The monument becomes a pretext for new forms of political action, based on fidelity to historical struggles but offering a stage for the future. In our times of growing fascism, neoliberal capitalist imperialism, and financial warfare, Iveković’s Monument to Revolution is both a cautionary reminder of the past, an object to be contested, and a material invocation. […]
Links: NOTES: Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) by Candice Hopkins https://www.documenta14.de/en/notes-and-works/1053/elegy-for-annie-pootoogook-1969-2016- Links: ARTISTS: Sanja Iveković https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13552/sanja-ivekovic SOUTH Issue #9 (documenta 14 #4): Lost and Found by Susan Hiller https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/25219_lost_and_found CALENDAR: The Society of Friends of Halit: An homage to Pavlos Fyssas https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/25022/an-homage-to-pavlos-fyssas Links: PUBLIC EDUCATION: Interview with Narimane Mari https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-education/25831/interview-with-narimane-mari VENUES: Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality […]
She’s off on her daily routine of sacrificing! every day a sacrifice of some sort for her! This god one day, that god the next, god only knows to what god she’s sacrificing today. – Sostratos in Menander’s Dyskolos It is the start of a typical day for our three Athenians in their tiny house […]