28.12.06

VOID HISTORY>> 11 August 1996 Article in greek sunday newspaper "To Vima"


Intro: This article was written by the journalist Lena Papadimitriou and appeared in one of the highest publicity Sunday Greek newspapers “To Vima” on 11 August 1996 / issue number 12389. In this article the Void Network is referred as “The Collective in the Terror of Void” which was the original name of Void Network until 1998.


BEAT, VOID AND FLOWERS ,

This is a proof that also the decade of '90s has its own “children of the flowers”: the “Collective in the Terror of Void” offers its own explosive cocktail of rave and cogitation

The “Collective in the Terror of Void” was born roughly five years ago.
A strange blending from “children of flowers” and post-modern hippies: hair to shoulders, they look as dreamers and cynic too… with antimilitaristic slogans in 1996 and “greek coffee” in Exarcheion square, cogitation and plenty of trance.
Yannis, Tasos, Deppy, Antony and “ all those who consider that they belong in the team” distribute psychedelik flyers in all the city and they wait for all the “invited” ones in Polytechnic University Campus, in the hill of Strefis, in factories of Piraeus rd. or Patission rd. or in the beach Aigiali of Amorgos island.
The entry usually is free of charge (no time optional the payment of 500 drachmas- 1.5 euro) and all the constant expenses from 150.000 Drs (500 euro) up to half million (1500 euro according to the prices of 96 for the very ambitious concepts. Since 98 Void Network never asked again any money in the entry even though the expenses for the events became higher and higher- from 1000 euro to 5000 euro ).
Each party has its own slogan: “Love - Power”, “You make it… if you know what it should be…Do it now”, “Nothing ever is completed, everything continues, everything evolves”.
They get angry if you speak to them for night turnovers, show business and enterprises. They hate the trade and the star system business in the trance scene , they do not want rave culture to become like rock, one more music style: “You don't understand him? We are a commune, a collective, and no businessmen. We have not ever put one drachma in our pockets. Whatever the amount of the money is that enters in the common fund simply it finances the next happening. And it is very beautiful that you do not need to care about the money for private benefit … it liberates you and makes everyone equal”.
There are existing in any case two basic faculties of survival in the company: “Those that they “rest” and…they “stay hungry” and those who make “small-work” in order to survive. In each party that they set up first comes the “idea”, the concept, the space .Then the musical soundscapes­ arrive…always acid house, industrial techno, ambient, progressive and psychedelic trance ­, the light-show, the art installations and this “inner urge to break through the routine and the every day life repetition with the help of ecstatic dancing”. Anyway even the name of the collective, except of course from their contact with the Tibetan Buddhism and the pre-historic Greek dark ages (Horror vacui- The tendency to completely fill all available space within a design so that no voids are left- characteristic of creative inner anxiety in periods of totalitarianism and political, spiritual or cultural dictatorship) as also refers precisely in: “the terror towards the emptiness of the daily life in the western lands”.
Thus their parties become all-night long “travels of introspection”, with the beats of modern dance culture as a background….moments that invites and attracts the people outside from the cities. “That’s why precisely we are one of the first groups in the rave culture that decided to come out from the clubs in the open public spaces”, Yannis said. “Speaking generally, we try to create collective atmospheres. This means that everything is important: the serial line that you will play sound and musical themes ­ (as for example existing tracks that we are only playing them in the midnight or only in the sunset or in the sunrise) ­, or all those industrial landscapes of Britain, for example, that we will show with video and slide projectors for a specific night, the light-show corridor that you will make on a hill in order to make a way of light…”.
The fame of them has been expanded “by mouth in mouth”. Many times they play with them as special guests popular bands and d.js from well known clubs that does not have relation with the team, “simply because they love to play with us and not be paid as we do also…”. The children however from the Terror of Emptiness ­ (most of them 24-26 years old) ­ do not satisfy themselves simply in all night long space travelling.
From their first steps they organised poetic nights, while for five years they are organizing the festival of independent Greek rock scene which takes place in Athens Central Park (Field of Areos) (Indie Free Festival est.1990). It is not a long time ago that they began also the enterprise “Void File”, the poetic collections of members of the team. They circulate each time around 1.000 issues and they are distributing them free of charge in the parties or where else the friends gather themselves. The titles “Hymn for Allen Ginsberg” or “Self-Seduction” represent the philosophy of this introversive beat company. For the coming December they prepare their psychedelic “thiasos”, while for this year's summertime they have ready their tour, the “Caravan” in the islands of Aegean sea, as they like to call it: Firstly in Naxos, then in Paros, today in the beach of Aigiali in Amorgos island and in the 18, 19 August in the region Baxedes near Oia of Santorini .


link to the article in newspaper : "To Vima"



Εισαγωγή: Αυτό είναι ένα άρθρο που γράφτηκε από τη δημοσιογράφο Λένα Παπαδημητρίου για την Κυριακάτικη εφημερίδα «Το Βήμα» στις 11 Αυγούστου 1996/ φύλλο 12389 στα πλαίσια ενός αφιερώματος για τις ομάδες της rave κουλτούρας. Στο παρόν άρθρο το Κενό Δίκτυο αναφέρεται με το αυθεντικό όνομα
«Η Ομάδα στον Τρόμο του Κενού», όνομα που το Κενό Δίκτυο χρησιμοποίησε από το 1990 έως το 1998



