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La performance di Mary Zygouri …“ Il peso della democrazia non ha prezzo. Emergenza. Intervento !!! è di forte impatto. L’artista ateniese,

trascina una ventina di sacchi bianchi timbrati ‘Democrazia Ellenica’ – Polite; parte dalla strada, passa in mezzo alle automobili, blocca

completamente il traffico del Corso Vittorio Emanuele, si avvia con forza e determinazione verso il Palazzo. I sacchi, imbracati e legati come

protesi dolorosa del suo corpo, trasportati a fatica fino al terzo piano, mercanteggiati e svenduti - “!"#$%&'(”- a 50 Euro l’uno.

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Maria Karavela’s body of work holds a very important place in the contemporary history of Greek art. However,

it still hasn’t been adequately assessed by contemporary scholars, in order to shed light on all aspects of her

innovative artistic persona. Between June 2008 and September 2009, I conducted a series of visits to Maria

Karavela’s house and archives in Athens. My artistic approach differs from that of an Art Historian. The

development of an intimate relationship granted me access to her personal archive, the one that survived the fire

of December 13th, 1996 in the same place. The digitization of that material, combined with a research focused on

art archives from the 1970s, and interviews of Karavela’s contemporaries contributed to the reconstruction of her

work related with her personal history up until today. Karavela’s impaired memory and her insistence to save the

traces of her project made my task even more complex and difficult. What primarily drew my interest in Karavelais the silence which is imposed on the voices of dissident artists who are not recognized in their time; a ‘fighting’

nostalgia for the 1970s generation reinvented and relocated in the contemporary political situation.

Maria Karavela died in 7th September 2012.

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The project focused mainly on people’s expectations in publicspaces, provoking the individual, the viewer or passer-byinto becoming the actual content of art. One of the mostinteresting projects was the event “Hacking Reality” byMary Zygouri. The artist organized various Athens councilemployees in charge of street cleaning in a public

performance in a square in downtown Athens. After threeroad sweepers who surrounded the crowd while spraying afresh-smelling aroma had forced the audience into a densemass, four refuse collectors standing in front started chantingthe phrase “Within a Structure. Outside a Structure” whileholding flags using the sempaphore alphabet. The public hadto respond using the same alphabet. j. The conditions and

particularities of each site are central to the development ofeach project; the main focus in Zygouri’s audience-based art(performances and interventions) is its collaborative,

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