One drawing a day - Postcards

This is my first collaboration with grafik geniuses Mano Eigen und Aenias Fritsch- thank you!

Three different postcards, two of them are shiny!

You can buy them in Dreiwerkraum or directly from me :)

https://3werkraum.de/
insta: @alphakar

The Iron Stove (Der Eisenofen)
Constructed by PRAGMATA (Alpha Kartsaki & Sebastian Schlemminger), Berlin 2018

The kinetic installation is a part of the site-specific performance HexenHüttenTraumPaläste (WitchesHutsDreamPalaces) by the theater group post theater. Together with a group of architects, graphic designers and artists of various disciplines, post theater has created an exhibition which deals with the buildings in the fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The audience is guided through a parcours consisting of seemingly authentic artefacts, artistic interpretations as well as realistic and recreations of the “original” buildings on which the fairytales were based on.

Concept and realisation: PRAGMATA
Information and Credits: www.posttheater.com

Presented in
Theater Discounter Berlin (2018-2019)
and FITZ! Stuttgart (2018)

TRAILER

The Emo-Matchboxes (Die Gefühlsschachtel)
A project for the Kunstautomaten, 2017

The Emo-Matchboxes is a series which aims to put big feelings like happiness (Glück), fear (Angst) or confusion (Verwirrung) in small boxes.

It all started as a part of the projekt Kunstautomaten in 2017. Since then the matchboxes have been out there and have even taken place in an auction in the gallery Studio Baustelle.

info:
www.kunstautomaten.com
www.studio-baustelle.org

The Theatre Machine (Der Theaterautomat)
Constructed by PRAGMATA (Alpha Kartsaki & Sebastian Schlemminger), Berlin 2016

A head. A box. One audience member. Drifting objects, fleeting sounds, searching lights. For ten minutes, the viewer experiences complete immersion in a remarkable world outside of reality. The Theatre Machine introduces an innovative form of theatre and attempts to renew and enrich the world of the mechanical theatre with the help of digital means. All the mechanics, sounds and lights are controlled by an all-embracing algorithm.  It opens questions about people and machines, about the loneliness in the digital world, about the beauty of the surreal, about the role of the people among computers, machines and automata.

Zitty Top10 Theatre Productions 2016
(The 10 best productions in Berlin 2016)


Like a Monthy Python collage.
Tobias Prüwer, Double

A device which triggers your sensations.
Tom Mustroph, Double


Co-production with SCHAUBUDE BERLIN
Supported by: Bezirksamt Pankow Berlin

Hör-Buch
Constructed by PRAGMATA (Alpha Kartsaki & Sebastian Schlemminger), Berlin 2015

The Hör-Buch is a special book:
When you see it in the bookcase, you think it is a normal book, but if you open it you realise it is not. Instead of reading you can rest your head on a soft pillow and listen to stories. There is also a USB port, through which you can load more stories or music or even charge it if the battery is low.

Constructed by Angelina Kartsaki & Sebastian Schlemminger in 2015

DoDo. electric appliances & other animals
handmade cD

DoDo. electric appliances & other animals
all songs written & performed by DoDo aka Alpha Kartsaki
Fytini 2015

Reviews
Athens Voice (Greek)
Lifo (Greek)

"playfully idiosyncratic"
"frank, sober and revealing"
"immediate and accessible"
"a form that consists in stripping down the sound by drawing on the psychology of play"
(Fontas Troussas, Lifo)

You can buy the handmade album here.

Meine Sprachfelher (my language mistakes)
Postcards, handmade book, Exhibition

Alpha is a foreigner. Even if she lives for a long time in Germany, she still makes mistakes and she will continue making. Sometimes she also draws them.

The series Meine Sprachfehler (my language mistakes), which includes postcards and a handmade book, is based on real german mistakes.

P.S. You can find some postcards in Berlin in the stores "Ilseeins", "Die Gute Seite" and "Leseglück" and in Münster in "Teilchen und Beschleuniger".

Matchbox Installation
DoDo is looking for its identity

DoDo
the smallest installation of the world
(or at least of this festival)
DoDo is looking for its identity.

Presented in Sound Acts Festival in Athens, April 2015

The tiny rotating House
A take-away house for every case

The tiny rotating house was a present to my dear friend Frida, who loves miniatures as much as I do, for her 6th birthday.

You can take it with you in your pocket. It has a sleeping room, kitchen, bathroom with a bath tab and living room.