https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:07:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/contemporary-greek-art-in-times-of-crisis-cuts-and-changes/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:37 +0000 http://arc.local/items/contemporary-greek-art-in-times-of-crisis-cuts-and-changes/ Continued]]> This essay addresses the issue of cuts in the cultural sector in Greece during the last five years and its consequences on the sustainability of artistic production, institutional survival and emerging forms of collaboration, self-management and art in public space. It describes new practices and strategies of cultural institutions and the relationship between the private and public spheres. Long-term artistic projects, such as the Athens and Thessaloniki Biennale, public museums like the State Museum of Contemporary Art, private organizations and artist initiatives are discussed in the context of crisis.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/liberating-speculation-art-the-currency-of-capitalism-and-the-death-of-currencies/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:32 +0000 http://arc.local/items/liberating-speculation-art-the-currency-of-capitalism-and-the-death-of-currencies/ Continued]]> Speculation constitutes one of the major structural components of Data Capitalism, as well as one of the most important factors that led to the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Since the outbreak of the crisis, several artists have been aiming to propose through their work alternatives to the dominant capitalist model, thus adopting the role of ‘speculators’. In the 55th Venice Bienniale of 2013, Greek artist Stefanos Tsivopoulos presented a multi-part installation that addressed this volatile socioeconomic context by focusing on the role of currencies and the falsification of value that lies at the core of money’s nature. This article proposes a basic theoretical framework within which we could locate not only Tsivopoulos’s practice, but also the work of other politically and socially engaged artists who are interested in the exploration of alternative economic systems.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-cuts-have-been-made-what-now-a-look-into-current-impressions-and-future-developments/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:31 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-cuts-have-been-made-what-now-a-look-into-current-impressions-and-future-developments/ Continued]]> This themed issue poses questions concerning financial cuts and their impact on contemporary society and the arts. It presents a collection of perspectives, in particular from Greece, in order to examine artistic and aesthetic practices. It explores how society is being transformed into a post-democracy and how citizens are becoming post-citizens. These transformations will have implications in the redefinition of both post-democracy and post-citizenship as two oppositional forces, which may no longer be reconcilable and could lead to insurrectional and repressive politics. The role that art plays and will play in shaping these discourses by presenting alternative imaginaries to the narratives of the body politic will have to be evaluated in a context of aesthetic concurrence and conspiracy of art. But if the artists are transformed into post-citizens – it may be safe to assume that as post-artists their contributions will be more free – or totally freed – from the restraints and bonds of national and supranational institutions, leading de facto to the production of counter narratives and imaginaries that will be perceived by the post-democracies’ body politic as insurrectional art.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-cultural-bodys-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-why-society-is-no-longer-a-body-and-why-it-can-be-cut-to-pieces/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:31 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-cultural-bodys-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-why-society-is-no-longer-a-body-and-why-it-can-be-cut-to-pieces/ Continued]]> This essay explores the British, Russian and Greek pavilions at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and a marginal event that took place at the foundation Prada di Ca’ Corner della Regina during a visit to the exhibition opening of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. The author examines the relationships between art, money and power as indicators of the tensions of post-democracy, post-citizenship and the increasingly fraught representations of the cultural and social body. The Inhalt (latent content), in an Adornian aesthetic interpretation, is a tool by which to understand the contemporary dismantling of society and the concurrence of art in the sanctioned representations of the body politic. The ‘cut’ becomes the definition and defining element of a contemporary Heideggerian Seinsfrage (the Being), creating the premise for an aesthetic and social discourse that is based on mutilation of the cultural and social body and a re-feudalization of democratic societies.

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