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Against All Odds: Ethics / Aesthetics

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Following on the first international conference Against All Odds: Ethics / Aesthetics, held successfully at the Athens School of Fine Arts, and the six academic workshops currently under way, the AAO project continues with a second international conference and three exhibitions—one main and two parallel shows—at the Benaki Museum / Pireos St Annex.

In the second international conference, to be held at the Amphitheatre on June 6 & 7, 2011, the participants in the main exhibition will present the imaginative strategies they adopted, the means and objectives of their projects in a spirit of evaluating today’s pressing social and environmental needs and the ways for addressing those needs.

The main exhibition of the AAO project will be held from June 6 to July 31, 2011 at the ground-floor exhibition area. The show is structured so as to explore the impact of the new participatory processes on the field of spatial practices and the points of convergence and differentiation between aesthetic form and ideological background. The themes of the exhibition are:

• Activism. Groups with vision
• Society & Aesthetics
• Identity. Professional Ethics
• Action – reaction

The two parallel exhibitions, also scheduled for June 6 – July 31, 2011 at the same venue, are:

Slow Down Rooms

Curated by Iris Kritikou, this parallel exhibition presents emerging Greek artists who adopt handmade approaches and experiment with various materials as they focus on the idea of recycling.

Athens Here and Now

The second parallel exhibition presents in six installations the process and the outcomes of the six academic workshops that dealt with the current pressing urban and social issues in the city of Athens. Two of these workshops constituted the ‘Athens Here and Now’ actions—video projections at buildings in the historical center of Athens on May 9, 10 and 11, as part of the Athens Art Week of the Hellenic Ministry for Culture & Tourism.

The AAO project is organized in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts, the National Technical University of Athens, the Parsons The New School For Design and the University Paris 8-CiTU

The AAO project is under the auspices of the United Nations (UNDP), the Hellenic Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climatic Change, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Municipality of Athens/Athens Tourism and Economic Development, the US Embassy in Athens, the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Association of Greek Architects (SADAS –PEA) and the Hellenic Institute of Architects.

For more information please visit: http://aaoproject.org