4TH BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF THESSALONIKI
State Museum of Contemporary Art
Summary
The extensive semi-urban and rural territories and their social practices of habitation are understood here as public archives to be negotiated.
The regional territories under the influence of tourist development and suburbanization have gradually become objects of a cultural and economic colonization. This process is promoted through social practices and mechanisms. The practice of selecting places and destinations, visual evaluation, the use of heavy infrastructure, the gentrification of areas are among them. On the other hand, the “state of emergency” causes a stormy redistribution of property status on a geographical scale and a kind of new colonization of the territories, after the building explosion of modernism.
The interest is focused on the possibilities of intervention in a program of de-colonization of territories. A kind of deconstruction of the mechanism (dispositive) of tourist accommodation-inhabitation of the territorial territory is sought, and the exploitation of the tradition of “common lands”, with what this may mean today. A synthetic research is attempted with the physical practices of localization, wandering, random navigation, networking in the material space. Temporary -Accommodation- Anywhere wants to transform the vertical hierarchies of the territorial archive into horizontal common practices.
Architectural research on land subsidence achievements and their construction is included in the construction of the argument.