ΜΠΙΤ, ΚΕΝΟ ΚΑΙ ΛΟΥΛΟΥΔΙΑ


Να, που και η δεκαετία του '90 έχει τα δικά της «παιδιά των λουλουδιών»: η «Ομάδα στον τρόμο του κενού» προσφέρει το δικό της εκρηκτικό κοκτέιλ ρέιβ - διαλογισμού
Η«Ομάδα στον τρόμο του κενού» γεννήθηκε πριν από πέντε περίπου χρόνια. Ενας ιδιόρρυθμος συγκερασμός από «παιδιά των λουλουδιών» και μεταμοντέρνους χίπις: μαλλιά ως το μέσον της ωμοπλάτης, βλέμμα ονειροπόλο και κυνικό μαζί, αντιμιλιταριστικά συνθήματα του 1996 και «φραπέ» στην πλατεία Εξαρχείων, διαλογισμός και μπόλικη trance. Ο Γιάννης, ο Τάσος, η Ντέπη, ο Αντώνης και «όσοι άλλοι θεωρούν ότι ανήκουν στην ομάδα» μοιράζουν τα ψυχεδελικά φέιγ βολάν τους και περιμένουν τους προσκεκλημένους στην Πολυτεχνειούπολη, στον λόφο του Στρέφη, στο Εργοστάσιο της Πειραιώς ή στην Αιγιάλη της Αμοργού. Η είσοδος συνήθως δωρεάν (καμιά φορά προαιρετική η καταβολή ενός πεντακοσάρικου) και τα πάγια έξοδα από 150.000 δρχ. ως και μισό εκατομμύριο (για τα πολύ φιλόδοξα σχέδια).
Κάθε πάρτι έχει το δικό του σλόγκαν: «Αγάπη - Δύναμη», «Κάνε το, αν ξέρεις τι πρέπει να γίνει κάν' το τώρα», «Τίποτα δεν τελειώνεται ποτέ, όλα Συνεχίζονται, όλα Εξελίσσονται». Θυμώνουν αν τους μιλήσεις για νυχτερινούς τζίρους και επιχειρηματικά δαιμόνια. Μισούν το εμπόριο στην trance, δεν θέλουν να καταλήξει όπως η ροκ, ένα ακόμη μουσικό είδος: «Δεν το καταλαβαίνεις; Είμαστε κοινόβιο, όχι επαγγελματίες. Δεν έχουμε βάλει ούτε μια δραχμή στην τσέπη. Ο,τι μπαίνει στο κοινό ταμείο χρηματοδοτεί απλώς το επόμενο χάπενινγκ. Και είναι ωραίο να μη νοιάζεσαι καθόλου για τα λεφτά, σε απελευθερώνει και μας κάνει όλους ίσους». Υπάρχουν πάντως δύο σχολές επιβίωσης στην παρέα: «Αυτοί που αράζουνε και... πεινάνε και αυτοί που κάνουν μικροδουλειές για να τα βγάλουν πέρα».
Σε κάθε πάρτι που στήνεται τον πρώτο λόγο έχει η «ιδέα», ο χώρος, η μουσική ­ πάντα βέβαια κοντά στα ηχοχρώματα του acid house, του industrial techno, του ambient, του progressive και του psychedelic trance ­, ο φωτισμός, οι εικαστικές κατασκευές και αυτή η «ανάγκη να σπάσεις μέσα από τον χορό τη ρουτίνα και την επανάληψη». Αλλωστε και το ίδιο το όνομα της ομάδας, εκτός βέβαια από την ερωτοτροπία του με τον θιβετιανό βουδισμό και τα αγγεία του ελληνικού μεσαίωνα, παραπέμπει σε αυτό ακριβώς: «στον τρόμο απέναντι στην κενότητα της καθημερινής ζωής». Ετσι τα πάρτι της γίνονται ολονύχτια «ταξίδια ενδοσκόπησης», με φόντο τα μπιτ μιας σύγχρονης χορευτικής κουλτούρας που καλεί τον κόσμο έξω από την πόλη.
«Γι' αυτό ακριβώς είμαστε από τους πρώτους που βγήκαν από τα κλαμπ στους ανοιχτούς χώρους», λέει ο Γιάννης. «Προσπαθούμε γενικά να δημιουργούμε ατμόσφαιρα. Αυτό σημαίνει ότι όλα έχουν σημασία: η σειρά που θα παίξεις τα μουσικά θέματα ­ υπάρχουν κομμάτια που παίζονται μόνο τα μεσάνυχτα ή μόνο στην ανατολή ­, τα βιομηχανικά τοπία της Βρετανίας που θα δείξεις με τον projector, ο φωτισμένος διάδρομος που θα φτιάξεις πάνω σε έναν λόφο για να δώσεις χρώμα». Η φήμη τους έχει εξαπλωθεί «από στόμα σε στόμα». Πολλές φορές κάνουν πρόγραμμα d.j. γνωστών κλαμπ που δεν έχουν σχέση με την ομάδα, «απλώς επειδή γουστάρουν να παίζουν για εμάς και ας μην πληρώνονται».
Τα παιδιά όμως από τον Τρόμο του Κενού ­ τα περισσότερα 24-26 χρόνων ­ δεν αρκούνται απλώς σε μεταμεσονύχτιες αναζητήσεις. Στα πρώτα τους βήματα διοργάνωναν ποιητικές βραδιές, ενώ εδώ και πέντε χρόνια φέρονται ως οι εμπνευστές του φεστιβάλ της ανεξάρτητης ελληνικής ροκ σκηνής που φιλοξενείται στο Πεδίον του Αρεως. Δεν είναι πολύς καιρός που ξεκίνησε και η επιχείρηση «Κενός Φάκελος», οι ποιητικές συλλογές των μελών της ομάδας. Κυκλοφορούν κάθε φορά γύρω στα 1.000 κομμάτια και διανέμονται δωρεάν στα πάρτι ή όπου αλλού μαζεύονται οι φίλοι. Οι τίτλοι «Ωδή στον Αλεν Γκίνσμπεργκ» ή «Αποπλάνηση», αντιπροσωπευτικοί της φιλοσοφίας μιας ενδοστρεφούς beat παρέας. Για τον ερχόμενο Δεκέμβριο σχεδιάζουν να στήσουν το δικό τους ψυχεδελικό θίασο, ενώ για το φετινό καλοκαίρι έχουν έτοιμη την περιοδεία τους, το «Καραβάνι», όπως θέλουν οι ίδιοι να το λένε: σήμερα στην Αιγιάλη της Αμοργού και στις 18, 19 Αυγούστου στην περιοχή Μπαξέδες κοντά στην Οία της Σαντορίνης.

το σύνολο του αφιερώματος στην εφημερίδα "Το Βήμα"

http://tovima.dolnet.gr/print_article.php?e=B&f=12389&m=C10&aa=1



8.12.06

"The Prison" : a poem by Tasos Sagris



















"The Prison"




We stay in the same prison…
I said to you : "Go away!"
…but you didn’t listen to me…
 Now we live in the same prison…
You live in your cell, I live in mine…
We can not get out from our cells…

You have a lover in your cell and you enjoy your life…
I have a desert in my cell and I travel inside this desert…

Some people
they have a forest with a thousand trees in their cells
and they cut them one by one…
Someone
has an ocean in his cell and he kills the whales ….
Someone is a governor and he governs citizens …
Some of them they have a factory in their cells
and some thousand workers…

Someone is a psychiatrist in his cell
and he treats some psychoes there…
and someone is a president and he owns some nation land…
 

Some people
they have a family in their cells 
and also they keep inside their lovers…


I don’t want a woman in my cell…
I want
…you…
I want to make love with you at the edge of the sky…
I want to fall on you like a warm summer rain …

But…
I forgot …
If we can not get out of our cells…
how we gonna get out from the Prison ?


If we can not get out of our cells...
how we gonna get out from the Prison ?



