Athena Kokoronis Projects

Performance at Movement Research Series Judson Church

2011-02-28T19:03:00.000-08:00

Everybody's Solo is dance work that examines and attempts to find a ways to measure the value of eating, tasting, and gestures.

Portions Of Bartered Gesture Collection

2011-02-22T11:22:00.000-08:00

Digestion Choreography at Mildred's Lane 2010

2011-02-04T08:40:00.000-08:00

Kitchen At Mildred's lane

Director of Entanglement and Co-Founder: J. Morgan Puett

Farm To Table Liason: Monique Milleson

From AntHill Farm

Social Saturday Dinner & Presentation by Fritz Haeg

Photo by Erik Benjamin, Town and Country Fellow

Lulu

Chicken mushroom and rice balls
Photo by: A.L. Steiner

Lacey Wozney and Monique Milleson
Photo by: A.L. Steiner

Pasta being made.
Photo by A.L. Steiner

Works

2011-02-03T19:46:00.000-08:00

Identifying mushrooms

United Rites of the Table Rehearsal 2009

From The Burial. 2007

Andes Post office Collaboration with M. Dellacrosse 2008

Everybody' s Solo

2010-11-07T08:14:00.001-08:00

This month, I will be organizing three, two hour long workshops (one which will be a presentation at Movement Research's Open Performance on November 17th) that build from previous and future barters of gestures. We will study from a library of barterd gestures and of course celebrate what we have in common; having a body, having to eat, and how it can move us. Get in touch with me on Our Goods or contact me directly at Athenakoko@yahoo.com if you want to be in the workshop. If not come and see further development as an audience member Novemeber 17th.

Workshop Schedule

November 11 Splinters and Logs 10-12 OR 1-3 OR 7-9
November 17 Dance Theater Workshop 7:30-9:30
November 21 Splinters&Logs

Splinters&Logs is located at 1027 Grand Street at the corner of Morgan Avenue
Dance Theater Workshop is located at 219 W. 19th Street

Internal Kitchen

2010-10-20T17:27:00.000-07:00

A part of Radical Citizenship:Tutorials, Internal Kitchen was a one on one, day long restaurant in a small room in a house at Governor's Island NY on September 11, 2010.

Citizen Placemat Notes & Meal/Topic

TONGUE SANDWICH (ACCOUNTABILITY)
"not artist"
"human being"
"lost in translation"
>"mapping taste to words"
"microwaved hotdogs"
"free"
"diversity Class-Cooper"
"=600 month"
"On"
"Seeing is Forgetting the name of the thing one sees"
R. Irwin
"running his hand over a race."
APPLE PIE (VALUE)
"Seeds saving"
"Full Cycle"
"Tongue is the thing you can move in private"
"80-100 week"
APPLE PIE (VALUE)
"3-4 times"
"in 2 months"
"lasagna"
"barely have time"
"earned weight"
"5-6 times"
-"Falafel"
-"pizza"
-"Mexican food"
-
"not to much"
"no time to eat"
"eat city"
"chicken"
>
"relish salad"
"Comfort. Bagels with cream cheese"
"Belonging"
"Where you could go"
"How can you love food when every single maga-zine is telling you not to?"
"Most baby bottle"
"Darkest"
APPLE PIE (VALUE)
"Everybody"
"5 Senses"
"Could taste erase war?"
"Feeling"
"Seeing"
"granola"
"peanut butter"
carrots"
"ice cream"
"Broccoli"
"ranch dressing"
"often"
"Everyday"
"Fit"
"citizenship"
"being"
"food"
-"Rochester"
x"Internal"
-"personal preference"
-"feeling"
"non-judgmental"
APPLE PIE (VALUE)
"university setting"
"everyday"
-"nutritionist"
"time"
"buying"
-"supermarket"

A Testimonial

" I enjoy this place, At first I was a little stressed. but after pie and talk I relaxed. Thanks. "

Everybody' s Solo For Eating Class

2010-05-06T07:28:00.000-07:00

Tradeschool

After Dinner

2010-03-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

Moving Appetite at Trade School Tonight 6:30ish

2010-02-28T09:04:00.001-08:00

This will be the last of the weekly Eating Classes held at Trade School (139 Norfolk St.)
There are still quite a few seats remaining. Click here to register.

If you can't make it, These are some notes of what to /have expect/ed:

A series of questions answered in writing in the form of a paragraph or in a list.
MEMORY/RECOLLECTION/ORGANIZATION

Explain the inside of your refrigerator?
What is on your kitchen table or eating surface?

