20.09 - 1.10.07 visibility public act/performance in a street market | showplace: cheapart
Idea, Curator: Maria Paschalidou
Since November 2006, the participants have been working on the production of a joint DVD/art product.
Copies of the DVD will be exchanged with any products and/or goods people are willing to offer, during
the public act/performance, which takes place in the Street Market of Attiki Square (Athens, Greece).
The public performance, the conversations and dialogues between the artists and the people in the
market, are video recorded and broadcast both in the exhibition space (CHEAP ART Gallery) and on the
Internet.
Visibility is an art project, which explores the dynamics of communication between artists and
audiences in the public space.
In this project, the participating artists and academics worked both collectively and individually so as to
create not only a physical but also a quasi-virtual environment in which the presence/visibility of the
artists, of the art product as well as that of the audiences is under negotiation.
Visibility is carried into effect on two parallel levels.
On the first level, the project addresses the issue of our artists’ visibility along with that of our artwork.
We move away from the “familiar, safe, art environment” of a typical exhibition space so as to meet
broader and possibly less known audiences. Our objective is to negotiate our visibility and redefine our
role within the frame of an urban environment where daily activities occur.
On the second level a particular neighborhood of the city of Athens comes on the scene. The
overcrowded area of Attiki Square, in which populations, cultures, customs and commercial products
are mixed, plays its own part in the game of visibility versus invisibility.
The project Visibility aims to explore the terrain of public art through artistic experimentation,
differentiated art practices, collaboration and performative acts.
Participating Artists and Academics
Nikos Bubaris & Yiannis Christakos | Marianna Nikolaou | Maria Nymfiadi | Constantinos Papadoukas |
Zoi Pappa | Maria Paschalidou | Lea Petrou | Giorgos Tserionis | Adonis Volanakis