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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
Written on December 1, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
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
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South remembers: Solution 262—∞: Greece Archipelago by Ingo Niermann
Written on November 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm, by Eleanna Papathanasiadi
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
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South remembers: What is the South? by Nikos Papastergiadis
Written on November 22, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
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 The south is not a place in the world; it is a space where people meet to imagine the possibility of other ways of being in the
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South remembers: Euro(s) Go South by Georgios Papadopoulos
Written on November 18, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
Euro(s) Go South by Georgios Papadopoulos The North encouraged the prodigal euro to leave. Now it seems confused Money circulates and through its circulation it creates value. There is even an equation about it. MV + M¹V¹ = ΣpQ = PT to re-territorialize the random walk of money. The principle is simple: Money is attracted
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South remembers: Hegel on the Beach or Why the South is its Own Worst Enemy by Stilpon Nestor
Written on November 14, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
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 When I was asked to write about “my” South[1], hubris got the best of me. What a
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South remembers: Pasa Dynamis Adynamia* by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis
Written on November 10, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
Pasa Dynamis Adynamia* by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis When the use of crisis becomes the stage of existence: The particular character of contemporary art in Greece Could this be the time – kairos, or the right point in time, the ‘crucial moment’ in the ancient Greek meaning of the word – to talk about contemporary ‘Greek art’?
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South likes: Heather Philipson at DCA, Dundee
Written on November 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
South likes: Heather Philipson at DCA, Dundee Sub-fusc love-feast Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland 6 September – 9 November, 2014 Text by Angeliki Roussou 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
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South remembers: Thriving Inside the Black Hole of Arts Funding by Fotini Barka
Written on November 6, 2014 at 5:43 pm, by Eleanna Papathanasiadi
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 It may sound incredible, but over the last two decades the Greek state has spent huge amounts of money on culture. Hundreds of millions
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South likes: Jewyo Rhii at Wilkinson Gallery, London
Written on October 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm, by Marina Fokidis
South likes: Jewyo Rhii at Wilkinson Gallery, London Jewyo Rhii Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK 7 September – 26 October, 2014 Text by Marina Maniadaki 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
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South likes: Keep It Real at Ventura XV, Milan
Written on October 15, 2014 at 3:58 pm, by Marina Fokidis
South likes: Keep It Real at Ventura XV, Milan Keep It Real Via Ventura 15, Milan 16 September – 4 October, 2014 Text by Michelangelo Corsaro 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:
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