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Slowing Down Time: Tino Sehgal’s exhibit in Athens

Posted on October 1, 2014 by akalfopoulou

“… a qualified life, a particular way of life… Aristotle can certainly speak of a zoē aristē kai aidios, a more noble and eternal life (Metaphysics, 1072b, 28), but only insofar as he means to underline the significant truth that … Continue reading →

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The Way the Rain Came Down

Posted on December 8, 2013 by akalfopoulou

“Night after night, summer and winter, the torment of storms, the arrow-like stillness of fine weather, held their court without interference… only gigantic chaos streaked with lighting could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported … Continue reading →

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The Lives of Others (title borrowed from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2006 film)

Posted on January 1, 2013 by akalfopoulou

“On land the dirt remains, the smoke trails/from the footprints of torched houses, a burnt taste –/this is the blackened bread of memory.” Stephanos Papadopoulos, The Black Sea Back in New York, at the end of a year that also  … Continue reading →

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