Vouvoula SKOURA was born in Thessaloniki, Greece.
She studied Graphic Arts at the Athens Technology Institute [A.T.I.].
She lived in London during the Greek dictatorship.
She attended courses in Art History [1970] and a graduate course in computer graphics for video at Middlesex Polytechnic [1988]
For many years, she has been involved with experimental multimedia photographic techniques.
Her works in film and video have been presented at international festivals and universities in over fifty cities including Athens, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Brussels, Cetinje (Montenegro), Chania, Cracow, Delphi, Ghent, Frankfurt, Kassel, Leeds, London, Naples, Patras, Pristina (Kosovo), Sao Paulo, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tampere, Thessaloniki and others.
Vouvoula SKOURA has collaborated with Hellenic Ministry of Culture*, with MEGARON – The Athens Concert Hall**, the Municipal Regional Theatre of Thessaly, the Municipal Regional Theatre of Patras, and other cultural organizations including the AploTheatre, Attis Theatre, Fournos – Centre for digital culture, Patras Cultural Capital of Europe and KAM –Centre of Mediterranean Architecture.
Her cooperation with the theatre critic Eleni Varopoulou have been featured at the Argos Festival and the Summer Academy of the National Theatre, and also include the video Philoctetes: the wound, a multimedia play entitled Tyfo performed at the Aplo Theatre, The Mothers: Homage to Brecht, etc.
Her films Inner Migration (1984) and Skoria Fotos (1989) were both commended at the Drama Short Film Festival, Greece.
Her video Black Moon took First Prize in the Athens Video Art Competition, 1998. ETEL ADNAN: Words in exile (2008) won the Greek Film Centre Award at the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The Greek Graphic Designers Association awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
She studied Graphic Arts at the Athens Technology Institute [A.T.I.].
She lived in London during the Greek dictatorship.
She attended courses in Art History [1970] and a graduate course in computer graphics for video at Middlesex Polytechnic [1988]
For many years, she has been involved with experimental multimedia photographic techniques.
Her works in film and video have been presented at international festivals and universities in over fifty cities including Athens, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Brussels, Cetinje (Montenegro), Chania, Cracow, Delphi, Ghent, Frankfurt, Kassel, Leeds, London, Naples, Patras, Pristina (Kosovo), Sao Paulo, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tampere, Thessaloniki and others.
Vouvoula SKOURA has collaborated with Hellenic Ministry of Culture*, with MEGARON – The Athens Concert Hall**, the Municipal Regional Theatre of Thessaly, the Municipal Regional Theatre of Patras, and other cultural organizations including the AploTheatre, Attis Theatre, Fournos – Centre for digital culture, Patras Cultural Capital of Europe and KAM –Centre of Mediterranean Architecture.
Her cooperation with the theatre critic Eleni Varopoulou have been featured at the Argos Festival and the Summer Academy of the National Theatre, and also include the video Philoctetes: the wound, a multimedia play entitled Tyfo performed at the Aplo Theatre, The Mothers: Homage to Brecht, etc.
Her films Inner Migration (1984) and Skoria Fotos (1989) were both commended at the Drama Short Film Festival, Greece.
Her video Black Moon took First Prize in the Athens Video Art Competition, 1998. ETEL ADNAN: Words in exile (2008) won the Greek Film Centre Award at the 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The Greek Graphic Designers Association awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
Tributes to her work have been staged by:
-AGON 5th International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area, 2004, Athens, Greece
-Platgforma Video '05, 2005, Athens, Greece -The European Animation Center, 2006, Athens, Greece -PHOTOMETRIA, Ioannina 2012, Greece *2000. YORGOS SEFERIS – poet and citizen. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture working group for the Seferis centenary. Five videos for a multimedia exhibition were shown at a number of art festivals. 2010. WATER ON TABLE. Homage to Odysseas Elytis. ** A TRAVEL FROM CYTHERA TO ETERNITY A video special for Eleni Karaindrouʼs music for films. Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels To mark the Greek Presidency of the European Union. Videos in
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Nερό στο Τραπέζι / Water on Table (2010) http://vimeo.com/channels/matchframe/28850886 Παράθυρα στις Πόλεις / Windows in cities (2009) www.youtube.com/watch?v=teZCzTLAP7M The Greek Graphic Designers Association awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNajDwxXSfI ETEL ADNAN Words in Exile / trailer [2008] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQMITDAH_Ak THE FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY [2008] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6B8uKD7qew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY8F7La8Yio IN MEMORY OF…[2008-2012] F i lms / v i d e o s / I n s t a l l a t i o n s