“The Prison” by Tasos Sagris

from his book

"About Human Love
in the Western Metropolitan Cities"
published in Greek language by Voidness publications




the poem in Greek language :




H Φυλακή

Ζούμε στην ίδια φυλακή…
Σου είπα … Φύγε !
… αλλά εσύ δεν με άκουσες… 

Τώρα ζούμε στην ίδια φυλακή…
Εσύ ζεις στο κελί σου και εγώ ζω στο δικό μου κελί…

Δεν μπορούμε να βγούμε απ’ τα κελιά μας…

Εσύ έχεις έναν εραστή μες στο κελί σου 

και απολαμβάνεις τη ζωή σου…
Εγώ έχω μια έρημο μες το κελί μου 
και ταξιδεύω στην έρημό μου…

Κάποιος έχει ένα δάσος μες το κελί του με χίλια δέντρα
και τα κόβει ένα – ένα…
Κάποιος έχει έναν ωκεανό μες το κελί του
και χίλιες φάλαινες και τις σκοτώνει μία – μία …
Κάποιος είναι κυβερνήτης και έχει υπάκουους υπηκόους,

κάποιοι έχουν οικογένεια με παιδιά,
κάποιος έχει ένα εργοστάσιο μες το κελί του 

και εκατό εργάτες,
άλλος είναι πρύτανης πανεπιστημίου 
και έχει χίλιους φοιτητές
και άλλος έχει μες το κελί του μια παρέα με φίλους,

άλλος είναι ψυχίατρος και έχει ψυχασθενείς…
Κάποιοι είναι δάσκαλοι με εφήβους μαθητές,

κάποιοι είναι κυβερνήτες μιας ολόκληρης χώρας
κάποιοι έχουν μια εταιρεία με υπαλλήλους
και κάποιοι έχουνε γυναίκες και όμορφες ερωμένες…

Δεν θέλω μια γυναίκα στο κελί μου!… Θέλω Εσένα…
Θέλω να κάνω Έρωτα μαζί σου στην Άκρη του Ουρανού…
Θέλω να αγκαλιαστούμε σ΄ ένα Ηλιόλουστο Λιβάδι…
Θέλω να πέσω πάνω σου σαν μια ζεστή, καλοκαιριάτικη βροχή.

Αλλά …,
ξέχασα… 
αφού δεν μπορούμε 
να βγούμε απ’ τα κελιά μας
πώς θα βγούμε από τη φυλακή;…


Αφού δεν μπορούμε να βγούμε απ’ τα κελιά μας
πώς θα βγούμε από τη φυλακή;…










"Η Φυλακή" ένα ποίημα του Τάσου Σαγρή από το βιβλίο του
" Για την Ανθρώπινη Αγάπη στις Δυτικές Μητροπόλεις" που κυκλοφορεί στα βιβλιοπωλεία από τις εκδόσεις Κενότητα

6.12.06

Kostas Axelos: A Night at the Horizons of the World / Void Reading Group Night





Void Network proudly presents
a multi media philospophical retrospective
for Kostas Axelos,
the thinker of the Vast Open Horizon, the enigmatic thinker of the Planetary Age.

Void Network people will read fragments from his books :
“Open Systematic”(Systematique Ouverte), “This Questioning”(Ce Questionnement), “Heraclites and Philosophy” (Héraclite et la philosophie) and “Towards the Planetary Thought” (Vers la pensee planetaire)

Void Optical Arts Laboratory
will take care of the multi media environment and
d.j. Sissy Stardust
will play voice-over psychedelic ambient sounds live mix and will continue playing music long time after the end of the words

Void Reading Group Nights
Kostas Axelos / A Night at the Horizons of the World
Thursday 21 December 2006
starts 9 p.m.
Nosotros Free Social Space
Themistokleous 66 Exarchia Athens Greece



“Kostas Axelos was born on the
26th of June1924, and attended high school at the French Institute and the German School of Athens, Greece. Due to the unsatisfactory quality and level of studies in the Philosophy School, he enrolled in the Law School in order to pursue studies in law and economics. However, with the onset of World War II he turned to politics; during the German and Italian occupation he participated in the Greek Resistance, and later in the Greek Civil War, as an organiser, journalist, and ideologue of the Communist Party (1941-1945). He was later expelled from the Communist Party and condemned to death by the right-wing government. He was arrested and escaped.
At the end of 1945 Axelos moved to
Paris, France, where he studied philosophy at Sorbonne. From 1950 to 1957 he worked as a researcher in the philosophy branch of C.R.N.S, where he was writing his dissertations, and subsequently proceeded to work in Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. From 1962 till 1973 he taught philosophy in Sorbonne. His dissertation "Marx, penseur de la technique" (translated as "Alienation, Praxis and Techne in the Thought of Karl Marx") tried to provide an understanding of modern technology based on the thought of Heidegger and Marx and was very influential in the 1960s, alongside the philosophy of Herbert Marcuse.
Axelos was a collaborator, columnist, and subsequently editor of the magazine Arguments (1956-1962). He founded and, since 1960, has run the series Arguments in Edition de Minuit. He has published texts mostly in
French, but also in Greek and German. His most important book is "Le Jeu du Monde" (Play of the World), where Axelos argues for a pre-ontological status of play.
Axelos spends his time between Paris, France and Athens, Greece.
His main works are:
· Heraclite et la Philosophie,
· Marx Penseur de la Techique,
· Vers la Pensee Planetaire,
· Le Jeu Du Monde,
· Pour Une Ethique Problematique,
· Systematique Ouverte,
· Metamorphoses.
Biography retrieved from "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costas_Axelos"



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Void Art photo by Global Eye (London Void Network)

25.11.06

Void Network presents Digital X from Florida U.S.A. in Electro Live Concert in Athens


















LiveElectroConcert in Athens
D i g i t a l X
from U.S.A. Orlando Florida (Sohma Records)

Digital X >> he is a based producer on Sohma Records
and will be appearing live playing a banging all-night set of
electro techno and psychedelic tribal
Coming from recent underground gigs in Hamburg, Germany and
TelAviv, Israel he's ready to set the roof on fire right here in Athens.

+ + + multi media projections by Void Optical Art Laboratory

Saturday 2 December 2006
Nosotros Free Social Space
Themistokleous 66 Exarchia >>starts 10.30 / ends 4.00



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http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com



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16.11.06

Void Network Manifesto
























First Attempt at Communication

We didn’t invent the following ideas…We are just a small wave in the ocean of the evolution of all these ideas, all libertarian atmospheres, dreams and revolutionary plans that keep expanding
in the Vast Open Horizon.


Void Network (Theory, Utopia, Empathy, Ephemeral Arts)
Global Eye (London Void Network)
WarCryCinema (New York Void Network)

Void Network first appeared in Athens-Greece in 1990.
Its aim is the radicalization of every day life and the construction of Public Space situations through the creation of Utopian Public Environments.
Discussions, multi media lectures and poetry shows, open free festivals, multi screen Void Optical Arts Atmospheres (live cross-platform collaborations between visual artists, photographers, poets, lecturers, d.j.s), performances, documentary representations, culture jamming, organization of demonstrations, street parades and public actions, celebrations, concerts, open collaborative workshops of artists, activists, academic scientists and spiritual friends that through dialogue, interaction and synchronized activity manifest multi formic conditions of open access to creativity, education, free information, open liberated autonomous public zones, meeting places, places of communication, empathy, expression and creation for thousands upon thousands of people.

