Performing Hydrocommons
Three stories about water, collective management and the biocommunity.
Performative walking action, curated by Counterpublics
Participants: Constantina Theodorou, Yorgis Noukakis, Giorgos Papadatos
Organized and hosted by the “Association of Kyriakochorites”
Kyriakochori Fthiotidas, 14 August 2025
The Guards of Water
On communal practices of water management
November 2024-March 2025
Transdisciplinary research project on communal practices of water management at Kyriakochori, Fthiotida. The “raised ditch” is a community project, collectively designed, sustained and governed, around which an economy, a micro-ecosystem and the cultural life of the small community has been developed.
In progress
With the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intercultural Issues, 2024
10.000 Windmills
From Werner Herzog to the energy commons
December 2023-March 2024
Transdisciplinary research project on water management practices in the Lassithi Plateau of Crete, and the know-how of pumping windmills, as an example for the study of transformations and transition processes from the protocols of collective management of common resources to the productive and cultural constitution of the local society and the landscape around them.
With the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intercultural Issues, 2023
Photo: Lasithi Plateau, Boris Carmi, 1981
WalkΤheLaw
Walk between the lines of the legal texts
Performative walk (in Greek)
09 December 2023, 12:00- 14:00
H(e)avens, Athens, Organized by Counterpublics
Contributors:
Walk: Constantina Theodorou
Interventions- performative actions: Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Yorgia Karidi, Giorgos Papadatos, Anna Tsouloufi-Lagiou, Dimitris Halatsis, Constantinos Hadzinikolaou
Where the wild things grow
Interventions in public space
Fix park, Drakopoulou Park, Athens
28 April- 14 May 2023 | Opening: 28 April, 19:00
Organized-curated by: Counterpublics
Participants: Rebecca Agnes, Campus Novel (Yannis Sinioroglou, Ino Varvariti, Yannis Delagrammatikas), Nikos Doulos, Juliette Brederode, Jelly Hogendorp, Eva van der Zand, Eirini Efstathiou, Matthew Gandy, Mariela Nestora, Vangelis Savvas, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Giorgos Papadatos, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Fani Sofologi, Georges Salameh, Panos Sklavenitis
With the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development
The circle community
Interdisciplinary research project on the collective rituals of mountainous communities of Epirus
August 2022 – March 2023
> Video-essay “The Circle Community: Eight Notes for a Collective Ritual“
> Educational program for children aged 6-10, “We Are All in This Circle“,
Makriyanni Cultural Association, Arta, December 2022
> Research booklet with contributions by Katerina Sergidou, Esther Solomon, Maria Markou
With the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intercultural Issues, 2022
Energy as commons
Research project
> Workshop & installation at #Commonings, New Alphabet School,
HKW Berlin
14-18 September 2022
> Video essay “Seven Cautionary tales for energy commons“
Soft Protocols
Series of interventions at the border of the city
Podoniftis river, Athens
Organized by Counterpublics
August – November 2021
Pariticipants: Rebecca Agnes, akoo-o collective (Nikos Bubaris, Sofia Grigoriadou, Dana Papachristou, Giorgos Samantas), Ludovic Bernhardt, Lucia Bricco, Campus Novel (Giannis Delagrammatikas, Ino Varvariti, Yiannis Sinioroglou), Eirene Efstathiou, Stefania Migliorati, Kostas Bassanos, Giorgos Papadatos, Nina Papaconstantinou, Artemis Potamianou, VASCOS ( Kostas Tzimoulis – Vassilis Noulas ), Dimitris Halatsis
Blowing with the wind. Fleeting sovereignties of a post-national world order
Research project
Video-essay, based on the same title essay by C. Theodorou
Produced, edited by Giorgos Papadatos and Constantina Theodorou
August 2021
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