Arts @ Deree

When: Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 19:00
Where: Pierce Theater

The American College of Greece and the Attica Tradition Foundation invite you to the Twenty-Fifth Annual Kimon Friar Lecture by:

Ian McEwan
The Self in Literature

Ian McEwan was born in 1948 and lives in Gloucestershire, England.  He is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels, as well as The Daydreamer, a set of stories for children. He has written many screenplays as well as the libretto for an opera. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, 1975, won the Somerset Maugham Award.

His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize, Atonement, Saturday, Solar and Sweet Tooth. His novels On Chesil Beach and The Children Act, were recently adapted by him for the screen. This year sees the publication of Machines Like Me, a novel about AI.

Reception to follow

Open to the Public
Free Admission

For more information, contact us at:
210 600 9800 ext. 1456

[email protected]

Deree – The American College of Greece
6 Gravias Street
Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki

Organised by: The American College of Greece and the Attica Tradition Foundation

When: July 18, 20:00
Where: Black Box Theater

Admission Free

Reservation required
Tel: 210 600 9800/ext.1320, Monday – Friday 12-2pm
Email: [email protected]

Organized by:
Embassy of Japan in Greece | The American College of Greece

When: Tuesday, June 18
Where: Black Box Theatre

The Music Theatre
Workshops [I] and [II] present:

In Limbo

A music theatre piece

Tuesday, June 18

14:00 open rehearsal

17:00 performance

Black Box Theatre

Free admission and open to the public

For more information, please contact

The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at

210600 9800 ext. 1456

When: Friday, April 19 2019, 18:00
Where: 7th Level Auditorium

2500 years of Greek Music and Songs!

A concert presented by students in MU 4031 Studies in Modern Greek Music and MU 4065 Ensemble.

Musical supervision and orchestrations by Dr. Tatiana Papageorgiou.

Free admission

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

When: April 12-19
Where: ACG Gallery

The Visual Arts program presents
Senior Projects 2019

An exhibition featuring the work of graduating students:
Anthi Bozoviti, Sherouk Elabasi, Pinelopi Lykogianni, Pavlos Stavroulakis, and Konstantina Votsika

Opening: Friday April 12, 19:00-22:00
Duration: April 12-19

Opening hours: Monday-Friday, 15:00-18:00

Open to all, with free admission

ACG Gallery, Deree – The American College of Greece
6 Gravias Street, 15342 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens
For more information, please contact Mrs. Niki Kladakis at 210 600 9800 ext. 1456, or at [email protected]

When: April 3-4, 18:00-20:00
Where: 7th Level Auditorium

Paint in(g) Cinema: Surrealist spaces and narratives
A two-day festival dedicated to the surrealist understanding of space and narrative in cinema

Curated by: the Art History Society in collaboration with the Visual Arts Society and the Film Club of Deree – The American College of Greece

The curatorial selection of the festival focuses on short to mid-length experimental motion pictures. From David Lynch to Salvador Dalí, this festival will navigate the audience through the world of diverse surrealist approaches in cinema. Screenings will be followed by a post-reflective discussion led by Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Curator and Art History Professor at Deree.

Free entrance. Refreshments and snacks will also be available to the audience.
For more information please contact: [email protected]

Festival lineup:

Day 1: 1 hour and 40 mins

1. The Grandmother, by David Lynch

5 min. break

2. Room 8, by James W. Griffiths
3. Not I, by Becket
4. Falling, by Adriano Cirulli

10 min. break

30 min. Q&A

Day 2: 1 hour and 40 mins

1. Chien Andalou, by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí.

5 min. break

2. Rabbits, part 1, by David Lynch
3. Destino, by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali
4. Mr. Madden, by Floyd Hardy

10 min. break

30 min. Q&A

When: April 2, 13:45
Where: 7th Level Auditorium

A lecture by:
By David Edelman
Associate Professor
Director of Performing Arts Leadership and Management Program
Shenandoah Conservatory, VA, USA

Co-Editor: The American Journal of Arts Management
Member, Board of Directors, Social Theory, Politics and the Arts

Free admission

When: Monday, March 18, 19:00
Where: John S. Bailey Library, Upper Level

VENIZELOS CHAIR LECTURE
Travels in Hyperhistory: Uses and Abuses of the Ottoman Past in the Lands of Rum
by Cemal Kafadar

