About The Temporary Academy of Arts was initiated by Elpida Karaba in 2013. PAT (the abbreviation of Temporary Academy of Arts) is a mobile academy of arts and at the same time an art project of experimental education that adopts mechanisms from various systems of knowledge and art practices for the production and transmission of artistic programs and the construction of their historicity. The Academy is working upon different educational, artistic and social models and adopts a research based and multidisciplinary approach to knowledge production, in order to investigate the boundaries, permeabilities and repressed contradictions that underlie public spaces. Rather than being merely an educational platform or an art school, PAT functions as an analytical tool, concentrating on spatial and institutional criticism. PAT’s projects, combine the symbolic with the mediated and the tactical in order to examine art and its production, inquire on the status and potential of art to address the urban condition and to question the mechanisms of producing and framing knowledge. In each project of the Academy, different artists and theorists are invited as educators, visitors or as consultants to organize and carry out the outcome of the project while different modes of art and educational practice are used, such as workshops, discussions, interviews, performances etc. PAT Collaborators Nikos Arvanitis, Sofia Dona, Anastasia Douka, Konstantinos Hadzinikolaou, Angelos Kralis, Medie Mega, Yannis Papadopoulos, Panos Sklavenitis, Kostis Stafylakis, Glykeria Stathopoulou, Kostis Velonis, Despoina Zefkili. PAT//SEP In 2016 PAT took the initiative to establish the Association of Cultural Workers (SEP). SEP is an official body that advocates for the promotion and support of labor rights of cultural workers in Greece, taking into account the relevant legal, economic and social context. The association is linked to other organizations globaly such as WAGE, the Carrot Workers etc.

SELECTED PROJECTS i . PAT//Peristeri September 2014- October 2014 The Temporary Academy of Arts was invited by NEON Organization to implement one of its programs, in the context of NEON Community Projects in the area of Peristeri, Athens. Pat enacted an intensive program of art education for the students/residents of Peristeri municipality in Athens, while it also presented a parallel program that was open to the general public, featuring a living (human) library, a film screening program and an exhibition. Participating artists: Nikos Alexopoulos, Nikos Arvanitis, Alexis Dalas, Anastasia Douka, Konstantinos Hadzinikolaou, Apostolos Karastergiou, Medie Mega, Kostas Roussakis, Panos Sklavenitis, Kostis Stafylakis.

Student Performance PAT, 2014

i i . PAT// Daysign: Narratives Around the Greek Sun. May 2015

Participatory workshop and artist book devised by artist Panos Sklavenitis and

commissioned by PAT. Seventeen artists were invited to deliberate on the notion of

the greek sun and the narratives that are constructed around it and to research

symbolically and literally how certain issues formulate the physiognomy of a society

and specific myths, locally and internationally. The contributions were put together

in a publication.

i i i . PAT//(IN)FORMAL URBANISM September 2015- November 2015

The project involved urban planners, architects, artists and curators focusing on the

transformation of urban structures that are taking place through informal processes

with specific case studies from Athens and Dortmund, Germany. Participants

included the N.T.U.A. Architecture School Athens, Dortmund University of

Architecture and PAT. The project was initiated by the Goethe Institut and

supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

iv. PAT// 4th ATHENS BIENNALE OMONOIA 2015-2017 March 2016

Presentation of PAT in the context of the Athens Biennale conference “The New

South”.

v. PAT//ACTOPOLIS (A project initiated and supported by the Goethe Institut and Urbane Kunste Ruhr) March 2015-June 2016

The project brought together artists, urbanists and activists from 7 South-Eastern

Metropolises and the Rurh region Germany, in a joint production laboratory. As part

of Actopolis, Pat designed and performed a series of performative lectures, talks,

discussions, projects, apparatuses and various other material, called The Soft Power

Lectures. The Soft Power Lectures took place in institutional and outer-institutional

spaces, with a mixed or solely for a specific public such as university students.

PAT//THE SOFT POWER LECTURES (1/7) «Athens-Oberhausen. The energy of two cities». State of Concept Non Profit Space, Athens

A Performative Lecture and exhibition tracing the travel of PAT to the ex-industrial city of Oberhausen in Germany. PAT was invited to activate art in relation to matters concerning the city, immigrants, labor. Participating artists: Anastasia Douka, Konstantinos Hadzinikolaou, Panos Sklavenitis.

