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The Temenos Exhibition in Odos Panos Magazine (Review Sept.- Dec. 2012)
Posted in architecture, MyProjects, Press-Publications, tagged despina zacharopoulou, despoina zaharopoulou, Gregory Markopoulos, Οδός Πανός, δεσποινα ζαχαροπουλου, Odos Panos, Robert Beavers, temenos 2012, the temenos on November 26, 2012|
Temenos 2012 Architectural Exhibition Photo Review
Posted in architecture, MyProjects, tagged Despina, despina zacharopoulou, despoina zaharopoulou, Gregory Markopoulos, δεσποινα ζαχαροπουλου, Robert Beavers, temenos 2012, the temenos on September 15, 2012|
As every 4 years since 2004, the Temenos screenings in Arcadia, Greece, have been a unique experience that one could compare to the visions people saw at the Ancient Aesclipieia (The sacred places of Aesclipeios in ancient Greece). Personally, i really enjoyed the parts of “Eros, o Basileus” incorporated in the “Eniaios” film. During the Temenos 2012 event, for the first time in the Temenos history, there were two parallel presentations inspired by and referring to the work of Gregory Markopoulos and Robert Beavers: Evie M. Bras’s documentary on Gregory Markopoulos that was presented at the Lyssarea village square, and my architectural project on the Temenos presented as an exhibition in one of the village’s traditional houses. In Gregory Markopoulos’s writings, one can see the filmmaker’s vision to create a permanent space for his and R. Beavers’s films and writings, in order to reconstitute the lost unity between the archive and the film. This is the first time an official architectural proposal on Markopoulos’s vision is made and it is presented in his birthplace in direct relation to the Temenos screenings. Personally, i would like to thank one more time all the people who contributed to the realization of this project (i mention them in the text of the exhibition) and especially Mr Robert Beavers.
PreviousProjects#2: july-august 2007 “Fashion+Architecture:Persephone-TheBride-Virginity” workshop-installation @ easa007, Aeschylia 2007
Posted in architecture, art, fashion, MyProjects, tagged aeschylia 2007, Despina, despina zacharopoulou, despoina zaharopoulou, easa007, Δεσποινα Ζαχαροπούλου on August 6, 2012|
As tutor during the easa007 architectural event at Eleusis, Greece, I designed and organized the workshop: “Fashion+Architecture: Persephone-the bride-virginity”. The goal of this installation was on a first level to make the boundaries between fashion and architecture blurred and on a second level to explore whether this installation can operate as a symbol in relation to the eleusinian myth of Demeter and Persephone.
PreviousProjects#1: 22/09/2009 “Eleusis-Ritual-Theater” Lecture and Video Projection @ Artlocus Festival (Greek Ministry of Culture, National centre for Theater and Dance, Aeschylia Festival)
Posted in architecture, art, Exhibitions-Events, lectures-papers, MyProjects, tagged aeschylia 2009, artlocus, despina zacharopoulou, despoina zaharopoulou, Δεσποινα Ζαχαροπούλου, ΕΚΕΘΕΧ, ΥΠΠΟ, αισχύλια 2009 on July 31, 2012|
This is the text referring to the lecture, as published on the ArtLocus website (http://artlocus.wordpress.com/tag/δέσποινα-ζαχαροπούλου/) and in the printed ArtLocus Catalogue:
“Despina Zacharopoulou is one of the ArtLocus artistic associates.
She is about to graduate from the NTUA School of Architecture and her final project is on Gregory Markopoulos’s “Temenos”. In 2007 she presented the lecture “Memorials-Mysteries” where she tried to associate the underground Memorials with the Eleusinian Mysteries. During the same year, she designed and organized the workshop/installation “fashion+architecture: Persephone-thebride-virginity”, as a tutor at easa007.
She participates at the ArtLocus Festival with a lecture entitled “Eleusis-Ritual-Theater” that will be presented on august 22nd, at 20:00. Through the perspective of the architect there is the effort to determine whether the Eleusinian Mysteries through ritual can contribute to a metaphysical-ritualistic theater; a theater that would try to indicate rather than represent, a theater of symbols that would constitute a revealing experience for the viewer in order to lead him through vision into a new existence.
«…Theater must be seen as a reflection (…) as a reflection of another reality which is archetypal and dangerous. A reality from which the basic Principles emerge, like dolphins, and then dive again and get lost in the darkness of the sea.»
Antonin Artaud, Le théâtre et son double
“Η Δέσποινα Ζαχαροπούλου είναι μια από τους εικαστικούς συνεργούς μας.
Είναι τελειόφοιτος της Σχολής Αρχιτεκτόνων του ΕΜΠ, με τη διπλωματική της να έχει ως θέμα το Τέμενος του Gregory Markopoulos. Το 2007 παρουσίασε τη διάλεξη «Memorials-Μυστήρια», συσχετίζοντας τα υπόγεια και υπόσκαφα μνημεία με τα Ελευσίνια Μυστήρια. Την ίδια χρονιά δημιούργησε στο παλαιό Ελαιουργείο της Ελευσίνας την εγκατάσταση «fashion+architecture: Persephone-thebride-virginity», ως tutor, στα πλαίσια του easa007.
Συμμετέχει στο ArtLocus με την διάλεξη που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στις 22 Αυγούστου, στις 8 το βράδυ με τίτλο “Έλευσις-Τελετουργία-Θέατρο”.
Στη διάλεξη αυτή τίθενται ζητήματα για την τελετουργία στο θέατρο μέσα από τα Ελευσίνια Μυστήρια και τον μύθο της Δήμητρας και της Κόρης. Διερευνάται αν η Ελευσίνα, εισάγοντας το τελετουργικό στοιχείο στην θεατρική πράξη, μπορεί να δείξει τον δρόμο προς ένα θέατρο μεταφυσικό-τελετουργικό. Ένα θέατρο που δεν θα αναπαριστά αλλά θα σημαίνει, ένα θέατρο που θα διαχειρίζεται τα σύμβολα και που θα αποτελεί εμπειρία αποκαλυπτική για τον θεατή με σκοπό να τον οδηγήσει μέσω του οράματος σε μια νέα ύπαρξη.
«…το θέατρο πρέπει να θεωρηθεί σαν Είδωλο (…) σαν το αντίγραφο μιας άλλης πραγματικότητας, αρχέτυπης και επικίνδυνης. Μια πραγματικότητα απ’όπου οι βασικές Αρχές ξεπροβάλλουν μια τόσο το κεφάλι τους, σαν τα δελφίνια, και μετά ξαναβουτούν βιαστικά και χάνονται στα σκοτάδια των βυθών.»
Antonin Artaud, Το θέατρο και το Είδωλό του
The Temenos 2012 – Parallel architectural exhibition
Posted in architecture, MyProjects, tagged Despina, despina zacharopoulou, Gregory Markopoulos, Δέσποινα, Ζαχαροπούλου, Robert Beavers, temenos 2012, the temenos, Zacharopoulou on May 4, 2012|
Parallel to the Temenos 2012 Screenings at Lyssarea, Arcadia (Greece) there will be an exhibition of my Thesis Project at the National Technical University of Athens School of Architecture (NTUA Supervisor Prof.: V.Xenou, A.Kourkoulas, Architect Advisor: C.Papoulias, NTUA Prof. Advisor on static: M.Tzitzas). It is a project inspired by Gregory Markopoulos’s vision on the “Temenos”, a place dedicated to his entire work as well as to the work of Robert Beavers.
The Exhibition will last from june 28th to july 1st.
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