participation in the exhibition
“Michael Mitras. (MM). Vague details”,
“Melina Mercouri” Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens”,
05/16-06/16/2024.
Photo composition – collage, (my donation to the Giorgio de Chirico Art Center – Volos), 2023, 50×70 cm.
Exhibition curators: Chrysa Drantakis & Christoforos Marinos.
Guilford 1824/Ionian Academy
“Your most obedient servant and friend Earl Guilford”
Group show-curator: Dr Megaklis Rogakos
Ionian Parliament/Corfu-Old Town
01-31/08/2024
2024 coincides with the 200th anniversary of the Ionian Academy, the first university-level Greek school of the modern era. It was founded in Corfu by the English philhellene Guilford and graced the United States of the Ionian Islands for 40 years, from 1824 to 1864, that is, until the Union of the Ionian Islands with Greece. It reopened as the Ionian University from 1984.
My contribution – visual work:
“knowledge_ge/ γνωσηα_κα”
“knowledge_ge/gnosia-ka”
Digital print, intermedia collage, AI, 50×70 cm, 2024
see page of the catalogue in English : 146. The catalogue-album was published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Guilford’s Ionian Academy in 1824 and to accompany the exhibition “Your most obedient servant and friend Earl of Guilford” at the Ionian Parliament, Corfu, between 1 and 31 August 2024. Corfu Heritage Foundation 1. Ionian Academy 2. Frederick North, Earl of Guilford 1824 200th Anniversary of the Ionian Academy, Corfu , 2024.(Only in EN).
https://www.corfuheritagefoundation.org/
1. Santorini (with Kate van Houten)
2. e(x)writing / é(x)criture ((with Takesada Matsutani)
estepa editions, Paris, 2024.
https://estepaeditions.com/
[20 copies and 30 copies]
Santorini, poem by da/da in EL, FR. EN [translators:Michèle Valley & Angelos Sakkis], drawings by da/da and Kate van Houten.
é(x)criture, poem by da.da in EL, FR [translation: Michèle Valley], drawings (original for each copy) by Takesada Matsutani- artist of
Japanese Gutai group – https://www.theartstory.org/movement/gutai/.
(Country of honor: Greece).
19-23/06/2024, Place St Sulpice, Paris, 75006
https://www.marche-poesie.com/
Presentations of new books/artist books
from da/da (2024):
1. Poetic works/Volume II. Japan, la rumeur libre
2.Japan.Liquid mirror, L’harmattan/aesthetics
3. Handmade Greek Abecedary, redfoxpress
4.Santorini, estepa editions (with Kate van Houten)
5.é(x)criture, estepa editions (with Takesada Matsutani)
[For each book, see the relevant download: www.dagrafiotis.com].
Performance within the framework of action:
“doc(k)pit#2”-Return of Poetry
Gallery: “Friches et nous la paix” / “Wasteland and we have peace”
by CockPit and Doc(k)s magazines
Paris, Belleville, 06/22/2024.
Video Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n2S-KGx5fiM¨
Editions la Rumeur Libre, Sainte – Colombe – sur – Gand, France, 2024
(poems [FR,EL, JPN 2nd Part] and photos-Japan, 1985-2015)
Translation from Greek to Japanese: Andriani Psaraki
Translated from Greek to French: Michèle Valley
Graphic editing: Dimitris Mitsopoulos
400, pages.
in French, under the direction of Pr. François SOULAGES
Collection Eidos/ Serie Art, L’harmattan, Paris, 2023.
My contribution: Hesitation & performance. Doubts & waverings. (Hésitation & performance.Soupçons & flottements), [text-essay, video, photography, painting],
pp. 33-40.
Demosthenes Agrafiotis, JAPAN: Liquid Mirror /
Démosthène Agrafiotis, JAPON:miroir liquide
(essays).
released on May 30, 2024.
Éditions L’Harmattan/aesthetics, Paris, France.
Foreword: Dr. Thomas Simeonidis
French translation: Michèle Valley
Graphics: Dimitris Mitsopoulos
(essays, poems, drawings, photographs on Japaneseness, Japanese cinema, Lafcadio Hearn).
[It is also pre-orderable on other sites, such as Amazon, Fnac, Cultura….].
Video Youtube : https://youtu.be/1RAZX2QJu-U?si=aCsAO2r10QmxFFsu
