PAI 2010-2011
“The eon is a child playing, tossing {dice}; the kingdom is the Child’s” Heraclites
P. Kasda, "The kingdom is the Child's", mixed media, Athens 2010
Text by Polyxene Kasda
from her intervention, in the inauguration of the PAI 2010 collection,
in the Municipal Center of Samothrace, Nicolaos Fardis, on the 22nd August 2010.
Mythological foundation PAI 2010
“The accident reveals the essence” Aristotle.
Crisis, spiritual crisis, sheds light on the illusion of homogeneity, revealing the hiatus in the fabric of spacetime as we slide from the palm of familiarity in the abyss of our archetypal roots, to integrate with primordial constituents, our broken memory. At this crucial point, eternity, the archetypal PAI, reveals itself in time, autonomously, as an a priori dispersive structure, fusing our present with our ever young, through continuous rejuvenations, past.
Pai is a psychological organ deep in the human body; it is a law of human nature which contrives us to perform acts leading to self knowledge; acts of culture. As a 'bordeline phenomenon', its function depends on our connection with the past; its malfunction leads, according to C. Jung, to the destruction of our conscious mind by its unconscious content as we are left, rootless, prone to any external suggestion.
In 1994, I was convinced of the truth of this psychic cornerstone which had led me, then, in spaceless PAI’s fractal space in Crete, Arcadia, Samothrace and Thebes.
The sacred sites of Greece are the concrete fields of the unreachable concepts of the soul; fascinating self-revealing riddles. Our aim here is to restore the ontological value of our land that belongs to those 'matters of the soul' that drive us out of our skin and lead us to our creative destiny..
This was the time when the foundations of the present project were set. The name PAI was the beginning/ arche of this trial adventure that inspired so many good artists to dedicate their precious works to this cause, creating an international pinacotheque of world reference on the 'Island of the Gods'. They were attracted in the fields of the word Pai, as if by the legendary Heraklia Stone which transmitted its magnetic power to the iron rings of the initiates and they, in turn, transmitted to the others the enthusiasm of the Stone; the Spirit of the age, to which, according to Socrates, poets are first exposed.
"The aeon is a child {pai} playing’, vertical, metaphysical idea, which, passing from spacelessness into the insufficiencies of spacetime, threw our soul from the ‘biological horizon’ into the fields of magic, here, in the Island of the Cabirian Mysteries, where Alexander al Acbar was conceived; the PAI who founded the Hellenistic cornerstone of the present age, where like children, we play with the contents of the culture of all civilizations, of all ages.
As my friend, writer, anthropologist, Vasile Avram, who has departed in the other floor of the world, wrote, in his article “Primordial Space”, referring to Samothrace: “a strange island rising from the sea, like a gigantic granite; sovereign breath of Gaia who looks, in her pieces, for a place that is ready for a new world beginning”.
We thank all the artists participating in the PAI 2010, EPOFE collection :
Eozen Agopian (Armenia/Grece);Hakan Akcura (Turkey/Stockholm); Giovanni Alfonsetti (Italia); Giorgio Carluccio {Italy}; Constantin Angelou (Grece); Mirek Antoniewicz (Poland), Caterina Arcuri (Italia); Marea Atkinson (Australia); Dimitra Bourouliti (Grece); Natasha Manolidou{Greece}; Esther Burger (Holland); Mandra Cerrone (Italia);Marina Comandini Pazienza (Italia); Daria Cornea (Romania); Giselle Diaz Campagna (Puerto Rico); Filli Cusenza(Italia); Silvia De Gennaro (Italia); Dellavilla (France); Danilo De Mitri (Italia); Giulio De Mitri (Italia); Irene Domingez (France); Alexis Duque (Colombia); Mahnaz Dustikhah (France); Piero Ferroglia (Italia); Fosca (italia);Marie-Pierre Legrand (France); Cinzia Fresia (Italia); Polyxene Kasda (Greece); Hilda Kelekian (Lebanon);Lena Kelekian (Lebanon);Hagop Sulahian (Lebanon); Angelika Korovessi (Grece); Barbara Lichtman (USA); Maria Luisa Imperiali (Italia); Elisa Laraia (Italia);Margherita Levo Rosenberg (Italia); Pam Longobardi (USA); Dario Manco (Italia); Andrea Mattiello (Italia); JB Michaux (France) ; Miron Milio (Croazia), Katerina Mourati (Greece); Juan Negroni (Puerto Rico); Antonis Papantoniou/Vim Viva (Greece); Maria Pesmazoglou (Greece); Kevin Samiento Navarro (Colombia); Gio Sciello (Italia); Angela Spoerl (Germany); Dimitris Strouzakis (Greece); Hagop Sulahian (Lebanon); Georges Syrakis (Greece); Vera Tataro (Tsech Republic); Dev Udaiyan (India/England); Masaki Yada (UK); Eva Vereeva (Latvia);Virginia Videa (Romania); Marilena Vita (Italia); Xene (Egypt/Grece);Marjolein Wortmann (Germania); Gheorghe Zaharia (Romania); Annee Kelly{Australia}; Takis Alexiou {Greece}.
The children participating in the installation dedicated to the return of the storks:
Achilleas Papantoniou; Odysseas Papantoniou; Joziana Papada, Jason Angelou, Dora Riga, Antonis Panayotis Lampeas e Ayshe-Mira Yashin .
And all the local artists who have exhibited their works all over the Chora of Samothrace.
http://blip.tv/open-flux/pai-2010-limited-documentation-4234974
http://polyxenekasda.blogspot.com/2010/04/polyxene-kasda-project-myth-network.html
