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31/05/2024

Hurray!! our short films STRANGE VISITORS and UNDERGRASS will be screened at the 4th International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture at the University of Nagano, Japan | May 31- June 2 | Theme: Nature, Spirituality, and Culture

Set in an utopian/dystopian future after a global calamity, STRANGE VISITORS explores the potential of non-human agency in respect of the environmental crisis. A surrealist and dream-like sound&landscape transcending the anthropocentric notions of reality and love.

UNDERGRASS is a polyphony of stories locked in voices of humans and a bamboo forest in Águeda, Portugal. The film sprouted from a gathering for collective listening with the bamboo forest, exploring human-soil relations by sensing multiple deaths and (re)births.

11/01/2024

'We live till we die and we die till we live'
Buddha tree, Himalayas 2023

&Thomaskelly #1112024 .Gulp.

31/12/2023

from Atlas mountains to the Himalayas
from symbiotic personae to micro spi~rituals
chaosmos 2023

31/12/2023

from Atlas mountains to the Himalayas
Chaosmos 2023

01/11/2023

Last week we joined the group exhibition Echoed Realms at Flutgraben, Berlin, with a multisensorial installation unlocking cross-species relations and polyphonies.

UNDERGRASS explored in situ the materialities and temporalities of two regenerative acts as part of the multi-sited and transmedial research in southern Europe by Eugenia Gianno 'Grassroots initiatives fertilizing eco-social futures of collective care and creativity in a planetary crisis'. Touching upon q***r ecology and care, the project hosted a con-sensual ritualistic act by Matteo De Blasio based on the adoption of limoni seeds, experimenting with interspecies kinship systems in a fanta-futuristic (im)possible institution.

***recology

11/06/2023

From Peloponnesian female waters to Moroccan Atlas mountains ...
Symbiotic personae: a workshop accompanied by a collective performance with vandaloop collective
Al-Haouz International Theater Festival, 13-17 June 2023

10/06/2023

Casa Fluxus, 3 days or 3 nights or 3 suns or 3 moons among micro energetic fields in shimmering light ...
https://ecobasa.org/en/communities/casa-fluxus/

Photos: Eugenia Gianno

01/06/2023

The second of our series of regenerative acts took place with Tribojam Community in Alentejo, Portugal. This time, sonic vibrations would blossom from the soil, merging with experimental harvest songs for olive trees and sound recordings from the natural surroundings.

Tribojam is a self-organised community that values shared living and personal growth, experimenting with eco technology and permaculture for more sustainable futures, not least making space for multicultural encounters through collective composing and improvised music. Getting involved in the sound production and music making in a well equipped recording studio, we became part of the sound by exploring a selection of unique instruments to finally co-create a song. Each day we were juggling between experimental music, land art creation and permaculture gardening.

To initiate the spiral garden, we gathered in situ for a regenerative act of radical imagination and deep listening. This time, sonic vibrations would blossom from the soil, merging with experimental harvest songs for olive trees and sound recordings from the natural surroundings of Tribojam.

23/05/2023

This Friday 26/05 Emmanuel Ofuasia and Hannes Schumacher will talk at the conference Postsecular Studies, Literature, and Care in Granada: DIE BEFORE YOU DIE: A DIALOGUE ON DEATH AND REBIRTH

Experimenting with real dialogue as a method for cross-cultural philosophy, we argue for death as the locus for a postsecular comparative philosophy of religion. While the ontologies of the later Heidegger and Nishida Kitarō from the Kyoto School suggest the equivalence or primacy of Nothing over Being, we focus on a passage by the Sufi poet Rumi:

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was man,
Why should I fear?
When was I less by dying?

Ofuasia points out a striking parallel to the doctrine of reincarnation in the teachings of Ọ̀rúnmìlà, the major authority of the Yoruba in West Africa. Schumacher, on the other hand, presents a different reading based on the experience of spiritual death in shamanic practices in light of the Sufi conception of fanāʾ. Once it is radical experience, once constant reflection on death which is not the opposite of life but gives profundity to it.

Emmanuel and Hannes will be joining online. Link to be confirmed.

Image credits: 'Viva la Vida', still life/naturaleza mu**ta de Frida Kahlo

26/04/2023

https://tierdebut.bandcamp.com/album/ii
Marius used to djay at Chaosmos. Now he invented a jet pack that anyone can buy with just 200 €.
Click here to learn more.
(Product design: Katerina Rotoli)

8 track album

02/03/2023

Following Maurice Blanchot, the artist has to descend to the land of the dead in order to create an authentic work of art; in our view, this process involves a deep experience of profound loss and failure that questions our very sense of a self, of artistic creation and even art itself, resulting, thus, in a feminist turn from philosophy to mysticism, from creativity to care. The old obsession of the artist/philosopher to create and control simply can no longer cope with a vulnerable life out of boundaries, a life which has become unable to be mastered. However, we believe that artistic creation is able to attune itself to these new matters of care, that artistic work can be care work if it is able to adapt to slower, calmer moves like a tortoise, or that the loss of a self is rather a stretching of it, an expanded self which both cares and creates, or creates with care.

Inspired by the unique surroundings of our artistic residency at AgitLab, we organised a gathering for collective listening inside the bamboo forest, Águeda, Portugal.

