A conversation with Aris Papadopoulos

In this series of recorded encounters we speak with the participants of Onassis AiR to shed light on their artistic practices and needs, as well as to reflect on ways of being and working together. In this conversation, I have the chance to speak with Aris Papadopoulos. Aris is a dancer, maker and performer based in Athens. With a background in architecture Aris sees the landscape as a cultural construction and as a heavily charged field of potentiality for action, exploration, playfulness and composition. In spring 2020, Aris was a participant of the Critical Practices Program of Onassis AiR. Today, we discuss about his research interest around the reciprocal scheme of embodying landscape versus shaping an experience that he further explored during his residency through the format of an audio-guided performative walk. On this occasion, we have also invited to this conversation his two mentors who worked closely with Aris and supported him for the development of his research, Lenio Kaklea, a dancer, choreographer and writer based in Paris, and Dimitris Theodoropoulos, an architect working in the intersection of art, architecture and spatial design.