 #13 May - June 2007
DRAFTS: "Both the seizure of the work and the media furore stirred up in its aftermath constitutes a direct attempt at imposing control on public discourse as a whole". From the text that was signed online by more than 2000 people after the seizure of Eva Stefani’s video from the Art Athina fair | Giorgos Panagiotakis goes through the 25-year-old history of Babel | Andreas Kasapis writes about his personal history with Babel | Jimmy Eythymiou writes about the ‘Place to be integrated’ at Katechaki, "out there where there be daemons…" |
VIEWS: Christopher Marinos writes about the plethora of American art exhibitions in Athens | Alexandra Moschovi claims that real becomes elastic in Panos Kokkinias’ photographic works | INTERVIEW: Stella Stevastopoulou discusses with Jimmy Durham | REVIEWS: Elpida Karampa claims that Kostis Stafylakis and Vana Kostagiola put up a language game of corporate structure reinstitutionalization | Despoina Sevasti writes about the ironic enticements and the antinomies of decentralization in the occasion of the exhibition Damien Hirst | Giota Konstandatou writes about the installation by Nikos Papadimitriou at AD Gallery | BOOK REVIEW: Dimitra Sakkatou presents the program of contemporary art teaching at public schools organized by Locus Athens
 #12 April 2007
DRAFTS: Alexandros Kioupkiolis writes about the dipole of modern greek provincialism | Philopoimin Sartas claims that the representation of Athens is constructed out of two opposing narratives | John Stathatos comments on a personal ad discovered on the Internet | VIEWS: Fotis Georgiadis writes about the exhibition of coloured ancient sculptures in the National Archaeological Museum | INTERVIEWS: Theophilos Tramboulis discusses with the nominees of the
5th DESTE Prize about their shortlisting, about politics, vagueness and populism | Faye Tzanetoulakou discusses with Viktor Misiano about his curatorial project in Art Athina and extertainment art in contemporary Russia | REVIEWS: Aristeidis Antonas writes about Vangelis Vlachos’ exhibition 1992 | Penelope Petsini writes on the occasion of a photographic exhibition by Nikos Markou at AD Gallery | Christina Petrinou writes about Zafos Xagoraris’ participation in the 1st Biennial of the End of the World | The group intothepill present the presuppositions of their collective
action | VISITS: Katerina Nikou meets Dimitris Baboulis | BOOK REVIEW: Elpida Karampa and Polyna Kosmadaki review Pierre Bourdieu’s book The Rules of Art
 #11 March 2007
DRAFTS: Vicky Iakovou writes about the premodernist contemporary Athens |
Alexandra Moschovi writes about the institutionalisation of politics on the occasion of the exhibition of Mark Wallinger at Tate Britain |
Rodya writes about the lawsuit against Anti magazine | VIEWS: Inspired by Nikos Valsamakis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis writes on the hedonistic and ambivalent survival of modernism in lifestyle | Yannoulis Halepas found himself trapped inside a stereotype that ignores history, claims Annie Malama | INTERVIEWS: Christopher Marinos discusses with Apostolos Georgiou | Stefanos Lazaridis talks to Angeliki Pantaleon about developing a new strategic plan for the Greek National Opera | REVIEWS: Yannis Stathatos reviews the transformation of Yannis Kontos’
photojournalism into art object | Thanos Stathopoulos writes on the possibilities of the moving image as desire and memory | Giota Konstandatou writes about the New School of Leipzig at Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center | Oursler’s multimedia aim at the catharsis from multimedia’s
malaise, writes Stella Sevastopoulou
 #10 February 2007
DRAFTS: Despoina Sevasti phrases a question that was never asked in the 1st Athens Biennial 2007 Conference | Rallou Panayiotou describes the exhibition of works by Greek artists that she organized in Glasgow | Rodya wonders about the success of the 1st Athens Biennial 2007 Conference | VIEWS: Yannis Stavrakakis and Kostis Stafylakis discuss some of the fundamental paradoxes of contemporary art in the age of blockbuster exhibitions and the metapolitical | INTERVIEW: Christopher Marinos discusses Italo Calvino, confinement and transgression with Nikos Tranos | Sotirios Bahtsetzis revisits Thanassis Totsikas for whom critics state their admiration far more often than they actually decide to approach his work | Maria Thalia Carras considers the colours of the people behind Michael Schmidt’s black and white photographic installation | Esther Lemi translates in text the visual of music by Argianas | Giota Konstandatou wonders whether bipolar schemata (Israeli/Arab, man/woman, war/peace, territory/world) recall or reproduce in the exhibition Purifying Love | “Reconstruction Community” describes the exhibition they organized at the Kypseli Municipal Market Occupation | VISITS: Katerina Nikou meets Angelo Plessas and discuss about Neen and the postinternet era in a studio without walls | BOOK REVIEW: For memory’s archive in W.G. Sebald’s work writes Effi Yannopoulou
