Yota Ioannidou
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This publication constitutes a stage in an ongoing research-based project entitled Stratagem, initiated by Yota Ioannidou in 2008. Stratagem explores the consequences of factory relocation and de-industrialization on the individual and society as a whole, by researching and tracing the operations of one single multinational business in Greece and Czech Republic.
This art project is structured upon various meetings and discussions, detailing the above phenomena and aims in investigating the issues emerged.
The publication functions as a “gathering” of the project’s documentation and of three texts from invited contributors. The documentation is an assembly of maps, photos, video stills and interviews, collected, created and initiated by the artist during her visits to the company’s former and present plants. An essay entitled “Not only possible but also-necessary” by the independent curator and writer Marko Stamenkovic, reflects on issues related to the project, expanding it to the contemporary cultural field. The written interviews with the economist Yannis Eustathopoulos and the law specialist Anta Stamati are based on discussions about the phenomenon of plant relocation. concept: Yota Ioannidou design: Dries Wiewauters / Werkplaats Typografie – artez, NL publisher: Dutch Art Institute
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Stratagem