Europe Timespace

The 3rd X-Dream Festival begins with the exhibition entitled "Europe Timespace" on Friday, 2 of December 2011 at 19:30.

Culture and art, as an integral part of it, can create the conditions for analysis and criticism at times where complex thought tries to balance somewhere between chaos and nothing. Europe and the concept of timespace constitute real elements of our hypothetical and subjective consciousness as citizens of today. The timespace is independent of the observer. Nevertheless, for the description of natural phenomena, each observer chooses a suitable coordinate system. Only timespace, as a unified concept, which is mathematically space of Minkowski, is absolute, while components of space and time are aspects dependent of the observer (reference system). But in life, there is no absolute.

The time-space continuum includes four dimensions: three dimensions of space and one of time. A point in timespace is called an event (γεγονός). Each event is determined by four coordinates (ct, x, y, z), the physical meaning of which depends on which coordinate system we use to describe the timespace. Examples of such events are the explosion of a star or hitting a drum, or a crisis in economy or even a crisis in values.

In times of crisis, where insecurity, fear, create conditions of defensive aggression we suggest the exhibition Europe –Timespace, where everything is done and evaluated through the present. A positioning through critical thinking for the I, us through Europe of today. Artists from Europe, specifically the Balkans, France, Germany, Cyprus and neighboring countries position themselves through digital media. Coordinates of this positioning are humour, absurdity, critical mood and play. With these we can talk visually about what is called the curvature of time in physics, and extricate from classical mechanics the gravitational field, the Euclidean geometry. This means that gravity can affect light; this means a lot for our future.

An exhibition as a substance and simplicity exercise. An exercise where play is a dominant element but at the same time hope itself.

Curator: Achilleas Kentonis

Opening Hours
Monday – Thursday: 10:00 - 17:00
Friday: 10:00 - 20:00