Void Network’s research is directed and co-ordinated through the work of six open laboratories :

>The Void Laboratory for Poetry and Philosophy
>Laboratory for Kosmo-Political Consciousness
>Void Optical Arts Laboratory
(for ephemeral outopian atmospheres)
>Electro Void Laboratory
(for electronic and experimental contemporary music)
>"Open Dialogue" Void Laboratory
>Void Laboratory of the "Translators"

Void Network is a free network of free people, active social beings, artists, scientists and travelers who co-create dynamic interactions of Theory, Utopia, Empathy and Ephemeral Arts

"Void”: void of separate existence, an Open Horizon, a Vast Open Ocean

"Network” : a phenomenon of Global Interdependence

"Theory”: a process of intellectual inquiring, learning and uprising of critical understanding

"Empathy”: care for all beings equally that appears through communal experience.

"Ephemeral Arts”: a signal without leaving a sign, a message without leaving matter.
Void Art / Art without an Artist / Art without an audience / Chaotic acts of Love / Collective Outopian Atmospheres / Situations / Open Public Ephemeral Ecstatic Zones/ TemporaryAutonomousZones

If you need to search for the "art-piece" you have to search for it...in the mind and heart of everyone that was offered to...

Since 1990, Void Network / Athens , Global Eye / London Void Network and WarCryCinema / New York Void Network have presented a series of 300 situations in Greece, Italy, U.K., Spain, Germany, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, USA, India, Nepal and many other countries. This philosophic community’s revolutionary work has appeared in urban spaces, deserted factories, social centers, universities, squares, mountains, forests, beaches and highways. The nature of each situation is directly formulated according to the special characteristics of each space, location, area, social context and specific social needs.
Year after year, people from Greece, England, Italy and New York were growing to understand that they had been engaging in similar activities and using the same vocabulary to express their ideas. They decided to try to build an international network that could manifest public situations, nomadic art and creative meeting points for people from all around the world. They desired a chance to exchange ideas, information, abilities, archives and together, create new forms of cultural and social experience.

Currently two permanent open social zones exist that accommodate the activities of the network in London (Penzance Castle) and in Athens (Free Social Space: Nosotros).
Last year two international projects were activated:
Talking About Total Freedom World Tour.
Global Earth Academy.
We also participated in the creation of European Vision Caravan with artistic and political collectives from all over Europe.


The Fear of Emptiness :

The threat of expulsion in the absence of conformity: This state of fear disables the individual.
A mental control that subsequently becomes physically manifest.
We believe that societies’ biggest impairment is the belief that any one of us or even all of us are not capable of improving our world for the better. The root of this impairment is solely mental, not physical. As a result, we aim to fight power structures while empowering the individual as well as collective consiousness. The very existence of international financial, political, religious, intellectual and artistic Elites has resulted in the denial of Freedom of speech, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Open Public Assembly, Freedom of Mutual Aid and Collaboration.
Placing “art” solely in an art context is, in a way, relegating it to exist only within that context. Restricting the distribution of and opportunities to access new ideas and emotions is something "govern-mental" institutions do. Why voluntarily censor yourself? We see Art, Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Enthusiasm, Collective Ecstasy and Revolt as mental and emotional practices perfectly suited as a tool for enablement, a mental liberator that in turn can lead to positive physical changes.

Utopian Atmospheres

Utopian Atmosphere is the creation of a temporary enclosed feedback system, where activists, artists, and scientists have an opportunity to provide input that will be transformed and reformulated by participants.
Void Art
Art without an audience.
Art without an artist.
Inner Space Art
The light of Perception, the light of Awareness
Political and social meditative abstraction :
(hungry children, fat capitalists, homeless people, a sunrise, happy super market girls, walking refuges, air-bombed cities, street riots and waves in stormy weather, naked people, raindrops on flowers, the shouting prisoner, an afternoon in San Francisco, the night in Rome, burned cars from Paris, masses of corpses from 1915 in Armenia, 2000 thumbnail images of mass graves from all 20th century, the rain coming, red clouds, a photograph of the president, dead Tibetan monks infront of Chinese liberators, a dollar in the hands of a beggar, the sound of crying children, the sound of distant drums, the sound of voidness)
Presenting the stunning beauty of our planet, sudden inspirational moments, the universe and life, the miracle of interdependence, matter, electricity, chemical reactions….. This planet being a living organism, comparing it with microcosm, macrocosm, human body, insects, urban society, technology... Presenting capitalism and authority as viruses, parasites on the planet, the bigger organism. An analysis of psychological manipulations used in advertising, e.g. stereotypes, propaganda, consumerism, mental health, pre-defined ideals (beauty, fitness, leadership, work, family, school, army) revealing images that get bypassed by mainstream media. The communication system used is intended to break through barriers of nationality, education, age, cultural background and apathy.
Void Art / multi-screen projection shows (video art, computer arts, digital photography, anticopyright internet photo archives, 8mm films, slide shows, philosophical and political fragments) / light shows and multi- media / live- mix visual and sound improvisations / many different spiritual friends with many different projectors in the same moment / a moment of understanding / all the participators or just one person / the understanding of the interdeependent nature of the phenomena / a deep feeling of empathy and compassion.
We consider social gatherings as a vital meeting point of minds in a state of openness transcending the separation of selfish, modern life. We consider the essence of art to be truly independent of any physical object or act, reproduction or representation. Art is a moment, a mental and emotional practice, an open process. Any physical object or physical act is simply the tool used for the creation of art’s ultimate aim, the creation of thought and feeling. The ability to create new thoughts and feelings does not require change in the physical world, but change in the mental world, which in turn can effect the physical world.
In the physical world, we tend towards new possibilities of existence, beyond the constructed realities of modern societies. Our aim is to create an experience from a situation, a live art piece, where the actual experience created is the art piece. The collective experience of being there, the interaction with the people around you, the different thoughts and emotions created amongst the people feeding back and effecting future thoughts and emotions IS the art piece.
The tools used to create this experience are space, time and all the different forms and elements of Void Art, Theory, Philosophy and Living Practice. Art should evoke emotion, provoke thought and inspire change for the better. The art, philosophy and cultural-social activism we engage in,
in the vast open public sphere, promotes the development of ideas, images, experiences, thoughts and emotions through the collective interaction of mental and emotional processes. In a way, it is a collective mental-emotional sculpting. This technique is principally based on real time cross platform collaboration, living the experience of interaction and interdependence, changing people’s perception of themselves and their potential by breaking some of society’s traditional illusions. People in modern, every-day life identify with systems, which in effect are based on illusions; they believe they have freedom, choice and power within an infrastructure of a civilization bound by morality, ethics and righteousness. In order to achieve freedom and empowerment it is necessary to identify often deeply hidden, conditioning thoughts. What we are talking about is very different from having a shallow conversation or paying to see a concert and has nothing to do with an "art exhibition".
Creating an overall art piece in a Utopian Atmosphere enables people to immerse themselves in a state of receptiveness through a series of experiences and situations that effects their minds, bodies, and souls. The objective is to facilitate people’s creativity, openness, empowerment, satisfaction, safety, inclusiveness, solidarity, expression and general mental and physical happiness. We work to create a space which maximizes the ability of people to enter deep contemplation about their own lives and the world around them. These events attempt to break down perceptions of established reality by confronting neuroses, paranoia, self-doubts and fears whilst facilitating creativity, freedom and uninhibited joy, intensive talks about life, unity and bonding. These events challenge ownership, greed, possessions, and encourage generosity, inspiration and awakening of personal, critical mind.

