Dreamtime

Process Art: 

M a r i a  S e v a s t a k i 

Art action plan: Art Athina 2016 flyer. 

Dreamtime is connected with humans, animals, birds and fish we have no borders; the earth is our food, culture, spirit and identity ...


The Finger (unexpected,  entrance performance). 

I was asked as a participating artist to pay 8.00 euro entrance fee and I refused.   
(The organizers  had labels with our names.  Someone had mine.  They are 73 artists representing this specific action plan. 
We are given an invitation that could get us in but it  had already been used.  
The girls at the entrance sent us to the floor manager and I told her who we are and dramatically her  attitude changed towards us spitting out of her mouth poison)    

I smiled and lifted my finger... 

then, Ι threw a flyer onto the reception desk 

I was expelled forever from this event that humiliates only Greece, it's artists, youth and talent. 

The mad floor manager lied and said to the directors'/curator that I threatened her life...

This reflects onto the organizers and the criteria of employing staff that exposes the values and expectations of Art Athina.  It also arises many questions addressed to the  art groups that invited me. 

...Why art athina?  
Anyone that pays exhibits!   

Being on  the road for days -, along with the sacrifices required doing research for years,  on the borders of Europe from 1996 witnessing horrific and traumatic events with injustice lead me to this gesture ...  

I was asked a day before the FINGER to address the Art Athina Platform talks in English and to write something.
This is what I wrote.  I was told the next day it would be read ... 

'Orizontas Gegonoton Events Horizon is an imaginary line that traces a black hole of which it's gravity becomes so strong that nothing can escape to the point of which it's time of dilation is just so great that everything happens simultaneously...!!!(quantum physics)

We are a group of humans that originate from different fields of art and diverse cultures. 
Our subject is the dissemination if art in everyday life that evolves around us and our personal research of which we believe transcends all paradoxes of this disgraceful humanitarian crisis that we are all choreographed to live and play in ...  

We packed out suitcases.  Two art action groups.  One based in central Greece, Athens and the other next to the borders: Florina, Macedonia Greece.

This initiative and collaboration delivered a time experience in art along with an art experience in time. 

Some of our participants traveled  from different districts in Greece to Florina with their suitcases, others couldnt send a suitcase but collaborated on one that was delivered with Kosmas Lilikakis from Chania Crete -, but the majority of us  are here in Art Athina. 

Orizontas Gegonoton is an open group that invites everyone to take creative action to research, discover and have fun beyond the artwork '

Maria Sevastaki 27.05.16 Piraeus        

Dreamtime, 
The journey

Departure:  13th May 2016. Aristarchus airport Samos. 
Image: Samos Refugees.

Landed.  Venizelos airport Athens

I missed a day & the train ...

 I took the midnight train 

                             

   








Museum of Contemporary Art,  Florina Greece. 

I connected my suitcase to my Australian birthplace along with locations that shaped my identity with notes, drawing, paintings and gauzes of places I've lived, visited and was sometimes violently forced to be in...

My suitcase is decorated with my current art notes Pathology and are in healing progress 

    

About Pathology notes: A Phd Greek student from Kings college London was introduced to me.  She was  doing research on the refugees in Samos.  I showed her my project The Blue Cemetery and she invited me to London in November to present it to her Italian Professor. 

It was unfortunate a waste of energy & money that people invested in me.  

The next day the Paris terrorist attack took place and innocents are victims once again.  All projects/funds are cancelled at Kings college. 

I disengaged in all PR art activities and went to my favorite museum two days sketching and keeping notes.   

I was outside of the British museum when I received a call from the phd student absolutely shocked because her younger sister studying in Paris  was in the club and lost friends... 

This is how the pathology notes are born... 

    

 MOURN NEVER FORGET NEVER GIVE IN !!!!

The British Bulldog revolver by artist Litsa Mousouli 

Performer Pavlos Souflis concept 'murder on the Florina express' inspired me to adopt and open a dialogue with  Litsa's British bulldog revolver and Art Bank. 

Her father  a policeman - mine a sniper in the Greek resistance. Later in life a hunter that taught me to shoot when little and never to give in to injustice ... !

On the way back I had the idea that we all fall on the rail-tracks 

A symbolic act to what people in dept, war zone refugees are lead too ....

Image: Maria Sevastaki

Artists: Jimmy Efthimiou, Angela Brisnovali.    

I received a rail map gift  from the inspector on train on the way back.  I made a t-shirt for the action plan for our presentation at Platforms: Art Athina.  

Litsa and I May  
Platform artists Art Athina 2016. 


References: Samos Refugees, Turkey, Delphi, prisons, hospitals, Indigenous Peoples, Citizens of the world. 

Funded by family.