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Angelo Plessas

Experimental Education Protocol: The Temple of All Beings
31 July–12 August 2023

13th Gwangju Biennale, 2021.


Medium 
Experimental education, performance


Location
Hohensalzburg Fortress and various other spaces


Teaching language
English


What to bring
Laptop, camera, material from the students’ archives, tools, pens, brushes, etc.


Requirements
Willingness to work in groups


Maximum number of participants
20


Participation fee
€ 640,– (reduced € 480,–)


The class provides an alternative educational methodology that will include different forms of artistic pedagogy, from performance to installation to self-publishing. The project already happened in 4 different versions, one last year in the Summer Academy. Participants (anyone interested in cultural practice) are asked to conduct educational models through workshops focusing on a case study. A statement accompanies this; in general, participants bypass their professional routine.  Each edition is usually accompanied by a collectively edited publication (on demand) that will be presented at the end of the class.

The 5th edition will be a 2-week educational course in the Summer Academy. The title, The Temple of All Beings, suggests the case study will revolve around new self-made archetypal sacred spaces. Temples have always been spaces that embody sacred and collective modes of experiencing beliefs. They represent points for identification, and at the same time, they aspire to offer visions of an ideal life and existence. In some cases, temples are manifestations of qualities that pervade matter. But recently, one can have its idea of sacred space and new self-interpretative traditions reinforced by new knowledge and wisdom. A question for the participants is what possible stories could be told or unfold beyond archetypal spaces of contemplation. New definitions of the temple will be generated.
Angelo Plessas is an artist who lives and works in Athens. Using technology, his work highlights the ambiguous approach of spirituality, delving into a broad set of cosmologies and activating modes of communal interconnectivity, social relations, and identity. Plessas’s activities range from performances to artist residencies; from self-publishing to interactive websites; from quilted sculptures to livestream events and educational projects. Over the last years, he has organized the annual gatherings of the Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood and Experimental Education Protocol in different places in the world.

Exhibitions
2022 Persones Persons, 8th Biennale Gherdëina, Val di Gardena (IT). 2021 Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR). 2019 Extended Mind, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK). 2018 I was raised on the internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (US). 2017 Learning from Athens, documenta 14, Athens and Kassel (DE).

Publications/reviews
Ben Eastham, Angelo Plessas (interview), Acne Papers, London 2021.
Angelo Plessas, Experimental Education Protocol, Nero Publishing, Rome 2021.
Rahel Aima, Prizing Eccentric Talents, Artforum, 2021
Michelangelo Corsaro, Angelo Plessas: The Noospheric Society, in: 13th Gwangju Biennale (exh. cat.), Gwangju 2021.
Angelo Plessas, Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood, Nero Publishing, Rome 2018.

Education
1993-95, Industrial Design and Computer Science, TEI, Athens.

Website
www.angeloplessas.com
Angelo Plessas
Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Pirje Mykkänen