{"id":5212,"date":"2023-08-29T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medeaelectronique.com\/koumaria\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:13:48","slug":"2023-koumaria-residency-blog-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medeaelectronique.com\/koumaria\/2023\/08\/29\/2023-koumaria-residency-blog-05\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Koumaria Residency Blog 05"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/852666484″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Today we present to you, a few works of exploration . Tianyi Zheng through video and Stanford Cheung through sound recording, explore the soft nature surrounding the house while Xenia Papadopoulo and Marilli Pizzaro play with each others’ poetry through translation in their own dialects. Translation is an amusing tool, as it allows for communication. However, how can we assure a true translation, that fully captures the multi faceted meaning of words. English has been the middle-man in this process as it is the obvious connection between our fellow Puerto Rican resident, Marilli and Xenia\u2019s mother tongue, greek.
\nMerged into Tianyi\u2019s images, we notice gracious glimpses of Elli Skourogianni testing out movements in our local olive grove, filmed by Viosjana Shkurti.
\nIn the background, we hear experimental jazz played by Kostas and his band, whose concert we attended the night before. The melodic notes of the piece, grabs you into this visual composition.
\nThis visual presentation of the day, beautifully sums up the various activities that occur at Koumaria : exploration, experimentation and sharing.
\nHere is the (rough) English translation of the poem written by Xenia Papadopoulo, 3 years ago :
\nFresco in Egyptian blue
\n…or maybe secco? *
\nI know an Arab\u2028who lets the bread slowly expand\u2028in a fiery canton\u2028who loosely ties his black and white Palestinian turban\u2028and who has a blurry look like the fishe\u2019s in a fish market\u2019s trunk
\nwho yells \u02bd\u02bcaiwa\u02bc\u02bc\u2028after he already has provided for
\nand who is alert with ammunition in the hands of a six-fingered
\nthat when I get nauseous in the streets of Cairo he offers me sweet \u02bd\u02bcshisha\u02bc\u02bc\u2028and view from heavenly minarets\u2028for Allah\u2019s will
\nwho is an incomprehensible rock with glazed surfaces\u2028an amphorae shell\u2028who reclines in perfect geometry
\nwhose eye slots\u2028tell me his one truth\u2028and the crocodile nape\/col all the rest
\nthat in dinner, sometimes\u2028we have a power cut\u2028and then we forget the food in our plates and we both look high\u2028the same stars\u2028of our lonely breath
\nwho I preserve in my memory
\nas he wants to be an encaustic icon
\n*Al secco is a wall painting technique, it means painting in dry wall, while fresco is the painting in fresh wall \u2013 directly after competing the last plaster layer<\/p>\n

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