with Andreas Diktyopoulos, she founded the Cultural Space ABOUT in Athens.
Andreas Diktyopoulos [
Cultural Art Center ⋈ Athens Greece ]
Andreas Diktyopoulos was born in Darmstadt, Germany. When he was just 6 months old he returned to Greece where he passed his childhood in Syros island. Since he was a child, he was dealing with music, computer and writing. After his highschool studies he moved to Athens where he studied computer science and music (theory, piano, cello). Together with his studies he visited various institutions and professors (mainly in France and Germany) in order to be an active part of the composers world community. In 2006 he founded with Maria Aloupi the Centre for Music Composition and Performance (which in 2010 opened the cultural space ABOUT) and organises events on contemporary music and contemporary arts. Now resident in Athens, he writes music and attend the postgraduate program in Logic, Algorithms and Computation[UOA+NTUA+UP].
Ingrid Pee [
Kassel ⋈ Germany ]
Ingrid Pee was an employee of the 'Office 7000 Oak' [Documenta 7 - 1982] by the German artist Joseph Beuys [1921 - 1986]. At the moment she is very active in a small four-man environmental party that successfully puts fingers on the ecological wounds of the region of Kassel. She is very passionate and critical. Her life consists of running her Gasthof, guiding mythological walks in the Neolithic landscape of Kassel, study of ancient mother goddess sites, organizing philosophical debates and seminars, policy workshops and to inform people about upcoming projects in the city of the Documenta.
http://www.ingrid-pee-kassel.de/