Σοβαρά Παιχνίδια

Serious Games

12 – 31/10/2021

Serious Games: Book Presentation and Artist Talk


It is with great pleasure that the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania announces an event to celebrate the bilingual (Greek/English) publication of Serious Games by Jenny Marketou which will take place from 7pm to 9pm on Monday, July 18 at CAM, Center of Mediterranean Architecture.

 

The launch event is sponsored by the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania and the Municipality of Chania, Crete and brings together an interdisciplinary group of speakers which consists of Jenny Marketou, the artist and the book’s curator, Vassiliki Yiakoumaki, Anthropologist, Professor University of Thessaly, Elia Vardaki, Social Anthropologist, Researcher at the Technical University of Crete, Christos Fradellos, Religious Scholar, Jason Francisco, Professor Emory University and Fulbright Scholar and Dimitris Barnias, Music Producer and Composer will present his environmental composition titled “Dytikos”.

 

The invited speakers will discuss in different but interrelated ways, Serious Games, within the framework of contemporary art process and centering around themes of ruination, defacement and the afterlives of monuments such as Yiali Tzami. What kind of potentialities are opening up in those monuments and how art generates new experiences, engages in new ways of knowledge production, and invites the public to think alongside Serious Games, in search of new forms of embodied experiences, alliances, possibilities, temporalities for collective imaginaries, action and play.

 

The publication Serious Games emerged from the collection of commissioned new essays by Vassiliki Yiakoumaki, Amalia Kotsaki, Myrto Kontomitaki among others which are informed by the theoretical framework and contemporary artistic practices proposed by Serious Games as well as from photo documentation and an archive of all material collected by the artist during research and during the process for the realization of Serious Games at Giali Tzami (Mosque) as a commission from the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania.


“Here is some documentation from the art talk and launch of the book Serious Games which took place on a hot summer day on July 18 at CAM in Chania. A celebration of friendship, support , encouragement which pervades with energy in their great contributions during the talk from Vassiliki Yiakoumaki, Myrto Kontomitaki, Christos Fradellos, Jason Francisco, Ioannis Giannakakis, Deputy Mayor of Chania, students from the City and Culture Lab initiated by Amalia Kotsaki at the Dept of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete and Demetris Barnias with his beautiful musical composition “Dytikos” and Vassilis Pitsonis (Scripta) for the beautiful design of the publication.” Jenny Marketou

 

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Monumentoclasm: Anticolonial Imagination

De-colonization, art / architecture and public space

Jenny Marketou / Olga Touloumi / Jilly Traganou: in collaboration with Serious Games / Municipal  Art Gallery of Chania (Oct. 30) on ZOOM

We are very excited to announce our second open workshop Monumentøclasm!

Through discussions, readings, exercises and experimental collaborative actions, our aim is to connect the creative and critical practices, debates and forms of activism reshaping monumental landscapes at various sites around the world to the Greek context, while at the same time illuminating Greek traditions of defacement –both political and artistic– as modalities of political action and historical reckoning.

Τhe workshop has been organized in collaboration with the Memory-Monuments Working Group

https://decolonizehellas.org/en/working-groups/

The Decolonize Hellas initiative is working to (re)view the place of contemporary Greece in relation to geographies and genealogies of European colonialism.

Μνημειοκλασία: Αντιαποικιοκρατική φαντασία

Απο-αποικιοποίηση, τέχνη / αρχιτεκτονική και δημόσιος χώρος

 

Τζένη Μαρκέτου / Όλγα Τουλούμη / Τζίλη Τραγανού: σε συνεργασία με τα Σοβαρά Παιχνίδια / Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη Χανίων (30 Οκτ.) στο ZOOM.

Είμαστε πολύ ενθουσιασμένοι που σας ανακοινώνουμε το δεύτερο ανοιχτό εργαστήριο Μνημειοκλασία! Μέσα από συζητήσεις, αναγνώσεις, ασκήσεις και πειραματικές συνεργατικές δράσεις, ο στόχος μας είναι να συνδυάσουμε τις δημιουργικές και κριτικές πρακτικές, αντιπαραθέσεις και μορφές ακτιβισμού που επαναπροδιορίζουν μνημειακά τοπία σε διάφορα μέρη ανά τον κόσμο, στο ελληνικό πλαίσιο, ενώ παράλληλα τονίζουν ελληνικές παραδόσεις αλλοίωσης -τόσο πολιτικές όσο και καλλιτεχνικές- ως συντροπικότητες πολιτικής δράσης και ιστορικής εκτίμησης.

Το εργαστήριο οργανώθηκε σε συνεργασία με το Μνήμη-Μνημεία Ομάδα Εργασίας

https://decolonizehellas.org/en/working-groups/

Η πρωτοβουλία Απο-αποικιοποιείστε την Ελλάδα εργάζεται για να (ανα)θεωρήσει τη θέση της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας σε σχέση με τις γεωγραφίες και τις γενεαλογίες της Ευρωπαϊκής αποικιοποίησης.