spring's treefellers

words [do it]

2012-02-02T14:00:00.000+02:00

i am curating a series of monthly poetry readings [in greek], that began in december 2011 in "parapera" multi-space, and will continue at the "104" centre for literature and the arts

"words [do it]" mean to let the poets themselves speak their words, those of poets they've translated, and of poets they love

at the first evening, last december, 9 poets read poems they love and that give them strength

on 22 february 2012, poets katerina anghelaki-rooke and danai sioziou will read their own poems, poems they've translated, as well as poems they love, and they'll talk about their relationship to words

not the 3rd athens biennale

2011-11-01T13:44:00.000+02:00

the 3rd athens biennale, 'monodrome', was for me clearly the most interesting so far - also the most curatorially coherent. the choice of main venue -the now disused 'diplareios' school [that used to train students in various crafts] located in the middle of one of the most problematic parts of athens' centre- was both inspired and defining

there was a constant and incredibly fruitful dialogue between the works of art and the building itself, its history -as we know it, as it appears graffittied on its walls, or exhibited in its archives-, the buildings around it, and the views from its windows as one ascended its floors

i therefore chose to concentrate on the building, its surroundings, and the views one sees as one walks along its various rooms

the new economy

2011-10-14T03:01:00.001+03:00

managing one's home: that's what "economy" meant in the first place; money came later - and is the least of it

'les mains d' hypnos' @ "icono-poeisis"

2011-03-15T17:08:00.003+02:00

a first draft / extract from les mains d' hypnos [hypnos' hands; where "hypnos" in greek is both "sleep" and the mythical brother of death] -two handbound 'noteboks' of photographs of hands facing poetry by rene char [his 1946 book, feuillets d' hypnos [hypnos' leaves]]- with which i'm taking part in the group exhibition "icono-poeisis" [m.cacoyannis foundation, athens, 11-26 march 2011]

non è mai troppo tardi

2011-02-22T00:01:00.007+02:00

today's photograph on troppotardi [che poi non è mai]

[p.i., ii.2011]

in land

2011-01-18T21:31:00.002+02:00

this spectator of patrice chereau's 'faces and bodies' has been sighted again in 'land'

[photo: p.i., paris, i.2011]

23 lights for 2011

2011-01-01T03:55:00.014+02:00

The “Pedion tou Areos” [Mars’ Fields] Park of Athens –one of the two largest in the city– has been during the past several years, and still is, under re-landscaping. However, parts of it have been gradually opening to the public since last September. And on Christmas eve, the low headlights on the street side of Leoforos Alexandras were on for the first time.

This New Year’s eve, having spent a lovely early evening drinking tea with a seldom –until now, at least– seen friend, I returned home. Very peaceful, I decided to stay in. Washed the dishes, made only a single phone call, read the year’s –and decade’s– rather somber review in the paper. I was toying with the idea of going to bed early – but then thought I should go out and realize the idea I had on Christmas eve.

I photographed –with no pretensions to ‘art’– each single headlight on the street side, using identical conditions: the lower part of the frame rests on the top of the marble ledge; each headlight is placed in the middle of the bottom edge.

All photographs were taken by me standing on the pavement lane for the blind.

The Park’s re-landscaping has been a long time coming, unfortunately. Fortunately, its principal architect, Alexandros Tombazis, is a respected figure – and received the highest number of votes amongst candidates with the party that won the recent municipal elections. Those results were a great relief, and many hopes hang on them.

The headlights end at the site of Athena’s statue, erected in 1952 to honour British, Australian and New Zealand soldiers who were killed on Greek soil during WWII. It now looks over a –perhaps regrettably rather too geometrical, but certainly mythologically appropriate– olive grove. The skaters, who used to love the marble pavement in front of it, will have, I hear, their specially designed area.

The lights are on. There’s work to be done.

365 friends

2010-12-13T22:28:00.004+02:00

Cold light
flush with the dark

Five fell
Three stand

[Written to accompany this photograph by Efi Panagoula on the web calendar '365 friends', for 15 March 2010]

a welcome to anne carson

2010-07-24T21:02:00.005+03:00

[a piece in greek, including translations of three poems by anne carson: "viii. click" and "xxi. memory burn" from autobiography of red, and "ode to sleep" from decreation - a small welcome, as she arrives in greece next week, invited by the 1st tinos international literary festival]

[photo: p.i., tinos, 2001]

may_viii

2010-06-03T16:30:00.000+03:00

and the last, eighth, gallery for may 2010: 18 iamges by 14 photographers, amongst whom, panaef

10may_vii

2010-06-03T16:21:00.000+03:00

the seventh may 2010 gallery: 18 images by 14 photographers - including nyulia

10may_vi

2010-06-03T16:12:00.000+03:00

the sixth may 2010 gallery: 18 images by 15 photographers - including ubik14

10may_v

2010-06-03T15:22:00.000+03:00

the fifth may 2010 gallery: 18 images by 15 photographers, including vavovi rec

10may_iv

2010-06-03T15:00:00.000+03:00

the fourth may 2010 gallery: 18 images by 13 artists - including derrick t

10may_iii

2010-05-22T14:47:00.001+03:00

the third gallery for may: 18 images by 13 photographers - including li hui

10may_ii

2010-05-12T13:23:00.003+03:00

[a second may gallery: 18 images by 12 photographers - including 6.5st]

