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Ektor Ntourakos

urban , publieke ruimte , installatie , Ecologie , Artistiek onderzoek

Ektor Ntourakos (born in Athens, GR) is a visual artist and urban geographer. He lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His practice includes interventions in the urban public space, installations, and the creation of situations. Its main focus is on the urban public space and the practices, actions, and chains of actions that occur in it. He approaches public space as a social phenomenon which is an emergent property of practices. Social practice theories, assemblage theories and agonistic politics are important elements of his work.

Social Soundscape - Day Break Rhythm Silence at PuntWG, Amsterdam (solo exhibition), 2022, sound installation, custom designed and handcrafted speaker, turntable, amplifier, vinyl record, wood, 4m x 0,3m x 0,3m
Spontaneous and unaware, public spaces were emerging in front of my eyes, pt.1 - Day Break Rhythm Silence at PuntWG, Amsterdam (solo exhibition), 2022, acrylic on canvas, diptych, 2x3m
Day Break Rhythm Silence - (https://open.spotify.com/album/19oNr05xHRRTC0it8juxK7?si=J20zUphPR86pnwLafky9LA) EP, vinyl records, two tracks, 6AM: 8:19 mins, 6PM: 8:52 Music made in collaboration with Jonge Woudloper for the sound installation of Social Soundscape. Bram Ieven and Ektor Ntourakos collaborate in a sound installation to map the cultural and social interactions in the area of Rotterdam South. Concentrating on the inner courtyard of one specific housing complex, which facilitates private and rental households and small businesses, the installation ‘Day Break Rhythm Silence’ explores the emergence of a new type of public space. Starting from field recordings from the courtyard, Ieven and Ntourakos introduce ambient syntheses that highlight the sonic compositions in the social exchanges between the residents, but also between the residents and the material environment, as constitutive elements of a public space. The installation induces the visitors to conceive public space as a fluid and ambient social scape with an affective, aural presence that can invade even our most private spaces and institute its public and social rhythms at the heart of our own private lives.
Social Soundscape - Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend 2022 at Foundation B.a.d., Rotterdam, sound installation, custom designed and handcrafted speaker, turntable, amplifier, vinyl record, wood, 4m x 0.3m x 0.3m
Charlois Micropublics - Oude Kerk Charlois, 2021, sound installation, situation (approx 50 mins), vinyl records, turntables, speakers
Charlois Micropublics - Oude Kerk Charlois, Rotterdam, 2021, sound installation, turntables, speakers, vinyl records
From a place to space - At SIGN project space, Groningen, 2018, maps, booklets, glass, turntable, vinyl records
From a place to space - Cafeteria (group exhibition), Kaaihallen, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 2018 Wooden platform, horn speaker, table, maps, turntable, custom made vinyl records including sounds from urban appropriations, processions, demonstrations, and lectures on recent urban developments From a Place to Space is a distribution centre that operates as a platform for several urban appropriations that occurred during the last two years. It represents the temporary spatial transformations that contribute to the emergence of the public space in the city’s landscape. Conflict, engagement, information exchange generated as the dialectical response to the homogenization of the physical and psychological security inhabited by the social order and the mechanisms of social normalisation that eliminate the users from the term of agency within the society. The platform, also, hosts the 2nd edition of the Reading as Poaching project as it was taken place in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Reading as poaching 2nd edition consists of networks of open libraries installed in urban public spaces. Mailboxes function as bookcases stocked with printed booklets containing methods of using the city in order to embrace interaction and engagement amongst the users. The booklets are distributed on a regular basis to the supply spots and can be taken for free.
Mashup Guy (Debord) - Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, situation, 2019, approx. 30 mins, custom made vinyl records including sounds from urban appropriations, processions, demonstrations, and lectures on recent urban developments and different practices in the city landscape, speakers, turntable, banner, flyers
Second Hand Citizen - 2015, posters collected from city walls, billboards, paper

Day Break Rhythm Silence

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Locatie: PuntWG

In 'Day Break Rhythm Silence' Ektor Ntourakos focuses on an inner courtyard of one specific housing complex in the south of Rotterdam, which facilitates private and rental households and small businesses, to explore the emergence of a new type of public space. By using the tools and methods of field recording Ntourakos captures sounds from the courtyard to reflect on the importance of an auditory conceptualization of public space.

https://puntwg.nl/en/day-break-rhythm-silence

Charlois Micropublics

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Locatie: Oude Kerk Charlois
In samenwerking met: Charlois Speciaal

Mashup Guy (Debord)

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Locatie: Nieuw Dakota

Mashup Guy (Debord)

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Locatie: Nieuw Dakota
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