Militia Company of District VIII in Amsterdam under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker
Bartholomeus van der Helst, c. 1640 - c. 1643
Hello dear subscribers and Clickbait Citizen readers!
I am delighted to share with you a project I have been working on for some time.
Over the next three podcasts (‘Democracy’, ‘Parliament’ and ‘Transitions’) I invite you to join me on a journey around Europe, through places and epochs.
In the first podcast, One: Democracy, we visit the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and travel north to participate in a conference about youth, democracy and culture. We return to this again in Three: Transitions.
Two: Parliament takes me to Athens to participate in an artistic experiment called “Parliament” led by US choreographer Michael Kliën and project director Vitoria Kotsalou at the Benaki Museum. Before I met Vitoria, I spent some time at the National Gallery - Alexandros Soitsos Museum looking at the painting called Greece Expressing Gratitude by Theodoros Vryzakis. You will find out why. I also visited the Epidaurus Theatre and festival to watch an extraordinary performance, The Stranger, directed by dear friend and colleague Michael Marmarinos.
In Three: Transitions we look at the interconnections between political transitions in Greece, Portugal and Spain in the 1970s and how artists and researchers explore these epochs and their implications through both contemporary art and traditional dance. We return to the Netherlands and a conversation I had with researcher Aida Mariño Arduro from Asturias, Spain.
So join me as I take a journey from democratic bees to the ancient seat of democracy.
One: Democracy
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley.
Link to Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and Militia Company of District VIII in Amsterdam under the Command of Captain Roelof Bicker
Conversation with Kelly Diapouli - founder and director of Busart, scholar of the Onassis and Fulbright Foundations and presently Artistic Director at Larnaka 2030 (Cyprus).
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