10may_i

2010-05-09T15:00:00.002+03:00

[the first may 2010 gallery: 18 images by 14 photographers, like lubitel universal]

[cross line to feel]

2010-05-08T20:42:00.002+03:00

[a moral tale in four pictures]

10apr_ii

2010-05-03T20:59:00.002+03:00

[a second gallery for april 2010, finished in may: 18 images by 16 artists - including this photograph by evangelia kranioti]

1004

2010-05-01T17:05:00.000+03:00

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[schiele diptych]

2010-04-26T01:32:00.000+03:00

[from here]

[klimt diptych]

2010-04-25T04:35:00.002+03:00

[from here]

10apr_i

2010-04-25T01:34:00.000+03:00

[the first gallery for this april: 18 images by 11 photographers - including marina lombardi]

[polish spring]

2010-04-24T04:21:00.005+03:00

two hundred and seventy nine images
eight blissful days
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
one polish spring

[photo.: p.i., iv.2010]

"meeting at the poem" @ 'container', thessaloniki

2010-04-08T14:24:00.005+03:00

'container' hosts
a meeting at the poem

when we read a poem
silently or aloud
on our own or in company, with friends or strangers
a meeting is already taking place:
written words meet the body's voice

on tuesday 20 april, at 21:00, 'container' [n.foka 8, thessaloniki, greece - containerspace.gr] will become the space for such a meeting

poems of mine -from the lifesaver, as well as unpublished- will be read, making up, through voice and space, a new poem

[photo: p.i.]

10mar_vi

2010-04-05T13:43:00.002+03:00

[the last gallery for march 2010: 18 pictures by 13 photographers - including bez uma]

[kieslowski still lives here]

2010-04-05T01:40:00.000+03:00

[more here]

1003

2010-04-04T21:58:00.000+03:00

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keep your eyes closed

2010-03-22T13:07:00.004+02:00

[i've been thinking for years about a series of photographic portraits where the people would keep their eyes shut. for the time being, here's a small collection of 18 such images by 17 artists, including ilze v]

10mar_v

2010-03-22T11:41:00.002+02:00

[one more march gallery: 18 images by 15 photographers, including kleinally]

[postpoetic]

2010-03-17T01:17:00.001+02:00

[instances of light: an ongoing series]

10mar_iv

2010-03-17T01:14:00.000+02:00

[fourth gallery of the month, with 18 pictures by 15 photographgers, such as garmonique]

[many happy returns]

2010-03-14T17:56:00.001+02:00

[just four images]

10mar_iii

2010-03-14T17:49:00.001+02:00

[a third gallery for march 2010: 18 pictures by 15 photographers, such as guy batey]

[five]

2010-03-12T22:00:00.002+02:00

[unexpectedly today, a short 'sequence']

dedication

2010-03-11T14:58:00.005+02:00

Bus strike. Sitting quietly at the bus stop. From time to time, well-intentioned passers-by tell him he waits in vain, and hurry on towards their destination

[the photo appears here]

10mar_ii

2010-03-11T12:56:00.000+02:00

[a second gallery for march 2010: 18 images by 16 photographers, including .. greg ..]

10mar_i

2010-03-04T16:07:00.004+02:00

[the first gallery for march 2010: 18 pictures by 15 photographers, including birgit speulman]

1002

2010-03-03T22:10:00.001+02:00

[click here -new address!- for the full slideshow]

10feb_vi

2010-02-28T14:32:00.001+02:00

[... and this month's sixth gallery: 18 images by 14 artists - including zweifellos mondbetont]

10feb_v

2010-02-24T20:35:00.001+02:00

[this time, 18 pictures by 16 photographers, like jetybaum]

10feb_iv

2010-02-22T23:38:00.003+02:00

[the fourth gallery for february - with 16 images by 15 artists, plus 2 photographs by zach ayotte]

[third]

2010-02-20T16:02:00.000+02:00

[11 artists this time - including sara perovic, above]

[bis]

2010-02-20T02:49:00.002+02:00

[and here's my second gallery: 12 artists this time, including gzi24, photographer]

[the first crop]

2010-02-18T18:39:00.000+02:00

[my first flickr gallery: 18 images by 14 artists, including yana., above]

oblivion: the space of possibilities

2010-02-04T20:37:00.004+02:00

[Some words -in Greek- and images by Palle Nielsen, the Danish artist, some of whose works were exhibited last year in the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.]

99 years ago

2010-02-03T23:56:00.005+02:00

[A piece in Greek, briefly commenting, on the one hand, on the modernist avant la lettre 1911 sonnet, "Phaliro", by Greek poet Lorentzos Mavilis, who was probably the Master of the Greek sonnet, and a staunch supporter of the 'demotic', whilst a member of parliament - and, on the other, on the sonnet per se, as poetic form.]