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, History Department, Harvard University

Organized by:
Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Deree – The American College of Greece
6 Gravias Street, Aghia Paraskevi

Reception to follow
For more information, call 210 600 9800, ext. 1456 (09:00-16:00)

Cemal Kafadar

Cemal Kafadar is Professor of History and Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies in the History Department at Harvard University. Among his publications are Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995, Greek trans. 2008); a volume of essays on four “ordinary lives” and autobiographical writing (in Turkish, 2011); and “A Rome of One’s Own: Reflections on Cultural Geography and Identity in the Lands of Rum” in Muqarnas 24 (2007) (expanded version published as a book in Turkish, 2018). He has also edited (with Halil Inalcik) Süleyman the Second and His Time (1995). His 2014 article on “the history of coffee and the nighttime” is the subject of a current book project. He has worked closely on two film projects: Bedreddin of Simavna: Inspirations (dir:Nurdan Arca, 2006); 1661: Cine-Eye Istanbul (based on Eremya Kömürcüyan’s History of Istanbul; dir:Zeynep Dadak, forthcoming in 2019).

When: Saturday, March 16 20:30-21:30
Where: Black Box Theatre

Contemporary Dance Workshop – Students’ Performance

Inspired by Stella Zannou and students.

Free Admission

When: Thursday, March 14, 18:00-19:00
Where: Black Box Theatre

Dance Performance:
“Blind” and Students’ Jam

Choreographed by Stella Zannou
Performed by Marina Antoniou and Stella Zannou – Music by Nikos Arvanitis

Free Admission

When: March 8-16

Where: Deree – The American College of Greece

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts

Art History, Contemporary Dance Practice, Graphic Design, Music, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts

Please see program here

When: Opening: Friday, February 22, 18:00 – 22:00
Duration: February 22 – March 23, 2019

Where: ACG Art Gallery

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts as part of the Arts Festival 2019

Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 14:00 – 18:00, Sat: 12:00 – 16:00

Guided tours by ACG students every Tuesday during Activity Hour (13:40-15:00)

The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts (FRSFPA) of Deree – The American College of Greece is pleased to present the exhibition ‘The Collection as an Automaton’, curated by invited curator Elpida Karaba. The exhibition is part of the Arts Festival organized by the FRSFPA. The opening of the exhibition will take place on February 22, 18:00 – 22:00, at the ACG Art Gallery.

Participating artists: Α-dash team (Noemi Niederhauser, Eva Isleifs, Zoe Hatziyannaki), Natasa Biza, Kostas Christopoulos (with the students of the 8th studio of painting of ASFA Olga Vlassi, Thanos Kardoulas & Katerina Messini), Effie Halivopoulou (in collaboration with Deree – The American College of Greece alumnae Dimitra Prifti and Afroditi Andreou and the student Aliki Ntounia), Dimitris Ioannou, Lito Kattou, Georgia Kotretsos, Jesper List Thomsen, Petros Moris, Yiannis Papadopoulos/Olga Mexa, Cally Spooner.

The analogy of the automaton for a collection is used whereas the finite mechanism of the automaton condenses all the limitations one has to face, challenge and transcend within a collecting praxis. The interest for the automaton has different and diverse connotations. It is related a lot to modernism’s vision of a broader life enhanced by the automaton but at the same time it is connected with a lot of modernism’s disillusions. The automatization of life through indexes, taxonomy, archives, registers and machines became the mechanism par excellence of canonization and surveillance of life, of what Foucault called biopolitics. And furthermore nowadays the automaton has been connected to another aspiration for the future related to the post-human condition. So, proposing the collection as an automaton asks, how do we evaluate the inclusion and exclusion processes of automata? How do we redefine in our current condition, our relationship to apparatuses of power or empowerment, emancipation that at the same time are the apparatuses of control and oppression? What are the visions and dystopias of (post)humanity?