Eco-nomy

Our situations tend to be moments that gather thousands of people into experiments in new forms of public life, in a non-profit economy, transforming spaces into atmospheres of equality, dialogue and non-exploitative collective understanding. The abolishment of profit is one the main steps in the direction of an "Eco-nomy Without Profit and Exchange" based on "Constant Free Distribution" and "Direct Access". We believe that our situations are anti-commercial and non-consumerist.
All the artists, the scientists, the visioneries, the constructors and the helpers of the situations are against salaried employment and profit.
Our intention is to spread libertarian ideas, communication, motivation, inspiration, education and the self-organization of "Open Public Ephemeral Zones".
This can happen outside of the established constructions of the "govern-mental" state authorities, private interests, corporations, pop-celebrity pseudo-reality, employment and all kinds of material gain.

Negations, non-dogmatism and inclusiveness

We deny the separated puppet role of the "artist", "politician", "scientist", or "philosopher". We believe that each one of us must keep in equilibrium the political, artistic and philosophic consciousness by keeping alive empathy, critical inquiry, inner cultivation, educative public communication and public open expression, solidarity and participation in the Public Sphere.
So, as we negate the morals of employment and the nuclear family social shell we focus on the achievement of new experimental ways to achieve Utopia in our everyday life,NOW!.
The pleasure of life is hiding outside of the norms, outside of the eight hour programmed workday, outside of the dead cities and the melancholic architecture of private life. Our dreams must be capable to construct a new architecture, new atmospheres, new kinds of relationships, new body language, new ways of expression and new kinds of day to day activity, new pleasures, new techniques, new designs and new future plans. As creative human beings we pursue the connection of every type of intellectual and artistic creation with the demand for social and personal liberation. Experimental behavior, new lifestyle choices and collective construction of social, aesthetic, philosophical and political situations are necessary components of free co-existence without any limitation of action and thought.

Total Freedom is a pre-requisite of existence...Not a reward...
When this is understood, a state of war or confrontation with all manners of authoritarian dogma inevitably results. We must face this fact, personally and socially.

events , projects, history:
http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com

contact :
voidinternational@gmail.com

homepage :
www.voidnetworksociety.org

http://www.warcrycinema.org

15.11.06

Void Network HISTORY>>2June2006AthensCentralPark Pedion Areos>>ambient space dub waves / Ephemeral Zone/ Inner Space Art/Poetry night



























ambient space dub waves
open public autonomous ephemeral zone/ inner space art/ poetry night

Friday 2 June 2006
Pedion Areos / Athens Central Park

Live Concert:
Suku, Direct Connection, Paragga Sound System

D.J. sets:
Anna Mystic, Crystal Zero, Sissy Stardust, Raman

Live Poetry Show:
Anastasios Sagris, Yiannis Raouzaios

Live Poetry Soundtrack mix:
Kinomatik

Void Optical Art Laboratory (video art, computer arts, slide photograpghy):
Global Eye(London Void Network), Yiannis Nisidis, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Kinomatik, Vasilis Glarakis, Georgia Sagri, Fani Sofologi, Mariza Nikolaou, Anastasios Sagris


It was a multi media open air ephemeral alive instalation, a park transformed into a poetical, cinematgrafic space...Poetry readings, live d.j. mix, concerts, many void optical artists and 400 people, all night long, summer in Greece and the central park of Athens squated by the people....It was a wonderfull inspirational night and a realy space out morning...

Void Network proudly announces the “Open Dialogue” Laboratory


The “Open Dialogue” Void Network Laboratory will be “non public” situations and meetings that will take place in houses of friends in every two weeks. Eight people will participate in this Laboratory (two poets, one astrophysicist, one linguist and one anthropologist from Void Network and three independent political activists-thinkers). Other thinkers and activists will be invited according to the subject of the dialogue.
This group of people will have the opportunity to talk about a serial number of subjects as “Work”, “Life-Style”, “Experimental Behavior and Libertarian Way of Life in the societies of 21st century” “Conservativism”, “Alienation and the Spectacle”, “National Identity and Cosmo-political Consciousness”, “The revolutionary subject”, “Insurrection and insurrectional Violence”.
All the dialogues will be recorded and will be published in a book and in a free-distributed dvd.(Unfortunately the dialogues will be in Greek and only parts of them will be translated in English)
We will try to liberate our selves from the ideological barricades of the written logos, the gap between the theory and the existential experience, the pseudo-roles of the separated “philosopher”, “artist” and “intellectual”. We will use the process of recorded dialogue to give to the reader the opportunity to come in contact with a vast open horizon of ideas and opinions, a non-dogmatic debate and a practice of the critical theory that will help him to build up his own opinions and his own critic. In the same moment we will give to our selves the chance to disagree and debate, to express our ideas openly and to go beyond our personal doubts, fears and limitations.



photo of the post by Vaggelis Doutsios ( Void Optical Art Laboratory)

homepage:
www.voidnetworksociety.org

events, projects:
http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com

contact:
voidinternational@gmail.com

About the translation of "Days Of Love Nights of War" in Greek language


In 8 November 2006
Void Network organized a wonderfull night in Nosotros (Free Social Space), dedicated to the reading of the new tranlations from the book "Days Of War, Nights Of Love" by the www.crimethinc.com ( reading of the introduction and the first chapter).

The people from the Void Optical Arts Laboratory prepared some great visuals for the night including all the pictures from the site of crimethinc and hundreds of pictures of political and social abstraction (hungry children, fat capitalists, homeless people, happy super market girls, crying refuges, air-bombed cities, street riots and waves in stormy weather e.t.c.)
D.J. Sissy Stardust mixed psychedelic ambient soudscapes with the reading voices and continued to play for hours after....
But the greatest of all....and the reason for this post is that......
Two new persons offered themselves to participate in the Void Laboratory of Translators and also to take part in the process of the translation of "Days Of War, Nights of Love". So, now they will be four tranlators focus on this book and this will give us the chance to finish the translation in the next 3 months...
All the people from Void Network feel very happy for that and we thank the new come translators for their participation...

homepage:
www.voidnetworksociety.org

events, projects:
http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com

contact:
voidinternational@gmail.com

6.11.06

Void Reading Group Nights /Void Network and www.crimethinc.com presents the book “Days of Love Nights of War” in Athens Greece



















As a part of our Void Reading Group Nights we present
in Nosotros (Free Social Space) in Wednesday 8 November 2006 the first two chapters of the wonderful book “Days of War Nights of Love” translated by Anastasios Sagris and Laboratory for Kosmo-Political Consciousness.
The book “Days of War, Nights of Love” made by “crimethink ex-workers collective” as a tool for the arising of critical mind and as a personal question for our way of life in the 21st century western lands.

