Issue 5
As part of its engagement with publications, the written word, language, and translation, Enterprise Projects presents On the Tip of the Tongue.
The project’s environment is shaped by three elements, the audio documentation of a conversation around art publications in Greece, which took place in December 2020 between Margarita Athanasiou, Helena Papadopoulos, Theofilos Tramboulis, Evita Tsokanta, and Despina Zefkili; the site-specific sculptural installation by Kostas Roussakis, which creates space and negotiates the experience of scale, while allowing the audience to inhabit it; and Marina Miliou-Theocharaki’s sound installation Oral Fixation (2021), which approaches voice, speech, and their sensorial traces.
On the Tip of the Tongue is a platform fostering the coexistence of different tools, forms, and approaches that relate to the written and spoken word, what comes before it, and its transmutations. The recorded conversation between Margarita Athanasiou, Helena Papadopoulos, Theofilos Tramboulis, Evita Tsokanta, and Despina Zefkili is in Greek, it lasts 1 hour and 15 min., and it will be starting at 16:00, 17:30 and 18:45.
Due to the regulations that pertain to Covid-19 prevention, only ten people are allowed in the space simultaneously. Wearing face masks and maintaining the appropriate distance are mandatory.
With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is an art historian and curator working on nuclear technologies and the broader relationship between art and science. She is finishing a PhD at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), with an Onassis scholarship, on the subterranean imaginary in contemporary art, especially concerning nuclear spaces. She has programmed and curated projects for institutions including Sonic Acts, Framer Framed, and the 7th Moscow Biennial. Recently she acted as guest editor of RESOLUTION Magazine Hot Pictures (2021) and Kunstlicht Nuclear Aesthetics (Vrije Universiteit, 2019). She has taught courses at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, Esä in Dunkirk, and Carleton University in Ottawa. Mavrokordopoulou is an ARTWORKS curatorial fellow of the SNF Artist Fellowship Program in 2020–21.