{"id":7490,"date":"2016-10-26T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artjournalstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2019-11-21T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:06:36","slug":"no-water-athens-greece-2015-twenty-four-hours-with-nothing-to-eat-or-drink-only-smelling-the-jasmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/?p=7490","title":{"rendered":"no water, Athens, Greece, 2015: Twenty-four hours with nothing to eat or drink, only smelling the jasmine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\">Addendum to <\/span><em><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\">Art Journal<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\"> 75, no. 3 (Fall 2016)<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_1_for-AJO.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014<\/strong> <em>The only way out is upwards. (You would say he saw walls about him.) I mean the act of poetic creation. Am I boring you? Our demand must rise to the level of our despair. . . <\/em> Excerpt from Pandelis Prevelakis, <em>I Kefali tis Medousas<\/em> [The Head of Medusa] (Athens: Friends\u2019 Editions, 1963), trans. the artist and Markus Nystrom<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_3_for-AJO.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7621\" src=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_3_for-AJO-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"pv_3_for-ajo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_3_for-AJO-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_3_for-AJO-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_3_for-AJO-210x158.jpg 210w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_3_for-AJO.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7626\" src=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"pv_4_for-ajo\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO-375x500.jpg 375w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO-150x200.jpg 150w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO-750x1000.jpg 750w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO-210x280.jpg 210w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_4_for-AJO.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_5_for-AJO.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7623\" src=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_5_for-AJO-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"pv_5_for-ajo\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_5_for-AJO-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_5_for-AJO-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_5_for-AJO-210x140.jpg 210w, http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PV_5_for-AJO.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 Photographs from documentation of Memorial Site 1941\u20131944, Athens,<\/strong> December 18 and 20, 2014 (photographs \u00a9 Penelope Vlassopoulou)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<center>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/124568300?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"no water\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/center>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 <em>no water<\/em>, 2015,<\/strong> video of intervention\/performance, dir. Yannis Karpouzis, 4 min. 59 sec. (video \u00a9 Penelope Vlassopoulou)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Penelope Vlassopoulou<br \/><em>no water<\/em><br \/>public space intervention\/performance<br \/>Athens<br \/>2015<\/p>\n<p>Starting point: Memorial Site 1941\u20131944<br \/>Number of drawings\/messages: 19<br \/>Materials: Wheat flour and carob meal<br \/>Surface: The city pavements and squares<br \/>Itinerary: The usual route taken by demonstrations in downtown Athens<br \/>Ending point: Across from the Greek Parliament<br \/>Duration: 7 hours<br \/>Date: March 26, 2015<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The corresponding print element of this project was published in the Fall 2016 print issue of <em>Art Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Penelope Vlassopoulou<\/strong> began her <em>Metamorphosis<\/em> series in her home city of Athens. The series evolved in multidisciplinary dialogue with diverse urban environments including Berlin, Belgrade, and Chicago. In March 2015, <em>Metamorphosis<\/em> returned to its point of origin with <em>no water<\/em> tracing a link between Greece\u2019s historical past and the country\u2019s current predicament.<\/p>\n<p><em>no water<\/em> began in December 2014 with the documentation of the wall carvings of the former detention facility at 4 Korai Street in Athens, and culminated in the intervention\/performance of March 26, 2015.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Penelope Vlassopoulou<\/p>\n<p>Penelope Vlassopoulou began her <em>Metamorphosis<\/em> series in her home city of Athens. The series evolved in multidisciplinary dialogue with diverse urban environments including Berlin, Belgrade, and Chicago. In March 2015, <em>Metamorphosis<\/em> returned to its point of origin with <em>no water<\/em> tracing a link between Greece\u2019s historical past and the country\u2019s current predicament.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","category-from-art-journal",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}