Urban actions @ Industial ruins next to the Athens School of Fine Arts (2)
November 14, 2014 – Nowness. A public action organised by Rafaella Constantinou
Rafaella Constantinou organised a public intervention that focused on the most appealing, yet neglected and unfrequented part of the route: the pond or “construction site” as it is often referred to by the owner of the land – which is what it originally was before it was filled up with water. Constantinou sought to make an invisible place visible by dying the pond with a non-toxic, fluorescent colour. In the process she convinces the initially reluctant landowner (the Foundation of the Hellenic World, a cultural institution adjacent to the Athens School of Fine Art) to overcome their fears and give permission for the action to take place. Even more importantly, a security guard will be the first person to throw colour in the water, in a symbolic, albeit momentary exit from his role as a keeper of the order and the status quo. Nowness @ Artificial Lake behind the Athens School of Fine Arts, was a public action organised by Rafaella Constantinou at the context of the Itinerant Photography Lab
Nowness @ Artificial Lake behind Athens School of Fine Arts