Thing
The “thing” dictates, authorizes its appearance through the word and the image. The “thing” is the invisible world that dictates the visible world of meanings and signifiers. Words and images are like the vase. They are empty. They are approximate meanings, containing lack like the vase. Man defends against lack, but also maintains it through desire. Words and images are not solid like stone; they are perforated. Their meaning is tenuous. The very fact that we see is tenuous, since what we see today, we did not see yesterday, within the personal history of man or the history of humanity. Meaning comes last. Usually when we do not need it. Then we see what we did not see. We did not see what was next to us and sought it to avoid it, for instance, we sought the great love where it does not exist. Man defends against lack, because no desire can make him stop desiring. He defends against the void, against the “thing”, chaos, darkness, madness, by enclosing himself, by imprisoning himself within meanings: emotional, political, social, religious or others. In meaning. In the meaning imposed by the void and against which he defends.
Source text by: Fotis Kagelaris ‘The thing, the word and the world’. Armos Publicatons
Artists: Nefeli Chyndiraki, Katerina Digoni, Vicky Filippa, Antigoni Kourakou, Semina Milarokosta, Thasos Tanagias, Amalia Triantafyllou.
Performance: Vicky Filippa, “My name is Ori Gin”
I am sand. Blow me in the wind! I still Exist.
A butoh performance about the immutability of the biological Imprint of origin.
Curated by: Helen Mesadou
The exhibition is presented as part of Back to Athens 11 International Art Meeting | 2024: Crossroads - knowledge and worldly pleasures – a review
Back to Athens 11 International Art Meeting | 2024
Curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos, Fotini Kapiris, Christian Rupp.
Organised by: APART Art Research and Applications. Under the Auspices of the City of Athens. With the financial support and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture [Silence of the Sirenes], Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, Austrian Embassy Athens, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna akbild, ZOIA, Czech Centre Athens in the frame of “Franz Kafka's memorial year 2024”. Participation, athensintersection, ARTmART. Coordinated by CHEAPART.
Back to Athens 11 International Art Meeting | 2024: Crossroads - knowledge and worldly pleasures
Isaiah Megaron
65 Patision, Athens
Opening date: Wednesday, June 26
Duration: 26 - 30.06.2024
Hours: Wed. – Fri. 16:00 - 22:00, Sat. – Sun. 12:00 – 22:00
