In this tenth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, with the US Midterm elections less than a week away and in the immediate aftermath of elections in Serbia, Brazil and Israel, each telling their own stories about representative democracy and its limits, this episode follows the money and looks for value in democratic […]
In this ninth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we circle back to earlier themes in the visual culture of democracy (architecture, ‘The People’ vs people, memory, otherness, and violence), the juxtaposition of ruins and life in Andreas Angelidakis’ Demos (2016-ongoing), and things that have spirits. Ruins and Life in Democratic Visual Culture […]
In this eighth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we engage with topics of memory, otherness and violence in the visual culture of democracy, Erna Rosenstein’s Night (1993) and vital strategies against forgetting. Memory, otherness & violence in democratic visual culture Erna Rosenstein Night (1993) Memory, Otherness and Violence in the Summer of […]
Duane Linklater In the first days in Athens, one of the artist education groups, who were showing their work in Athens as part of documenta, gave us an artist talk in front of their work. Within this talk, there was a group of words that made me feel very upset – the words that I […]
Anne Carson: The Albertine Workout Alkisti Efthymiou: Mutings, Mutations, a Hypothesis & a Gasp Mutings, Mutations, a Hypothesis & a Gasp. Thinking (out loud, in Athens) about art and institutions focuses on the affective reality of work within the arts. Alkisti Efthymiou discusses her long-running involvement with large-scale cultural institutions in Greece. As a woman, […]
In this seventh episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we think about both “The People” and people in the visual culture of democracy, Apostolos Georgiou’s Untitled (2016) and all those people who at some point, in some place, in some way reacted to what was putting them down by posing thousands of questions. […]
In this sixth episode of Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, we focus on architecture, monuments and spaces in the visual culture of democracy, Rebecca Belmore’s Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside) (2017) and the eruption of truth. Architecture, Monuments & Spaces in Democratic Visual Culture Rebecca Belmore Biinjiya’iing Onji (From Inside) (2017) “When it was carefully […]
