Fiddling while Athens is "destroyed"
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imomusI'm playing a concert in Athens this Saturday.
Saturday September 15th 2007
Legal Tender presents...
Momus
Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts
Victory Collapse
Bios
84 Pireos Avenue
Athens
Greece
8pm
€15
My concert co-incides -- whether happily or not I won't know until I check it out -- with the First Athens Art Biennial. Yes, the city has joined the gazillion others which now host biennials and triennials. The curators, filled with punky spunk, have named theirs "Destroy Athens". Unfortunately, shortly after they chose the name parts of Athens really were destroyed. By fire. "This reminds me of the last day of Pompeii," commented one resident, who seemed to have a long memory.
The curators' manifesto is, appropriately enough, a scream.
"Destroy Athens tells a story," it informs us. "As the place where the story unfolds we chose Athens; at first perhaps for the obvious reason that we live here. However, we are in a way fortunate as Athens is in itself an appropriate emblem for what we termed a stereotype, throughout the long period that the story was being shaped, that is the sense of extra-determination which constitutes the extreme expression of the subject’s self-construction we mentioned before... A story is something which happens to a subject, to a potential “someone”. A story can face the question: what if all is not going to be alright? What if someone decides to try their luck, to raise their voice, to engage in conflict, to abolish consent, to destroy Athens? Let us, then, come to the monsters."
Saturday September 15th 2007
Legal Tender presents...
Momus
Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts
Victory Collapse
Bios
84 Pireos Avenue
Athens
Greece
8pm
€15
My concert co-incides -- whether happily or not I won't know until I check it out -- with the First Athens Art Biennial. Yes, the city has joined the gazillion others which now host biennials and triennials. The curators, filled with punky spunk, have named theirs "Destroy Athens". Unfortunately, shortly after they chose the name parts of Athens really were destroyed. By fire. "This reminds me of the last day of Pompeii," commented one resident, who seemed to have a long memory.
The curators' manifesto is, appropriately enough, a scream.
"Destroy Athens tells a story," it informs us. "As the place where the story unfolds we chose Athens; at first perhaps for the obvious reason that we live here. However, we are in a way fortunate as Athens is in itself an appropriate emblem for what we termed a stereotype, throughout the long period that the story was being shaped, that is the sense of extra-determination which constitutes the extreme expression of the subject’s self-construction we mentioned before... A story is something which happens to a subject, to a potential “someone”. A story can face the question: what if all is not going to be alright? What if someone decides to try their luck, to raise their voice, to engage in conflict, to abolish consent, to destroy Athens? Let us, then, come to the monsters."