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NIKI MARANGOU: Water Surfaces Video-Installation Art/European Animation Center, Athens Homage to Niki Marangou Athens / Thessaloniki / Nicosia / Berlin 2012 NIKI MARANGOU: Water Surfaces Video-Installation Art/European Animation Center, Athens Université Paul-Valéry, Montpelier, France IN MEMORY OF... II homage to Alexis Grigoropoulos First screening in Greece, in "CHAOS Festival', Fournos,Center for Digital Culture THE FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY For Antonin Artaud Zografeion 2011 A RETROSPECTIVΕ, Films University of Patras Dep. of Theatre Studies Presentation: As. Prof. Chrysanthi Sotiropoulou,2010 WATER ON TABLE* homage to Odysseus Elytis, Nobel Laureate for Literature Production: by the Region of the Northern Aegean in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the Journey of Arts – Cultural Routes in the Aegean Festival, , 2010, and by PROTASIS. Universita degli Studi di Palermo The HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR CULTURE, Washington Library of Congress 10TH FESTIVAL ACADEMY OF THEATRE Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, Greece Eleni Varopoulou, Artistic Director IN MEMORY OF A 15-YEAR –OLD BOY [Aggr 2010-2012] AN EXILE MAN IN THE MIRROR (MALE,2008-2012) International video for the FEMLINK New York, USA .WCA Confab. Slovenia - Maribor - Cinema Kino Udarnik - 7 and 21 April (MALE) China - Ningbo, DRHA-2011 Conference, 5-6 September (MALE) Lithuania, Kaunas, Gallery “Meno parkas”, 26 Jully 2011 to 10 August (MALE) USA , Laconia - New Hampshire, at the Historic Belknap Mill., July 14 (MALE) China, Hongkong, InDpanda International Shortfilm Festival (August) - (MALE) Argentina, St Raphael, Mendoza - A+A Contemporary Art Gallery - [MALE) Lithuania, Kaunas, Art Festival „ Kaunas in Art“ - Daugirdas amphitheatre (MALE) The Netherlands - TAC Art Center - 3-23 March (Aggr) Cyprus - Artos Foundation - 8 March ( Aggr, Wonder) United Arab Emirates - Dubai : XVA Gallery - Bastakiya France : ANNECY : Espace USA - New-York PHOTO-GRAMΜΑ 2 Video 17 min Text Marlena Politopoulou Curator Peggy Kounenaki Chania, Oil factory - Factory of Art 2009 Windows in Cities Special for the Greek Graphic Designers Association Exhibition 2008 THE FOUR STAGES OF CRUELTY For Antonin Artaud Fournos for Digital Culture PLATFORMA VIDEO8 International Digital Film Festival Technopolis City of Athens Cultural Centre. 2007 ETEL ANTNAN: Words in Exile ^* GREEK FILM CENTRE 10 th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL Award Greek Film Center |
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Participation ICA, LONDON Politics and Interculturalism DEMOCRACIES IN REVOLUTIONARY NATIONS CREATIVE PRACTICES / RESISTANT ACTS: CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND EMERGING DEMOCRACIES IN REVOLUTIONARY NATIONS Presentation by Εleni Varopoulou, Theatre Critic FEX [Progressive Union of Xanthi, Greece] PHOTOMETRIA Tribute / Ioannina, Greece / Festival ¨ Borders " 2011. University of Thessaly / Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology Presentation by Prof. George Papaconstantinou 2010 Casa della poesia, Napoli a Palazzo Reale, Italy The poetics of exile / Official Programme Masrah al Madina, / Beirut, Lebanon Special Screening at International Meeting Tribute to Etel Adnan 2009 University of the Aegean / Department of Humanities Head Professor of Linguistics Eleni Karantzola 2008 London Greek Film Festival Official Programme PAGINENASCOSTE FESTIVALETTERATURA Mantova, Italy / Official Programme The presentation of the film was made by the authors Najwa Barakat and Elisabetta Bartuli 22nd FESTIVAL YMITTOU MEDITERRANEAN DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL The poetics of exile / Official Programme 5th Avant Garde Film Festival, Athens, Greece 2nd DAYS OF POETRY FESTIVAL Skopelos, Greece Ecofilm Festival 2008 Rhodes, Greece 10 th THESSALONIKI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL Official Programme /Award Hellenic Film Center 2007 Masrah al Madina, Beirut, Lebanon Special Screening Leeds International Film Festival, UK Official Programme Lafcadio Hearn Exhibition in Collaboration with Damianos Zarifis 7th Academy of Theatre, National Theatre. Lefkada, Greece Eleni Varopoulou, Artistic Director PHOTO-GRAMMA 2 Multimedia Text Marlena Politopoulou Chania, Mediterranean Centre of Architecture 2006 PATRAS 2006/Cultural Capital of Europe 2006 PHOTO-GRAMMA 1 Multimedia in Ladopoulos Paper-Factory Video-photographs: Vouvoula Skoura Enviroment: Erofili Politopoulou Text Marlena Politopoulou ΑNIM-ART (Tribute) PHILOKTETES -The wound / SIBYLS Athens. 