KN: In the video, you mention Diogenes the Cynic for his life inside a pot with his dog.
Maybe there will be nothing to see, like that Woody Allen film Deconstructing Harry, where Harry, played by Robin Williams, is out of focus, literally becoming blurred, you cannot see him anymore. And the present is shifting so fast these days, maybe our time will be seen like as a total blur, when looked back from the future. I’m happy to let go of things, so I’d rather forget. An easy example would be the History of Modern Greece, as it was and perhaps is still taught in schools, mostly a propaganda for the Greek Orthodox Church, which is like being taught history that fits the narrative of a commercial corporation like WallMart or Ikea. I imagine that If we look at how most national histories are taught in schools, we would find them to be wildly subjective, to the point of being mostly made-up propaganda drivel. I find it hard to think of history at all, because what becomes official history has gone through so much political editing. Do you believe in a linear narration of history?ĪA: I had to google “post-processual archaeology” to even know what it is. KN: Vessel has a strong reference to post-processual archaeology.
I always think of monuments as commemorating past achievements of past civilizations we should think of monuments as societal goals, as places we want to arrive at. What would make a great monument are notions like Universal Basic Income, rather than that. But hopefully now we can see them for what they are. KN: Can you name a building that will remain as a monument one thousand years from now?ĪA: I doubt any building will be a future monument, because now we understand buildings as perhaps the ultimate neoliberal tool for “development”, and I guess buildings were always power signifiers. It's hard to understand what anything means anymore, what message the Kardashian product was trying to convey, and what it would offer once purchased.
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In front of the Kendal poster was a homeless drug addict trying to find a free vein to shoot up. Just now, I passed by a shop in downtown Athens, which was proudly announcing that they sell the Kendal and Kylie workout tights. Even a seminal book such as Jean Baudrillard’s The System of Objects (also the title of the international group exhibition curated by Andreas Angelidakis at Deste Foundation, Athens, based on the collections of Dakis Ioannou), would be re-written today to adjust to how we read the messages that objects carry. But our relationship to objects has evolved since Antiquity, perhaps even since last year. Is there any equivalent object in contemporary society?ĪA: In the video, I talk about the ancient decorated vessels as a type of ancient social media, so the obvious answer is already in the work. KN: Vessel was an object, which was carrying a message in antiquity. KN: Why do you define Europe as a location in Vessel?ĪA: I don't, the location is and has always been, the internet. Your reality is different than mine, and both could easily be the result of our personal fiction. Reality though is much more slippery than mythology, because mythology is more or less a fixed narrative, whereas reality is subjective and very much affected by psychology. Katerina Nikou: Within the framework of the current circumstances, which we all experience differently, do you identify any relations between reality and mythology?Īndreas Angelidakis: I guess mythology itself was originally based on some type of reality but also sociology or even a study of human behaviour, so it will always be connected.
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