4TH THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
State Museum of Contemporary Art

Abstract

Rural and semi urban territories and common social practices of residency are meant to be the public archive and its performative aspects to be discussed.

Rural territories under the force of touristic proliferation become to be economically and culturally colonized. The colonization of (touristic) territories is determined by certain social practices and mechanisms. The practice of choosing/selecting proper destinations, the interconnection of destinations in use of heavy infrastructure, the ethics of optical evaluation of sites and control through rural gentrification are being descanted.

Long after the modern urbanization and touristic colonization of territorial archives, recent transformations in production, property ownership and real estate, under the general “state of exception”, lead to a large scale of territorial re-colonization.

Of centric interest is the question of how to intervene in a reverse process of decolonization of (touristic) territories by deconstructing the dispositive of touristic Aufenthalte (accommodation, residency, host, transport). This is also a question of activating the potentials of the commons. A synthetic search is attempted on somatic practices of allocation, wandering, ephemeral staying, reclining, random navigation, unexpected networking in real space. Temporary Accommodation Anywhere is willing to turn the vertical hierarchies of the territorial archive into a horizontal field of common practices.

Α performative exposure of an architectonic research on the wanderers’ armament will be included in setting the argument.