Chapter 1: What is the Crimethink Ex-Workers Collective?
Chapter 2: No Gods, No Masters

The reading will take place in a multi media optic-acoustic environment with the Void Optical Arts Laboratory taking care of the projections and D.J. Sissy Stardust making a live psychedelic ambient mix on the voices of the readers.
This is the first situation that we organize together with our favourite spiritual friends from U.S.A.
http://www.crimethinc.com/

Void Reading Group Nights
Days Of War, Nights of Love
Wednesday 8 November 2006
Starts 8.30 in the night

Nosotros (Free Social Space)
Themistokleous 66 Exarchia


crimethink ex-workers collective:
www.crimethinc.com

void network home page:
www.voidnetworksociety.org

events, history:
voidnetwork.blogspot.com

contact:
voidinternational@gmail.com

photo of the post by Vaggelis Doutsios (Void Optical Arts Laboratory)






2.11.06

Rock Live Concert in Squatted High School


In all of Greece, there are students fighting against commercialization of education resulting from capitalistic efforts to conquer all sides of life, all activities, all needs. 1100 High Schools and almost every university is squatted by these students …We fight as Void Network together with these students to stop these changes in education and so keep it Free for all and Public.We give our collective efforts to disallow governments and multinational corporations from using their cynicism and massive propaganda to the detriment of children, students, and teachers, from using their influence through the media, and mainstream culture to turn all of us into nothing more than “consumers”, “spectators” and “submissive workers”…
We will build our future together, we will build our Critical Mind…We are not such easy victims...


Our Dreams Will Be Their Nightmares
Rock Live Concert in Squatted High School
Lost Bodies, Low Gravity, Three Way Plane,

Twin Peags, The Screaming Fly
+ special guests school bands
+ projections by Void Optical Arts Laboratory

5th High School / Athens / Exarchia / Asklipiou rd +Valtesiou str
Saturday 4 November 2006
From 7 o clock in the afternoon until 2 o clock in the night

www.voidnetworksociety.org

events, history :
http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com

contact:
voidinternational@gmail.com




27.10.06

Void Optical Arts Laboratories and Global Eye participates in the 2nd Meeting of Greek Photographic Groups in the Benakis Museum / Peireus rd. 138


Void Optical Arts Laboratory and Global Eye(London Void Network)
will participate in the 2nd Meeting of Greek Photographic groups and Clubs October 27, 28 and 29, 2006 in order to establish contact with photographers and art photography groups from all over Greece. We will present Void Art and Void Network’s philosophy about "art", collective creativity and construction of cross-platform collaborations and open public gatherings. Void Network will manifest at 12 noon, October 28, 2006. There will be a multi media presentation that will include readings from the Void Network Manifesto and a lecture by Anastasios Sagris: "Void Art / Inner Space Art" : Developing a new way of observing World Horizons.Void Optical Art Laboratories will present a 20 minute live multi media show.


organized by :
Greek Photography Center/ Photography Center of Thessaloniki
www.fkth.gr

and the magazine

http://antilipseis.gr/fotodiktio/

location :
www.benaki.gr


Void Network contact:
voidinternational@gmail.com
Void Network Home page :
www.voidnetworksociety.org

photography of the post : Global Eye(London Void Network)

19.10.06

Void Network HISTORY>> Prohibit the Prohibitions ! 2ndProtestival 5,6,7 May 2006

Prohibit the Prohibitions!
for Justfull, Humanistic and Effective "Drug Politics"
3 days NonStop Music Festival

5,6,7 May 2006
Ex-Hippodromus- Kalithea Athens Greece








on stage:
One Drop Fwd, Professor Skank, Locomondo, Doc, Paragga Sound System, Iraklis Mindphaser, Raman, Crystal Zero, d.j.Nikitas, Antiksoes Paragoges, Go Over 1000, Direct Connection, Boogie Base, White Noise Discipline, Aera Patera, Iristho En Parodo, Kako Sinapantima, The Dive, No Way Out, Echo Tatoo, Kilimantzaro, Figment-Insense, Funxion, d.j.Dura, Kostas Flying Agaric, Har-monez, D-Fer, Lee Sergic, Anna Mystic, THC Sound System, Rastayouth, Skitlab, Mistaoperator, Selah, Mashdown, WhoAmI, Reeko, A.H20, Rental, Chris, Highpno, Kernecolemode

multi media projections by Global Eye and Void Optical Arts Laboratories

supported by
www.iliosporoi.gr (Iliosporoi), www.voidnetworksociety.org (Void Network), Global Eye, Natural High, Eleu.si.na, 1StepForward, www.rastavibe.gr (Rastavibe), Alegre Grow Shop

More than 10.000 people participated in this "Global Marihuana March" event and they Legalized Ganja collectivily. They gave one to each other the power to go beyond fear, beyond the laws and to announce their difference and their views in the open public space...
Thank you All ! and....See You in Next Year.

Void Network HISTORY>> Global Marijuana March ! 2ndProtestival 5,6,7 May 2006



















Natural High in the Morning
d.j.Iraklis Mindphaser expands the morning sounds! Everybody is Happy!Ganja Pride Parade!Ganja is been Legalized(in our collective consciousness)!
We will feel no fear anymore!

Void Network HISTORY>> Legalize Ganja ! 2ndProtestival 5,6,7 May 2006


3 days
Non Stop Protest Festival
for Justfull,
Humanistic
and Effective "Drug Politics"












supported by :
www.iliosporoi.gr, Global Eye,Void Network, Natural High, Green Ecologists, eleu.syn.a., 1StepForward, AlegreGrowShop

Void Network HISTORY>>> Photography from Ambientrancedelica in Strefis Hill Friday 29 September 2006

Awake
your Critical Mind
Resist!
Understand!
Attack! Just Attack!
No seperation, No show
Art Without an Artist
Art Without Spectators
Void Art
Ephemeral Art
Collective Ecstasy
Public Space Liberation!


Void Network HISTORY>>Strefis Hill

Void Network HISTORY>> Photography from Ambientrancedelica in Strefis Hill Friday 29 September 2006


The Liberation of Public Space, the Reclaim of our Everyday Life, the Collective Ecstasy

7.10.06

Travelling in Himalaya (Nepal-North India) slide show photo exhibition by Tasos Sagris and Theodosia Doutsiou friday 13 october 2006 at Nosotros


As Tasos Sagris and Theodosia Doutsiou (Void Optical Arts Laboratories) just arrived from Himalaya (Nepal-North India) we will have the opportunity to organize an exhibition of 2500 photographies of them. Two video projectors, three slide machines and special light instalation will produce a multi media void art environment.
D.j Crystal Zero and Sissy Stardust they will be responsible for the sound design of the night and they will play the original Sound of the Asian Underground as also Indian Classical Music, Oriental Dub and Space Ethnic Electronika...
The exhibition will take place in
Friday 13 October 2006 / 8.30 p.m.
Nosotros Free Social Space / Themistokleous 66 Exarchia

(Nosotros Free Social Space is the social center that Void Network participated in the creation of it and accomodates a big variety of interesting artistic and political situations as also antiauthoritarian , direct social work)


www.voidnetworksociety.org

contact :
voidinternational@gmail.com

nosotros contact :
nosotrosfsc@gmail.com

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE at polutexnioupoli saturday 14 october 2006 athens greece


Void Network
proudly presents
some of the best
ELECTRO
ACID TECHNO
and
DRUM&BASS d.j.s from Greece in another open air high quality event for the benefit of the underground.

