Philhellenism vs Anthellenism
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34es Tritotetartes, Athanasios Anagnostopoulos aka Thanatos, Alexis Fidetzis, Digenis Fashion aka Digenis Daskalakis Giontis, Filtig aka Fil Ieropoulos, Smaragda Kara aka Lia Foukis, Than Tsoumas
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Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Filtig, Richard Pfutzenreuter
A collaboration of Filtig with Richard Pfutzenreuter, this filmed intervention is a comment on North-South Europe relationships, a discussion initiated by documenta 14. We staged a cover of the musical tune 'Tomorrow belongs to me" from the film Cabaret in front of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens. This pseudomusicological piece highlights "in an innovative way the 3000-year-old tradition of indigenous Greek music through the use of stringed tambouras". The sound of tambouras harmoniously marries the indigenous melodies of Bohemia, Austria, Germany and Poland, the cradles of European polka and folk accordion. It is no coincidence that this musical collaboration is implemented in a song about a sense of community and togetherness in times of crisis, as developed in Germany in the 1930s. The song was originally written in English by two jewish composers, but the German version was created for the dubbing purposes of GDR TV. Musicians: Nikos Vourdoulas, Haris Zofos.
#21 Borderline Affective Transitions
34 Acts of Freedom
Athanasios Thanatos, Smaragda Kara
Continuing the tradition of countless Hellenic interventions at the British Museum, Documena correspondant Smaragda Kara was also there to raise the Greek flag once more in front of the three Caryatis statues, still longing to be moved back to Greece in order to solve all of the country's financial problems.
Delta Power Across the Land of Freedom
Athanasios Anagnostopoulos
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Delta Power Across the Land of Freedom, 2016, homage to Eugène Delacroix
Comissioned by @documena fb page, this work is a détournement of the painting Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi made by philhellene French painter Eugène Delacroix. At the same time it is a salute to the contemporary Greek theatre director Angela Brouskou and her work Epitafios II presented at documenta14. Her work dealt with "the concept of public grief, death, the end of sexual and family relationships, everyday crime, political and socio-political turbulence, violent displacement and existential dead ends, or simply time’s passing with no return."

The painting Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (French: La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi) is an 1826 oil painting by French philhellene painter Eugène Delacroix. This painting was inspired by the Third Siege of Missolonghi by the Ottoman forces in 1826, during which many people of the city after the long-time siege (almost a year) decided to attempt a mass breakout (sortie) to escape famine and epidemics. The attempt resulted in a disaster, with the larger part of the Greeks slain.
#33 Byron's Panhellenic Indigenous Queer
​34 Exercises of Freedom
Athanasios Thanatos, F78, Smaragda Kara
This is a lip-sync tribute to the great queer English Philhellene romantic poet and diplomat Lord Byron. Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi. Byron was infatuated with the teenage Lukas Chalandritsanos, whom he spoiled outrageously, spending some £600 (the equivalent to about £24,600 in today's money) to cater to his every whim over the course of six months and wrote his last poems about his passion for the Greek boy, but Chalandritsanos was only interested in Byron's money.

The song performed here is titled "Everything" and is originally performed by famous Greek-Cypriot singer Anna Vissi representing Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest of 2006.
Dusty Citizen: An Angel in Berlin
Than Tsoumas
A visual journey to the unknown and turbulent life of Angelos Delias ( Άγγελος Δέλιας), a lone servant of rock music in the 80s Berlin. This is a documentary about the life and work of the greek rock musician that became an Angel in Berlin.
Greece is Precious and We Need to Protect It
Alexis Fidetzis
This is a work of Alexis Fidetzis commissioned by Documena and hosted at the Documena Resurrection event in Omonoia Square. The work consists of a transparent ballot box, a stack of ballot papers, and two portraits, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer and Jan Fabre.
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Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer was a Tyrolean traveller, journalist, politician and historian, best known for his now disproved theories concerning the racial origins of the Greeks (which were often utilised by the Nazis), and for his travel writings.

Jan Fabre is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer who was appointed by the Greek Ministry of Culture as the Creative Director of the annual Athens – Epidaurus Festival. He resigned less than two months later, on the 2nd of April 2016, after a huge controversy over his plan to turn Greece’s major arts festival into “a tribute to Belgium” and devote eight of the festival’s ten productions to those from his homeland.

http://alexisfidetzis.com/
Greeceland
FYTA
FYTA created a mapping-out of the territory around Greek identity and then invited the audience to use stickers in order to mix and match the relationalities of the terms allowing for new (dis)associations with the central concept.​ Greeceland is an endless network of meaning relations and expectations. In a way, we decided to decentralize the signifier ‘greece’ into its perfectly recognisable statutory conditions. Threads, traumas and irrational cultural one-way-streets find their networking through a thoroughly 'scientific' restructuring.

photo: Despina Sevasti
#9 Patriotica XX
34 Exercises of Freedom
F78, Athanasios Thanatos, Smaragda Kara, 34es
​Time for Patriotica ✖✖ Dedicated to our own indigenous poet Odysseas Elytis, who may have never been banned, but deep in our hearts, he will always belong to the new "Parthenon of Books" of documenta 14 in Kassel.
Η καλή μέρα αρχίζει Αλεπουδέλικα, με Νόμπελ και με μια δημόσια κραυγή: Ο δικός μας Οδυσσέας μπορεί να μην απαγορεύτηκε ποτέ, όμως για εμάς θ' ανήκει πάντοτε στον νέο "Parthenon of Books" #documenta14 στο Κάσσελ και πολύ βαθειά μες στις καρδιές μας.