Lo and Behold presents at Milkshake agency in Geneve the project Public Domain
26th June – 24th August 2014
The project includes 25 artists / 25 site specifics located in 12 different cities in 10 countries and it is curated by Artemis Potamianou and Giorgos Papadatos.
Public Domain is a map-archive project consisting in documented interventions and actions in the public space.
The participating artists follow a specific working process both in terms of method and end result. They are asked to imagine and to realize an intervention on a public site in the city where they live. Afterwards they are asked to photograph the intervention and submit it in the form of a print. These prints will be exhibited at Milkshake-agency project space together with an index with exact location and time of the actions.
The end result is a linear visual archive of site-specific works which signify the artists’ varying investigations and concerns and also serving as an intervention in the urban environment. An intervention which walks the fine line between legitimacy and illegitimacy, since viewing the art object is not voluntary rather it is imposed upon the viewer. Concurrently, the artist is exposed in a way and on a scale in which not just his/her practice is externalized but individual ideas, feelings and attitudes are also freely expressed, following an internal negotiation where the personal is transformed into the public.
In this manner, a record is kept, a visual diary, but also a process of dialogue is activated which exceeds the boundaries of personal investigation.
This dialectic archive is acutely political in that it documents the pulse and the concerns of different artists who, not only reflect the culturally, politically and economically different societies which they are a part of, but in the end are also representative of contemporary art production of their time.
The first part of Public Domain which included 25 documented international interventions was realized and presented at Supermarket Independent Art-Fair at Kulturhuset of Stockholm in 2012
Participating artists
Lanfranco Aceti / Eftihis Patsourakis / Yiannis Isidorou / Gaël Grivet / Yiannis Grigoriadis / Alexia Turlin / Lina Theodorou / Alix Delmas / Theodoros Zafeiropoulos / Giorgos Gyparakis / Benoît Delaunay / Maro Michalakakos / Iris Plaitakis / Campus Novel / Sofia Touboura / Jenny Marketou / Derrick Piens / Erik Binder / Tea Mäkipää / Marc Bijl & Alejandro Vidal / Ludovic Bernhardt / Elena Bajo / Julie René de Cotret / Celine Peruzzo / Italo Zuffi
Milkshake Agency
24 Montbrillant 1201 Genève- CH
organized by LO AND BEHOLD
www.loandbehold.gr