Documenta 14: Danai Anesiadou

EMST Museum, Athens. 08 Apr – 16 Jul, 2017.

 

” “My name is Danai Anesiadou. My name is Danai Anesiadou.” Exclaimed over and over again, these assertions have begun nearly every one of the artist’s performances to date. (Describing those performances is impossible, but think: part enacted conspiracy theory, part stylized séance, part metaphysical conjuring, part Dada spectacle, all made coherent by the magnetism of their central protagonist and creator, a certain Greek-Belgian, born in 1977, who goes by the name of Danai Anesiadou.) It would be easy to dismiss the declaration as the confident assertion of an identity, but there was such persistence to it, such emphasis and recurrence of the line, that to take it at face value would be to miss it as an avowal, addressing whoever listened—as much as recalling for herself—that she existed at all…” *

* text sourcedocumentor: kerry leonard  camera: xt1

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