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Iris Touliatou - Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025
For three days, Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025, a hairdressing public service is offered free of charge for the citizens of Durrës. Conceived as a conceptual and performative work by artist Iris Touliatou, the project reimagines acts of care, intimacy, and exchange within urban and institutional frameworks.
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Iris Touliatou - Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025
For three days, Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025, a hairdressing public service is offered free of charge for the citizens of Durrës. Conceived as a conceptual and performative work by artist Iris Touliatou, the project reimagines acts of care, intimacy, and exchange within urban and institutional frameworks.
Working across disciplines, Touliatou explores infrastructures, function, attachment, and desire, questioning the conditions of artistic production and the contexts in which it unfolds. In Durrës, she collaborates with a local hairdresser to offer cuts and styles by the sea, within the port, a site of passage, commerce, and transformation. Through this ephemeral gesture, Aesthetic services circa 2025, 2025 blurs the boundaries between art, labor, and everyday rituals, inviting participants to a subtle metamorphosis as both an act of service and a fleeting moment of connection
Aesthetic services circa 2024, 2024 Hairdresser, mirror, chair, bather, cutting cape Performed in Anafi on June 27, 28, 29 2024 by Fotis Mestousakis as part of Phenomenon 5.
Stathis Mamalakis
Iris Touliatou
Iris Touliatou works across various disciplines which are necessary for each intervention. Examining infrastructures and function, attachment and desires, the public and private, Touliatou explores the relationships between social structures and people’s practices and raises questions on the conditions of artistic production and the institutional frames within which it exists. She lives and works in Athens, Greece.
She recently had solo exhibitions at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2024); Peer, London; fluent, Santander; and Kunsthalle Basel (all 2023), as well as at Grazer Kunstverein (2022). Her work has been included in the group exhibitions Key Operators, Kunstverein München, Munich (2024) ; Phenomenon 5, Anafi (2024) ; Intimate confession is a project, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston (2023); forms of the surrounding futures, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg (2023); Siren (some poetics), Amant, NYC (2022); When I state I am an anarchist, PLATO, Ostrava (2022); the New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, NYC (2021); the 7th Athens Biennial, Eclipse (2021); Anti Structure, DESTE Foundation (2021); The Same River Twice, Benaki Museum, Athens (2019); among others
Practical information
Address
Port of Durrës
Accessibility
Dates and times
April 11 to 13, 14:00 to 17:00
Safety
Visit itinerary
EXPERIENCES On board
Immersive exhibition "Présentes
Created with the exceptional collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, this exhibition highlights female figures in Mediterranean civilization, thanks to the digitization and modeling of part of the Louvre's collections. A two-stage experience: an introductory film to provide context, followed by an immersive experience in a 16-meter-long tunnel covered by 120 m2 of LED screens.
A sound journey through the Mediterranean
An immersive sound experience designed by Ircam, inviting the public to explore the richness and diversity of the Mediterranean through headphones equipped with spatialized sound.
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The artists
Frequently asked questions
Yes, the boat is freely accessible on site. However, you can pre-book your time online on our website.
For reasons of safety and preservation of the boat, high heels and stilettos may not be worn on the boat.
The museum boat is open to all free of charge. To find out on which quay it will be moored, or to pre-book your slot, consult the page dedicated to your town.
Appropriate facilities have been set up on the Festival site for the reception and access of people with reduced mobility. The boat is equipped with a 1m-wide ramp, accessible to people with reduced mobility, but may require the accompaniment of a third party due to its gradient of over 6%. Access to the aft deck and immersive exhibition is possible. However, the upper deck is not accessible. Please inform us in advance of any special accessibility requirements, so that we can make the necessary arrangements.