The purpose of the workshop is to provide its students with a comprehensive study framework in the field of visual arts and allow them to understand the art field, using ways, methods and processes based on the mind and the senses. An additional purpose is the development of artistic skills and the enhancement of the visual art perception of the students. The development of a broader and high-level learning experience and knowledge of the theoretical and artistic studies, the creative artistic research and personal expression as they arise from historic recordings and more recent paths, formats and formalities of modern art in the field of artistic education, so that students can develop their artistic skills and contribute to the social, cultural and economic development of the country.
Works / Aiga
The Student Artists organized a two-day Workshop at the Pyrgos quarry with Land art works. A collective work was created with reference to the archetypal image of the goat and other scattered artistic gestures.
Participants: Marianna Antiochou, Alexandra Apsokardou, Katerina Koukoutsaki, Yiannis Kaleridis, Chrysiida Lainopoulos, Alexandros Lernis, Silia Economidou, Katerina Skordou, Alexis Tetsis, Elena Stiga, Konstantinos Hatzakis, Alexis Tetsis.
Supervising Professor: Tzimis Efthymiou.
Aiga
Aiga – the most imposing of their participatory and site specific works.
Process
Curatorial meeting, meeting with the residents, creation in the quarry, creation processes, decisions, planning and the most central work the “Goat” in the quarry.