[spectre] (fwd) 1st Athens Biennial 2007 - DESTROY ATHENS

Mon Jun 18 17:31:55 CEST 2007

1st Athens Biennial 2007
DESTROY ATHENS

10th September - 18th November
Preview: 9th September
Technopolis, Athens

http://www.athensbiennial.org

DESTROY ATHENS

Destroy Athens, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and
Augustine Zenakos, is an attempt to challenge the ways in which
identities and behaviours are determined through stereotypical
descriptions. The notion of ‘Athens’ - as the archetypal city that
has become emblematic in terms of stereotypes - is used as a metaphor
for this feeling of extra-determination or entrapment that the
stereotype inflicts upon the personal sense of identity and social
behaviour. Destroy Athens aims to function as a progression through
various themes - elements will contradict, collide or cancel-out each
other constantly. Successive realizations and disillusionments will
make up a fragmented acknowledgement of a dead-end, a kind of
‘world’, a dystopic environment of conceptual Waste Lands.

Architectural interventions by Gruppo A12 will challenge and modify
the intricate spaces of Technopolis, the main venue, to create new
possibilities of perception and determine the viewers’ progression
through the various themes of the exhibition.

Artists (as in 30th May 2007): Adbusters, Assume Vivid Astro Focus,
Aidas Bareikis, Marc Bijl, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Kimberly Clark,
Annelise Coste, Kajsa Dahlberg, Peter Dreher, The Erasers, Chris
Evans, Stelios Faitakis, Jan Freuchen, HobbypopMUSEUM, Narve
Hovdenakk, Derek Jarman, Folkert de Jong, Vassilis Karouk, Omer Ali
Kazma, John Kleckner, Terence Koh, Edward Lipski, Lotte Konow Lund,
Mark Manders, Bjarne Melgaard, Ciprian Muresan, Eleni Mylonas, Olaf
Nicolai, The Otolith Group, Erkan Ozgen, Torbjorn Rodland, Julian
Rosefeldt, Georgia Sagri, Yorgos Sapountzis, Yiannis Savvidis,
Santiago Sierra, Martin Skauen, Eva Stephani, Temporary Services,
Thanassis Totsikas, Stephanos Tsivopou los, Jannis Varelas, Void
Network, Eva Vretzaki, Bernhard Willhelm

DESTROY ATHENS -- APPENDIX

The 1st Athens Biennial includes parallel exhibitions and events,
closely related to the theme of the main exhibition Destroy Athens.
These will run throughout the duration of the main exhibition and
will be presented in the surrounding area of Metaxourgeio.

How to endure

The exhibition How to endure, curated by Tom Morton, borrows from the
idea of magic where rituals have two actions, that is to change the
world and at the same time to keep it as it is. The exhibition aims
to move away from the binary notion that preservation is conservative
and change is progressive and explore what that move might change in
the way we perceive the city and ourselves.

Artists: Charles Avery, Miguel Calderon, Allen Ginsberg, Loris
Greaud, Roger Hiorns, Matthew Day Jackson, Germaine Kruip, Grant
Morrison & Frank Quitely, Olivia Plender, Maaike Schoorel

Young Athenians

The exhibition Young Athenians, curated by Neil Mulholland & Deborah
Jackson, presents a group of artists that live and work in Edinburgh.
The title forms an ironic reference to the infamous cliché of
Edinburgh as the Athens of the North. This -- unrealistic -- relation
of the two cities is used by the artists as a vehicle of commenting
on the urban environment they live in.

Artists: Tam A, Kim Coleman, Craig Coulthard, Keith Farquhar, Tommy
Grace, Jenny Hogarth, Darius Jones, David MacLean, John Mullen, Ellen
Munro, One O'Clock Gun, Lee O'Connor, Katie Orton, Kate Owens, Sophie
Rogers, Robin Scott, Cathy Stafford, Lucy Mackenzie, Alastair
Fairweather.

DESTROY ATHENS -- FILM

The Screening Program, curated by Florian Wuest, will present short
films and video art, and will include fiction, documentaries and
experimental cinematic exercise. Film screenings will also be
presented as part of the International Athens Film Festival.

DESTROY ATHENS –- LIVE

Music Events will take place indoors and outdoors in Technopolis and
the area of Metaxourgeio, and will include concerts, DJ sets,
experimental performances with custom-made software as well as
audiovisual events.

Main Sponsor: Deutsche Bank
Under the Aegis of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the
Municipality of Athens

http://www.athensbiennial.org