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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PRINCETON UNIVERSITY</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Seeger
<span class="Heading2Char">Center</span> for Hellenic Studies</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hyperion Has Stumbled</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kostis Velonis</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:kvelonis@princeton.edu">kvelonis@princeton.edu</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Hellenic Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Respondent: Mitra Abbaspour, Princeton University Art Museum</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">When you daydream while walking—and, with your eyes set on the sky, you find that evidently you are not Hyperion, celebrated by Hölderlin in his
writings, who lingers above earth—it is easy to stumble. Yet the daydreamer’s clash with reality is from another perspective a creative or even an insightful encounter, and one of the ideal media that causes people to fall over obstacles is sculpture. In this
lecture, I will argue for a conceptual shift from the celebrated dexterity of the hand to the despised clumsiness of the leg. I will share samples of my work that stick to and never leave the ground. These works confirm the close dependency of sculpture on
an onerous and yet surprisingly generative reality.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kostis Velonis</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> holds an MRes in Humanities and Cultural Studies
from the London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA, and Tate). He studied Arts Plastiques/ Esthétiques at Université Paris 8 (D.E.A), and he earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture, N.T.U.A University of Athens. His sculptures, paintings, and
large-scale installations are best characterized as craft-based compositions that construct allegories from the complex relations of history, class, identity, and the conflicts of the human soul.
<span style="color:black">Velonis has participated in exhibitions and residencies internationally and in recent years (2018-2014) has exhibited at: The Value of Freedom, Belvedere 21-Museum for Contemporary Art Vienna; “Refusing to Be Still,” 5th Edition,
Jeddah; “A Puppet Sun,” NEON -City Project, Athens; documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel; “Precision German Craftsmanship” Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; “Urgent Conversations,” Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (MHKA), Antwerp; “This probably will
not work," Lothringer 13-Städtische Kunsthalle München, Μunich; “Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 –2015,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, “Super superstudio,” PAC, Milan, The Theater of the World,” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, “No
Country for Young Men,” BOZAR, Brussels; "Direct Democracy," MUMA, Melbourne, “HELL AS PAVILION,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris, “Newtopia. The State of Human Rights” Mechelen Cultural Centre, Scheppers Institute Mechelen, “Melanchotopia,” Witte de With Contemporary
Art Center, Rotterdam.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Friday, December 7, 2018</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Default" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Supported by The Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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