ARCOmadrid 2023 Special

With the presence of the curators Rafa Barber Cortell and Ignacio Cabrero, respectively, and Lucía Casani, director of La Casa Encendida.

• 6.30 – 8 pm. Presentation of the Fantastic Interior and Generación 2023 catalogues in the Café.

• 8 – 10.30 pm. Movement Radio and La Casa Encendida present: Mediterranean Futures. A contribution to the public programme The Mediterranean: A Round Sea / ARCOmadrid 2023.

  The Mediterranean: A Round Sea is the central theme of ARCOmadrid 2023. Curated by Marina Fokidis with advice from Bouchra Khalili, Hila Peleg and Pedro G. Romero, the section features nineteen artists and their galleries from the Mediterranean Basin in a space specially designed by Andrés Jacques Office for Political Innovation, as well as a large number of art, film and flamenco collectives to fill ARCO with diverse forms of creation and discourse.

  Mediterranean Futures is a series of online and physical events that explore geographical connections and alternative timelines through the cultures, ideas and peoples of the Mediterranean Basin. The programme conceptualises the Mediterranean as a sea of superimposed cultural and historical currents that transcend the immediate boundaries of borders and fixed, inflexible identities.

  • 8.30 pm - Launching Ceremony, by Marina Gioti. Greece, 2021. 17 min.

    Originally conceived to be performed in a shipyard, Launching Ceremony is an audiovisual poem about the ceremonial launching of a new ship embarking on its maiden voyage. Through a reanimation of mid-century archival footage “choreographed” to a theremin score specially commissioned for the project, the work invites viewers to take part in the ceremony and to reflect on free movement and lost futures in an increasingly entrenched world.

    Marina Gioti is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Athens, Greece. In her works, which comprise films, installations and multimedia artworks, she often revisits historical periods and events that offer parallel readings to dominant narratives. She has presented her work at festivals all over the world, including Berlinale, Toronto, CPH:DOX and Transmediale. She won the COAL Art and Environment Prize 2022 and is currently a participant of the Onassis AiR Tailor-Made Fellowships programme.

    Music: May Roosevelt | Producer: Jacob Moe. A commission by the Syros International Film Festival (SIFF), carried out with the support of the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development, in partnership with the Greek Film Archives.

  • 9 pm - DJ Set: Bill Kouligas

    Bill Kouligas, a Berlin-based Greek artist, is the founder, curator and artistic director of the multidisciplinary platform PAN, one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed labels for experimental and electronic music. In almost fifteen years of activity, he has launched artists like Lee Gamble, Arca, M.E.S.H., Pan Daijing, Yves Tumor and more recently Catalan artist Marina Herlop with her album Pripyat, sharing their futuristic vision. Kouligas includes all kinds of sounds in his sets, from noise and ambient to techno and free jazz, drawing inspiration from different sources, traditions and subcultures. Under several aliases, he has performed at venues such as the ICA and V&A in London, MoMA PSI and Volksbühne Berlin, as well as at festivals and clubs around the world, including Berghain, Mutek, Unsound, Transmediale and CTM to name just a few.

Live streaming on La Casa Encendida Radio.

Curated by Movement Radio, an Athens-based international online radio station produced by Onassis Stegi which explores intercultural interactions, political and theoretical discourses, and the reflections of the movement of people from the Mediterranean basin and beyond, through a series of live shows, thematic mixtapes, interviews, DJ sets and more.

Organised by:

Onassis Stegi, ARCOmadrid 2023 and La Casa Encendida.

Onassis Stegi is a centre of global contemporary culture. It organises initiatives and programmes to encourage conversations about democracy, social and environmental justice, racial and gender equality, and human rights in the LGBTQIA+ community. Onassi Stegi creates content for the present moment: culture connected with the here and now that becomes a way of life, embracing the local made global and the global made local.