 #9 January 2007
DRAFTS: Angeliki Pantaleon writes about Bombay in France | Rodya talks about the tennis game between public and private funding| Thelgeia Pappa writes about the lamb of Patras | VIEWS: Panayis Panagiotopoulos refers to the medium taste nowadays on the occasion of Dimitris Papaioannou’s play 2 | Michalis Paparounis advocates the political dimension of the underground | Elpida Karamba and Kostis Stafylakis discuss the aspects of feminist thought in Greece on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition by Leda Papakonstantinou | INTERVIEW: Thanassis Totsikas talks to Christopher Marinos | REVIEWS: Augustine Zenakos discovers and atmosphere made up of different viewpoints and quests at the Here, I disappear show at the apartment gallery | Kostas Ioannidis wanders around certain exhibitions of the vocational period and sets questions for the everlasting aestheticisation of action | The exhibition Anathena spotted useful deficits but did not manage to overcome its contradictions, argues Theophilos Tramboulis | BOOK REVIEW: Thanos Stathopoulos writes about the narration of a generation of artists that the book of Christopher Marinos sets up
 #8 November - December 2006
DRAFTS: Theophilos Tramboulis formulates questions and gaps | Aphrodite Al Saleh comes face to face with street theatre | Rodya reflects on the omnipresence of the city | VIEWS: Theofilos Tramboulis writes about the subterranean optimism of the underground | Dionyssos Kavathas writes about the experience of the Other as a determinant of underground culture | INTERVIEW: Christos Chomenidis talks with Panos Koutrouboussis about Simos the Existentialist’s suitcases, the red moon and lake Sakhalin of Vouliagmeni | REVIEWS: Despina Sevasti is chasing Derrida’s tail at the exhibition AYOR: No Man’s Land | Louiza Avgita, organizer of the symposium Borderlines, evaluates the workings of the day | Stella Sevastopoulou talks about Katerina Zacharopoulou’s heteronyms | Giota Konstantatou writes about the exhibition Sabotage of Reality at Batagianni Gallery | VISITS: Katerina Nikou visits Martha Dimitropoulou | BOOK REVIEW: Makis Milatos and Panayis Panagiotopoulos write about the underground and Greek society, on the occasion of the publication of Greek Rock, a book by Manolis Daloukas
 #7 October 2006
DRAFTS: Alexandra Moschovi discusses the iconography of the dispersed Aegean Sea, on the occasion of a trip to Finland | Theofilos Tramboulis talks about urban myths | Rodya points out an oxymoron | VIEWS: John Stathatos delineates the expansion of photography's discursive field and examines the particularities and paradoxes that characterize the belated accommodation of photographic arts in Greece | Arabella Plouviez presents the international programme IPRN and the exhibition Changing Faces | For the fleeting view of the exhibition What remains is future and his contrapuntal participation in the performance A Monster of Education of Alexandros Psychoulis writes Thanos Stathopoulos | INTERVIEW: Stavros Moressopoulos talks to Fotini Barka about the Month of Photography in Athens, about its successes and difficulties | REVIEWS: For the hermetic, ascetic, transitional exhibition of Maurice Ganis writes Christopher Marinos | Stella Stevastopoulou writes about the enigmatic, mysterious puzzles of Mantalina Psoma's women | VISITS: For eclecticism, the act of collection and recontextualization discuss Katerina Nikou and Em-Kei
 #6 September 2006
