The Concept. One of documenta 14’s strategies of “learning from Athens” was through movement – touring, walking and mapping– as well as through a move from Kassel to Athens. Based on practices of walking and mapping, this three-day workshop will engage participants in a discussion and practice revolving around the ways documenta 14 mapped and walked through the city of Athens. The Walking and Mapping workshop will also consider how we can walk in and map the city now after the exhibition is gone and has left all sorts of traces behind.

Wednesday, October 4th (1 – 4 pm). Walking ethnography. Giorgos Samantas, member of the Lfd project and the d14 chorus, will guide a walking expedition in the Athens School of Fine Arts, which was the epicentre of the educational branch of the exhibition, as well as its primary institutional associate. The expedition will follow a typical route of a d14 Chorus walk, and will include a presentation of the now empty “Nikos Kessanlis” main d14 exhibition hall, and a walk through the school premises. The absent d14 artists’ works will be presented in situ, as the remnants of d14 are traced through imagery imprinted on the walls of the institution (such as graffiti, stencils and posters). The participants are expected to record their experience in any given medium (notes and sketches, photographs, video and sound recordings etc.), and to gather artefacts they consider important for the fieldwork. This material will be collected and used in the second part of the workshop, and will also be available for public viewing in the exhibition space.

Thursday, October 5th (10 am – 1 pm). Sofia Grigoriadou will initiate discussion focusing on d14 maps, counter-maps, and relevant samples of printed material that was produced during the d14 period in Athens. Participants will be invited to make short interventions (presentations, performances, interactive actions, short discussions, screenings etc.) with reference to d14’s presence in Athens according to their own experiences, interests, and/or theoretical input. Participants will engage in a dialogue based both on the presented material, and on their own findings, observations, and notes on the first day's walk. The session will take place around a typical Greek taverna paper tablecloth which participants are encouraged to use for their interventions and/or to take notes, sketch, and draw links between ideas and/or locations during the discussion. Thus, a new cartography will be produced, inspired by the maps usually featuring on such tablecloths. The placement of participants’ input onto a paper tablecloth is designed to draw out multiple links to some of the issues that were raised by d14 ́s presence in Athens; namely tourism, hospitality, food art etc.

Friday, October 6th (10 am – 1 pm) Indoor session. The final day of the workshop will centre on discussing the results of Day 1 and Day 2 and will focus on the completion of a new cartography of Athens. The outcome of this final session along with material related to the participants' interventions will be exhibited during the conference.

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