Within the pre-Socratic cosmologies, the technical thought of Western civilization is already found, weakened. The inventions and tools of technology simultaneously lead to the destruction of the world, which they interpret, but also rescue something of the poetics of the original thought. Thus, reading the Presocratics becomes a kind of wandering among the ruins of technical civilization, accumulated in the earthly soil, swept away by the ocean tide, oxidized by the combustion of the ubiquitous raw material. The discourse of Anaximander and the other Presocratics follows the traveler on an endless wandering and an open sojourn without destination. Flimsy evidence of this outdoor wandering, against the backdrop of the disaster, is piled up and rearranged in a rough archive. The museum, with a “twisted” use of its exhibition mechanism, presents a random archive of fragments of technology and at the same time becomes a part of technical civilization itself, amidst its ruin.
Exhibition at the Benaki Museum. (30.10.2014–16.11.2014)
Participation: Yannis Isidorou
Collaborators: Lydia Antoniou, Konstantinos Zves, Katerina Zoumaki, Zoe Koutsovasili, Sofia Tektonidou
Editorial Advisors: Polina Kosmadaki, George Tzirtzilakis
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