2005 Platforma Video '05 (Tribute) PHILOKTETES -The wound / BLACK MOON / SIBYLS and parts of other videos, Ktirio 417, Athens THE ELEGY OF THE UPROOTING A Video special for Eleni Karaindrou' music for Films Athens Concert Hall 2004 "Agon". 5th International Meeting of Archaeological Film of Mediterranean AreaAreaArea. (Tribute) PHILOKTETES -The wound / MEDEA -no comment / SIBYLS Athens. CODES. 5th Summer Academy of Theatre, National Theatre of Greece Alexandroupolis, Greece Eleni Varopoulou, Artistic Director C.P. CAVAFIS (Homage) A video special for Athens Concert Hall 2003 A TRAVEL FROM CYTHERA TO ETERNITY A video special for Eleni Karaindrou' music for Films. Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels On the occasion of the Hellenic Presidency of the European Union 2002 SIBYLS. video Third Summer Academy of Theatre, Mytilene, Greece Eleni Varopoulou, Artistic Director Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 2004 AGON Fifth International Meeting of Archaeological Film of Mediterranean Area. Athens French Institute,Athens [2005] Greek Directors Guild, Athens [2005] Platforma Video zero five ΑNIM-ART, 2006 MHΔEIA - no comment video as part of an International exchange project Arts Centre Vooruit - Gent, RUG- Gent / Nationa Theatre Presentation: Eleni Varopoulou, theatre critic AGON. 5th International Meeting Archaeological Film of Mediterranean Area, Athens. Greece Platforma Video zero five festival, Athens, Greece THIGATIR LIBRARY video Special projection at Medi@terra Lavrio/Greece Curator: Dodo Santorinaiou A RETROSPECTIVΕ, Films Center for Mediterranean Architecture (KAM). Chania, Crete, Greece Presentation: Chrysanthi Sotiropoulou, 2000 GIORGOS SEFERIS-poet and citizen. Production: Ministry of culture working group for the Seferis centenary Five Videos for the multimedia exhibition on scripts by Yorgis Yatromanolakis -The face of the poet -Smyrna, unreal city -A journey in space and time (triptycho) -War and Decay -The experience of love Athens, Greece, Technopolis 2000 Ismir, Turkey 2000 The GIORGOS SEFERIS-poet and citizen have been presented in more than twenty cities around the world. PHILOKTETES-the wound. based on Heiner Müller Dramatic production by Eleni Varopoulou, theatre critic With the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and PROTASI, non-profit company -Goethe Institute, Krakow and Athens [2001] Presentation by Eleni Varopoulou - Barbican Centre, London, [2001] -Arts Centre Vooruit. Ghent, [2001]RUG Gent and the National Theatre of Greece -Fournos Art Centre, Athens, [2003] -Fur das argument der Kunste, Berlin, [2004] -AGON. 5th International Meeting of Archaeological Film the Mediterranean Area. Athens. [2004] -Platform Video ZERO FIVE, Athens [2005] Tribute -Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Storch und Klaudia Ruschkowski, Berlin, [2005] Ttribute HEINER MÜ LLER. PHILOKTET -Animation center festival, Athens [2006] Tribute -Centre of Delphi Presentation by Eleni Varopoulou Special Issue Die Lücke im System Vouvoula Skoura, »Philoktetes- the wound«, Video, 2000 Helene Varopoulou über die Arbeit von Vouvoula Skoura HECTOR-waiting. X International Meeting of Ancient Greek Drama. Delphi. • New technologies and new languages of art: Round table discussion with Eleni Varopoulou, Denis Zacharopoulos, ... 1999 A RETROSPECTIVE, Films Friends of Theatre and Cinematography group, Lamia, Greece. Presentation: Chrysanthi Sotiropoulou 1998 The MOTHERS honorary tribute to Brecht. -Goethe Institute, Athens Presented by: Eleni Varopoulou -MOT International Festival of Skopje -Mousontourm, Frankfourt -Staatstheater, Kassel Germany -Rethymnon, Crete, Greece (university) Segments shown at the Thessaly Theatre during the performance of Brecht’s On Love, 2001 1997 TYFO Video-Music, Installation, Acting APLO THEATRE. Athens 1995 BLACK MOON -video -Goethe Institute of Athens «Die Kunst der Reise» Festival 1st prize for Video Art competition,1998. The “Black Moon’ have been presented in more by twenty cities around the world Curator: Dodo Santorinaiou 1989 SKORIA FOTOS Co-production Greek Film Centre and Middlesex Polytechnic Film Festival of Drama / Special mention of the jury -Kurzfilm Festival / Berlin 1989. -Tampere Festival, Finland, 1990 1986 Produced mixed media representations based on photographs for Konstantinos Karnasiotis’ film «THE CRANK» and on a series of six films for Greek Television. 1984 INNER MIGRATION Film, 22min Production Greek Film Centre. -Thessaloniki Festival -Film Festival of Drama / Special mention -Bilbao Film Festival -Goethe Institute of Athens -Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki -A` la rencontre du cinéma grec contemporain 1999, Marseille, France |