What were the last food stores you remember shopping at?
What did you get there? Can you recall list (s)?
Could you not find something you were looking for?

What did you make or do with the food you bought from that place?

Describe what you look for in going to a restaurant?
What was the last restaurant (s) you ate at?
Where was it?

Did you eat with someone or were you solo?
What did you eat?
Was there music in the restaurant?
Describe your server's demeanor?
Describe the experience?

After all of the questions are answered. Everyone's cards will be gathered, shuffled and redistributed. We will all read each other's answers out of order.

VISION/ TASTE

Partnering up, one person observes while another person eats and let's their body reacts to the taste of foods they are given to eat.
The observer takes notes on movement of the eater. They translate the movement/experience of the eater.

First Taste and Accidental Pornographies

2010-02-25T21:34:00.000-08:00

Sweetness

2010-02-16T07:29:00.000-08:00

"Everyone's experience ought to in some way be connected with everyone's love, whatever that is." Allen Kaprow

On February 14th, The second Eating Class at TradeSchool happened. We all made toffee together. The recipe calls for equal parts of chocolate, honey, sugar, and butter. Those ingredients were put in a pot over a medium-low heat, and stirred so that the contents melted into eachother. Everyone took turns stirring (making sure not to burn the bottom) until the small bubbles started to pop. Once the bubbles started, We stirred for another 5 or so minutes. (The more you stir after the bubbles begin, the harder the toffee will be. The less you stir the more soft.) Ours came out chewy. After the stirring was done, the toffee was poured onto a cool lightly greased surface.

The toffee cooled and while it did we ate soup. By the time we were done soup, The toffee was cooled enough to cut into pieces, and sample what we did together while wrapping what we didn't eat in foil.

We Were Eating Class

2010-02-09T20:08:00.000-08:00

Polenta: The Gesture. The Ways Slow Goes

2010-02-01T07:23:00.000-08:00

Polenta or mush is a delicious dish made from the long and constant stirring of many grains of (nowadays) corn. The identity of some regions in Italy could be deciphered by the size of the grains of cornmeal they cooked with. "Polenta: The Gesture. The Ways Slow Goes" is a class that will be presented February 7th at Tradeschool (139 Norfolk). A presentation and discussion while stirring will look at how gestures identify the times before us the times we are in presently. Excerpts of Italian film maker, Ermanno Olmi's work, The Tree of the Wooden Clogs will be shown, and a short (out loud) reading from Michel de Certeau/Luce Giard/Pierre Mayol's: The Practice of Everyday Life Volume II will be exercised. The class will end with eating what we've made.

"Everybody's Solo" Starts January 24th 2010

2010-01-17T19:17:00.001-08:00

Everybody's Solo is the name of a project I will begin January 24th in conjunction with Our Goods launching Trade School at 139 Norfolk Street. There, "Everybody's Solo" will develop by barter. I will conduct Eating classes (at Trade School) in exchange for physical gestures and/or pieces of movement to build a dance-work with. Eating Class is about our appetite. In a group effort, we will meditate what our appetites have to do with everything else. Our appetites will move this class to action.
Eating Class will take place every Sunday at 6 through February.

More class details:
Polenta. The Gesture. The Ways Slow Goes February 7, 6pm
Candy Circle Experimentation and Food for the HeartFebruary 14, 6:30
First Taste with speaker, Helen Costa RN Lactation Consultant and Accidental Pornographies with Mary Walling Blackburn February 21, 6:00
Moving AppetiteFebruary 28, 6:30

"Life is a combination of Magic and Pasta" F. Fellini

2009-12-04T23:37:00.001-08:00

Making a Table With a Physical Conversation

2009-11-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

From Rehearsal at the Cave October 21 See more images here.

In Washington Square Park. (Below At the Middle)

2009-10-12T20:52:00.000-07:00

Below is the unseen, underneath, history, mycellium...

StrataSpore will begin to workshop for A site specific performance in Movement Research at the Judson Church Series; November 2, 2009

The Oldest living tree in Manhattan CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Have you hugged yr tree lately?

2009-09-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

Rehearsal:

We are working with what we have. We're alive. Being trees but knowing we are not at all trees . What is the significance of trees? How do we affect a mycellic network below (both the trees and us) together?

Above are spores, weather, chance, improvisation..

