The New Together Vol. III

November - December 2022

The physical presentation of The New Together project concludes with the exhibition of three collaborative works created following Ngallery's open call for remote co-creation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The exhibition entitled "The New Together Vol. III" will be presented from Wednesday, November 16, until Saturday, December 10, 2022, at the hybrid space of Ngallery.

During the pandemic lockdown, contemporary music composer and sound researcher Nicoleta Chatzopoulou’s Ngallery made an open call for participation in an art project with the sole prerequisite being long-distance collaboration. Composers, musicians, artists, performers, directors, writers, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world were invited and challenged to create collaborative works, overcoming the impossibility of physical presence in the same space.

Although restrictions were largely lifted and mobility restored, the art world is struggling to recover from a global event that has brought enormous economic damage and uncertainty. At the same time, we are facing a new unprecedented energy crisis, forcing many of our fellow human beings to impose a self-lockdown in order to meet the cost of living. The New Together project, born as a reaction and response to the challenges for artistic creation, communication and presentation caused by the pandemic, remains extremely relevant in a highly critical present and a dystopian future that stretches before us.

The following works are exhibited at the third and final edition of The New Together project:

“5walls with Anna Pangalou”, Longform video; 4 recordings of extended Zoom calls with no prescribed time limits
Tim Tsang x Anna Pangalou
During May and June 2020, during the height of the pandemic for many countries, Tim and Anna decided to meet together virtually from their homes in Los Angeles and Athens, without any prescribed time limits, and extensively carried out longform conversations filled with honesty, sincerity, with a curiosity toward new forms of knowledge and being. Carried out as a quiet, un-advertised form of action, they met a total of four times, with each meeting being anywhere from 2 to 4 hours long. Topics covered included cybernetics, sociology, art, music, creative life, loneliness, life struggles, culture, history - seamlessly weaving in and out from the societal to the personal. After the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Tim and Anna spent their fourth conversation in complete silence for over one hour, after listening to a recording together of Mahler’s “Kindertotenlieder” (“Songs on the Death of Children”).

“Stitching Borders”, Installation
Constantine Katsiris x Louisa Stylianidi
The work of Louisa and Constantine is centered around the idea of maps and borders, creating soundscapes and landscapes. In this collaboration, they worked together to think about the lines of borders and how borders can be changed. Louisa’s sewn pieces are of drawings she made that are thought of as map-poems. Visualising sound and also trying to sew land together or trying to sew the sea with the land is almost impossible and that “sewing” of land creates marks. These marks then become the drawings of the sewn pieces. Louisa also questions the materiality of land, of clay and of material, considering the arduous, craft-like process of sewing. Constantine’s sound is of different places that he “sews” together and reflect his photographs that are map-like, showing the remnants of different places and spaces visited.

“Losing Touch”, Micro-short film
Mavra Peponi x Nicoleta Chatzopoulou
This micro-short film was created through the remote collaboration of director Mavra Peponi and composer Nicoleta Chatzopoulou during the quarantine of 2020. It was screened at festivals in Europe and America, and in 2022 won the Experimental Edition Award at Oaxaca Film Fest.

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Tim Tsang: timtsangtimtsang.com

Anna Pangalou: instagram.com/annapangalou • www.isingproject.com

Louisa Stylianidi: vimeo.com/lmstylianidi • louisamstylianidi.blogspot.com

Constantine Katsiris: instagram.com/harsh_walls • scantintone.com

Mavra Peponi: instagram.com/mavrapeponi • imdb.com/name/nm6458962

Nicoleta Chatzopoulou: nicoletachatzopoulou.com