Exposition

The game (last edited: 2023)

Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni
open exposition

About this exposition

Happening, 2016. Participant's research, including improvised full recorded interview with first generation Albanian immigrants to Greece, images, and thematic text. The research was conducted for the workshop, "Logics of Worlds", organised by architect Filippos Oraiopoulos, at Athens School of Fine Art (ASFA), Master of Visual Arts (Marios Spiliopoulos, Giorgios Xiropaides), December 2016. I used play as a method to facilitate improvised discussions. People share and respond more freely when participating in structured, but playful interactions, such as those a game involves. Albanians speak three languages, Albanian, Greek and Italian, so I wasn't able to translate parts of the conversation. Avlona is an English now obsolete name for Vlore, an Albanian seaport and former ancient Greek colony Aulon. Notably, the workshop was slightly interrupted by a performance art student, who brought a live hen to slaughter in the studio. This can be taken as a metaphor for scapegoating refugees. For this exposition, I include an essay by Pantelis Boukalas, in Kyriakos Katzourakis, O "Dromos Pros Ti Dysi" (The Way to the West), 2001, as well as Kyriakos Katzourakis' introduction in English. The exposition also aims to juxtapose the experimental and the conceptual in the fine arts; and to make the 'invisible' visible.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsHappening, Neighbourhood, language-game, play, Readymade objects, artefact, ethnography
date01/03/2023
last modified22/07/2023
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of Athens, Athens School of Fine Art
copyrightZ.P.Nigianni
licenseAll rights reserved
languageGreek
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2006944/2006945


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2007015 The game_page-0003 Z.P.NIgianni Public domain
2007050 The game_page-0003 Z.P.Nigianni CC BY-NC-ND
2007853 Image Z.P.Nigianni CC BY-NC-ND
2007855 main-image Z.P.Nigianni CC BY-NC-ND
2008164 525px-Caravaggio_(Michelangelo_Merisi)_-_The_Cardsharps_-_Google_Art_Project Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND
2008188 Greek police Hellenic Police CC BY-NC-ND
2035430 p. 1 Pantelis Boukalas Public domain
2035432 p. 2 Panelis Boukalas Public domain
2035434 p. 3 Pantelis Boukalas Public domain
2045403 Schrift Creative Commons All rights reserved
2045406 Schrift Creative Commons All rights reserved
2045408 Schrift Creative Commons All rights reserved
2091421 the-card-players-1892 Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND
2091870 Schrift Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND
2118061 Katzourakis1 Creative Commons Public domain
2118066 Katzourakis2 Creative Commons Public domain
2200301 Art Edi Rama Creative Commons Public domain
2233584 Playing Creative Commons All rights reserved

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