Andreas Angelidakis

Sunday, January 27, 2013

PAOLA

Through the miracle of facebook

I rediscovered one of my teenage heroes

transvestive activist and publisher Paola Revenioti

her magazine Kraximo (fagbashing) one was of the reasons I would skip school

and head to downtown Athens

its pages were full of hot guys and clever poets

Paola took most of the photos herself

they were her lovers

and friends

the magazine was a total mystery

it was a cross between an anarchist newspaper and a porn magazine,

slashed together with a poetry and photography journal

published out of the anarchist neighborhood of Exarchia

it was full of police brutality reports against gays and trannies

hot guys lazily lounging

downtown legends like the cross dressing Andona (female for Andonis)

pics of bad hot cops

fellow Exarchia anarchists and punks

When I first contacted Paola, who is still super active, though only online
on facebook and youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/thepaolaproject

where together with George Liakos she uploads documentaries on trannies, immigrants, male prostitutes and often antiquity.

I proposed a feature in the fabulous CANDY magazine, and thats how we met

Her combination of interests and activities is what I understand today as a contemporary art practice

visiting with Paola I realized she maintained a fantastic archive both of the magazine and her own photography.

and I suggested we work on an exhibition of her photos

and videos (which we spliced together)

at The Breeder

the show runs until Feb 16th

on January 30 we will have a discussion with Paola on the show and her current and future activities

sexy boys sit together with aging queens

unexpected visitors

PAOLA curated by Andreas Angelidakis
The Breeder
17th Jan- 16th Feb. 2013
exhibition installation Andreas Angelidakis with Sotiris Vasiliou and Alexandra Syriou
special thanks to Manolito :)

read more about Paola
on Greek Wikipedia
LiFO (Greek)
BUTT

Two Talks

Here's two talks I gave *recently*

One was a chat with ROLU's Matt Olson, as part of their Walker Art Center residency

The other an intentionally interrupted talk on Suburbia, in our suburban guest-room

for the symposium Vies Mobile at the Maison Rouge in Paris

I was a White Slave in Brooklyn (Long Island version)

recently we visited PS1MOMA and like many museums they dont let you take pictures

whats the point of going to a show if you cant blog about it?

at PS1 they at least let you take pictures of the wall texts and labels

and the white walls too

so here is my PS1 visit in wall labels

and I only put the labels of the works that attracted my attantion

or I was intrigued enough to go look at the label

and actually read what the thing was

sometimes I just liked the nanopuff

or I liked pieces as room decoration

or as over the top extravagant follies

videos I had seen before but still like

titles

more titles

Drag Queen Shoulders in Dawn

and works that were not works but attempts to remember.

But how can you remember if there are no pics?

Friday, November 09, 2012

Illuminating Väsby

In the ongoing Vasby Labs experiment, where we are testing ideas on how development can occur with the participation of the community, we began with workshops held in the areas' shopping mall.

after a series of these public workshops, we began identifying the project as a series of questions, interspersed with temporary public installations, which would measure and test the participation of the public. In the summer and early fall sessions,

these included a pop-up grocery store,
a temporary urban lab,

a propaganda stand, a cafe and a carousel for kids.

As darkness becomes a larger part of the day, we slowly begin to illuminate the area of Torget

Illuminations happens on two levels

one is a set of mobile street lights and lit objects,

that will brighten the area during the dark winter months

Parallel to the light objects, a series of signs introduce and advertise a questionaire

on the ways that the city can develop.

a set of string lights suggest a celebration or gathering. Benches are there to sit, and a sign asks whether people prefer public or private parks. These are perhaps questions with multiple answers, because privatising public space leads to better development but also more control on the part of investors.

(invitation to the switching-on of Lights, on Monday 12th of November 2012)

So the questions are there simply to introduce the subject,

and to make sure that decisions are well thought through.

later on, an ice-skating rink will operate with free entrance for the citizens of Vasby.

The area of Torget, which we are illuminating, is in fact a construction site, that we are temporarily using to test urban planing ideas before construction begins,