Artists, Α-dash team, Natasha Biza, Kostas Christopoulos, Effie Halivopoulou, Dimitris Ioannou, Litto Kattou, Georgia Kotretsos, Jesper List Thomsen, Petros Moris, Yiannis Papadopoulos / Olga Mexa, and Cally Spooner, were invited to work with the content of The American College of Greece Art Collection in the broader sense. This addresses not only works of art and objects but documents, correspondence, oral history, storage space, in order to create new works or proposals for the existing works, the history of the collection, the management of belongings, the history of the College, the backgrounds, the gender and the personal history of the donors. Artists consider different methodologies as well as critical questioning on the ontology vs the epistemology of a collection as working tools that aim to create diverse and critical narratives not only for The American College of Greece Art Collection but also within its specific context as a consignment of an educational institution. The works of art, the research as well as the final product of the exhibition will become part of broader discourse on what it means to collect in our new changing world. If and how nowadays the bigger and bigger collective and accumulative impulse manages to find new meanings? How it is to collect in the virtual world, in a world where our relationship with material things is drastically changing, in a world where issues of identity, personal and political becomes radical, where collecting practices, cultural hierarchies and global economy become one?

The exhibition ‘The Collection as an Automaton’ is not a thematic exhibition having as a subject ‘the collection’, but it belongs to a genre of artistic and curatorial practice of the collection as (research based) art or archival art, a genre that developed a lot in the last quarter of the 20^th century as an outcome of institutional critique, postcolonial and post Eastern Bloc discourse. It is a genre that refers, as every genre, to aesthetic as well as to discursive challenges, conflicts and developments. So, the exhibition aims to be part of this genre in a critical manner, investigating (as a theme) the locality of the specific collection of The American College of Greece and its history and the locus of collecting as theory and art praxis, revealing a lot of diverse connotations asking: What are the powers connected and played out when a collection is formed, distributed or redistributed? What are the powers connected in narrating history or creating value and surplus? Is it the history of patriarchy or a feminist history? Who holds the power amongst the involved individuals, the involved objects and the involved institutions? What power holds a certain mode of categorization or taxonomy? Questions that in other words affirm that an institutional collection is a political matter as it asks the prospects and the limits of being public or private, accessible or restricted, transcended in physicality and virtuality, suspended between real and imaginary.

During the exhibition the curator, artists, as well as students from different disciplines will give scheduled guided tours, proposing different narratives for the displays, the context and the content of the exhibition.

‘The Collection as an Automaton’

Opening: February 22, 18:00 – 22:00
ACG Art Gallery – The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Street, Aghia Paraskevi

Duration: February 22 – March 23, 2019
Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 14:00 – 18:00, Sat: 12:00 – 16:00

For more information contact Ms. Niki Kladakis at 210 600 9800 (ext.1456), from 9:00 – 16:00, or at [email protected]

When: Opening: Friday, February 22, 18:00 – 22:00
Duration: February 22 – March 23, 2019

Where: ACG Art Gallery

Organized by: Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts as part of the Arts Festival 2019

Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 14:00 – 18:00, Sat: 12:00 – 16:00

Guided tours by ACG students every Tuesday during Activity Hour (13:40-15:00)

The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts (FRSFPA) of Deree – The American College of Greece is pleased to present the exhibition ‘The Collection as an Automaton’, curated by invited curator Elpida Karaba. The exhibition is part of the Arts Festival organized by the FRSFPA. The opening of the exhibition will take place on February 22, 18:00 – 22:00, at the ACG Art Gallery.

Participating artists: Α-dash team (Noemi Niederhauser, Eva Isleifs, Zoe Hatziyannaki), Natasa Biza, Kostas Christopoulos (with the students of the 8th studio of painting of ASFA Olga Vlassi, Thanos Kardoulas & Katerina Messini), Effie Halivopoulou (in collaboration with Deree – The American College of Greece alumnae Dimitra Prifti and Afroditi Andreou and the student Aliki Ntounia), Dimitris Ioannou, Lito Kattou, Georgia Kotretsos, Jesper List Thomsen, Petros Moris, Yiannis Papadopoulos/Olga Mexa, Cally Spooner.