Void Network started palying techno in the early nineties and still, today, members of the collective are searching deeper into the techno intelligence to keep the electronic underground out of commercial mainstream clubs. This is difficult in Greece since we have never had techno tribes and underground "illegal" sound systems. People have always been accustomed to going to "high class" clubs and paying ridiculous admission simply for the purpose of feeding a pseudo-identity. For that reason, as an opposition to the conditions of the Athens techno scene, we invite all people to co-create a real underground rave experience. We hope we will share a wonderful night together and the sunrise will find us in Love and Ecstasy.

UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE
electro acid techno and drum&bass

saturday 14 october 2006
Polutexnioupoli/Polytechnic University Campus
Free Entrance from Katexaki rd.

stage 1 :
DJ DURA
DJ GEORGE APERGIS from Modular Expansion
KINOMATIX
FUNXION SOUND SYSTEM

stage 2 : (ambient space trance and electro dub)
CRYSTAL ZERO
SISSY STARDUST
MISTA OPERATOR
DJ NIKITAS
BUSHMAN TRIBE
ANDREAS NATS
DJ NESCO
DJ INVISIBLE

starts at 10.00 in the night and ends 12 in the next morning / If it rains the party will move to the Garage of Polutexnioupoli

www.voidnetworksociety.org

contact :
voidinternational@gmail.com

26.9.06

ambientracedelica Strefis Hill Friday 29 September 2006















Keno Diktuo
VOID NETWORK (Theory,Outopia,Synesthesia,Ephemeral Arts) AMBIENTRANCEDELICA electro acid psychedelic trance Friday 29 September 2006 LOFOS TOU STREFI (Strefis urban Hill) from 22.00 until the morning Support by NATURAL HIGH Crew
Line up: >>MIND WARPED Live P.A. (Soular Recs,USA/ California) >>Iralkis Mindphaser >>Crystal Zero >>d.j.Nikitas >>Trifon Nats
Lofos tou Strefi >> Strefis Hill>>This is an urban hill overlooking Athens, full of trees, with an ampitheatre that is open for all to express their ideas and art. For more than 25 years this hill has been one of Athens’s Autonomous Zones defended with much effort by anarchists, romantics and utopian libertarians as an Open Public Space, as a moment and space for our reclaimed life This party is dedicated to those thousands that defended this hill all those years.

homepage : http://www.voidnetworksociety.org/
void network events, news : http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com/
Natural High contacts: http://www.co-media.gr/naturalhigh
dancephotocopy@hotmail.com
Special guest : http://www.soularrecords.com/

Void Network contact: voidinternational@gmail.com

16.9.06

Void Network( Keno Diktuo) proudly presents in Athens : Man With No Name Live Free Concert in Polutexnioupoli University Campus Sat.7oct.2006


Void Network (Theory, Outopia, Empathy, Ephemeral Arts)
Keno Diktuo proudly presents :
MAN WITH NO NAME Live Free Concert in Athens

POLUTEXNIOUPOLI Saturday 7 October 2006
entrance from Katexaki rd.
starts 10.30 p.m.
Two stages high quality event/ squated open air valley of university campus / cultural activism/
free entrance for the benefit of Underground Resistance

Stage1 :
MAN WITH NO NAME (Live P.A.)
Stavros Svmix
Iraklis Mindphaser
Dimitris Nats

special support by Natural High Collective


Stage2/Psychedelic Ambient,Electro Dub, Roots Reggae Dub :
Crystal Zero
Lady Sissy Stardust
Booshman Tribe
d.j. Nikitas
d.j. Nesko
Mista Operator

The World that is alive in our Dreams is much more Real than the "real" World
Fight for the Liberation of All Beings from Ignorance, Suffering and Exploitation

homepage : www.voidnetworksociety.org
blog for news about the events and specials: http://voidnetwork.blogspot.com
contact : voidinternational@gmail.com

14.9.06

Void Network Manifesto


First Attept of Communication

We didn’t invent the following ideas…We are just a small wave in an ocean of the evolution of all these ideas, all libertarian atmospheres, dreams and revolutionary plans that keep expanding in the Vast Open Horizon.



Void Network (Theory, Utopia, Empathy, Ephemeral Arts)
Global Eye (London Void Network)
WarCryCinema (New York Void Network)





Void Network first appeared in 1990 in Athens with aim the radicalization of every day life and the construction of situations in Public Space through the creation of Utopian Public Environments. Discussions, multi media lectures and poetry shows, open free festivals, multi screen Void Optical Arts Atmospheres (live cross-platform collaborations between visual artists, photographers, poets, lecturers, d.j.s), performances, documentary representations, culture jamming, organization of demonstrations, street parades and public actions, celebrations, concerts, open collaborative workshops of artists, activists, academic scientists and spiritual friends that through dialogue, interaction and synchronized activity can manifest multi formic conditions of open access to creativity, education, free information, open liberated autonomous public zones, meeting places, places of communication, empathy, expression and creation for thousands upon thousands of people.

The research of Void Network is directed and co-coordinated through the work of four open laboratories :
- The Void Laboratory for Poetry and Philosophy
- Laboratory for Kosmo-Political Consciousness
- Void Optical Arts Laboratory of ephemeral atmospheres
-ElectroVoid laboratories for electronic and experimental contemporary music

Void Network is a free net of free people, active social beings, artists, scientists and travelers who co-create dynamic interactions of Theory, Utopia, Empathy and Ephemeral Arts
"Void”: void of separate existence, an Open Horizon, a Vast Open Ocean
"Network”: a phenomenon of Global Interdependence
"Theory”: a process of intellectual inquiring, learning and uprising of critical understanding
"Empathy”: care for all beings equally that appears through the communal experience.
"Ephemeral Arts”: a signal without leaving a sign, a message without leaving matter.


From 1990 until today Void Network / Athens , Global Eye / London Void Network and WarCryCinema / New York Void Network has presented a series of 300 situations in Greece, Italy, U.K., Spain, Germany, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, USA, India, Nepal and many other countries were work has simply been exhibited in.
The revocatory work of this political, artistic and philosophic community has appeared in urban spaces, deserted factories, social centers, Universities, squares, mountains, forests, beaches and highways. The nature of each situation is directly formulated according to the special characteristics of each space, location, area, social context and specific social needs.
Year after year, people from Greece, England, Italy and New York understood that for years they were making parallel activities and they were using the same vocabulary to express their ideas and so they decided to try and build an international network that can manifest public situations, nomadic art and creative meeting points for people from all around the world. Allowing for the chance to exchange ideas, information, abilities, archives and creating together new forms of cultural experiences.


