https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-austerity-measures-and-beyond-archaeology-in-greece-since-the-global-financial-crisis/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:19 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-austerity-measures-and-beyond-archaeology-in-greece-since-the-global-financial-crisis/ Continued]]> This article, covering the roughly decade-long ‘Greek crisis’ (2008–2018), uses official statistics in order to examine the effects the prolonged recession has had on archaeology in Greece. As the data show, although revenues from museums and archaeological sites have risen considerably (a side effect of ‘crisis tourism’, among other factors), state spending on archaeological research is insufficient. Furthermore, the steady collapse of the state apparatus during this long decade has seriously affected archaeology and the ways it is practised in the country, ultimately leading to the loss of an entire generation of Greek archaeologists.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/we-owe-ourselves-to-debt-classical-greece-athens-in-crisis-and-the-body-as-battlefield/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:18 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/we-owe-ourselves-to-debt-classical-greece-athens-in-crisis-and-the-body-as-battlefield/ Continued]]> Since 2009, Greece has been hit by a severe economic recession followed by harsh austerity policies, gradual impoverishment, and ultimately social collapse. This article investigates the cultural landscape of the so-called ‘Greek crisis’, focusing on Athens,the nation’s capital, and the ways the crisis discourse employs biopolitical technologiesof dispossession and displacement in order to generate an intensified breed of body-politics. The article’s main case study is documenta 14, a blockbuster exhibition ofcontemporary art organized in Athens in 2017, seemingly elaborating on the ideasof debt – classical and modern – though in fact promoting neoliberal approaches topublic economy and life. The idea of ‘classical debt’, the article concludes, continuously reiterated by both Greece’s defenders as well as its most unforgiving critics, rather than acting as an emancipatory force, ends up producing a public consisting of silent bodies, trapped in highly romanticized discourses of the past and ultimately unable to defend themselves. This tension, however, also provokes narratives and gestures made of contradictions and ambiguity, difficult to map and monitor according to established research protocols.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/posterscapes-encountering-solidarityies-in-the-streets-of-exarcheia/ Mon, 04 May 2020 23:24:05 +0000 https://toarcheio.org/items/posterscapes-encountering-solidarityies-in-the-streets-of-exarcheia/ https://toarcheio.org/items/greece-in-crisis-the-cultural-politics-of-austerity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greece-in-crisis-the-cultural-politics-of-austerity/ https://toarcheio.org/items/rethinking-fragile-landscapes-during-the-greek-crisis-precarious-aesthetics-and-methodologies-in-athenian-dance-performances/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:53 +0000 http://arc.local/items/rethinking-fragile-landscapes-during-the-greek-crisis-precarious-aesthetics-and-methodologies-in-athenian-dance-performances/ Continued]]> The financial crisis in Greece brought about significant changes in the sociopolitical and financial landscape of the country. Severe budget cuts imposed on the arts and performing practices have given rise to a new aesthetic which has impacted the themes and methodologies of contemporary productions. To unpack this aesthetic, I explore the ways that the discourse and the experience of precarity molded methodological frameworks for artistic production in Greece during the crisis. Specifically, I address trends constitutive of a ‘precarious aesthetic’ in dance performance on Athenian stages and highlight the ways that the uncertainties caused by the financial crisis in Greece served as an opportunity to rethink dance performance aesthetics, devise new approaches to creation, and advocate for sociopolitical change.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/transitions-in-the-periphery-funding-film-production-in-greece-since-the-financial-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/transitions-in-the-periphery-funding-film-production-in-greece-since-the-financial-crisis/ Continued]]> The article focuses on Greece and explores the extent and ways in which film production funding cultures have changed in the period 2010–2015. It maps out the hybrid modes of funding embraced by filmmakers in this period, and explores the extent to which new models, such as crowdfunding, were adopted, European co-production opportunities were more fully embraced, as well as how far traditional modes of financing such as, on the one hand, state funding, and, on the other, private, distributor-led, backing have persisted. As a country of the European periphery, and one particularly hard-hit by the recent financial crisis, Greece offers a good example of the processes of an uncertain, but also creatively productive, cultural, and financial transition. Set within the broader context of global changes led by technology, the national case study illustrates how state and private top-bottom funding initiatives have begun to co-exist with bottom-up production and dissemination processes, and how some new players have entered the scene. The patterns revealed through this exploration of the new funding cultures for film production in Greece contribute to an understanding of the impact of global economic transformations on a national level, and help us assess the effectiveness and viability of the new funding models for small markets.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-role-of-arts-in-raising-ethical-awareness-and-knowledge-of-the-european-refugee-crisis-among-social-work-students-an-example-from-the-classroom/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-role-of-arts-in-raising-ethical-awareness-and-knowledge-of-the-european-refugee-crisis-among-social-work-students-an-example-from-the-classroom/ Continued]]> This paper presents and discusses an arts-based project, carried out by the first-year students in the classroom, at the Department of Social Work, in Athens, Greece. The project was designed for raising ethical awareness and knowledge of the 2015 Europe’s refugee crisis among social work students. The purpose of this project was three-fold: (1) to help students to better understand the refugee crisis as an emerging problem in Europe and in the rest of the world; (2) to help students raise their ethical awareness about the plight of refugees and to learn how to avoid discrimination and racism; and (3) to improve students’ abilities to work effectively with refugee populations. The project used art-based activities (drawing, writing, photos, etc.) as a powerful pedagogical tool for teaching students and supporting their learning in the classroom. As the literature has shown, the use of arts in social work education helps student to learn through an artistic and creative way and provides a secure base, from which they can explore real-life situations and try to give meaning to them.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/art-crisis-and-their-multiple-audiences-from-embros-theatre-to-idamm/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:48 +0000 http://arc.local/items/art-crisis-and-their-multiple-audiences-from-embros-theatre-to-idamm/ https://toarcheio.org/items/humorous-financial-crisis-cartoons-a-visual-essay-of-an-elementary-school-art-project/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:47 +0000 http://arc.local/items/humorous-financial-crisis-cartoons-a-visual-essay-of-an-elementary-school-art-project/ Continued]]> This visual essay reports on the first part of an eight-week resilience art programme at a public primary school in Athens, Greece. The students were asked to create humorous cartoons as a response to the financial crisis. Humour as coping mechanism can defuse tension and anxiety and may lead to more positive re-appraisals of the financial crisis and as such contribute to developing children’s resilience.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-metaphysics-of-the-greek-crisis-visual-art-and-anthropology-at-the-crossroads/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:46 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-metaphysics-of-the-greek-crisis-visual-art-and-anthropology-at-the-crossroads/ Continued]]> During times of uncertainty and ‘crisis’, the religious and the metaphysical may acquire particular resonance and be employed to explain experiences of deprivation and insecurity which cannot be accounted for in rational terms. Using a montage of YouTube videos, the author together with a visual artist have drawn attention to “the metaphysics of the Greek crisis” and the power of its visual cultures. This article gives an account of the history of the montage’s making and of some of the issues that arise from a work such as this that stands at the crossroads of anthropology and contemporary art.

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