Above At The Middle was a performance for the Conversations at the Flea. Curated by Nina Winthrop Moderated by Tere O'Conner

Driving Thoughts

2009-08-21T21:15:00.000-07:00

Not that everyday doesn't have the potential to be a mushroom day, but it's just that on some days there's a better chance of visibility (time has something to do with it.) I think it had rained in Beach Lake earlier in the Morning. Jaquel and I rode by car. On the way to Mildred's Lane I was looking up and in the trees I saw a mushroom (identified as a Climacodon Septentrionale or, common name: North Tooth). Jaquel smoothly backed up three trees, and up above, in the heart of a maple (sugar), a brain-like, white/ish mushroom signalled. Getting back into the car after photographing it with the camera on my computer, we proceeded to work I tend to think about mushrooms when I am in a car. I pan the trees, the ground, the sky. Attuning to elements through touch. Feeling the weather. Moving along into it. It carries affect. Moving along in the car, I was dropped off along the middle of the wooded drive. I have had a spot all summer long that I watched and continuously find Black Trumpet mushrooms. They like the Shag bark Hickory trees and there are many. This wooded area had been logged the summer before and the fallen trees in the forest now allow for bigger diffused pockets of light to touch the ground. The ground was wet, the air moist, the Black Trumpets present this morning. This particular spot is flat, with a gentle, subtly higher ground on both sides of the patch. I gathered mushrooms into the straw hat I was using for a container. I moved through the woods along this new habitual path my body seems to follow....

Orange Alerts

2009-08-09T20:19:00.000-07:00

How do our appetites affect the way we move?
( food or poison?)

(Poisonous food?)

STRATA SPORE

2009-04-30T22:02:00.000-07:00

biG CAAK(E*)

http://strataspore.ning.com/

A Project by biG CAAKe

for the iLAND 2009 Collaborative Creative Residency Program

biG CAAKe is an interdisciplinary collaboration team united in re-imagining space,

material and situation for the purpose of initiating playful engagements with

and understandings of urban systems and living.

“Scientists have discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on earth, an individual

mightier than the blue whale, the giant sequoia tree or such past pretenders to size supremacy as the

dinosaur.…the finding will force biologists to rethink their assumptions about what constitutes an individual,

a fundamental problem in the study of the natural world and its ecosystems. Scientists normally

view a single organism as something bound by a type of skin, whether of animal flesh or plant cellulose.

But fungi grow as a network of cells and threadlike elements whose boundaries are not always clear.”

(The New York Times April 2, 1992)

“It’s a limitation to be bound by the three dimensional body. So, reconfigure the three dimensional body into a cellular body -- instead of thinking Deborah Hay, I think 384 trillion cells at once.”

- Deborah Hay

When the largest and oldest living organism known surfaces, it manifests as a delicate mushroom no

bigger than the palm of a hand. Inspired by rhizome networks as tools for bioremediation, a metaphor

for the layers of unseen infrastructure below our feet, and a collaborative niche upon which to focus

a collective narrative, we propose a multifaceted interactive research project that will culminate in

events combining dance, education, environmental remediation and architecture

StrataSpore is a platform for collective knowledge about local NYC ecosystems and its potential for

applications in urban sustainability. The platform will cultivate “spores” of knowledge by combining

elements of task/performance-based art, experiential learning, and experimental design practice that

implements a dialogue about unseen, natural and man-made systems as sites for restorative sustainability

applications. Our focus will be directed to the mushroom, and its potential for changing the

ecology within a landscape. We invite communities and individuals to partake (with CAAKe) in a multidisciplinary

practice of visualization and re-interpretation of natural systems (mycology) as models for

community engagement. Based on the connective function and form of mushroom ecology, StrataSpore will harness local fungi

as a model for engagement and re-interpretation of living in urban spaces.

