Outraged by pleasureis curated by Nadja Argyropoulou and shared by the following artists, art entities, curators: Antoinetta Angelidi, Patricia Apergi & Aerites Dance Company, Tosh Basco, The Callas (Lakis Ionas & Aris Ionas), Daglara, Sofia Dona, Navine G. Dossos with James Bridle, Georgia Fambris, Family Business, iLiana Fokianaki (with Danae Io, Harun Farocki, Mary Zygouri), FYTA, Ιoanna Gerakidi (with Yianna Charachlianni, Leah Clements, Anna Savvatopoulou), Pinelopi Gerasimou, Hypercomf, Dimitris Ioannou, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou with [Pegy Zali, Sofoklis Koutsourelis, Panagiotis Lianos] and Athina Koumparouli, Lito Kattou, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Blaise Kirschner, Katerina Komianou, Konstantinos Ladianos, LALA, Kostas Lambridis, Iris Lykourioti, Irini Miga, Rashaad Newsome, Nionia Films (Maria F. Dolores, Sofia Dona, Alkisti Efthymiou, Smaro Papaevangelou), Malvina Panagiotidi, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Eva Papamargariti, Agnieszka Polska, Filipa Ramos (with Rosalind Fowler, Goutam Ghosh & Jason Havneraas, Mariana Murcia, Lea Porsager, Ani Schulze), Teos Romvos & Chara Pelekanou, Kostas Sfikas, Gabriella Simossi, Panos Sklavenitis, Kostis Stafylakis & Theo Triantafyllidis, Nancy Stamatopoulou (with Nicoleta Chatzopoulou, Makis Faros, Tassos Vrettos), Eva Stefani, Valinia Svoronou, Temporary Academy of Arts, Eleni Tomadaki, Thanassis Totsikas, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou / Bunny, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas & Kostas Tzimoulis), Marina Velisioti, Nikos Velmos, Hypatia Vourloumis (with Jackie Abhulimen, Maria F. Dolores, Eleni Ikoniadou, Maria Sideri, Taka Taka), Iria Vrettou, Rea Walldén, Marie Wilson-Valaoritis (with Zoe Valaoritis & Katerina Valaoritis) Curator: Nadja ArgyropoulouCuratorial Assistant: Adrianos EfthymiadisVisual Identity and Print Material: Eva PapamargaritiAudiovisual Design and Installation: Makis Faros, Antonis GkatzougiannisContributing Architect: Sofia TektonidouΕvents Αssistant: Stephanie OratiLighting Design: Nikos VlasopoulosText Editing: Fotini PipiTransport and Installation of Artworks: MoveArt Insurance: KaraviasUnderwriting Agency S.A. Production: Laika Productions, AtoZ communication & strategy P.C.C.The works of Nikos Velmos are exhibited courtesy of The American College of Greece Art Collection, Gift of Takis Efstathiou Organization: City of ChalandriSponsor: FLYA, Municipal SA for the Management of the City of Chalandri’s Real EstateSponsor: Karavias Underwriting Agency S.A. Duration of Exhibition: Friday, Sept. 29 to Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023 Dissonant AttunementsCurated by Hypatia Vourloumis An evening entailing different performances swirling into one another. How is the practice of outraging conventions always a collective matter? In response to Nadja Argyropoulou’s curatorial theme “outraged by pleasure,” Dissonant Attunements engages the paradoxes of incongruent simultaneity. Following adrienne maree brown’s notion of “pleasure politics” in their book Pleasure Activism, particularly the emphasis on the somatic as a path, methodology and practice for transformative change, this gathering includes performances by Taka Taka, Maria Sideri, Maenads (Eleni Ikoniadou, Aliki Leftherioti, Afroditi Psarra), with a poetic audio piece by Jackie Abhulimen, and the book of paintings and diary entries “Baby Bump Revelations/ Ursula’s Diary” by Maria F. Dolores. This gathering of different embodiments, sonic vibrations and pleasure politics is inspired by artist Tourmaline’s work, Pleasure Garden, and their insistence on thinking of abolition “not necessarily as something that we want to get rid of or even something that we need to bring in, but as something we have already that we wanna make more of… We have our capacity to see the abundance that’s already here, let’s grow that into a further realization of what feels good.” This is an invitation to tune in, ride thefrequencies of solidarity, and celebrate our dissonant abundances in this pleasure building as something we already have and want to make more of.
