{"id":210,"date":"2020-06-08T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/societa.network.today\/en\/?post_type=programmes&#038;p=210"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:19:31","slug":"island-hopping-sterna-art-project","status":"publish","type":"programmes","link":"https:\/\/societadelleapi.org\/en\/programmes\/island-hopping-sterna-art-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Hopping\u2014Sterna Art project"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-210","programmes","type-programmes","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"single-programmes-project-project-title":"Sterna Organization \u2014 Island Hopping \u2014 Sterna Art project","single-programmes-project-title":"Island Hopping \u2014 Sterna Art project 2019\u2028","single-programmes-guest-project":["yes"],"single-programmes-type":5,"single-programmes-artist":"","single-programmes-city":"Kastellorizo ","single-programmes-start":"20190809","single-programmes-end":"20190819","single-programmes-display-day":"yes","single-programmes-thumbnail-image":211,"single-programmes-main-image":211,"single-programmes-caption":"","single-programmes-content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"single-programmes-content-image-layout","single-programmes-content-image":245,"single-programmes-content-caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"single-programmes-content-text-layout","single-art-support-content-text":"From August 9th to 19th, 2019, the Societ\u00e0 delle Api, a non-profit organization founded by Silvia Fiorucci, hosted an exhibition as part of \u201cIsland Hopping\u201d\u2014Sterna Art project 2019 at <strong>Casa dell\u2019Olivo<\/strong> in <strong>Katellorizo<\/strong> (GR).\r\n\r\nThe definition of \u201cisland hopping\u201d is to cross a sea by means of several brief journeys between islands instead of a single long crossing to the final destination. Originally, the term denoted an ocean\u2019s passage by mammals, with specific references to how animals crossed the Caribbean and reached the American continent. In our time, however, island hopping is linked to summer vacations on more than one island. The notion of migration inherent in the term, and specifically the breaking up of migration into short sections until the final destination, has evolved today into going from one place to another without necessarily having a final destination\u2014or, at least, the destination is not particularly important.\r\n\r\nThe Sterna organization brought together a team of four visual artists who have already spent time on Nisyros. They studied its materials, codifying and incorporating them into their work according to each one\u2019s personal style and depending on their subjects. After a two-week stay on the island to collect the materials they needed for the journey, they embarked on two ships for another three weeks of island hopping to the south, stopping over at Tilos, Symi, Rhodes, Kastellorizo.\r\n\r\nThey carried with them \u201ctrademark\u201d local materials: pumice stone, sulphur, agramittha (a kind of nut), and thermal water, which are ritualistically offered as gifts to the islands linked to Nisyros by regular boat connections. On the other hand, what pushes these artists, amidst the tourist high season, to create something of no apparent commercial value? What kind of good is contemporary art, and how does it relate to tourism? In a special time when art and tourism are the mainstays of Greek production, what is the role of artists and why are they producing during a season designated as a time to rest and consume?\r\n\r\nWhat was attempted here in a way was a kind of \u201cbranding\u201d of artistic production while traveling from place to place; a process that involved the creation of a unique name or image for contemporary visual art. The \u201ctourists-consumers\u201d were recipients of a constant artistic process. This \u201cbranding\u201d concerned the artists themselves and their work, but also Sterna; after all, a brand is the essence of the unique personal experience of each of us.\r\n\r\nThe journey started from Nisyros with the intention of disseminating the people, the materials, the experiences, and the processes that took place on the island, the ferries and the local speedboat, the religious festivals and the cultural events that the participants ran into; but also the squares and the beaches until their arrival to Kastellorizo and their return to Athens (where they live). The emphasis was on materiality, the special geography of remote islands, the necessities, the interests, the scheduled itineraries in high season, the \u201ctribes\u201d of nomads, visitors, etc.\r\n\r\nUltimately, how can the energy from the volcano be conveyed without an explosion?\r\n\r\n<strong>Participants<\/strong>: Dora Economou, Agnieszka Gratza, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Paky Vlassopoulou\r\n\r\n<strong>Artistic director<\/strong>: Greg Haji Joannides\r\n\r\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Nisyros, Tilos, Symi, Rhodes, Kastellorizo\r\n\r\n<strong>Sterna<\/strong>, founded in 2014 by artist Greg Haji Joannides, is an interdisciplinary non-profit organization whose purpose is to foster and nurture the creative expression of artists while challenging perceptions of what constitutes contemporary visual culture. The Sterna Art Project is designed as an active site, a space for artists to converge through its residency programs, workshops, meetings and exhibitions throughout the whole year in various spaces around the island. The organization places a strong emphasis on the location of the residency in Nisyros and works actively to make a compelling connection between the resident artists and the island, its residents and the existing cultural events.\r\n\r\nThe project is organized by Sterna organization in collaboration with the Municipality of the Nisyrians. With the support of: \u039d\u0395\u039f\u039d organization for Culture and Development; Partner for Kastellorizo: La Societ\u00e0 delle Api.\r\n\r\nInfo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sterna.com.gr\/\">www.sterna.com.gr<\/a>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"single-programmes-content-image-layout","single-programmes-content-image":217,"single-programmes-content-caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"single-programmes-content-image-layout","single-programmes-content-image":227,"single-programmes-content-caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"single-programmes-content-image-layout","single-programmes-content-image":215,"single-programmes-content-caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"single-programmes-content-image-layout","single-programmes-content-image":229,"single-programmes-content-caption":""}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Island Hopping\u2014Sterna Art project - La Societ\u00e0 delle Api<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The definition of island hopping is to cross a sea by means of several brief journeys between islands instead of a single long crossing to the final destination\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/societadelleapi.org\/en\/programmes\/island-hopping-sterna-art-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Island Hopping\u2014Sterna Art project - 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