15 April 2017: 6th Athens Biennale: “Resurrection with Documena", by Documena (a series of actions, with the participation of Despina Sevasti (DAI, 2017) and others)
Documena would like to invite you to an extravaganza of biblical proportions. Everybody’s favourite online presence at a time of a profound crisis of values, the land of the palingenetic queer, becomes flesh and bones this Holy Saturday towards Easter Sunday aiming at the exaltation of the faithful towards an incorporeal Pnyx. With the power of the Delta!
Participants: 34ες, Action ST team, ActiVista, Athanasios Anagnostopoulos THANATOS, Margarita Athanasiou, Erifili Veneri, Vassilis Vlastaras, Eva Giannakopoulou, Maria Glyka, Digenis Fashion, Documenta_14, Sofia Efstathiou, Exceptional Athens, Michailangelos Vlassis-Ziakas, Zoe Harris, Indigenous Community for the Promotion of the Work of the Indigo Children (Α. Αnagnostopoulou, S. Grigoriadou , I. Stamboulou), Zackie Oh, Petros Kaminiotis, Alexia Karavela, Ilias Karniaris, Iraklis Kopitas, Anthi Kougia, Lady Nata G, Johanna Maj Schmidt, Rilène Markopoulou, Metatheodosia, Manos Bazanis, Nutsa, Alexandra Papadimitriou, Richard Pfützenreuter, Lykourgos Porfyris, Elena Poughia, Despina Sevasti, Kostis Stafylakis, Mariza Soulioti, Than Tsoumas, Alexis Fidetzis, Filtig, Flower Girls, Konstantinos Foukis, FYTA
* Documena (Δοκούμενα) is a project that seeks to respond to how contemporary art production engages with the intense European crisis. At the current historical shifting point, moving from a time of middle-class certainties to one of neo-patriotic mobilization of frustrated social strata, we focus on motifs of neoconservative regression or modes of reactionary speech, that seem to inform artistic radicalism and its global institutional mediations. As a grotesque conceptual loan from ancient greek, we employ the term “Δοκούμενα”: “the perceptions that function as a given – those things we believe in or we hope for.
“Waiting for the Barbarians”, 6th Athens Biennale 2017-2018
“Resurrection with Documena", by Documena (series of actions)
15 April 2017 | 21:00 – 05:00
Hotel Bageion, Omonoia Sq., Athens
http://athensbiennale.org/barbarians/