Serafin og Plym

 A couple of days ago I rediscovered my favourite book as a kid, which I thought was long thrown away. It's the story of Serafin and Plym, 

two friends who were good at making things 

I guess the things they made were not so popular so they had to go from job to job

 

one day they decide to make a fantastic machine, that makes the most amazing fences ever
 

They celebrated the making of the machine, but when they tested it in the city, officials freak out, and Serafin and Plym got kicked out

So they decided to fence everybody in, then fence themselves in around hole in the ground

opening the sewer cover, they set off in an underground maze of caves, 

and they lived happily ever after,

 together.

15 minutes of BYOB Athens at KUNSTHALLE ATHENA

Last Night a VJ saved my Life: BYOB at KUNSTHALLE ATHENA, curated by Angelo Plessas

Participating Artists: Alexandros Psychoulis, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Dimitris Foutris, Dimitris Papadatos, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Eftihis Patsourakis, Emile Zile, Irini Karayannopoulou, Ioanna Myrka, Georgia Sagri, Katerina Kana, Lakis & Aris Ionas/The Callas, Makis Faros, Mano Plizzi, Maria Papadimitriou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Pegy Zali, Petros Moris, Poka-Yio, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sifis Lykakis, Spiros Hadjidjanos, The Erasers, Theo Michael, Theodoros D Giannakis, This is Amateur, Vassilis Patmios Karouk.

P.A.R.A.D.O.X.O.N.

I think P.A.R.A.D.O.X.O.N.is a fanzine

 I know I got it at a popup shop at AMP Gallery, 

organized by the nice people of OMMU Distribution

 it has pictures of buildings without windows

 it says that having no windows is added protection

the last image is a grave too

The Feeder

This 19^th century etching illustrates the great dichotomy that faced Greek Society in the years leading to Prime Minister Trikoupis’ dramatic declaration of a National Bankruptcy (1896).

The foustanella-wearing Guerrilla Fighters lead by Kolokotronis fought the war that helped liberate the nation from the Ottoman Empire.
The Alafrangas, European educated Greeks led by Kapodistrias wanted to form the modern independent nation not as a folklore relic, but as a direct descendant of the glorious ancient Greece. In the first image we see a cafe divided into two sections, one for the rough, peasant shepherds and mountain fighters wearing the kilts and the colorful embroideries, the other for the Alafrangas, wearing refined suits and playing billiard.


As a result of the great bankruptcy, the International Financial Commission was founded to supervise the enormous loans that would help Greece become an "independent" nation. Inside the cafe Orea Hellas it was folklore vs neoclassical, colorful vs pristine, shelters made of sticks and stones vs romantic white marble ruins.

Even nowadays, as Greece is navigating its' second major financial crisis, one can sense that the country is a collage between the glorious and somewhat virtual ancient past, and the live real present.

Two Systems, white lacquer modules, found furniture

Feeder

As a result of these notes on aesthetics and history, we devised the space of Feeder, at the Breeder project space, as a combination of two spaces. One space is inhabited by a pristine white lacquer system of modular seating and dining units, the other by mismatched, used chairs and tables found in the area of Metaxourgeio.

The two spaces are collaged together, as a continuously evolving ruin where chairs become benches, tables extend to become columns, new seats are born from old, and richly woven traditional kilims are laid on glossy white surfaces, in an architecture that continually copy-pastes between the virtual ancient past and the real folklore present.

Table for Two, white lacquer module resting on found table part

Seat for Two, found chair part bolted onto white lacquer module

Table for four, white lacquer module bolted onto found table part

Two Chairs (white lacquer modules and found chair parts)

Greek folk rug, early 20th century

Chairs, Table, Seats, Food

Table for Two, white lacquer modules and found table leg

Feeder @ Breeder, reservations start October 5th
Located at Breeder Projects
Design Andreas Angelidakis,
design team Andreas Angelidakis, Sotiris Vasiliou
fabrication Vangelis Anagnostopoulos, Mr Vangelis, Zair, Fad, with special thanks to Mr Sifis Lycakis
Cooking for the first trimester Troo Food Liberation collective
for reservations call Breeder +30 210 3317527

Darkness Light Darkness, Jan Svankmajer

The utter brilliance of Jan Svankmajer

Stolen Shoe House

Angelo found this Dreamy Shoe House in Belle's Daddy's photostream, 

and since there was no way of sharing, I stole it.

The Austrian Phenomenon

Recently i caved in and bought The Austrian Phenomenon (Birkhäuser)

Its a huge book relentlessly documenting Austrian avant garde architecture 

from 1956 to 1973

I'm reading about HyperSpaces from the late 60s

Houses with two Horizons

People who want to live in plastic bubbles

plastic bubbles attaches to houses

suggesting that maybe they want to fly away, 

even though they're just a house.

Building Number Three: Pavilion for the Greek Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Here's some images from the just installed 

(and soon to be de-installed ) pavilion for the Ministry of Culture,
at the Thessaloniki International Expo

by Angelidakis, Argyropoulou + Mr Tzirtzilakis

Looking at all the other hyper-polished booths and pavilions, 

and with an eye firmly fixed on Greece's overall budget (as a country),

we decided to bypass any gloss, and just use stuff we found and stuff we will re-use.

We combined booths, to hint to the upcoming changes,

as planned by the Ministry: The Tourism booth was housed together with Young Greek Designers

vintage artist posters together with Campana Workshop chairs 

and Greece is for Lovers fantasmagoria

Bureau of Antiquities got a series of Mock Ups (recently reclaimed pieces)

mixed with official reproductions

: Copyville

Cinema cluster was a Tetris Mountain with five screens

Television Mountain, dirt from the Thessaloniki subway excavation, 

and reclaimed monitors looping the National TV archive.

Observation tower + Book Tetris Mountain

panoramic archipelago of department islands

Le Mepris

We were lost in a cloud of unawareness

white plaster, red eyes

Poseidon, arch enemy, blue eyes, blue lips

color check

contempt

big window, big rocks

big staircase

big sky

I see you as if for the first time