The analogy of the automaton for a collection is used whereas the finite mechanism of the automaton condenses all the limitations one has to face, challenge and transcend within a collecting praxis. The interest for the automaton has different and diverse connotations. It is related a lot to modernism’s vision of a broader life enhanced by the automaton but at the same time it is connected with a lot of modernism’s disillusions. The automatization of life through indexes, taxonomy, archives, registers and machines became the mechanism par excellence of canonization and surveillance of life, of what Foucault called biopolitics. And furthermore nowadays the automaton has been connected to another aspiration for the future related to the post-human condition. So, proposing the collection as an automaton asks, how do we evaluate the inclusion and exclusion processes of automata? How do we redefine in our current condition, our relationship to apparatuses of power or empowerment, emancipation that at the same time are the apparatuses of control and oppression? What are the visions and dystopias of (post)humanity?

Artists, Α-dash team, Natasha Biza, Kostas Christopoulos, Effie Halivopoulou, Dimitris Ioannou, Litto Kattou, Georgia Kotretsos, Jesper List Thomsen, Petros Moris, Yiannis Papadopoulos / Olga Mexa, and Cally Spooner, were invited to work with the content of The American College of Greece Art Collection in the broader sense. This addresses not only works of art and objects but documents, correspondence, oral history, storage space, in order to create new works or proposals for the existing works, the history of the collection, the management of belongings, the history of the College, the backgrounds, the gender and the personal history of the donors. Artists consider different methodologies as well as critical questioning on the ontology vs the epistemology of a collection as working tools that aim to create diverse and critical narratives not only for The American College of Greece Art Collection but also within its specific context as a consignment of an educational institution. The works of art, the research as well as the final product of the exhibition will become part of broader discourse on what it means to collect in our new changing world. If and how nowadays the bigger and bigger collective and accumulative impulse manages to find new meanings? How it is to collect in the virtual world, in a world where our relationship with material things is drastically changing, in a world where issues of identity, personal and political becomes radical, where collecting practices, cultural hierarchies and global economy become one?

The exhibition ‘The Collection as an Automaton’ is not a thematic exhibition having as a subject ‘the collection’, but it belongs to a genre of artistic and curatorial practice of the collection as (research based) art or archival art, a genre that developed a lot in the last quarter of the 20^th century as an outcome of institutional critique, postcolonial and post Eastern Bloc discourse. It is a genre that refers, as every genre, to aesthetic as well as to discursive challenges, conflicts and developments. So, the exhibition aims to be part of this genre in a critical manner, investigating (as a theme) the locality of the specific collection of The American College of Greece and its history and the locus of collecting as theory and art praxis, revealing a lot of diverse connotations asking: What are the powers connected and played out when a collection is formed, distributed or redistributed? What are the powers connected in narrating history or creating value and surplus? Is it the history of patriarchy or a feminist history? Who holds the power amongst the involved individuals, the involved objects and the involved institutions? What power holds a certain mode of categorization or taxonomy? Questions that in other words affirm that an institutional collection is a political matter as it asks the prospects and the limits of being public or private, accessible or restricted, transcended in physicality and virtuality, suspended between real and imaginary.

During the exhibition the curator, artists, as well as students from different disciplines will give scheduled guided tours, proposing different narratives for the displays, the context and the content of the exhibition.

‘The Collection as an Automaton’

Opening: February 22, 18:00 – 22:00
ACG Art Gallery – The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias Street, Aghia Paraskevi

Duration: February 22 – March 23, 2019
Opening hours: Mon-Fri: 14:00 – 18:00, Sat: 12:00 – 16:00

For more information contact Ms. Niki Kladakis at 210 600 9800 (ext.1456), from 9:00 – 16:00, or at [email protected]

Lecture Series in Art History

Maria Sardi, PhD

When: Thursday, February 7, 13:40–15:00 (Activity Hour)

Where: Center for the Arts Auditorium

Organized by: the Art History Society

Free entrance

Entitled Cavafy’s Homer by Daniel Mendelsohn, Bard College

When: Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 19:00

Where: Pierce Theater

Organized by: The American College of Greece and the Attica Tradition Foundation, in collaboration with Patakis Publishers

Reception to follow

Open to the public / Free admission

Daniel Mendelsohn

DANIEL MENDELSOHN, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, is the author, most recently, of the acclaimed memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, named a Best Book of 2017 by numerous US publications and winner of the Prix Méditerranée in France. His other books include the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy; and two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken and Waiting for the Barbarians. He teaches literature at Bard College.