congress

Gregorios Pharmakis' congress project is focused on the act of documentation of the so called stable context of a congress. The stability here is guaranteed by a program of speakers who succeed one another in a specific presentation table. A screen and an amphitheatre complete the stable part of the meeting. The specific public event is set up as an academic frame and is officially presented under the title "homesick" in order to approach questions of public art.

The ghost figure of Gregorios Pharmakis was present in two different ways: 1. Gregorios Pharmakis participated through 2 actors as a speaker, insisting on the theoretical frame of what can be today called public art. At the background of Gregorios Pharmakis’ speakers, on a screen, the present wiki page (prepared as a double list) was planned to be projected, but due to technical difficulties, this happened only once. 2. An intense recording of the congress was under development. The recordings aimed to invent another congress through the documentation of the actual one. A transformation of the whole congress is the theatre field of an experiment. The experiment tests the nature of documents, the theatre setting, the concept of participation, and the academic meeting spaces. The congress is recorded but reconstituted through a different frame that makes it a different one. After the end of the congress, a group email was sent to all participants, offering them access to the documented congress for viewing and/or authoring.