17-18march presentation

Hello, my name is Athina Chatzigiannaki, I am a fine artist -performer, I joined the Arists Coperative group a few weeks ago. So I am still new in it myself, I am quite drawn to it because it is self organizing to a big extend , which is challenging for me, but on the other hand I am not alone and it is not my iniitiative all together, although I must contribute in some level for it to exist. Thinking about what to propose to you today since I have been given the chance, I was impressed by how little my mind evolved around art. This is very strange about me, cause usually I come up with ideas about art projects rather easily. So I decided to ask you to come up with your own proposals after I explain to you how far we have already worked in our group. The last two weeks we've been elaborating on coming up with a vision that I dare say, contains us all so far. It is not unchangeable but for the time it looks like we agreed upon certain points such as :solidarity between us 1, reexamine the relation we have as individual artists but as sociery as well, with the power centers that engage with art.2. Try to reveal hidden ways the capital is using and decide what to do with them , use them to our own benefit or go up straight against them. Example: It was proposed from documenta toward the artists cooperative to carry the sitting blocks from parko eleftherias to east whee I understand events will be held, possibly our own or /and others. Now that could me looked upon in many ways. I must admit that my first reaction was that we are not slaves, so we don't engage in this at all, then I thought we could take the blocks and sort of kidnapp them midway , set them up and make our own assembly where we could vote for the moto 'down to the center's of power in culture's, for instance Or better reexamine in an assembly our relation as artists with those centers and maybe also differentiate them. We could also have a simple questionnaire to impose to people passing by while invite them to participate in the assembly as well. Or we could just demonstrate dealing in the assembly with some other more general issue avoiding to go straight against certain organizations, but make ourselves visible with our own voice. The truth is we may do a lot of things with those sitting blocks performatively and politically.We can block the traffic if we have a good reason for it or make a political statement where the Truman statue used to be or do some parkour if we know what we are doing , it depends who participates and what we come up with. Maybe you have some more ideas to go about this. My intial idea was to go painting in different platias in the city and see if and how people react to what we are doing , their type of involvement . I propose big group painting where everybody can participate ,more professional painters along with amateurs and people that never painted before). We could encourage people to participate , throw in themes that they would initiate participation or just let free imagination express itself. Then our long paintings,(plastic colours on thick paper, or paper collage with flour glue),along with documentary filming could be presented at an event on the 11th of April, a date that is offered by documenta to the artists cooperative. This could lead to an assembly discussion about creativity and self expression of people ànd the meaning of initiatives as such, or however our topic gets formed, which could be held in the same event. In the space where this event would happen there could be a selection of relevant other art presented as well , either from documenta selected artists or other artist work selected by the artists coop or I don't know how to go about this. To be honest I would like to have a chance to present my latest sculpture the 'capitalistic home'.