Orizontas Gegonoton is organizing a two-day Symposium titled “Aspects of Independent Artistic Creation in Greece today”. 
Our aim is to develop a meaningful dialogue between all participants that can provide not only the appropriate feedback to the present and future discourse, but also contribute to developments in the areas of Culture, Education and the Arts.
Our incentive is to assess the group’s ten-year active participation in the art scene and present and highlight aspects of the independent visual arts in Greece today, exploring their potential of reference and representation abroad.

The symposium will be held in April 2018, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, with the participation of artists, art education institutes and independent art groups, organisations and institutions, the scientific and teaching staff of Secondary and Higher Education, academics and researchers in the fields of Art, Education, Philosophy, Sociology and the Humanities.
Contributions will be in the form of 15-minute presentations or posters or workshops, leading to fruitful interventions and constructive conversation.

Representative topics:
- Aspects of independent artistic expression and gesture.
- Areas of multiple artistic action and their role in the production of culture.
- Independent visual language, its relation to society, and its political-economic dimension.
- Independent Art, curators, collectors, and the Mass Media. The Art market in Greece, past and present.
- Art, education, urban planning and society. Creative learning. Linking culture and education.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published.
Entrance will be free to the public.

Symposium Project Team:
Konstantinos Angelou (visual artist, teacher), Maria Doukaki (visual artist, teacher, author), Tzimis Efthimiou (visual artist, teacher, author), Lydia Margaroni (visual artist), Cleopatra Moursela (visual artist, teacher, coordinator of IEP’s “Arts” unit), Despina Pantazi (visual artist), Konstantinos Stoupathis (museologist, art-conservator), Anna Maria Hadjistephanou (photographer)

Event Horizon
1.n. (Astronomy). A notional boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or other radiation can escape. # (Quantum Physics) The point where time dilates so much that everything happens simultaneously.
2.n. (Culture). An initiative instigated by people coming from the areas of culture and education whose objectives are to disperse art in the everyday life, and look into the contradictions resulting from the transitional era we are going through. # (Societal) A group of people, constantly expanding, consisting of more than 300 visual artists, photographers, architects, sculptors, writers, musicians and others. # (Legal) Non-profit Civic Organization founded in 2007 at Ilia that has organized many projects in Greece and abroad. # (!) Cultural and Art center at 88 Keramikou, Athens.http://blog.orizontasgegonoton.gr/

Contact: 
ORIZONTAS GEGONOTON, 88 Kerameikou Street, Athens
(0030) 697 668 9670 - Tzimis Efthimiou, (0030) 694 425 1408 - Lydia Margaroni, (0030) 698 395 4934 - Despina Pantazi
e-mail: katehaki54@yahoo.gr