"There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song"
Masanobu Fukuoka
A warm thank you to "Spithari waking life"
The video shown below is taken from Spithari Walking Life (In the region of Marathon, East suburbs of Athens) in a place that was burned in 2009.
In 2011 I went there to be a part of a team of independent activists -Spithari Walking Life- for the regeneration and investigation of any possible alternatives in order to apply-in a nearly desertified area- and communicate freely, possible sustainable solutions towards energy, shelter and food resiliency.
For a long time I was feeling as if I was dichotomised: An Engineer and theater practitioner, two sides that did not comply with each other.It was in the nature of Spithari Waking life project to reveal and unite all skills through imagination and creativity.
Through this project these two sides within me were united and this helped me express what is alive with in me; through transdisciplinarity I felt free by realizing that science and art are not separate but have common roots and fertile ground to grow together.
Video from 2012 workshops in physical farming and installation of Wind Turbine Generator in Spithari Waking life.
Spyros Tsiknas
Spyros Tsiknas has studied Electrical Electronic Engineering in the University of Wales (BENG, MSC) and Performing arts in the Drama School of Empros (B.A.). He has working experience in the fields of R&D, and Renewable Energy Sources, and has worked as an actor, writer and theater technician. He Combines practices from the fields of art and science, Role play for non violent action techniques and explorative processes within social art practice in a trnasdiciplinary – art & sustainability manner.
Some indicative experience:
He worked as a volunteer in Very Special Arts (V.S.A.) As an activist he realized -with a team of activists- in Spithari Waking life the Implementation of EU’s program through the General Secretariat of youth (Youth in action) with the title: Resilient residence. The program was implemented through partnerships in the suburbs of Athens in the area of Marathonas. Through that he gained experience in the study and installation of autonomous R.E.S. systems, in the field of natural building techniques, in the field of permaculuture, natural farming, grey water and organic waste management. All the workshops where open to the public and the applications followed the principles were "open source".
He organized the project Cycle 4 Sustainability and constructed a cycle generator. He wrote his first theatrical play that got a distinction in the workshop of dramaturgy for the French and Greek platform of contemporary dramaturgy, he than writes, directs, and performs ENERGY RESILIENT EVENTS (ERE) for grown ups and children. E.R.E. have been presented in schools, Culture Centers, refuge camps, municipalities.
He was an art resident for Socially Engaged Arts in the project COMMON GROUND - Budapest Ireland.
Within the frame work of Role Play for Non Violent Action (NOVICODE), he and Dr. Eve Olney made a presentation of the "Concept" of NOVICODE for the National Development Agency for the Collaborative Arts - CREATE IRELAND -(here is the full program of the Create Networking Day, and then he coordinated a 9 hour workshop for the SPARE ROOM Project. Currently We are furtherly developing our participatory workshop in order to mitigate conflict within teams that work in the field social and environmental sustainability.
In MEGARON Concert Hall he used the cycle generator to light a performance directed by Konstantin Michos.
As an actor he has been directed by Dimitris karatzas, Thanos Papakonstantinoy, Yiannis Tsortekis, Nikos Kornilios.