As part of the art and research workshops of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit of the Athens School of Fine Arts, students, graduates and postgraduate students were invited to join an unusual experiment of “deferred action” using the archive of iset.

They were asked to revisit the work of 1970s artists who responded to social turmoil and political oppression by experimenting with the social repercussions of art practice.  The workshop’s participants were attracted by the work of artists such as Maria Karavela, Chrysa Romanos, the New Greek Realists, Dimitris Alithinos, Niki Kanagini, Leda Papaconstantinou, et al.
Participants aimed to trace the relevance of such practices for the current conundrum and came up with interventions, adaptations, and digressions that rethink the consequences of recent historical traumas.
This research project was realized in a moment when chapters such as the 1967 dictatorship and the transition to metapolitefsi trigger new conflicts and heated debates. It sought to experiment with what psychoanalysis calls “deferred experience” — the deferred production of the trauma. Participants treated iset both as a research platform and as a landmark for Contemporary Greek Art. 

Participants:
Marilena Aligizaki, Stefania Ablianiti & Stavroula Morakea, Sophia Grigoriadou, Campus Novel (Ino Varvariti, Yannis Delagrammatikas, Fotini Palpana, Yannis Sinioroglou, Yannis Himonakis), Emilia Moraiti, Yorgos Nikas, Persephone Nikolakopoulou, Ada Petranaki, Maira Stefou.