[spectre] MONODROME: Art’s debt in times of crisis.

[marc garrett]

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New Review on Furtherfield.

MONODROME: Art’s debt in times of crisis.

Veroniki Korakidou reviews The 3rd Athens Biennale 2011 MONODROME.

The final part of a trilogy which started with DESTROY ATHENS 2007 & 
continued with HEAVEN 2009. Drawing upon the life and work of Walter 
Benjamin and inspired by his book by the same title (One way Street, 
1928), MONODROME was curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and X&Y (Xenia 
Kalpaktsoglou and Poka-Yio, co-founders of the Athens Biennale).

Athens Biennale 2011 was the third edition of this institution and was 
entitled "Monodrome", meaning "One way street" after the 1928 text 
"Eisenstrasse" by Walter Benjamin. The concept of the title is obvious; 
after the first Athens Biennale in 2007 prophetically entitled: "Destroy 
Athens", the second Biennale "Heaven" in 2009, "Monodrome" comes as a 
closure to this trilogy. Why Walter Benjamin? Because he was a "defeated 
intellectual", according to the curators. German-Jewish philosopher, an 
emblematic figure of 20th century thought, gave an end to his life at 
the french-spanish border while trying to escape the Nazis. "He was 
unable to overcome his personal dead-end as a subject", says Poka-Yio of 
X&Y and he continues: "The title of this exhibition after Benjamin’s 
text refers to a collective dead-end" currently at stake and it’s only 
possible fate: a cloud of doom. "Monodrome" aimed to provoke debate 
around "something that has fallen apart, but to also offer the 
possibility of a glimpse at something new to come".

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/monodrome-arts-debt-times-crisis

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Veroniki Korakidou is a Research Associate at the National and 
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Department of Communication 
and Media Studies, Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, 
Education and the Mass Media, where she carries her PhD thesis: “Of Gaze 
and Object: On the Language of Abstract Animation”.

She holds an MPhil in Cultural Studies and Human Communication from the 
same University, an MBA in Interactive Multimedia and Audiovisual 
Production from Groupe HE-ICHEC Brussels and a BA in Media and 
Communication from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences 
in Athens, Greece.

She was the national representative of Leonardo Education and Arts Forum 
(LEAF) from 2007-2009 and a co-organizer with Dimitris Charitos of the 
European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists - e-MobiLArt project 
(2008-2009) funded with financial support from EU CULTURE Program: 
www.media.uoa.gr/emobilart

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