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EXHIBITION
The Callas-Exhibition "Love Solidarity Death (L.S.D.)" at Stegi
From 26 November to 30 December 2022 · ATHENS
Twenty years after first appearing on the scene, Aris and Lakis Ionas (The Callas) are taking over the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall -1 to present a hallucinatory exhibition suffused with Mediterranean psychedelia. With this psychedelic spell of an exhibition, cast over the past, present, and future of the Greek visual arts and music scenes.
A polymorphic, kaleidoscopic, visual arts exhibition with embroideries, installations, painting works, live performance, and a book publication.
A band, an arts duo, and brothers of course (in life and on stage), the pair always work together, and always work with their friends, from Greece and beyond, as well as with their relatives. Weaving and embroidering their “flying carpets” are none other than their mother and aunt. And the Callasettes are none other than the women by their sides – their partners, associates, and friends.
Exhibition curator Nadja Argyropoulou about "L.S.D.": "Twenty years after first appearing on stage, The Callas (Aris and Lakis Ionas) encapsulate their polymorphic presence in the arts scene with “L.S.D.”: a retrospective exhibition/event series, taking place in the future and defined, conceptually and affectively, by the title “Love Solidarity Death (L.S.D.)”. Founding figures of the Greek DIY scene, musicians, visual artists, performers, publishers, organizers of urban and rural festivals, filmmakers and video creators, welcoming hosts at their own spaces and restless explorers of other places and approaches, ever ingenious and versatilely faithful to a de-developmental artistic experience, standing in solidarity with counter-hegemonic collective practices, The Callas delve into the source materials of their co-animating actions. They occupy Onassis Stegi with episodes drawn from an adventure that is resolute in its radical teachings of solidarity, its profligate forms of love, and the fragmentary, transformational psychedelia of death. At the installations, events, mixes, and happenings of “L.S.D.” we will find, among other things, a largely unregistered archive of collective practices in Greece, as well as the kind of improvised communitarianism that emerged quietly and sensuously in the work of Ionas brothers. Thus, “L.S.D.” puts forth not only an open ecosystem of self-sufficiency, osmotic revisions, and ecstatic knowledge, but mostly a therapeutic, yet uneasy, speculative reality of cosmopolitics.»
Credits:
Curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, The Callas/Lakis and Aris Ιonas
Embroidery & knitting: Ioanna Iona, Anastasia Drouza, Dionisia Bosmi
The Callas Band Members: Αris Ιonas, Lakis Ionas, Chrysanthi Tsoukala, Chris Bekiris
The Callas guest members: Marilena Petridou, Kostas Stergiou
Music: Τhe Callas
Choreography: Aggeliki Hatzi, The Callas
Dancers: Martha Pasakopoulou, Christina Karagianni, Aggeliki Hatzi
Performers: Philippa Dimitriadi, Dionysia Bosmi, Anita Polychroni, Lina Rokou, Daphne Kyriakidou
Sound engineer: Nikos Τriantafyllou
Sound mix: Ιraklis Vlachakis
Guests, collaborators (live): Ιan F. Svenonius, Papithedogtv
Contributors with texts for “Notes on L.S.D.” publication
Jim Sclavunos, Ian F. Svenonius, Paul Artrocker, Myriam Ben Salah, Nadja Argyropoulou, Afroditi Panagiotakou
Graphic design: Anda Theodorakaki, Irene Zografou
Photography, Video documentation: Aggelos Kaltsis
Production: Irene Zografou, The Studio - Velvet room projects
A production of Onassis Stegi.
For more information and the detailed program here The polymorphic The Callas (Aris and Lakis Ionas) present at the Onassis Stegi their new work in a exhibition-event series taking place in the future.
A polymorphic, kaleidoscopic, visual arts exhibition with embroideries, installations, painting works, live performance, and a book publication.
A band, an arts duo, and brothers of course (in life and on stage), the pair always work together, and always work with their friends, from Greece and beyond, as well as with their relatives. Weaving and embroidering their “flying carpets” are none other than their mother and aunt. And the Callasettes are none other than the women by their sides – their partners, associates, and friends.
Exhibition curator Nadja Argyropoulou about "L.S.D.": "Twenty years after first appearing on stage, The Callas (Aris and Lakis Ionas) encapsulate their polymorphic presence in the arts scene with “L.S.D.”: a retrospective exhibition/event series, taking place in the future and defined, conceptually and affectively, by the title “Love Solidarity Death (L.S.D.)”. Founding figures of the Greek DIY scene, musicians, visual artists, performers, publishers, organizers of urban and rural festivals, filmmakers and video creators, welcoming hosts at their own spaces and restless explorers of other places and approaches, ever ingenious and versatilely faithful to a de-developmental artistic experience, standing in solidarity with counter-hegemonic collective practices, The Callas delve into the source materials of their co-animating actions. They occupy Onassis Stegi with episodes drawn from an adventure that is resolute in its radical teachings of solidarity, its profligate forms of love, and the fragmentary, transformational psychedelia of death. At the installations, events, mixes, and happenings of “L.S.D.” we will find, among other things, a largely unregistered archive of collective practices in Greece, as well as the kind of improvised communitarianism that emerged quietly and sensuously in the work of Ionas brothers. Thus, “L.S.D.” puts forth not only an open ecosystem of self-sufficiency, osmotic revisions, and ecstatic knowledge, but mostly a therapeutic, yet uneasy, speculative reality of cosmopolitics.»
Credits:
Curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, The Callas/Lakis and Aris Ιonas
Embroidery & knitting: Ioanna Iona, Anastasia Drouza, Dionisia Bosmi
The Callas Band Members: Αris Ιonas, Lakis Ionas, Chrysanthi Tsoukala, Chris Bekiris
The Callas guest members: Marilena Petridou, Kostas Stergiou
Music: Τhe Callas
Choreography: Aggeliki Hatzi, The Callas
Dancers: Martha Pasakopoulou, Christina Karagianni, Aggeliki Hatzi
Performers: Philippa Dimitriadi, Dionysia Bosmi, Anita Polychroni, Lina Rokou, Daphne Kyriakidou
Sound engineer: Nikos Τriantafyllou
Sound mix: Ιraklis Vlachakis
Guests, collaborators (live): Ιan F. Svenonius, Papithedogtv
Contributors with texts for “Notes on L.S.D.” publication
Jim Sclavunos, Ian F. Svenonius, Paul Artrocker, Myriam Ben Salah, Nadja Argyropoulou, Afroditi Panagiotakou
Graphic design: Anda Theodorakaki, Irene Zografou
Photography, Video documentation: Aggelos Kaltsis
Production: Irene Zografou, The Studio - Velvet room projects
A production of Onassis Stegi.
For more information and the detailed program here The polymorphic The Callas (Aris and Lakis Ionas) present at the Onassis Stegi their new work in a exhibition-event series taking place in the future.