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HONOURABLE OUTLAWS

«Honorable Outlaws - Face. Freedom. Silence» 

MOMus  Experimental Centre For The Arts Thessaloniki

The exhibition «Honorable Outlaws - Face. Freedom. Silence» was based on the ability of contemporary art to create space-time frameworks in which people – who would have never met under different circumstances – can coexist, cooperate, and co-create. Nine artists and an art theorist went to the 3rd Second Chance School of Thessaloniki of the Central Correctional Facility of Thessaloniki (Diavata) and created workshops (2017-2019). The artists were chosen according to the relativity of their practice to the problematics of approaching confinement, through critical aesthetics. Inmate students experienced contact with contemporary art and the artists came face to face with the heterotopia of prison and the people who experience it every day. The exhibition included texts and works of both students and artists. Some of the works were collective, some others were created by the students under the guidance of the artists and others were artworks of the 9 artists which emerged from their experience in the prison.


The dancer and choreographer Rhiannon Morgan was invited to give a workshop at the School of Second Chance of the prison of Diavata in Thessaloniki in the framework of the project «Honest Outlaws – Face. Freedom. Silence» (MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts, Thessaloniki, 26.02-28.06.2020, curated by Sofia Eliza Bouratsis) so as to work along with the students primarily on their bodies and breathing and subsequently on the habit of prison yard time.


Participating students

Amalia, Angelina, Gardenia, Theodora, Svetlana, Tereza Alilou, Alkibiadis, Abbas, Andreas, Ahmed, Dimitris, Eglo, Endri, Edmond, Klodian, Costas, Krasimir, Mitko, Mohamet, Bledar, Daniel, Omar, Raphael, Theodor, Francesco

 

Project co-organized by Sofia Eliza Bouratsis in collaboration with MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts and the School of Second Chance of the prison od Diavata, Thessaloniki.

 

Supported by:

Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, Fonds Culturel National du Luxembourg


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