“On Being Sane in Sunny Places”; Adolescent Athenian Absurdists

23-29 August 2012

Curated by Filtig and Phevos Dousos

This showcase investigates some of the city’s recent DIY sub-scenes scouting for fringe creatives with a sense of absurd joy and a negation of the heavy-handed, pseudo-profound aggressiveness in recent cultural developments in Greece. Working in a city in an emotional turmoil, these young artists find refuge in creating their own self-reflexive modes of playful expression. At the core of their operation are serendipity, deconstruction, absurdism and irony. It is through those working methods that they arrive at an almost exhibitionist sketching of their own trauma within the new living conditions. This attitude is not a desperate call for sanity, but rather a celebration around the impossibility of such sanity in those times.

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Tue25Nov

panke.gallery Sound Night 16

Winter is coming, and so is our panke.gallery Sound Night! Escape the gray and join us for a curated evening of live music. Our four acts range from noise to indie folk. We’re excited to see you there!

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Tue25Nov

The event takes place on the 25th of November starting at 20:00:00.

Winter is coming, and so is our panke.gallery Sound Night! Escape the gray and join us for a curated evening of live music. Our four acts range from noise to indie folk. We’re excited to see you there!

Dea Karina is an Indonesian Berlin-based multimedia artist wielding synthesizers, pedals, loopers, and drum machines to forge dense drone/noise/acid soundscapes. Primarily focused on live performances, they also explore the intersection of sound with painting, intermedial processing, and haptic devices for installations.

Fetter makes clubby self-destructing noise pop to dance and weep to. Oscillating between ethereal and pounding, their all-hardware, largely improvised live sets take listeners through a foggy wilderness of saturated rhythms and menacing synth lines, a golden voice guiding the way through. Fetter is the stage moniker of multimedia artist Jess Tucker. Their performances take place in clubs as well as galleries, often incorporating video, installation, and interactive performance art elements to create other-worldly surrounds of mesmerizingly unhinged bodies and faces.

Raised in New Jersey, the early memories of Mezzy Shivers are flooded with deciduous trees and murky rivers, pot-holed highways and flickering street lamps. Her media intake consisted of horror films, bubblegum pop, and fantasy books. As a result, discovering her work is akin to stumbling upon a dark and dreamy rabbit hole. Through the mediums of sound, collage, performance, and writing, Shivers creates an echoing realm of flashbacks and fantasy.

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current. They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.

Entry fee: dice roll (random between 2 and 12)

Wed26Nov

Pankeschön Jamsession

With hoisted sails and a scrubbed deck, Yachts & Stuff makes port at Panke Schön to rock your socks off! Discovered by a sea lion and raised by starfishes, Yachts & Stuff can’t wait to welcome you aboard and serve you their refreshing cocktail of funk-infused...