Drawing
on his studies of art, sociology and agroecology, García-Dory
rethinks the role of the artist as cultural producer addressing the
intersection of culture and nature within related contexts:
landscape, the rural, identity, crisis and utopia. In AGORA, Fernando
García-Dory presents recent progress in the Department
of Islands,
a project which he began working in 2009 in an ongoing collaboration
with members of A
Whale’s Architects and
Valentina Karga.
This ongoing intervention project focuses on Pacific, Carribean and
Mediterranean islands as semi-enclosed ecosystems that become the
setting of the classic neo-liberal drama in which local economies
succumb to the promissory spectacle of a worldly paradise.
Panel
Participants:
Tania
Bruguera
(Artist)
Efstratios
Charchalakis (President
of the Domestic Property Committee of the Greek islands Kythera and
Antikythera)
Valentina
Karga (Architect
and Artist, fellow of the Graduate School of the Univesity of the
Arts, Berlin)
Iris
Lykourioti (Co-founder
of A Whale’s architects Assistant Professor, Department of
Architecture, University of Thessaly)
Tzanos
Mavrikos (Student
of the Department of Physics, University of Athens, Owner of a
livestock unit of Agrotourism in Skyros Island)
Thanos
Michalis (Student
of the Department of Architecture, University of
Athens)
Sept.29,
2013 @ 3:30 – 5:00
Agora,4th
Athens Biennale
