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Sara Greavu

Project Arts Centre, Ireland

Sara Greavu is a curator, writer and organiser; and Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. She has a particular interest in how art can recognise existing social structures, propose alternative histories and genealogies of knowledge, and prefigure different social relations. Previous curatorial and development roles include Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, VOID, and Outburst Arts, Belfast; in addition to working independently. Recent projects include Open the book at a different page, a research exhibition with artist Ciara Phillips and former members of the Derry Film and Video Workshop, which dealt with intertwined political and cultural initiatives in Derry in the 1980s; solo shows with Kian Benson Bailes and Avril Coroon, and a group exhibition, Metabolic Time, co-curated with Cairo Clarke Along with Project Arts Centre, she is the curator of Ireland at Venice with the artist Eimear Walshe for the 60th Venice Biennale, 2024.

https://projectartscentre.ie/

Secondment destination
TBC

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Dimitris Loupetis

NTUA School of Architecture, Greece

I am a PhD candidate of the NTUA School of Architecture. After graduating my studies in Architecture, I completed in 2020 my postgraduate studies in the interdepartmental programme “Architectural Design- Space- Culture ” of NTUA, in the direction “Cognition of Architecture”. Since 2021, I am working on my doctoral thesis in the Department III of Architecture of NTUA, entitled “Locality Exercises: Representations of the centre of Athens as a field of spatial justice claims”. My research interests focus on the experience and representation of everyday urban life, urban tourism and touristification, city movements, housing, habitaion practices and spatial justice. The relation with the Space-X project comes through the year-long collaboration with Stavros Stavrides and Penny Koutrolikou in the research project “JUST: Redefining spatial justice in Athens as a city in crisis: Confrontations for Urban Commons”.

Secondment destination
TBC

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Emily Gardner

Coventry Biennial, UK

I am an artist and early career curator developing projects that relate to nature and our relationship to the environment. I graduated from the innovative Fine Art and Contemporary Cultures degree, validated by Gloucester University in 2019 and have since worked for Coventry Biennial in a range of capacities, most recently as Assistant Curator supporting the development and delivery of projects with Can Altay, Alice Channer and the social engaged project, Mothers Who Make a Garden with Mothers Who Make, Coventry hub.

I have a multidisciplinary fine art background, particularly sculpture and make work exploring relationships with people, body and nature.

Throughout the SPACEX project I will seek to build international relationships and knowledge in support of Coventry Biennial’s impactful work with artists and communities.

www.coventrybiennial.com

Secondment destination
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

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Elpida Prasopoulou

Coventry University, UK

Elpida is Operations Manager for the Creative Cultures Research Centres at Coventry University (UK). She has long-standing experience in supporting research teams to deliver high-quality research in the Creative Arts. Elpida holds a PhD in Information Systems from the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece). She held research positions both in academia (University of Essex) and industry (Open Data Institute). She was also the A.C. Laskaridis Post-Doctoral Fellow at the European Institute, LSE. As researcher, her work is focusing on digital innovation, data infrastructures and experiential computing. Her work has been published in the European Journal of Information Systems, New Media & Society and Political Studies and presented in major conferences in the area of Information Systems, Politics and Media Studies.

During her SPACEX secondment, Elpida will explore the role of recent digital art exhibitions in the development of a post-crisis narrative for Athens.

Secondment destination
Laboratory for Urban Commons, Athens, Greece, April 2023 and October 2023

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Anne Kelly

National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland (NCAD).

For SpaceX-Rise, Anne Kelly’s research inquiry focuses on the potentialities within a commoning approach in establishing an operative critical spatial practice that functions as a site-specific framework toward public arts programming: exploring long and short social models inclusive of transdisciplinary participation networks engaging existing cultural infrastructures.

Anne Kelly, cultural practitioner, is the curator at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (NCAD, 2011-) where she operates the NCAD Gallery with particular emphasis on transdisciplinary integrated public programming aligned to institution-specific research directions, the commissioning of new work and fostering collaborative creative partnerships. As well as, working cross-departmentally and lecturing on the School of Visual Culture elective programme. She is a National College of Art and Design, Dublin, BA Fine Art and Trinity College Dublin MSc Comp Sci Multimedia Systems graduate and a recipient of Arts Council of Ireland, CREATE: National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts, Culture Ireland and County Council artist practice funding awards.

www.ncad.ie/about/gallery

Secondment destination
AAU ANASTAS The Wonder Cabinet, Bethlehem, Palestine, 2023

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Denise Ziegler

Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki

Denise Ziegler, DFA, is a Helsinki based visual artist and researcher of public space.  In her artistic practice and research, she questions the concepts of urban space and public art. Instead of interrogating people and involving them in the process, Ziegler’s interventional artworks put questions directly to public infrastructure, to walls, fences, or vehicles of public transport. In a post-Beuysian vein, an artist workshop is extended to public space in order to work with its mechanisms and possibilities. Ziegler has made permanent and temporary works in and for public space, her practice includes in three-dimensional assemblages of objects, drawings, paintings, videos, literary-visual works, and writing. Ziegler is currently working as a professor of artistic research at the doctoral programme of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki and as university lecturer at Transdisciplinary Art Studies (TAITE) at the Department of Art and Media at Aalto University.

