From my notebook

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

Funding, private funding
Contemporary art has been valued for the first time in Athens after the crises

Athens School of Fine Arts, Circuits & Currents (project space)
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

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

Concrete
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.

Counter narratives

Fair trade producing and publishing

Misreadings

Dangerous literature

Bringing stories from history, contemporary interpretation.