Action Field Kodra 2012

Action Field Kodra 2012.
Friday 7th September to Tuesday 18th
Kalamaria, Salonica, Greece

The annual Action Field Kodra Visual-Arts Festival has been running since 2001 and it focused from its very beginning on experimental creativity and young artists. Each year, it grows up in content and has an increasing regional and national profile for producing a novel and high-quality visual arts event. Over its history Action Field Kodra has presented the whole new generation of Greek artists, theorists and curators. Today, it consists one of the most important non-museum institutions in the country as it has contributed through its activity to the formation of the Greek contemporary art scenery and at the same time, it has developed into an amazing international art-experience featuring highly respected international artists.

This year Action Field Kodra, has a central theme, geared toward Salonica’s last century. All the events of Action Field Kodra 2012 are organized around a central concept, which is based on the idea that within these hundred years the city has developed a modernity in which contemporary visual arts can find a distinguished and lost ancestor. Action Field Kodra 2012 will attempt to investigate whether a dialogue — even a fictional one- between the urban, modern literature scene of Salonica and the contemporary visual creation is not only possible, but able to light aspects of both art forms. A complete exhibition program is therefore organized, with the main focus on the different aspects of this matter. It includes seven exhibitions, two performances in public space, and an international conference, which has the title: “Art and Politics at the Limit: Claiming a Heterodox Modernity”.

Curators Theophilos Tramboulis and Maria Kenanidou developed the concept for Action Field Kodra 2012.

The international visual arts festival “Action Field Kodra” is part of the Operational Program Macedonia — Thrace 2007-2013 of NSRF and is a co-finance of Greece and the European Union.

For more information visit www.actionfieldkodra.gr
Or contact actionfieldkodra@gmail.com

Video production: Cre8ive studios
Camera, Photography, Editing: George Manos
Direction & Voice over: Tania Minogianni
Music: La valse, un poème choréographique pour orchestre by Maurice Ravel