Participation in the Project “SISYphṓs’’, Art Athina 2013
Project “SISYphṓs’’
This year’s proposal of EN FLO borrows its meaning from the mythical narrative of the Sisyphean effort. This theme, highly up to date with our times, motivates team EN FLO to ponder and raise questions concerning today’s human condition, by using all the tools its members possess as they attempt to converse with the community of art.
The action will be presented at the Platform Project, within the parallel program of the national exhibition of Art Athina, at the Tae Kwon Do Stadium, located at the kiosk P35, from the 16thuntil 19th of May. Early in the morning of Saturday the 18th, the Sisyphean Route will set out from Faliro and end up at Benaki Museum (1, Koumbari St. and Vasilisis Sofias St.) at Kolonaki, approximately at 12 at noon, having covered a 7 km distance. In the evening of the same day ( 6 -12pm) and in the same spirit of the previous action, a shortened wood engraved row of the Sisyphean effort, as another section of the project, titled “Aid-Change” will be available for the public’s thriving creativity at the atrium of the Historical Archive of the National Bank (Diomides Mansion, 146, 3rd September St. ).
Participating in the project will be, young visual artists of the Department of Visual and Applied Arts in Florina, from the University of Western Macedonia and the interacting visitors. Let’s now bring in mind the image of Sisyphus, painstakingly pushing the immense boulder up to the top of the hill, only to see it rolling down again.
In the words of A. Camus: “The reason why this myth is tragic, is exactly because its hero is conscious of his torture; it wouldn’t be a punishment, was he hoping in every step that he would make it.”. This image leads us to become aware of the ability of humans to “accept the unacceptable”, which, depending on whether that is experienced with realization or radical projection, turns into an advantage or a conviction.
Based on the speculations that rise from the interpretation of the myth, EN FLO, suggest a series of events that address, in an artistic manner, the following questions:
How could a constantly cancelling movement be defined? How could a compulsive movement, which repeats itself without ever reaching the final fall, be considered? How does one maintain labor when necessity is being removed? How does one reverse the right of justification through labor? How could human existence can be transfigured in endless conviction? How could a conviction be experienced as a trial leading to knowledge? How could realization make the trial beneficiary? How could the ‘’light’’ arise from experiencing human anguish?
EN FLO group attempts to ‘’trace’’ the above mental Sisyphean ‘’trails’’, of course with the help of the public.
The project is realized with the commission of : Organizing Committee of Art Athina 2013, Benaki Museum, Historical Archive of the National Bank, Academy of Athens, Centre for Research of Greek Ethnography, network of Museums and Cultural Commissions of Athens, Department of Visual and Applied Arts, U.O.W.M. in Florina.
Assisting this effort of EN FLO were also the: independent news website ‘’TVXS’’ , Company of Tourism of Western Macedonia, the transport company ‘’Pouhias’’ in Kozani, news website ‘’Florinea’’, bus service of Florina and the wood trading company ‘’Stavrou’’ in Florina
source: http://enflo-art.blogspot.gr/2014/01/press-release-for-action-sisyphos.html
