Between 11-14 of January, 2024, partners of the Sea Change program from Kontejner and NeMe visited Thessaloniki and the MOMus.
They had the chance to follow the presentation of the 1st part of the Sea Change program’s workshop “Post – Platform: tracing the unseen, drawing the upcoming”, to meet with the participants, to have extended discussions on each presentation, that took place at the MOMus-ECA venue’s loft and offices.
“’Post Platform’: detecting the unseen, tracing the impending” is an arts and architecture workshop organized by visual artist and associate professor at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Nadia Kalara.
The Mass Souvenirs workshop was held at the premises of MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts – APOTHIKI B1, Port of Thessaloniki and was successfully completed, re-approaching the idea of the souvenir and tourisn in the coastal areas of Thessaloniki, focusing on both ecology, sustainability of the industrial product, as well as its social interpretation.
Documenting a photography workshop that changed our point of view in the sea. For five days a team of 21 photographers worked around the Thermaikos Golf in Thessaloniki, reapproaching the view of the sea, focusing their views beyond the aesthetic side of photography.
As part of the international project A Sea Change, KONTEJNER organized a one month long workshop in Split on field recording of the marine environment and the undersea led by multimedia artist Toni Meštrović and curator and musicologist Davorka Begović.
An invitation to expand and re-sacralise our relationship with nature and the environment our relationship with nature and the environment
The work of the environmental sculptor Joaquín Jara restores our gaze towards our environment with attentive, critical and ephemeral interventions that generate emotional connections with the different communities that inhabit it.
From fish farming and fishing, shipping, cruise tourism and submarine cabling to wind farming, mining, offshore drilling, nuclear testing and industrial waste dumping, these are just some of the human activities at sea, and human interference threatening the health of our ocean; a place we often mistakenly think of as quiet and still know very little about, while ignoring the impact of our activity to its ecologies.
Noel Douglas, an artist, designer, and activist whose work across a range of media and different spaces has been aligned with movements against Capitalism and for Social justice for over two decades led a workshop at the NeMe Arts Centre under the Flood tide of resistance activities.
