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December 1, 2014

South remembers: Your Economy is Not Our Economy, Your Politics are Not Our Politics, Your Culture is Not Our Culture, Your Land is Not Our Land, Your Lives are Not Our Lives. That Much is All We Really Know, Don’t We?… by Charles Esche

These are oligarchical times. There is deepening division. A self-reproducing elite has liberated itself from the anchors of nationality and geography and floats away in its superyachts and private jets. Its members have taken control of the democratic imperatives of old, owning the systems that the remaining population fondly imagine still represent them. The emancipation of the new underclasses has ceased to be a goal of public democratic policy. The offer of greater spending power is contingent on personal debt. The state ceases to be for, by, with or from the people; yet it seems no one has any idea what kind of new relationship with the state might be possible—so the oligarchs fill the vacuum and use the state for their own ends. read more.

The Greek flag redesigned by Zak Group

November 30, 2014

South remembers: Solution 262—∞: Greece Archipelago by Ingo Niermann

Northern Europe doesn’t care about Greece’s mainland. It’s all about the sunny beaches. Solution 262—∞: Greece Archipelago, the imaginary 10th volume of the Solution Series (edited by Ingo Niermann, designed by Zak Group, and published by Sternberg Press) proposes to drastically increase Greece’s coastline by cutting it into hundreds of autonomous islands that are specialised around all sorts of needs and themes. One Greece is simply not enough. Let’s multiply the dragon by cutting it into two, four, eight…  read more.

November 22, 2014

South remembers: What is the South? by Nikos Papastergiadis

A highly ambivalent concept, the South oscillates between a clarion call for antipodean rebelliousness and stigmatic expression of the cultural cringe
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November 18, 2014

South remembers: Euro(s) Go South by Georgios Papadopoulos

The North encouraged the prodigal euro to leave. Now it seems confused read more.

November 14, 2014

South remembers: Hegel on the Beach or Why the South is its Own Worst Enemy by Stilpon Nestor

In ‛Southern European’ politics the abdication of responsibilities has resulted in a new version of tribalism, as ancient as the South itself read more.

November 10, 2014

South remembers: Pasa Dynamis Adynamia* by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

When the use of crisis becomes the stage of existence: The particular character of contemporary art in Greece read more.

November 7, 2014

South likes: Heather Philipson at DCA, Dundee

In “Sub-fusc love-feast”, Heather Philipson (b. 1978, based in London) mainly deals with representations of appropriated nature and how these can be inscribed or relate with the human body. The exhibition spreads throughout the spacious galleries of DCA in a fairly dense way easily passing as a single complex installation.  read more.

November 6, 2014

South remembers: Thriving Inside the Black Hole of Arts Funding by Fotini Barka

In comparison to other state sponsored arts, many Greek visual and performance artists boast a successful professional life abroad read more.

October 24, 2014

South likes: Jewyo Rhii at Wilkinson Gallery, London

The initial image upon entering the exhibition could be described as a fragmented studio space. Vinyl floor pieces are peculiarly placed around the room, while the slowly melting blocks of ice and somewhat eerie sound of fans seems to be keeping track of time. Within a series of typewriter constructions and scattered words on the surrounding walls, the formal "imperfections" of the works are evident read more.

October 15, 2014

South likes: Keep It Real at Ventura XV, Milan

For a down-to-earth exhibition like this, Keep It Real is a serious title. The slogan, supposedly an invitation to authenticity and unpretentiousness, here sounds like a call to pragmatism: in certain circumstances there's no need for curatorial embellishment. In other words, sometimes a curator can devise discursive widgets to hold together a group of artists and their differences in terms of practice and vision; sometimes not. read more.

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