28/02/2023

Inspired by the unique surroundings of our artistic residency at Projecto Agit Lab, we organised a gathering for collective listening inside the bamboo forest, Águeda, Portugal.

In the past months we had many encounters with the interconnections of death and (re)birth that we would like to share. This gathering as a regenerative act was an invitation to exchange our feelings, to attune to one another and to re-connect with our belly-button selves.

Photos by Amadeu Almeida

http://chaosmos.zone/2023/02/24/birth-death-and-rebirth-gathering-for-collective-listening-inside-the-bamboo-forest/

Agit Lab Improvise and Organize

10/02/2023

Tonight 20:00 premiere of Marius new bimonthly show on Athens own Fade Radio. Marius used to be a regular at Chaosmos, both as a DJ and performing musician. With Echei Kinisi ( cover artwork Katerina Rotoli ) we are finally allowed again to be annoyed by his exaggerated excitement for weird music. Make sure to tune in.
https://www.fade.radio/

15/10/2022

Check out Marius Mathiszik’s guest show for Fade Radio tonight, talking about the making of the new album KISS MY EMOJI RING recorded between Athens and London. Along with that he will be playing his recent musical favorites and some unreleased gems, shining a light on what’s to come next from his music label tier.debut.

Here we go: FADE.RADIO on Sat, 15 October, 22-23:00 EEST >>> https://www.fade.radio/

//Marius for many years has been our maniac/mastermind for experimental sound & music and has played at Chaosmos many times. 🔥 More encounters to come soon! 🔥

Listen to the new album >>> https://tierdebut.bandcamp.com/album/kiss-my-emoji-ring
Check out more of his work >>> https://janmatiz.com/

24/08/2022

So, where is the new Chaosmos??

A:) Somewhere in Greece
B:) Mexico City*CDMX
C:) Goa, India
D:) Bright Side of the Moon

15/01/2022

“In truth, the concept of the ‘parasite’ – in our opinion – is a Neo-Darwinist idea which favors competition over collaboration. This is to say that actually there are no parasites at all and that no instance would be wholly self-sufficient […]: there are no parasites but only symbioses.”

Our interview with Georgia Kotretsos / among many other fabulous initiatives / appeared in Educational Heurism III at The Telos Society Press.

Greece in USA is a non-profit organization with a global reach that promotes knowledge of contemporary and ancient Greek Culture while fostering international cultural cooperation, experimentation and social engagement. The organization's extensive programming includes commissioned artists'...

28/10/2021

Philosophical mysticism is about to live a renaissance in the 21st century.

Check out the recordings of our online gathering/conference Philosophy & Mysticism:

http://chaosmos.zone/philosophy-and-mysticism/

Philosophical mysticism is about to live a renaissance in the 21st century. ...

22/09/2021

Talk on Marek Konieczny's Pseudo-Avant-garde Molecular Revolution 1974/1672 → ∞Philosophy and Mysticism ~ 24 & 25 July 2021Chaosmos ∞ Freigeist VerlagPhiloso...

19/09/2021

Philosophy and Mysticism ~ 24 & 25 July 2021Chaosmos ∞ Freigeist VerlagPhilosophical mysticism is about to live a renaissance in the 21st century. Not only i...

04/08/2021

Our online conference/gathering Philosophy and Mysticism also was an inspiring occasion for us to "re-visit" our large-scale exhibition Trash Temple after 2 years and to reflect on our mystical experience of beauty, cruelty and madness while building a contemporary ‘temple’. Now on our website =)

http://chaosmos.zone/2021/07/29/trash-temple-revisited/

In 2019, Vandaloop collective co-created the site-specific large-scale installation Trash Temple on the three upper floors of the art space Chaosmos in Athens. Two years later we reflect on our mystical experience of beauty, cruelty and madness while building a contemporary ‘temple’. Video made ...

26/07/2021

Many thanks to all participants of the online conference/gathering Philosophy and Mysticism! We had a very intense weekend with amazing perspectives and fantastic new encounters ~ because many people asked us for recordings we are now reviewing these and we'll let you know soon ~

Image: 'Monoceros' (1980) by Marek Konieczny, presented by Radek Przedpełski

23/06/2021

Dear all! Our online conference Philosophy and Mysticism will take place on July 24 & 25. Programme coming soon ...

Freigeist Verlag

18/06/2021

A research film tracing the footsteps of the artistic collective Vandaloop during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

“We have to slow down indeed, I think it is completely absurd how the people live. It’s very beautiful and I hope more viruses come, for the human to calm down and take a look inside because I think life is entirely somewhere else than that what everyone hunts for.”

A research film tracing the footsteps of the artistic collective Vandaloop during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond ...

13/06/2021

13/06/2021

Oh làlà ~ new works on our website:

Set in an utopian/dystopian future after a global calamity, this experimental short film explores the potential of non-human agency in respect of the environmental crisis. A surrealist and dream-like sound&landscape transcending the anthropocentric notions of reality and love.

Set in an utopian/dystopian future after a global calamity, this experimental short film explores the potential of non-human agency in respect of the environmental crisis. A surrealist and dream-like sound&landscape transcending the anthropocentric notions of reality and love.