View from the event “Athens-Oberhausen. The energy of two cities”. February, 2016

View from the event “Athens-Oberhausen. The energy of two cities”. February, 2016

(2/7) «Performative Interviews» in a coffeehouse at Omonoia Square, Athens. PAT organised a series of performative interviews, inviting artists, architects, filmmakers, activists and so on that take the city as their subject. Participants: Sepake Angiama, Ana Dana Beros, Constantinos Giannaris, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou & Poka Yio, Fanis Kafantaris, Yelta Köm, Petros Moris, Vassilis Noulas, Constantina Theodorou, Mirjana Utvic ́, Danijela Dugandzic Zivanovic, 3137.

“Interviews”, March, 2016

(3/7) , «How much do I enjoy listening to people ascending in the elevator speaking Romanian». (Lena Platonos, Romanian Emigres), Circuits and Currents project space, ASFA.

An open conversation, with colleagues from Southern Eastern Europe, Ana Dana Beros (Zagreb), Yelta Köm (Turkey), Mirjana Utvic ́ (Belgrade), Danijela Dugandzic Zivanovic (Sarajevo), focusing on exchanging tactics and sharing knowledge and experience around precarious working conditions .

Conversation at Circuits and Currents, March, 2016

(4/7) «Where will you go after this?», Athens School of Fine Arts, (ASFA).

The lecture and discussion addressed the exotic view of Athens as “a southern experiment” of creative sustainability in times of crisis.

ASFA, April, 2016

(5/7) «Soft Power Screenings: the Gaze» A series of soft power projections in Munich. An assemblage of the cinematographic gaze on the cities of the crisis, on their subjects and their bodies.

The Soft Power Screenings, Munich, April 2016

(6/7) «From sunset to sunrise» Non-Performance-lecture about cinema. In Acharnes. A montage of cinematic representations loosely linked to the local museum’s collection of folklore artefacts.

Folklore Museum of Acharnes and Kallitechneio, April, 2016

(7/7) «South: Ideas around a European geography of the top and the bottom» Lecture and workshop at Panteion University Department of Anthropology, focusing on various geographical and cultural determinisms and the ways by which they are reproduced in the contemporary condition.

Panteion University, May 2016

v i . Actopolis Final Exhibition «The Soft Power Lectures Show» Basketball Court, Panteion University. Participants: Stefania Ablianiti & Stavroula Morakea, Nikos Alexopoulos, Sofia Dona, Anastasia Douka, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou, Elpida Karaba, Angelos Krallis, Yannis Papadopoulos, Panos Sklavenitis, Glykeria Stathopoulou, Kostis Velonis, Despina Zefkili.

v i i . PAT//ISET (Institute of Contemporary Art Athens) October 2016- June 2017 Research project investigating the terms of contemporary historiography. A local and translocal tale. This project will aim to produce new theoretical positions in art history studies, examining the norms to which historiography is subjected and the effects produced by its view to the past. New artworks produced in collaboration with PAT: Nikos Alexopoulos, PAT Photo Series, 2016 Konstantinos Hadzinikolaou, Fire Walker 2, super 8 film, 3’, 2015 and Sunsets, performance for film & sound, 7’, 2016 Yannis Papadopoulos, Polis-Police-Police de caractère, 2016 Panos Sklavenitis, South, HDV, 11’, 2016 PUBLICATIONS: Karampa, E. ed., (2014). Temporary Academy of Arts Peristeri, Athens: Futura.

Sklavenitis, P. ed. (2016). Narratives around the Greek Sun an Artist Book, Athens, Self Published. Karampa, E., (2016). The Mechanics of Claiming. The Temporary Academy of Arts. Public Space: Fights and Fictions. Academy der Kunst and Goethe Institut. pp. 42-46. Available online https://issuu.com/akademie_der_kuenste/docs/fights_and_fictions_finalised_print Karampa, E., Stathopoulou, G., Actopolis Catalogue (publication pending)

Karampa, E., Stathopoulou, G., Informal City (publication pending)