Demosthenes Agrafiotis’s poem “Letter” has been published in Otoliths, a magazine of many e-things.
Translated from the Greek by Angelos Sakkis.
Delphi, 03/21/2001, Lisbon, 06/21-25/2001, Rome, 06/26/2001
what letter
leads to the white
what letter
denies the color
what letter
poses the problem
what letter
exercises moderation
what letter
traverses poetry (more…)
Performed in the 2nd exhibition dedicated to Thanos Murray-Velloudios at Beton7 on January 2016.
Read more on the exhibition.
Presented in the 2nd exhibition dedicated to Thanos Murray-Velloudios at Beton7 on January 2016.
Read more on the exhibition.
At Tinos Festival 2015 that took place this summer, Demosthenes Agrafiotis has presented four performances titled “Empedocles: The four elements”
Tinos Festival 2015 program: pdf
Visual poetry on Empedocles (pdf)
Empedocles (Akragantas 484 (;) – 429 (;) BC) claimed that the world is made of four elements: earth, air, water and fire, and that it is governed by two opposing forces: filotita –love and hatred. Friedrich Hölderlin considered the work of Empedocles as a poetic milestone for European culture. According to the history and legend, Empedocles was a poet, philosopher, social activist (for agricultural production issues, public health problems), political protagonist in democratic battles-causes of his fellow citizens. Finally, falling into the active volcano of Mount Etna and leaving his golden sandals on the walls of caldera as a signature, he allows us to consider him as the first performer or as the founder of the performance art. My four performances (in correspondence with the above four elements) aspire to give an homage to this important personality of Magna Grecia.
Demosthenes Agrafiotis.
Post cards of/with Demosthenes Agrafiotis on cARTed.eu website:
Ino (Chania/Crete, 1992) – cARTed Series n.308 – 10/2015
Antikleia (Paris, 1977) – Series n.304 – 01/2015
cARTed Junction 278 – Festival PAN TOTAL, Paris, 2012 Reading by Demosthenes Agrafiotis : “Bêtises”
More cARTed by DA on dagrafiotis.com
Simple yet centrifugal yet extraverted, designed to cause accidental encounters between scattered artist’s networks. cARTed is developing around the cooperative publication of postcards.
cARTed exists since 1993. Under this name, Pascal Pithois proposes to all the artists who wish it, without any selection, to publish postcards, which must be original creations, starting from a topic sometimes, but generally without.
Each printing gives rise to one or more plates of eighteen cards, in black and white or in color, as many windows open on different universes and worlds. But first of all, the edition of the postcards remains the pretext of a real “friendly sculpture”. Indeed, most important and the essence of this work consists in supporting the exchanges and the sharing between all these artists.
cARTed’s project consists in bringing together artists without distinction of race, religion, category, concern, age, sex, orientation, sensitivity, notoriety, fortune, class, opinion, value, taste, that is to say without selection, apart from any consideration of an aesthetic, ethical or ideological nature. To bring together artists who are being fortuitously contemporary in their proposer to create a postcard according to a co-operative principle. So, gradually, from plate of postcards to plate of postcards, cARTed develops a network growing, gathering multiple scattered networks and connecting them bit by bit the ones to the others. For the publication of each series a meeting is organized, always in a different city, a different place. First of all cARTed is nomad, almost virtual, everywhere and nowhere, generating only travels and displacements, finally a very light thing, the dance of networks colliding.
Pascal Pithois
creator of cARTed – 1993
www.carted.eu
