Phenomenon, Anafi

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of Please Come Visit My Country, Pitchapa Wangprasertkul’s residency presentation, on Monday the 25th at EIGHT / Το ΟΧΤΩ, from 18:00 to 21:00, as part of Phenomenon’s Methone residency programme.

From the beginning of her journey from Bangkok to Athens, Pitchapa Wangprasertkul noticed how advertisements on flight booking websites, in airports and on airplanes repeatedly portrayed her destination beneath a clear blue sky. (…)
Recognising the same visual in advertisements for both Athens and Bangkok, Wangprasertkul became interested in how this almost identical, iconic shade of blue functions as an imaginary for tourists, promising that their ideal vacation will be filled with bright sunlight and warm weather. (…)
In Please Come Visit My Country, Wangprasertkul collects blue objects found on the streets during her exploration of Athens, using these materials to reconstruct an artificial blue sky — a replica of the scene tourists have come to expect from the city. Through this installation, the exhibition space is camouflaged and transformed, as if surrendering to the waves of tourism and striving, at last, to become a tourist destination itself. (…)

Wangprasertkul’s presentation will remain on view until May 30th, open daily from 16:00 to 20:00, and by appointment.

EIGHT / Το ΟΧΤΩ is located at Polytechniou 8, Athens. We are very grateful to EIGHT / Τo ΟΧΤΩ for hosting the event.

Wangprasertkul’s residency and presentation are developed in partnership between the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and Phenomenon. She was selected for Phenomenon’s Methone residency programme within the framework of BACC’s 8th Early Years Project (EYP #8).

The residency is coordinated by Theo Tzannetakis and Boris Atrux-Tallau.

Images: Pitchapa Wangprasertkul, research material gathered for Please Come Visit My Country.

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A closer look at the projects supported by the 2025 Phenomenon Grant.

Focus on Theo Panagopoulos’s project “And the Sea Keeps on Moving” that will be developed with the support of the grant.

“And the Sea Keeps on Moving” is a reflective essay film where a Greek-Palestinian filmmaker questions the entanglements of both of his identities around the Mediterranean. The film investigates the tension between movement in the sea and movements of solidarity by looking at dockworkers in Piraeus, a Greek trade ship in 2025 and Palestinian dockworkers of Jaffa port in 1935. The nature of complicity, solidarity and resistance are put into question by looking at the immortal jellyfish, a species that redefines the nature of time, life and death.

Photo: Portrait of Theo Panagopoulos
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A closer look at the projects supported by the 2025 Phenomenon Grant.

Focus on Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA)’s project “Femicides in Greece: A counter-forensic toolkit” that will be developed with the support of the grant.

The project “Femicides in Greece: A counter-forensic toolkit” investigates femicides in Greece using spatial and aesthetic investigative methodologies. During this project FAIĀ will gather, archive and analyse data on femicides and gender-based violence in Greece in order to identify and forensically reconstruct a paradigmatic case. The case will be used to develop a much-needed feminist approach to spatial and
forensic research, allowing the FAIĀ team to address the traumatic dimensions of these violent incidents with the necessary care and rigour that will add force to the claims for justice and accountability. The project will result in a short video investigation and a work-in-progress open-source investigative toolkit.

More information on Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens‘ projects can be found on www.faia.space

Photo: Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIA)’s logo
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A closer look at the projects supported by the 2025 Phenomenon Grant program.

Focus on AMOQA’s project “10 Years AMOQA: What if museums were gardens?” that will be developed with the support of the grant.

For its ten-year anniversary, AMOQA proposes an exhibition based on correspondence via plantable post-cards, and the development of an online, open-access archive based on the collective’s trajectory in q***r arts and activism. The project invites people that have previously collaborated with AMOQA to re-imagine museums as gardens for the production of an immersive installation, inspired by Ntinos Christianopoulos’ verse “they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds”. Exploring the potential of archives as seed banks, the exhibition features events on q***r ecologies, eco-sensitive forms of archiving and online feminist commons, which will contribute to AMOQA’s archive development.

📷 Image from the event “Q***r Proxenio Vol2”, credits: AMOQA archive
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✨ Announcing the 2025 Phenomenon Grantees! ✨

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We are happy to announce the three grantees of the 2025 Phenomenon Grants program, which aims to advance q***r, feminist, and anti-colonial practices in Greece and to create spaces of resistance through artistic expression.

The 2025 grantees are:
- AMOQA (Athens Museum of Q***r Arts) – 10 years AMOQA: What if museums were gardens?
- Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIĀ) – Femicides in Greece: A counter-forensic toolkit
- Theo Panagopoulos – And the Sea Keeps on Moving

The grantees were selected by an independent committee composed of Athena Athanasiou, Zoe Butt, Zoe Leonard, Kostas Stasinopoulos, and chaired by Aggelika Mitsiou. Each of the grantees will receive € 8,500.

AMOQA (Athens Museum of Q***r Arts) is a creative project run by a multidisciplinary collective of socially engaged artists, curators, and researchers committed to fostering q***r and feminist cultural production in Greece.

Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens (FAIĀ) is a new Athens-based non-profit investigative agency undertaking spatial and multimedia investigations of human rights and environmental violations.

Theo Panagopoulos is an award winning film director of Greek and Palestinian heritage and lives between Greece and Scotland. His creative and academic work explore themes of collective memory, displacement, fragmented identities and resistance often through anti-colonial, participatory and archival methodologies.

Lei (1) AMOQA, Image from the event “Q***r Proxenio Vol2”, credits: AMOQA archive (2) Forensic Architecture Initiative Athens’s (FAIA)’s logo (3) Portrait of Theo Panagopoulos


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Anafi, seen through the lens of Zoe Leonard’s “Corner House, Chora, Anafi”, 2024.

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Thank you to everyone who applied to the Phenomenon Grants!
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Applications are open until tomorrow, September 30, 2025, 12 am (midnight).
We invite all eligible applicants to submit their projects.

Apply here: kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/application.
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Applications are open until September 30, 2025.
We invite all eligible applicants to submit their projects for consideration. Decisions will be announced in November 2025.

Apply here: kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/application
For more information on the Phenomenon Grants, please visit the program’s webpage at kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants
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Apart from basic project details, applicants will be asked to provide a brief background, a short project summary, answers to a few questions about their project, a budget breakdown and a list of any additional sources of funding. We’ve designed the application process to be as accessible and straightforward as possible, encouraging anyone whose project aligns with the grant’s mission and meets the eligibility criteria to apply.

For more practical information, please visit our Application page at kerenidispepe.art/projects/grants/application/. We invite you to already prepare your application texts in advance and paste it into the form when it opens on Monday.
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