DRAFTS: From the Art Attack blog a discussion about the Athens Biennial, the power of friends and the Skoufaki bar in Athens | Carole Simonetti writes about Jochen Gerz’s project Salviamo la Luna organized by the Ìuseo di Fotografia Contemporanea of Milan | Thelgeia Pappas writes about Men in Black | DISCUSSION: Nikos Charalambidis and Kostis Velonis discuss about their works | VIEWS: Yorgos Tzirtzilakis writes about Athens, post-olympic city of great events | Eleni Tzirtzilaki and Anna Tsouloufi discuss about Gazochori and the Nomadic Architecture Network | REVIEWS: Theophilos Tramboulis writes about the Grand Promenade of EMST | Christopher Marinos is moving clockwise at the When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine exhibition in The Breeder Gallery | Maria Thaleia Carras remembers the exhibition Regarding Denmark at Ileana Tounta Gallery | Dimitra Sakkatou participated in the performance Nothing Really Matters When You Wear a Big Moustache | VISITS: Katerina Nikou meets Eftychis Patsourakis
 #5 Summer 2006
FOCUS PERIPHERIES: Irene Gerogianni pays a visit to the exhibition An Outing – from the Leonidas Beltsios Collection, in Trikala | Despina Zefkili talks to Elpida Karampa, Sotiris Bahtsetzis and Anne-Laure Oberson, curators of the exhibition Pro-Taseis – Action Field Kodra 06, in Kalamaria | Poka-Yio talks to Nadja Argyropoulou about the exhibition What Remains Is Future, in Patras | Eleni Koukou visits the exhibition The Scarecrow, in Metsovo | Yiannis Arvanitis writes about the collaborative program Post Programmed City Territory (PPC_T), in the case of the area of Farkadona, Trikala | FOCUS VERSUS: A discussion on the subject of Opposition, which was held in the context of the exhibition Versus, in To Milo gallery, with the participation of Yiannis Stavrakakis, researcher at Essex University, Theophilos Tramboulis, editor-in-chief of a., Nikos Xydakis, art critic and editor of Kathimerini newspaper, and Augustine Zenakos, art critic in To Vima newspaper and co-curator of the 1st Athens Biennial
 #4 May 2006
DRAFTS: Theophilos Tramboulis gives us a taste of Berlin, and remembers a visit to the athens contemporary art fair a few years ago | Loraini Alimantiri examines the new dynamic in contemporary Greek art with an eye to international engagement | INTERVIEW: George Hadjimichalis talks to Asteropi Lazaridou | REVIEWS: Alexandra Moschovi writes about the exhibition Visions 06 | Anny Malama returns to the exhibition The Years of Defiance | Christopher Marinos writes about the exhibition Full Moon by Eva Vretzaki | Iliana Fokianaki writes about the exhibition Tatoo My Art | Kostas Ioannidis writes about the project Black Tuda | VISITS: Katerina Nikou meets Maro Mihalakakos
 #3 April 2006
DRAFTS: Theophilos Tramboulis wonders if the field in Greece is constituted by adequate forces and adverse interests | Christos A. Chomenidis laughs at the inwardness of artistic endeavors | Alexandra Moschovi is troubled by the application of the terms ‘modern’ and ‘postmodern’ in the Greek context | INTERVIEW: Martin Maloney talks to Augustine Zenakos | REVIEWS: Natasha Adamou writes about Architectural Transparencies | Ileana Fokianaki writes about Sam Herbert | Augustine Zenakos writes about Rena Papaspyrou | Irene Gerogianni writes about Panic Room | Tonia Vouraki and Stavroula Tseva write about L’ apres-midi d’un Faune | VISITS: Katerina Nikou meets Anastassia Douka | BOOK REVIEW: Costis Stafylakis writes about the periodic publication Spot, edited by artist Stephanos Tsivopoulos
 #2 March 2006
DRAFTS: The disrupted relationship between contemporary art and public life | Why a contribution to an exhibition in the Barbican Center was a most revealing statement of art reception in Greece | INTERVIEW: Christiana Soulou, who is participating in the 4th Berlin Biennial, talks to Augustine Zenakos | REVIEWS: Despina Zefkili writes about Marcus Amm | Irini Gerogianni writes about The Years of Defiance. | Thelgeia Papa writes about Vassilis Polychronakis | Christopher Marinos writes about Vangelis Gokas | Theophilos Tramboulis writes about Dimitra Vamiali | Stavroula Tseva writes about Christopher Wool and George Condo | VISITS: Katerina Nikou meets Sebastien Marteau | BOOK REVIEW: Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis writes about The Oneiric Texture of Reality by Christos Vakalopoulos
 #1 February 2006
INTERVIEW: Jonathan Callan talks to Augustine Zenakos | REVIEWS: Sotiris Bahtsetzis writes about the exhibition Archaeology of Today | Maria-Thalia Carras writes about Zafos Xagoraris | Alexandra Moschovi writes about Ed Ruscha | Natasha Adamou writes about Vera Lutter | BOOK REVIEW: Theophilos Tramboulis writes about Going Public
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