Rebuilding Dialectics (completed)
Α historical look at the present in a time marked primarily by oblivion | Urbanism for Dummies
Salon De Vortex has been selected as CHEAPART Resident 2013 (Contemporary Art Support Program) hosted at CHEAPART's space. The key members of the group Salon De Vortex, Yiannis Grigoriadis and Yiannis Isidorou, are exhibiting their installation “Rebuilding Dialectics”, laying the foundations and pathways of a wider research project entitled Urbanism for Dummies.
Documents and archival material referring to the sudden change in the built landscape, symbols and interpretations of social codes enforced by the latest urban model in Greece, and also gestures of brute materiality are the main tools of this installation.
This is an attempt to think historically on the present, in a time that is characterized primarily by oblivion. This new project emphasizes on the problematic and particular character of Greek middle class and proceeds to proposing the idea of rebuilding as a central axis around which the methods and practices of enrichment, consumerism, the rapid spread of kitsch and the final cultural homogenization, developed.