Art Strategies: The Athens 2002 Project

aus der Festschrift Zehn Jahre Depot, diverse Autoren, http://www.depot.or.at/files/depot_10jahre.pdf: The Athens 2002 Conference, invites a number of international cultural institutions to recommend artists who go in for alternative practices besides the market. Both sides theoreticians and artists shall meet in Athens in autumn 2002. This initiative lays emphasis on the dialogue between eastern and western art and on new strategies concerning collaboration and networking between different European contexts. Evanthia Tsantila presents her concept for the conference and the artistic and political background of the invited participants such as MeCad (Barcelona), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), The Museum for the Israeli Art (Tel Aviv), Lux Gallery (London), Contemporary Art Center (Istanbul), Artists Museum, (Lodz), ROTOR (Graz), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), v2_ (Amsterdam), Mr.Victor Misiano (Moscow), Fournos (Athens). Evanthia Tsantila, artist and curator, Athens