Another Friday rolls around and here you are expecting your weekly soothing (well, maybe not soothing, but at least refreshingly different!) experience back in September 2016 (before the storm) in Athens at The Parliament of Bodies public program of documenta 14. Sadly I have to report that today I made the disturbing discovery that the videos of the 34 Exercises of Freedom had been removed from the documenta 14 website. I will try to find out if this is just a temporary glitch (I really hope so!), but if it turns out that this content has been removed for good, here is a list of the remaining exercises (with some expansions and footnote) excluding one that I had downloaded before it was removed (can you find what is missing?), which I will post next week. In short, the whole point of Freedom Park Fridays was to act as a creative conduit to the documenta 14 public program and if these videos are no longer the means of doing this, I will have to find another way to transport you to these freeing exercises. In the meantime, put your feet up and sit back as you scroll through the broken links or go for more information to the full description of the 34 Exercises of Freedom program on the documenta 14 website (so long as it remains).
1. Between Terror and Revelry. Collective Strategies of Resistance during Dictatorships in Argentina and Brazil
Ana Longoni
2. DJ set
Lies Van Born
3. Torture and Freedom Tour of Athens
4. The Chronicle of the Dictatorship (1967–74), Pantelis Voulgaris, Greece, 37 min
Film screening
5. Epitafios II
Angela Brouskou – Theatro Domatiou and MiniMaximum ImproVision
6. Ojo de gusano: Don’t Look Down
Regina José Galindo
7. They fell in Greece
8. They fell in Panama. They fell in Venezuela. They fell in Brazil. They fell in Argentina. They fell in Colombia. They fell in Ecuador. They fell in Chile. They fell in Peru. They fell in Bolivia. They fell in Uruguay. They fell in Paraguay
9. They fell in the Dominican Republic. They fell in Haiti. They fell in Honduras. They fell in Nicaragua. They fell in El Salvador. They fell in Guatemala.
10. Chronotopes / Dystopic Geometries / Terrifying Geographies
Neni Panourgia
11. Lingua Tertii Imperii
Daniel García Andújar
12. A space for political ventriloquism.
13. Language is never innocent. Architecture is never innocent. Images are never innocent. They are openly involved in a body-to-body fight with history.
14. These buildings were once a hospital. They later became the headquarters of the Special Interrogation Section of the Greek Military Police (EAT/ESA). Now they house the Eleftherios Venizelos Museum, the Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance, and the site of the documenta 14 Public Programs at Parko Eleftherias (Freedom Park).
15. Take out Diogenes’s lamp and stroll through the park in full daylight to search for an honest language.
16. Red Star, Crescent Moon / after Sohail Daulatzai
Naeem Mohaiemen
17. Soundscapes of Detention: Music and Torture under the Junta (1967–74)
Anna Papaeti
18. Attempt. Come.
Georgia Sagri
19. Attempt. Come. Undefined. Be the point of no-reference.
20. Constant, and as a state of formation. Play. Continue to play with the beat. Vibrate with me, so chaos can enter. It is an invitation.
Come. As water. As the beat sounds, the senses awaken.
21. Move. Unrepresented eros hits the drum. And celebration starts, for joy and grief.
22. Transgressive Listening
Stathis Gourgouris
23. Outlawed Social Life
Candice Hopkins
24. I Owe You Everything
Clémentine Deliss in the presence of Chief Robert Joseph
25. Interior Effects as an Outcome of War
Bonita Ely
26. They Glow in the Dark, Panayotis Evangelidis, Greece, 2013, 69 min.
27. An Evening with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens and Wet Dreams Water Ritual
28. The Waltz of the Dirty Streets
Adespotes Skiles
29. Decolonizing Memory: Vita Futurities in the Americas
Macarena Gómez-Barris
30. Rojava is a Women’s Revolution: Jineology as Women’s Science
Hawzhin Azeez
31. Trans*: Bodies and Power in the Age of Transgenderism
Jack Halberstam
32. #Direnayol (#Resistayol), documentary by Rüzgâr Buşki, Turkey, 2016, 60 min.
33. Queer Indie Gig, HTH Green to Blue Shock Treatment
Prasini Lesvia
34. DJ set
Gizem Oruç
35. The Epic of Eleftheria
Irena Haiduk and Eirini Vakalopoulou
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