Conveners
Session 4: Arts & Identity
- Nick Poulakis (NKUA)
Session 4: Arts & Nature
- Aspasia Dania (NKUA)
Session 4: Panel / Art Based Presentation
- There are no conveners in this block
Session 4: Panels
- There are no conveners in this block
Session 4: Theatre & Environment
- Clio Fanouraki (NKUA)
Session 4: ARTS & SUSTAINABILITY
- ELISSAVET PERAKAKI
Although theater alone cannot change the world, it can nevertheless contribute to the awareness and activation of wider audiences by inviting them to adopt a conscious and responsible attitude towards themselves, others and the environment. The contribution of the present study lies in the study and presentation of Greek theatrical and dramatic production with the theme of promoting...
This paper describes an art-based critical pedagogy applied to preservice teachers. Utilizing visual thinking strategies and critical literacy, candidates analyzed a mural's content, exploring sociopolitical aspects, global contexts, and social justice issues. Initially relying on first impressions, they progressed to critical observation, and questioning socio-cultural, racial, and political...
Can we use art to improve the world and its social and environmental problems? To get closer to this somewhat exaggerated question, our panel will explore different principles and goals of sustainability and develop possibilities for art-based education for sustainable development. In times of climate crisis, the principle of sustainability is an important way of dealing with current global...
During the Fall Semester of 2023-24, a hybrid, interdisciplinary undergraduate course was piloted at the Department of (anonymised). Collaboration of university tutors, a composer/researcher and a Greek Australian poet and rap artist, resulted in the delivery of a 12-week creative composition module, which culminated in a student presentation of creative musical processes and outputs. Course...
The project Shared Landscapes was curated by Caroline Barneaud (Thรฉรขtre Vidy-Lausanne) and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) and was presented in Lausanne, Avignon, and Berlin in 2023. Shared Landscapes is basically an invitation by seven artists from all artistic disciplines to the audience, asking them to spend a full day in the forest and participate into artistic works that attempt to...
This paper delves into critical issues in Greek art education, centering on the transformative potential of the New Visual Arts Curricula for Secondary Education. Drawing from influential theorists like Dewey, Freire, Vygotsky, Deleuze, and Guattari, the authors advocate for a paradigm shift towards inclusive and participatory art experiences. The theoretical foundation challenges traditional...
This paper shares the design and outcomes from a research project whereby students from schools in Australia, worked with their teachers to envisage and create artefacts of the future (2050). The research question was, โHow can young people be engaged and empowered to consider creative and embodied futures thinking to generate sustainable living choices and practices now?โ. Teachers were...
We present the pilot course The Arts for Coexistence in a Sustainable Society, which was implemented at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana in 2023/2024. We focused on sustainable themes, the role of the arts in a society and (creative) active citizenship of young adults. We explored through artistic experiences: soundscape, the fine art lab, the creation of dance miniatures,...
Drawing on the discourse surrounding third-wave ecotheatre, this paper discusses ecodramaturgies constitutive of works such as Lucy+Jorge Ortaโs Symphony of Absent Wildlife (beginning in 2014), Violeta Lunaโs NK603: Action for Performer & e-Maiz (2014), and Chantal Bilodeauโs Sila (2015). Next, it attempts to show why and how the ecodramaturgies found therein may ally with and inform...
Understanding the city as a space of coexistence implies an ethical and aesthetic positioning and means changing the established dynamics. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for quality education in which students acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to face today's challenges. The project Art with the Environment: Living and Learning carried out with...
The study of the relationship between humans and the natural environment is a diverse field. Ecocriticism, among other movements, has studied this relationship for decades. Recently, ecocriticism has been identified in the performing arts field. In Greece, students are engaged with theatre as part of their education, as Theatre Education is part of the national curriculum. This qualitative...
We present part of the results of the research project Olive grove, body, identity and territory, subsidized by the Institute of Giennese Studies of the Provincial Council of Jaรฉn, Spain. The research addresses the current situation, and, therefore, the changes that have occurred, in the economic and social situation of women in the rural world, specifically in the olive cultive culture, as I...
This paper revolves around the role of contemporary art and its significance for the art world as well as the general social sphere, with a special emphasis on the artistic processes and practices of the TWO|FOUR|TWO art group. The TWO|FOUR|TWO art group uses appropriation and anagrammatism to transmit concepts about consumerism, greed and megalomania. The groupโs oeuvre relates to several of...
Higher education is a priority area for reform globally, as the pandemic has highlighted how postsecondary institutions are fragile and inaccessible, and require reconceptualization to build community resilience and social cohesion for next-generation learners. The purpose of this panel is to explore how arts-sci-tech immersive learning activations operate as iterative, open systems in higher...
In recent times, art teachers have increasingly encountered students who are refugees in the local vicinity of their educational institution, often due to political unrest and conflicts in various nations. Some of these students have endured persecution on account of their religious convictions. Pew Research Center (2020) has determined that as of 2018 Christians faced persecution in 145...
Arts and crafts are asked to bring greater contribution to the implementation of UN sustainable development goal 3 โ โgood health and wellbeingโ and to work interdisciplinary. From our experience, we believe that artists, art educators and cultural workers can work together with social workers to maintain hope and care and create safe spaces of wellbeing. In this performance base paper we...
Our intervention in this session aims to report on the results of a project involving audiovisual narratives that seek to recover the memory of the LGTBIQ+ community. These outcomes are presented as tools, resources, and teaching strategies for addressing audiovisual culture in future Primary Education teachers at the University of Jaรฉn. This proposal outlines the working methodology through...
By referring to the book Dissens and Sensibility: Why Art Matters I will in this paper present what I call pedagogy of dissensus, which is an educational approach informed by the ambivalent and dissensual characteristics of art. In the paper I describe how the situation caused by COVID-19 turned out to be a major interruption and led to the artwork My stunning stream - Made with a little...
We present a sound performance about change of the sound landscape in the field work with olive trees. This action is part of the Olive grove, body, identity and territory project, subsidized by the Giennese Studies Institute of the Jaรฉn Provincial Council, which carries out a study on the situation of women in the olive culture. But the results not only respond to that objective, but also...
Examining four community dance groups in Aotearoa/New Zealand, this presentation will share the most common practices that remain critical to the sustainability of each group, and the role that community dance groups play in the lives of their participants and their broader localities. While community dance groups are understood as creative and informal spaces for art education, their...
In this performance that integrates visual, dramatic, and sonic languages, Elvira and Pedro Ernesto carry out an adaptation of the original play "Koroneiki: a critical musical theater piece about the land and olive trees." In this performance, a critique of the current situation of super-intensive crops is approached from an ecological perspective, specifically focusing on the environment from...
