New call for participation 2010 Alexandroupolis-Samothrace

ΠAI

"The eon is a child playing,

tossing dice;

the kingdom is the Child's"

Heraclite's saying seems to encapsulate the new awareness of our age, in which, like children, we play with all cultural landscapes and information from all ages and fields, tossing with configurations, probabilities and open possibilities

The word ΠAI, meaning Child, is inscribed on many sacred items in the museum of Samothrace. The Cabirian mysteries that were taking place there, like the Eleusinian ones, were consumated with the birth of the Child.
In the winged dimension of our space age, where all cultures meet and crash, PAI, the archetypal Child, seems to be the unageing nucleus behind all cultural diversities and styles.

The Union of Cultural Associations of Evros EPOFE has decided to create an international cultural arch dedicated to this unifying foundation stone, in Samothrace, the Child’s island in order to restore the ontological value of this mythical site

The selected works will remain in the permanent collection of the Municipalities of Alexandroupolis and Samothrace. The artists will receive an official letter indicating the permanent location of their art work.
A catalogue will be issued in the lapse of a year from our exhibition on the 24th of August 2010.

Procedure
-1st of January – 22nd of June 2010
Please send an image of your work with a very short biographical note to polykasda@gmail.com
- After getting the final OK, please send the work, by simple post, to
Katerina Kaltsou, EPOFE Plateia Polytechniou, Alexandroupoli, PC 68100, Greece
The works should be light, sent in envelopes or rolls. They will be framed, when needed, by the local municipality
- The deadline for the arrival of the works, in Alexandroupolis, is the 9th of July 2010

curators of the exhibition
Polyxene Kasda, Artist member of IAA UNESCO, essayist, Athens
Dores Sacquegna, Director of Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy
Pierre Chirouze, President of the artistic association K-Droz, Paris

Organization
Katerina Kaltsou, Secretary of the Union of cultural associations of Evros, editor of the newspaper the Citizen of Thrace

Complementary installation project for Children

Ciconia Ciconia come back

Children of the world are invited to create fantastic birds which will hang from the branches of the trees around the international exhibition PAI in Samothrace
This installation is dedicated to the Storks; the bird whose presence is a pointer to the health of the ecosystem
Storks have disappeared from the island
Their come back would mean health, good luck and fertility.
In international folklore, Storks are represented carrying the new born babies
The image of the Stork carrying the Child stands for the Cabiros/father with Pai/Child; dyad venerated in the Cabeirian mysteries of Thebes and Samothrace.
The Children installation will be included in the catalogue of PAI "The eon is a child playing"

Procedure:
The fantastic birds must be sent to
Katerina Kaltsou, EPOFE Plateia Polytechniou, Alexandroupoli, PC 68100, Greece
until the end of June2010