http://denise-ziegler.squarespace.com/

Secondment destination
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Spring 2024

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Socrates Stratis at Transparadiso, Vienna

The Minister of Radish

He shows us around the garden. I see vegetables, and I hear about the governance of the commons. He is one of the community gardeners at a new subsidised housing project in Vienna called Inner Wiesen Ost Erlaeer Housing. Community gardens are part of the urban mediators for living together that I am investigating in Vienna. 30 families are members of the community garden. They need to spend two weeks per year caring for the garden. They dispatch the everyday garden tasks in work groups: vegetables, trees, tools, kids-play, etc. A minister is responsible for each work group. However, the members are not so many, considering the density of the new project. Most residents prefer waiting to get assigned their own small garden plot since each urban block has its designated area for such activity. He is perplexed since he understands that the residents are tuned by society to consume the collective uses rather than co-constituting them. We get a lovely radish as a souvenir of our visit. Utterly delicious.

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Penny Koutrolikou

School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Penny Koutrolikou is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, NTUA. Her research interests include: urban conflicts and inter-group relations; Urban geopolitics of migration and development; Theories of crises, power and hegemony; socio-spatial justice and legal geographies; Representations and discourse analysis. She is/has been involved in research projects concerning the spatial justice, housing, legal geographies and crises. Her more recent published work include (In)visibilities and “disappearences” from public space (forthcoming 2023), “Constructing European “Souths” through Crises” (South Atlantic Quarterly 122.2, 2023), “Embodied geopolitics: Negotiating belonging from Turkey to Athens” (Political Geography 102, 2023, with Vlastou, F., Karimali E., Avramopoulou, E.), “Instrumentalization of Migration: the geopolitics of migration in EU / Turkey borderlands” (2022, with P. Teunissen), “Reflections on public, private and ‘in-between’ places and living together” (The Journal of Public Space).

http://www.arch.ntua.gr/

Secondment destination
TBC

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José Neves

University of Northampton, UK

José Neves is Lecturer in Photography at the universities of Northampton and Ulster in the United Kingdom. He holds an MA in the History of Photography from De Montfort University and a PhD from University of Ulster, where he conducted extensive academic research on the history and historiography of photographic books. From 2012 to 2017, he created and curated the Irish Photobook project, which resulted in a collection of photography books now housed in the University of Ulster’s special collections. José began his curatorial career at the Wilson Center for Photography in London in 2010 and has since curated various photobook exhibitions in collaboration with Photobook Week Aarhus Festival in Denmark.

He frequently attends conferences and festivals where he presents his research on photography and photobooks. He has also contributed articles on these topics to various specialized academic and non-academic publications. His current research focuses on the general history of the photography book and artist’s book, Portuguese photobook history and the relationship between the HIV-AIDS epidemic and photographically illustrated publications.

Secondment destination
A Reserva na Fábrica, Lisbon, Portugal

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Giorgia Rizzioli at Festival dei Popoli, Florence

I conducted my secondment at Festival dei Popoli in Florence from the 14th of October to the 15th of November 2022. Festival dei Popoli is an esteemed international film festival that annually showcases a wide range of documentary films across various locations in Florence. While the festival format follows a traditional approach, what sets it apart is the choice of unconventional venues for film screenings, often unrelated to the cinematic world. Throughout the event, documentary films are curated and exhibited not only in traditional movie theatres such as Cinema Stensen and Spazio Alfieri but also in unique locations like Teatro La Compagnia, a former theatre, the Murate Art District, a vibrant cultural hub, and even the 25h Hotel, one of the hotels in Florence. I was lucky to be in Florence during the festival and therefore I had the chance to attend the film projections.

I participated in the SPACEX project as a film scholar and curator with an interest in the relationship between film projections and placemaking. My doctoral research investigates the extent to which outdoor film projections can reconfigure and even create alternative urban setting. I propose this practice as ‘cinematic placemaking’. I immediately realised that the Festival – and its unconventional places – was carrying out a similar approach even if with different aims.

During my collaboration with the curatorial team and certain members of the Festival programming, I gained a valuable opportunity to delve into the intricate workings of a film festival. Additionally, during my secondment, I seized the chance to develop a SPACEX project that harmoniously combines my curatorial approach to cinema as place-maker with the Festival’s more socio-oriented perspective.

The key to the development of the project was the walks through Florence and the Festival locations, as well as the conversations with Vittorio Iervese, the Festival director, and his fantastic team. Living in Florence for a month and understanding how the city could interact with a potential outdoor film event laid the foundation upon which we later formulated a project together. The project proposal was presented at the SPACEX Trianing Event in Florence in November. We hope to bring it to fruition in the near future.

Film projection ‘The Movements of Things’ (1985) by Manuela Serra – reflecting on the unnoticed, blurred confines of the screen.
Giorgia Rizzioli

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