From the museum to the neighborhood: Exploring through documentary (Adults)
Workshop for adults
The Vorres Museum is organizing the workshop titled “From the Museum to the Neighborhood: Exploring through Documentary”. The aim of the workshop is to highlight the power of observation as an artistic tool, focusing on observational and experimental documentary filmmaking. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the area of Paiania, connecting everyday observations with art and the museum’s exhibits.
The workshop’s theme centers on observation as a creative tool, offering an introduction to this process and ways to use it in approaching art. While exploring the Paiania neighborhood, participants will record images and sounds of daily life using mobile phones, disposable cameras, and other readily available and “humble” means. The collected elements will be linked to objects and artworks from the collections of the Vorres Museum, investigating the connections between art and everyday life.
The workshop consists of six sessions. In the first session, participants will become familiar with the Vorres Museum’s collections through creative observation exercises. The second session will take place in the Paiania neighborhood, where participants will capture snapshots of the area’s daily life. During the third session, selected documentaries that showcase observation as a means of creatively processing reality will be screened, followed by a discussion. The fourth and fifth sessions involve designing and shooting short scenes inspired by the participants’ observations. Finally, in the sixth session, the filmed material will be screened, and the possibilities for further development of the ideas will be discussed.
The Vorres Museum, with its unique collection that combines contemporary Greek art and exhibits of folk tradition, provides the ideal setting for fostering artistic expression through observation. Through this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to connect with the museum’s space and objects, observe them with a fresh artistic perspective, and create new bridges between art and everyday life.
Information
From the Museum to the Neighborhood: Exploring through Documentary (Adults)
Six-session workshop series
Instructors: Konstantza Kapsali, Christiana Cheiranagnostaki, and Katerina Markoulaki
Dates: November 8, 12, 22 December 2024 & 12, 19, 26 January 2025
Start/End time: 12:00 – 15:00
Participation fee: €75/six-session workshop series
Participation in all six sessions of the series is mandatory.
Design/curation: Myrto Lavda
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To reserve a spot, please call us at +30 2106642520 or fill out the form using the link below.
Instructors Bio
Konstadza Kapsali
Konstadza Kapsali was born in 1989 and grew up in Toumba, Thessaloniki. She is an artist and documentary filmmaker. After completing her studies in Archaeology and Cultural Management (BA, MA), she worked on excavations, in cultural institutions, and conducted archaeological and ethnographic research in Greece, Turkey, and the Netherlands. She then pursued studies in Visual Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking (MA). Her short films have been featured in international festival programs, museum and non-museum exhibitions, and academic conferences, earning awards both in Greece and abroad. She received an ARTWORKS award (2021) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Support Program. Since March 2022, she has been a PhD candidate at the LUCA School of Arts in Belgium.
Katerina Markoulaki
Katerina Markoulaki is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Athens. She studied Political Science and Documentary Film Production. Her films have been showcased at numerous film festivals in Greece and internationally, including the Syros International Film Festival, Vizantrop Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival, Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Mimesis Doc Film Festival, Aegean Film Festival, Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium, and Eleusis European Capital of Culture 2023. Using self-referentiality, humor, and empathy, her work focuses on portraits of her family, friends, and her internal world, with a social consciousness closely linked to feminist and queer movements, class inequalities, and anti-authoritarian struggles. Through observation, ethnography, composition, and hybridity, she seeks to create a cinematic diary of everyday life, challenging the boundaries between narrative and documentary while exploring new ways of perceiving reality.
Christiana Cheiranagnostaki
Christiana Cheiranagnostaki was born in Athens. Since 2009, she has worked as a freelancer, conducting research and producing topics related to the financial and refugee crises. At the same time, she has been active in documentary production, collaborating with international news outlets and production companies such as BBC, SRF, France 4, ZDF, and VICE. She has directed short documentaries and, in recent years, has been working on her first feature-length documentary, titled “Dear Future”, which explores the significance of memory on both individual and collective levels. In the summer of 2022, in collaboration with Konstadza Kapsali, she completed an Artist Residency program at Glenkeen Garden in Ireland, supported by the Crespo Foundation. There, they created the short film “Throughs and Throughs”, which was presented at the exhibition “Composing Landscapes” at the Goethe Institut in Dublin and the exhibition “Glenkeen Variations” at Crespo Haus in Frankfurt. She participated in the collective film project “Western States”, part of the Eleusis 2023 European Capital of Culture artistic program “Cine Elefsis”, with her short film “Again Here”. She received an ARTWORKS award (2021) and is a Fellow of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Support Program.
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