more photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12660741@N04/sets/72157601985856392
artists burning to express their opinion:
Costas Beveratos
Dionisis Christophilogiannis
Sophie Hjerl
Kali Katsouri
Eleni Kotsoni
Eva Michalaki
Eva Mitala
Lia Nalbantidou
Despina Stokou
Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos
Philippos Theodoridis
ErifyliVeneri
text by Yannis Constantinidis
Weariness and Monumentalism
As the days progress we notice more and more artists who are shunning away from the daily news tabloids so that they address to their abandonment of actuality (news) as a whole or of the way in which it is presented by the media. A good example of today’s work is Sophie Hjerl’s who uses random words from titles found in the English issue of KATHIMERINI newspaper and seeks the ablative approach of the news’s image from the way it is outlined by newspaper headings, and whether this could develop into the formulation of a brand new news. In her video, Despina Stokou expresses her resentment towards the abundance of information contemporary men and women are subject to. Finally, Lia Nalbadidou remarks ironically and with sarcasm how the meaning of nationalistic pride is dispatched from the main news events; the fires in Peloponnese and the political parties’ pre-electoral campaigns. These three artists are without a doubt abiding by the regulations of Emergency Room that asks the artist to respond to specific news of the day. Therefore, it is important to note that every so often there is a need – usually about 15% of the participants- to “rebuff” the idea of news reportage, which often take on a formless heap of information, and regularly menace or deceive their readers (recipients).
An example of “weariness” incited from following the daily news that could be considered is Costa Beverato’s incentive that came to him as he was taking a stroll on one of Athens’s beaches. Today was the first time a large work was exposed in the ER room (so large that it takes up most of the space). Giorgos Taksiarxopoulos’s large work talks about a female Japanese politician who was publicly humiliated, after some of her personal photographs were published on the internet by a private “illegal” admirer. The artist’s aim is to investigate how such garble uncovered by this man, could provoke disastrous shifts in the confines that divide the public and the private (and how these shifts are always due to the private). At the same time, this work comments on how regardless of feminisms’ successful movement dating from the late 40’s, a prevailing phallocratic society continues to act atrociously to public female figures.
artists' interview video:
atmospheric video: by Eleni Garoufalia
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