Above the Table , At the Middle , Below the Table/Not Yr. Typical PE CLASS

2009-03-30T20:12:00.000-07:00

The University of Trash: Free Skool

On Saturday, May 23, 4 of us visited your center. While there, we encountered 3 vibrant, friendly, fun-loving young adults making pasta. Although we still don't know the connection between that and your "trash" exhibit, my friend joined them in their project, and subsequent lesson in dance movements relating to the bodily movements of making fresh pasta.
Following are some pictures. If these people are still coming to your museum, please pass these photos on to them. I'm sure they would enjoy seeing them. Thank you. Anita King

This is not your typical physical education class. Competition will be set aside along with ugly gym uniforms, and getting picked last. We will consider our bodies to be building materials for imagination and reinterpretation. Through a series of collaborative and invigorating exercises, we will meditate our own physical structure within a shared physical landscape. We will consider the space we occupy, and imagine our bodies to be support structures or building blocks that work collectively rather than opposing. Classes will run from May 21- 25 at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City in part Of Nils Norman and Michael Cataladi's project, University of Trash 2:30-4:30 pm

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www.universityoftrash.org/

Physical Education Plan in progress

(Some points for discussion in random order)

(Chopsticks as appendages) Beans

The body is filled with bones below gravity . ( Exhibiting a test of body positions that stretch out tired bones.) Re-orientation of table legs so they become a surface

Working with others to find connecting points

Head to Head connecting
Birth marks as starting points for dialogs
Kneading and rolling. (Pasta making) How does one use their body in the making of a meal?
The voice, the conversation, and the stomach

How to pick a live body up?

Lumbar Spine

Make dough

Play dough

The body bending into sections. Bending from the hips.
Accessing or feeling the ground

(BELOW)

For the Panels

2009-03-26T17:26:00.000-07:00

United Rites Of The Table (In Parts)

2009-01-22T20:40:00.000-08:00

In Collaboration with Giada Alazraki, Preston Burger, Paula Chaves, Dora Koimtzi, Ely Levin, Yuko Mitsuishi & Andrew Weeks

Part I Newspaper Event ( A. Knowles 1965)

Part II Eating

Part III Digestion and Emancipating

Part IV The Table Turning and Serving Soup

The piece began with my desire to understand current events in the world. I started to stack newspapers I'd read in the corner of a room, and as the stack aged and got taller they reminded me of a spine. At the time, I was working with an elderly woman who could not walk very much and didn't like to eat. And when she did eat, she couldn't balance the food very well on her fork. One of the articles I had read was about a food crisis in Haiti. There, people were storming the palace gates, and someone was quoted as saying, "When people are hungry, that's when we get angry." I think of these events when I think of how this piece began to evolve. These specific narratives are lost because their meanings are still in progress. In my collaboration with dancers and musicians, we have begun to combine our stories and test our differences for finding a new common language for rituals of exchanging that take place at and around the table. We have no set dialogue as yet.

Left: Ely Levin Right: Andrew Weeks

Stretching Bones

This video shows part of the making of the broth that was served in "United Rites of the Table".

In it: a part of the vertabrae, scapulas, and sacrum of the pig from New Year's, The breastbone of the Christmas turkey, legs of a chicken, a carrot, a parsnip, citrus, and salt.

Pressure Points (2008)

2009-01-19T00:03:00.000-08:00

Pressure Points was a collaboration with Andrew Weeks and Natalie Heller. We were extracting sounds from an creaky flight of steps in an old tenement building in the Lower East Side (specifically, ABC NO RIO for their Ides of March Biennial). A series of dances were performed on the steps. The sounds rather than the visuals of our movements were recorded. We presented to the public a sound piece played from 3 boom boxes that suspended from the ceiling above the stair case. Visitors were invited to sit on the steps and listen to a looped, non-linear narrative of action.

The Burial

2009-01-14T20:22:00.000-08:00

Performed by Gail Accardi, Jorge Colombo, Sally Im, Lucca Leopardo-Brunt, and myself. The Burial was was presented at an eco-festival at Socrates Sculpture Park in September of 2007. The Burial was a reaction to being involved in a war over natural resources. The Kinks' song Well-Respected Man plays while Gap Models act bored. they listen, dance, and pose for the photographer. In one part, a drumming solider plays along with the boy on the violin, to the song, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" Honey Cakes travel to the platform by Gap Models, are placed on the record player, lowered down on the record player, replaced back in the basket, and then are shared with the audience. Honey cakes in the Myth of Trophonious were gifts given to the two snakes which guarded the entrance of Trophonious' cave. Once the snakes were appeased. Trophonious would offer his cures and prophetic visions for the future.

The Burial was inspired by "The Death of Hip", a Diggers performance from 1969

Other photos by Jorge Colombo here: http://www.jorgecolombo.com/burial

Eating/Maps

2009-01-12T09:07:00.000-08:00

Spreads & Dips

The Drawing Table

"The Drawing Table" took place in May 2007. In this event, drawing students from Columbia were invited to share in an end of the year party at the Ramphouse. The afternoon involved them purchasing food en route. On arriving, their contribution was arranged into an edible still life. The still life changed as they consumed it.