Currently two permanent open social zones exist that accommodate the activities of the network

in London (Penzance Castle) and in Athens (Free Social Space: Nosotros).
In the last year two international projects were activated:
Talking About Total Freedom World Tour.
Global Earth Academy.

In the same moment we participate in the built up of European Vision Caravan with artistic and political collectives from all Europe.




The Fear of Emptiness

The threat of expulsion in the absence of conformity: This state of fear disables the individual.

A mental control that subsequently becomes physically manifest. We believe that societies’ biggest impairment is the belief that any one of us or even all of us are not capable of improving our world for the better. This root of this impairment is solely mental, not physical. As a result we aim to deconstruct power structures whilst empowering the individual and collective activity.


The very existence of international financial, political, religious, intellectual and artistic Elites has been banned the Freedom of speech, the Freedom of Expression, the Freedom of Open Public Assembly, the Freedom of Mutual Aid and Collaboration.
Placing “art” only in an art context is in a way banning it to only exist within that artistic context.
Restricting the distribution and access opportunities to new ideas and emotions is something govern-mental institutions do, why voluntary censor yourself?
We see Art, Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Enthusiasm, Collective Ecstasy and Revolt as mental and emotional practices perfectly suited as an antidote for enablement, a mental liberator that in turn can lead to positive physical changes.

Utopian Atmospheres


Utopian Atmosphere is the creation of a temporary enclosed feedback system, where the activists, the artists, the scientists have the opportunity to inject inputs that will be transformed and reformulated by all the participants.
Void Art
Art without an audience.
Art without an artist.

Presenting the stunning beauty of our planet, sudden inspirational moments, the universe and life, the miracle of interdependence, matter, electricity, chemical reactions….. This planet being a living organism, comparing it with microcosm, macrocosm, human body, insects, urban society, technology...
Presenting capitalism and authority as viruses, parasites on the planet, the bigger organism.
An analysis of psychological manipulations used in advertising, e.g. stereotypes, propaganda, consumerism, mental health, pre-defined ideals (beauty, fitness, work.) revealing images that get bypassed by mainstream media.

The communication system used is intended to break through barriers of education, age, cultural background and apathy.

We consider social gatherings as a vital meeting point of minds in a state of openness transcending the separatism of individualist modern life.


We consider the essence of art to be truly independent of any physical object or act. Art is a mental and emotional practice, an open process. Any physical object or physical act is simply the tool used for the creation of arts ultimate aim, the creation of thought and feeling. The ability to create new thoughts and feelings does not require change in the physical world, but change in the mental world, which in turn can have effect on the physical world. In the physical world we tend towards experiences of new possibilities of existence, beyond modern societies constructed realities.


Our aim is to create an experience from a situation, an alive art piece, where the actual experience created is the art piece. The collective experience of being there, the interacting with the people around you, the different thoughts and emotions created amongst the people feeding back in and effecting future thoughts and emotions is the art piece and the tools used to create this experience would be in context, space and time all the different forms and elements of Void Art, Theory, Philosophy and Living Practice.

Art should evoke emotion, provoke thought and inspire change for the better.

The art, philosophy and cultural activism we found ourselves making in the vast open public sphere was the actual arising of ideas, images, experiences, thoughts and emotions from our interaction with the mental and emotional processes of other people. In a way it is a collective mental-emotional sculpting.
This technique is principally based on real time cross platform collaboration, living the experience of interaction and interdependence, changing people’s perception of themselves and their potential by breaking some of Society’s traditional illusions.
People in modern every-day life identify with systems, which in effect are based on illusions; they believe they have freedom, choice and power within an infrastructure of a civilization bound by morality, ethics and righteousness. In order to achieve freedom and empowerment it is necessary to identify often deeply hidden conditioning thoughts. What we are talking about is very different from having a conversation and getting someone to think about something or pay to go in a concert-hall or a theatre show and has nothing to do with an art exhibition.



Creating an overall art piece under the premise of Utopian Atmospheres was able to immerse people into a state of receptiveness through series of experiences and situations that effected their minds, bodies, and souls with an objective to facilitate people’s creativity, openness, empowerment, satisfaction, safety, inclusiveness, solidarity, expression and general mental and physical happiness. At the same time we are working on creating a space in which to maximize the ability of people to enter deep thought and contemplation about their own lives and the world around them.

These events aim to be capable of breaking down perceptions of established reality by confronting neuroses, paranoia, self-doubts and fears whilst facilitating creativity, freedom and uninhibited joy, intensive talks on life, unity and bonding. These events challenge ownership, greed, possessions, and encourage generosity, inspiration and awakening of personal critical mind.

Eco-nomy

Our situations tends to be moments that bring together thousands of people into experiments of new forms of public life, in a non-profit economy, transforming the spaces into atmospheres of equality, dialogue and non-exploitative collective understanding.
The abolishment of profit is one the main steps in the direction of an Economy Without Profit and Exchange based on Constant Free Distribution and Direct Access.
We believe that our situations have anti-commercial and non-consumerist nature because our intentions are the spreading of libertarian ideas, communication, motivation, inspiration, education and the self-organization of experiential Open Public Ephemeral Zones. This can happen outside of the established constructions of the govern-mental state authorities, private interests, corporations, pop-celebrity pseudo-reality, employment and all kind of material gain.


Negations, non dogmatism and inclusiveness

We deny the separated puppet role of the "artist", of the "politician", of the "scientist", of the "philosopher".
We believe that each one of us have to keep in equilibrium the political, artistic and philosophic consciousness by keeping alive the empathy, the critical inquiry, the inner cultivation, the educative public communication and public open expression, the solidarity and the participation in the Public sphere.

So, as we negate the morals of employment and the nuclear family social shell we focus on the achievement of new ways of present-time collective every day life that can appear as alive pragmatic examples of a utopian Future.
The pleasure of life is hiding outside of the norms, outside of the 8hour programmed work, outside of the dead cities and the melancholic architecture of private life. Our dreams need to be accommodated by a new architecture, new atmospheres, new kind of relationships, new body language, new ways of expression and new kinds of day to day activity, new pleasures, new techniques, new designs and new future plans.

As creative human beings we pursue the connection of every type of intellectual and artistic creation with the general demand for social and personal liberation of every day life. The experimental behavior, the new choices of ways of life and the collective construction of social, aesthetic, philosophical and political situations are the necessary components that constitute the atmospheres and the new qualities of free co-existence without any limitation of action and thought.

Total Freedom is a pre-requisite of existence...Not a future achievement...
When this understanding arises, a state of war or confrontation with all kind of dogmatic authorities automatically arises and we have to face this fact personally and socially.



contact : voidinternational@gmail.com

homepage : www.voidnetworksociety.org, www.warcrycinema.org

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