How do we face the multitude of losses and the rhetoric of despair that surround us? How can we manage loss (waste/d) and grief to turn it into "joyful militancy”? Yota Ioannidou (DAI 2009) as part of Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT) is delighted to announce that farasi.zine # 03 “Pethnos: a new research art project by PAT or the third generation which mourns commits suicide” is now online. Three meetings-discussions were organised with theorists and artists which focused on the concept/neologism Pethnos, a challenging association of pethnos (mourning) and ethnos (nation) as a key to open up our contemporary historical condition.
farasi.zine
issue 03 / Winter 2025
Guest editors: Temporary Academy of Arts / PAT (Yota Ioannidou, Elpida Karaba, Vangelis Vlahos, Despina Zefkili)
Graphic design: Stergios George Tsarouchas
Cover image: Katerina Komianou, Rapture, 2024 (detail)
“Pethnos: a new research art project by PAT or the third generation which mourns commits suicide” is part of the new research project “Pethnos” by the Temporary Academy of Arts/PAT (Yota Ioannidou, Elpida Karaba, Vangelis Vlahos, Despina Zefkili).
Participants: Athena Athanasiou, Marios Chatziprokopiou, Theodoros Chiotis, Phoebe Giannisi, Vangelis Karamanolakis, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Katerina Komianou, Iris Lykourioti, Kostis Papaioannou, Chara Stergiou, Elena Tzelepis, Pati Vardhami. Many thanks to all of them for their generous contribution to the making of this issue.
farasi.zine is available to read here.
PAT (Temporary Academy of Arts, https://temporaryacademy.org/) is para-institution that works alongside the institutions, an artwork, a curatorial and pedagogical programme. Understanding the institution as procedural and critically subverting the term academy, PAT, through visual artworks and discourse production, tests self-institutionalized forms of culture and politics and explores the various methodological articulations and nuances between the institutional and the self-institutional, art and knowledge systems, practice and discourse.
About Yota Ioannidou