Peramatisma – Weaving the Future of the World from the Past of the Land
Start of reservations: 04.08
21.08 — 22.08.2025
19:30
Description
Peramatisma is a cultural proposal inspired by the timeless ritual of weaving on a traditional loom, known as “peramatisma” – the process of interlacing threads according to each weft’s pattern and style through the loom’s instruments. As a concept, peramatisma becomes a tool for understanding the intertwining of the local with the global, tradition with innovation, time with space, and humanity with matter and technology. Presented on Mount Psiloritis, at the Idaean Cave—a place of special significance and strong symbolism in Crete—this work aims to blend cultural memory with contemporary creation, focusing on the role of the human creator. Through Peramatisma, the dynamic of weaving emerges as a gesture, a symbol, and a cultural code; as an intersection of traditional arts with new technologies and digital forms of expression; as an interlacing of different musical idioms that lead to a new listening experience.
Contributors
ANDROIDUS PROJECT TANK
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Programme of Events
Part A: Lectures & Presentations
– Opening into Peramatisma through the memory of everyday life and the poetry of weaving with Loudovikos ton Anogeion (21/8)
– Introduction to the thematic core of perspective, highlighting weaving as a space of memory, action, and reinterpretation by Zoi Papadaki, weaver and educator at the new Weaving Structure of the Ministry of Culture in Anogeia (22/8)
Part B: Music
– Contemporary renditions of Cretan music by Lefteris and Manousos Kallergis (21/8)
Musical collaboration with the art of weaving: Yangos Chairetis (21 & 22/8)
– Creation of a sound composition: Argonauts Music (22/8)
– String Demons: Lydia and Konstantinos Bountounis (21 & 22/8)
Parallel Event:
Adraktos Digital Museum Exhibition
For the first time, a selection of works from the evolving digital platform Adraktos, a digital museum of contemporary weaving and art, will be presented to the public. The exhibition brings together the weavers of Psiloritis — Aristea Xylouri, Ermioni Kalomoiri, Vaggelio Dayianta, Evangelia Spithouri, Nitsa Chaireti, and Lefkothea Spithouri — with contemporary creators Nikos Kanoglou, Alexandra Bisa, Klotho, and Giorgos Bounias.
The event is offered for free by the Ministry of Culture.
Advanced booking is necessary.
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