Athens, day 1
Twixt Lab
anthropology
Combination of everyday life and visual art
Art and revolution and link between them
Activism
We try to involve media in our projects
Discursive attitude, themes come from our own interests
Never ending process, long term research
What is the difference between artist and anthropologist?
Place for experimentation
Place for experimentation
Funding, private funding
Contemporary art has been valued for the first time in Athens after the crises
Contemporary art has been valued for the first time in Athens after the crises
Athens School of Fine Arts, Circuits & Currents (project space)
Initiating
Initiating
Educational program
Student run project space
Splitting the responsibilities
Things are easier on paper than in practice
Before the crises art scene was very commercial
Supervising, power of supervising
Supervising, power of supervising
Funding is crucial.
Share the interest, share the power!
Money talks.
Institutions are heavy machines to operate.
Green Park
Social, political, anarchist squat
Heart of crisis
Occupation
Local audience
Difficulty of documenting
No press releases
Documentation in a collective way.
Athens, day 2
Walking,
chatting, smelling, observing, asking (too personal questions),
complaining, analyzing, listening, trusting, exploring.
Athens, day 3
Kostis
Stafylakis
New
form of nationalism, current forms of nationalism
Variations
of patriotism
Language
of multitude
Crisis
of capitalism, crisis of democracy, alienated by the crisis
National
and orientalist perspective, appropriation
Imaginary
communities and notions
False
conscience of victim and victimizing
“Greece
cannot be the epicentre of monovalent politics for neoliberalism.”
Athens,
day 4
(Un)Finished
/ Maria
Lalou and Skafte
Aymo-Boot
Contemporary archeology
Contemporary archeology
Concrete
Anti monument
Anti monument
Ghost
city
Skeletons
of the buildings
Structures
Archiving
Bureaucracy
Modern
Athens
Burden
of the antiquity
Connection
to the modernism
Personal
stories, family matters
Christos Chrissopoulos
The Antiquity does not exist, it is an artefact.
Christos Chrissopoulos
The Antiquity does not exist, it is an artefact.
Counter
narratives
Fair
trade producing and publishing
Misreadings
Dangerous
literature
Bringing
stories from history, contemporary interpretation.