Nudes and Foods

www.jorgecolombo.com/nf

(video link)

January 24, 2006 : 24 More at the GWB Ramphouse

2009-01-12T08:36:00.000-08:00

24 More was a close collaboration with Kate Shearman, Amanda Matles, Ely Levin, Emilie Stark-Menning, Beatrice Barbeleschi, Mike Cataldi, and Chuck Miller. 24 More was a 5 course meal presented on my 25th birthday. Goethe's story, The Sorrows of Young Werther was incorporated into the piece. 5 courses were served throughout the evening, A 24 layer cake followed.
The kitchen and hallway was projected into the dining room
Dancing and serving here: Kate, Emilie, and Bici
Looking in the kitchen from dining room (Photo by J. Colombo)
A new apron for each course.

Kitchen as a lab: Mike flipping pancakes, Ely playing cast iron, Amanda on keyboard.

Mildred's Lane

2009-01-11T23:22:00.000-08:00

Lovin the Land: Getting to Mildred's Lane

This is a series of photographs made from 2004- 2005. I was living and working as an artist in residence at Mildred's Lane. During this time, I found inspiration in photography work that was "staged". These photographs are "staged" moments from tasks performed in the landscape. The tasks were interpreted in part to help maintain the land. I was allowing the work to help determine or "stage" the photo. These photographs document the earlier states of interiors and exteriors at Mildred's Lane. See www.mildredslane.com or www.jmorganpuett.com to see some of the latest architectural progress there.

Free Pesto: The garden peaked, and the 10 basil plants needed to be utilized. I grounded the plants into pesto for two afternoons.

Cutting Back: Briefly after moving to Mildred's Lane, I came down with a fever, and sore throat. I vowed to give up cigarettes, at least cut back.

Pumpkin Cushion: I placed straw under the unripe pumpkin to prevent it from turning mushy laying on the dirt.

Making Ways: I was living in a house, (the Mildred House). There was no running water or plumbing. Therefore the outhouse was used often. When the leaves began to fall, I would rake the trail that led from the house to the outhouse.

Rain Collecting: An afternoon shower, Teacups collect water.

Mildred Debris: This is the back of the Mildred House. I took an afternoon to clean up some old debris which felt as if it had been there for ages.

Garden Rescue: The weather report called for the first frost of the season. Outdoor plants were brought indoors.Some Re-potting: Plants/herbs brought indoors were taken outdoors to be transplanted into pots for a life indoors for the winter.

Room Clean: Grey Rabbit's bedroom getting organized.

Closing Garden: The black cover was pulled over the garden bed for the winter.

Insulating Mildred House: A layer of plastic was tacked to the screens to block out the cold drafts.

Music in the Mildred House: I was making a mix tape.

Reading: In the Mildred House, there was no television.

Chopping Wood: Here, wood is split for kindling.

Burning Trash: old scrap pieces of wood were burned here.

Dish System: Water would be hauled to the Mildred House, and dishes would be washed within a basin, and rinsed over a dry sink.

Laying Traction: Straw was spread over the ground where cars would park. This was to give the wheels some traction when the snow came.

Grocery Transport: When the snow came so heavily, that cars could not make it through the trail, I resorted to walking and using a sled to transport groceries and such.

Garden Security: The following spring, I made a canopy of netting to prevent varmints from eating the young veggies.

Green Tomatoes: To counter the infestation of juice sucking stinkbugs, I harvested the tomatoes prematurely, and made pickles out of them.

BreadWorkShop With Leyna Noel

2009-01-11T21:53:00.000-08:00

A Supper Experiment conceived by Athena Kokoronis with Leyna Noel and diners. Melodies Lilted as bread rose, and a Japanese meal was shared.

"Cooling Test I"

2009-01-08T17:25:00.000-08:00

Socrates Sculpture Park, 2007

Food Images

2009-01-07T21:46:00.000-08:00

A late summer course of goat meatballs and rabbit in a stew with white wine. There was a down pour of rain before this dinner. The table cloth was still soaking wet.
In Andes, New York: Each day M. Dellacrosse and myself created window displays bearing food we would prepare in her gallery/home project. In this image, dough rises for bread.

Pizza party on the fire.

Raviolis

Mildred's Lane

Stuffed grape leaves

Daria cake prototype

Jorge Colombo, Dinner Guest

Chocolate cake