paraspito residency.
(EN)Situated at the village Afetes, Pelion, Paraspito Residency hosts international artists to collectively create, (re)think, (un)learn, exchange and research on commonal practices and techniques, local traditions, natural environments and their organisms, plants, animals and more-than-humans.
Architectural term originally denoting the traditional Pelion “side house”, a living space that is both inside and outside, Paraspito indicates a direction, a perspective, a point of view that allows us to examine the familiar (οικείο) from a critical distance, while not losing our intrinsic connection to it.
Summer 2025 “Soft Powers of Water”
Together with Edwin De Klein and Louisa Vergozisi, members of the Dutch collective Flujas, we reflected on the soft powers of water, slowness and traditional craftmanship. Hacking at the remoted chapels, springs and streams of South Pelion, experimenting with traditional stone techniques, discovering how to walk with a dutch shoe on a kalderimi and how to fall in love with a crab, conversing with our natural surrondings. But most of all self-reflecting on our own practices and positing ourselves towards community and the contemporary art field.