The Concept

On maps, the South is typically depicted as both “down” and “under”. Evil is under (at least when it is compared with what is above).
God, light, heightened desires, and erect penises are all “up”. Beneath, is the underworld.

In the context of this proposed workshop, the South is not strictly perceived as a geographical location, but is rather defined as the geography of the Other. More precisely, this workshop considers this Otherness as analogous to the position the South occupies on the map, where the Other finds her/himself perpetually underneath: the weak, the poor, the oppressed, the naive, the hobo, the underdeveloped, the woman, the homosexual, the trans, the black, etc. The Southern Teachers workshop invites artists, architects and theorists to make –through diverse individual and/or collective actions– an artistic mapping of the contemporary South, focusing on narratives inspired by the curatorial practices of d14, wherein the South is a prosperous field for alternative social, financial and political practices flourishing bottom-up, that can and should be taught (by/to whom?).

Participants

Jarri Castro | art critic and theorist | Αlkisti Efthymiou | museum Studies, gender studies | Fabiana Faleiros | performer, art theorist | Alexis Fidetzis | visual artist | The Flower Girls (Eleftheria Kotzaki, Christina Spanou, Dimitra Stamatopoulou) | visual artists | Vana Kostayola | visual artist, media theorist, curator (Skype from Geneva) | Chrisoula Lionis | visual culture theorist; Universtity of New South Wales | Iris Lykourioti – Ίρις Λυκουριώτη | architect – αρχιτέκτων; University of Thessaly – Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας | Pinar Ogrenci | artist, writer; founder of MARSistanbul (Skype from Istanbul) | Eliana Otta | visual artist, cultural studies | Lykourgos Porfyris | visual artist; Kunstakademiet, Kunsthogskolen (Skype from Oslo) | Marina Reyes Franco | art historian, curator (Skype from Panama) | Gian Spina | researcher, writer, visual artist | Kostis Stafylakis | visual artist, art theorist, curator; University of Patras | Adonis Stoantzikis | visual artist; Frank Mohr Institute | Michailangelos Vlassis-Ziakas | visual artist |