Black and white photo of a woman and children in a room
Josef Dabernig Lacrimosa Courtesy Sixpackfilm

Week 3 : Destitution – Autarky, an ethic of animality

from 11/27/2024 to 12/01/2024

Programme of performances and events of “The Cynics Republic”

To the cynic, true happiness comes from being self-sufficient, from surviving on the barest necessities, from living the life of the dog. Possessions are considered a burden to the expression of freedom. Training in hardiness of both mind and body, the cynic becomes destitute of all luxury.

When Diogenes observed a child drinking out of its clasped hands, he instantly cast away his own cup with the words: “A child has beaten me in plainness of living.”

With : IKHÉA©SERVICES, Glitch, Manuel Pelmuş / Anton Skaaning Thomsen, les gens d’Uterpan (Annie Vigier et Franck Apertet), Georgia Sagri, Delia Gonzalez, Wolfgang Gonzalez, Serapis Maritime, Pierre Bal-Blanc,OHO/Luka Savić, Josef Dabernig, Lenio Kaklea, Jean-Charles Massera, Slaven Tolj, Eva Barto.

Wednesday November 27th

At 3 PM and 7 PM

Solo Nature Study, 2020

Georgia Sagri, Delia Gonzalez, Wolfgang Gonzalez, Serapis Maritime, Pierre Bal-Blanc
Event, duration 45 minutes 

Titled Solo – Nature Study Notes – 1969-2019 [Athens Version] 2021, the multipart work includes the practices of several Athens-based artists — a performance by Georgia Sagri, music by Delia Gonzalez, and garments by the art and fashion collective Serapis Maritime — based on a score that Pierre Bal-Blanc composed in collaboration with them. Bal-Blanc appropriated the score’s structure from Cornelius Cardew’s Nature Study Notes (1969), a series of “improvisation rites” that the English composer authored for the Scratch Orchestra, his co-founded experimental ensemble.

Throughout the day

Thursday 28 November

Starting at 6 PM

Ticket content, 2014-2024

Josef Dabernig with Caroline Dubikajtis, Pauline Langin, Mar Viu, Harold Orban de Xivry.
Event, duration 45 min

The evening will begin with a collective performance of the found-text piece Ticket content (2014/2024). Specially updated for this event, Ticket content consists of readings of tickets to football matches. It will be followed by a screening of a selection of the artist’s latest films in room 37.

Starting at 7 PM

Special screening
Lacrimosa
Josef Dabernig
Room 37, duration 2h

Josef Dabernig’s multifarious oeuvre of films, photographs, objects, installations, performances and meticulously executed handwritings suggest notions of orderliness embedded in conceptual artistic practice. In his films the artist’s take on meticulously planned plots often leads to moments of absurdity, which derive from the specific locales and the situations in which his laymen actors are involved. A rigid formal system, seriality, rhythm, absence and presence form some of the central themes in many of his films, stemming from a modernist logic of clear aesthetic patterns of pictorial creation.

Throughout the day

Friday November 29th

Starting at 7 PM

Untitled (figures) – studio version, 2023-2024

Lenio Kaklea
Event, duration 45 minutes

‘All women are lesbians, except those who don’t know it.” For this new performance, I decided to embrace all that is lesbian and queer in me through a catalogue of danced figures that pay homage to the capacity of queer cultures to teach us to love the female body.”

Throughout the day

Samedi 30 novembre

Starting at 3 PM

Special screening

L’archéologie du problème de ta génération
Jean-Charles Massera
Room 37, duration 1H30
Some of the films on show are from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP).

An artist and writer (P.O.L – Verticales), Jean-Charles Massera (b. 1965) works across the fields of fiction, poetry, live performance, radio, exhibitions and, more recently, film. In his latest film, L’archéologie du problème de ta génération [The Archaeology of the Problem of Your Generation], two young girls, aware that the future of the planet and its inhabitants is less than bright, try to find out where exactly ‘the problem’ comes from. One of them asks an adult to investigate, pointing out the responsibility that previous generations and that ‘men’ bear.

Starting at 7 PM

Craquelure Pavo & Me, 2023

Slaven Tolj
Event, duration 45 minutes 

Slaven Tolj’s work exhibits a particular focus on his native Dubrovnik and its frayed social structure, and on the disintegration of Yugoslavia, especially after the siege of Dubrovnik. As a result of the siege he envisaged a broader scope of investigation and engaged in issues related to globalization. The central working motif in his very subtly and delicately crafted work avoids direct language and images and similarly, any sense of intimacy between the artist, the object and the viewer in a process of what he called “perceptive appropriation.”

Throughout the day

Sunday December 1st

Starting at 5 PM

Roulette, 2017

Live of Delia Gonzalez with Delia, Wolfgang Gonzalez et Csaba Palotai
Event, duration 45 min

The landmark of Delia’s artistic pursuits is In Remembrance. The​ exhibition was built around four 16mm ballet dance films. In her words, “The film​ is meant to re-create the fleeting sensation of inspiration – that sacred​ feeling when suddenly your mind clears and you know exactly what​ you’re meant to create and become.”

Throughout the day