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A.O. – B.C. AN AUDIOVISUAL DIARY

Outset Grant

07/12/2019 - 01/02/2020

Anastasia Douka | C HAIN, 2009 | Courtesy the artist
Christos Sarris | Athina_2267 | Courtesy the artist
Marina Gioti | The Secret School, 2009 | Courtesy the artist

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A.O. – B.C. AN AUDIOVISUAL DIARY

07/12/2019 - 01/02/2020

State of Concept

OPENING

December 7th, 2019

OPENING TIMES & DATES 

DECEMBER 

Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA): Wednesday – Friday 12-4 p.m. (11-13 and 18-20 December)

State of Concept:  Wednesday-Friday 4.30 – 8.30 p.m. , Saturday 12-5 p.m. (11-14 December, 18-21 December)

JANUARY – FEBRUARY

Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA): Wednesday – Friday 12-4 p.m. (15-17, 22-24 and 29-31 January)

State of Concept:  Wednesday-Friday 4.30 – 8.30 p.m., Saturday 12-5 p.m. (15-18, 22-25, 29-31 January and 1st of February)

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 Press Release

This exhibition sheds light on a five-year period of rich audio and visual cultural production in the interval between those two events. The prevailing global narrative on Greece at the end of the Olympics was a positive one: the cradle of European thinking, the mother of Western culture, succeeded in organising a highly celebrated aesthetically pleasing event that was viewed by millions all over the world. In just five years Greece would have a completely different profile of the front pages of international press, as a bankrupt country, not civilised enough, in a collapsed
financial state due to corruption and over-spending of European grants for decades; a country that over-borrowed but was begging for more money. A country that wanted to deceive the economically stable Northern Europe, with Greeks portrayed as “lazy”.

The exhibition attempts to first trace the footprints of this change over the past five years through examples of cultural production of the period, and to contour what kind of climate was prevailing in Athens by the end of the Olympics, but also to look for possible samples of utopian or dystopian representations for a future for Athens and Greece through the narrative of artists, filmmakers, musicians and designers. With the support of Outset Greece.

State of Concept

19, Tousa Botsari street

Athens, 11741


State of Concept

19 Mpotsari Tousa street

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