1001d

2010-02-03T00:06:00.002+02:00

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1001c

2010-02-02T23:31:00.001+02:00

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1001b

2010-01-20T21:19:00.002+02:00

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1001a

2010-01-20T21:12:00.003+02:00

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0912a

2010-01-02T04:19:00.000+02:00

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0912b

2010-01-02T04:18:00.000+02:00

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happy new year

2010-01-01T13:32:00.001+02:00

[a piece in greek, linking a poem by takis papatsonis with a fragment by rainer maria rilke, taken from ulrich baer's book, the poet's guide to life: the wisdom of rilke]

0902

2009-12-24T03:04:00.000+02:00

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0812

2009-12-24T02:14:00.000+02:00

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0811

2009-12-24T01:44:00.000+02:00

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0808 to 0810

2009-12-24T01:31:00.001+02:00

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0805

2009-12-17T01:04:00.003+02:00

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0804

2009-12-15T22:52:00.000+02:00

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0711

2009-12-15T22:11:00.000+02:00

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0708 to 0710

2009-12-15T21:11:00.000+02:00

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0707

2009-12-13T15:48:00.001+02:00

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0704b

2009-12-13T15:20:00.000+02:00

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0704a

2009-12-13T03:02:00.000+02:00

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0612 to 0702

2009-12-13T00:59:00.000+02:00

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0611b

2009-12-06T01:31:00.002+02:00

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0611a

2009-12-06T01:27:00.003+02:00

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teflondasein

2009-12-05T04:35:00.001+02:00

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'teflon' invited by 'greek poetry now' at 'dasein' cafe, athens, friday, 4 december 2009

0608

2009-12-04T02:17:00.001+02:00

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0606

2009-12-03T01:35:00.001+02:00

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0911e

2009-11-30T00:33:00.000+02:00

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0911d

2009-11-29T23:45:00.000+02:00

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0911c

2009-11-29T23:10:00.000+02:00

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0911b

2009-11-29T20:57:00.000+02:00

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0911a

2009-11-29T19:51:00.001+02:00

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saturday evening with 'teflon' @ yuria 2009 [vinyl microstore]

2009-11-28T23:46:00.000+02:00

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aphf:09 _ athens photo festival 09

2009-11-07T01:59:00.004+02:00

pics from the day the central exhibition of the athens photo festival '09, 'aphf:09', opened

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i stopped longer in front of the images created by [in the order i saw them]: niels stomps, alexandros mistriotis, evangelia kranioti, suzanne lafont, francois rousseau, nan goldin, lia nalbantidou, eleni mouzakiti, agata grzych, penelope koliopoulou, yorgos aggelopoulos, yannis tzortzis, christina calbari & villy attart

[impressive how well the same space that the 2nd athens biennale occupied has been used: it now looks clean, welcoming, adequate]

0910b

2009-11-02T00:05:00.000+02:00

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0910a

2009-11-01T23:32:00.000+02:00

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eleni theofilaktou

2009-10-22T23:20:00.002+03:00

An unnerving Annunciation by Eleni Theofilaktou -she calls it Save it for later- from the group show, "Gamma Epsilon Delta", now on in 'TinT' Gallery in Thessaloniki.

0909 to 0910

2009-10-22T00:03:00.000+03:00

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[crossing] lines [to cross]

2009-10-16T00:41:00.000+03:00

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spirals

2009-10-06T22:22:00.003+03:00

[a text in greek, about my experience of watching the polish film the manuscript found in saragossa -based on jan potocki's novel- and two junkies in the trolley bus afterwards]

0604b

2009-10-05T21:22:00.001+03:00

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0604a

2009-10-04T20:06:00.001+03:00

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0603d

2009-10-03T19:13:00.001+03:00

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0603c

2009-10-03T18:52:00.000+03:00

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0603b

2009-10-02T21:07:00.000+03:00

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0511b

2009-09-28T22:11:00.001+03:00

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0603a

2009-09-28T20:38:00.000+03:00

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a charm so i don't lose my savings

2009-09-28T20:36:00.002+03:00

[a piece in greek, relating my experience of composing 'poems' on demand -wishes, charms, divinations, haikus- during the 'poetica residenza arcadia' happening at the 2nd athens biennale / 'heaven']

0509 to 0511

2009-09-14T20:54:00.000+03:00

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0508

2009-09-13T17:35:00.003+03:00

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0506

2009-09-13T15:59:00.001+03:00

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also: 0908 and 0504_to_0505 edited]

summer snapshots

2009-09-05T19:41:00.001+03:00

[a piece in greek. photo by p.i., viii.2009]

0908

2009-09-05T17:07:00.000+03:00

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0504 to 0505

2009-08-02T19:47:00.000+03:00

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0410 to 0501

2009-08-02T17:01:00.000+03:00

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0409

2009-08-01T14:44:00.000+03:00

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