Nov 14, 2014

Urban actions @ Industial ruins next to the Athens School of Fine Arts (2)

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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

Nov 12, 2014

Urban actions @ Industial ruins next to the Athens School of Fine Arts

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Relocation I: pic nic

November 12, 2014 – Relocation I : pic nic A public action organised by Evangelia Raftopoulou

Relocation I: pic nic, a public, participatory action planned and organised by Evangelia Raftopoulou took place on that cloudy Wednesday afternoon on the sidewalk that is part of the route followed by the Itinerant Photography Lab. Raftopoulou cooked stuffed tomatoes (“gemista”, a traditional Greek dish) and invited friends and fellow students from the Athens School of Fine Art to bring some food and share a pic-nic lunch accompanied by wine and conversations on the pavement next to the industrial ruins of a former furniture factory. She also invited local workmen and passersby to join in. By transforming a place of passage, a public space into a place of rest, an intimate space and by dislocating-relocating human bodies she sought to expose the established spatial and temporal relations, and to redefine our experience of lived space; ultimately, to practice space* (de Certeau). Relocation I : pic nic @ Pavement next to industrial ruins of A.S.F.A, was a public action organised by Evangelia Raftopoulou at the context of the Itinerant Photography Lab