WeakMonuments_builtEvent 7
aristide antonas, alexios dallas, filippos oreopoulos
Urban Essay - Collection of finds / towards an impossible representation of the city through some of its criminal acts
Weak Monuments is a show prepared by the Built Event group with the
ambition to describe a city out of some crimes that took place in its
public space.Thessaloniki is a city marked by famous murders; it is
also an ordinary modern town where a lot of "insignificant" criminal
acts take place. The aim of this Built Event's show is to pose the
question of murder in an urban level. A particular way of "forgetting"
structures every modern city fabric; any modern city functions with an
immoral determination of forgetting its crimes. Forgetting does not
only happen; it can be described as a complex urban strategy based on
stratifications, classifications and archive strategies, layered in a
city scale. The city is, in this approach, pushed to an analogy that
relates it with a person repressed traumatic experiences through
rationalization: some dividing strategies of traumatic events is a
hidden core of the urban fabric; the modern city functions as an actor
of repression within its organizatory concept. The term "κτιστό
συμβάν" (ktisto symban = "built event") was first introduced in this
group works in order to describe a particular "area" located between a
procedure and the procedure's traces: a built procedure (a theatrical
preparation of it), a work of tracing, and some random resultant
traces were considered as equally important parts of the same
theatrical approach to "places" and "facts". WeakMonuments_BuiltEvent
7 challenges the idea of murder (the event par excellence) as an
archived function: archiving the illicit city events is considered
here as an urban constructive strategy: a city is shaped as a layering
of receiving, placing and recording its murders. A city is usually
conceived as a platform for events; WeakMonuments_BuiltEvent 7
constructs the concept of a classification of events as a shaping
concept for an urban character.
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