In the spirit of the Olympics, we ran around the block a few times, we picked up and put down a lot of boxes. We are lightweight champions of the Manifesto. ...
On a late night expedition to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. All viewership is best at night, considering making the Santozeum a nocturnal space. Bats, ghosts, skeleton, uninhibited viewing reaction, an eclectic set of solo viewers who clearly share the pleasure of the...
SANTOZEUM MANIFESTO FOR MANIFESTOS IN CRISIS 1. MANIFESTO We must represent ourselves when currents sweep over our intentions. The Santozeum asks each of its participants to create a manifesto clearly formulating concerns and/or calls to action, and to list his/her intentions in forming groups around their credos....
Carl spent a week searching unusual village spaces for a new translation and adaptation of a Heiner Müller/Seneca piece. Even with his epic experience and exposure to people and places, he found Santorini startling and the some of the bucolic spaces unsettling. Carl began his career...
It’s July, and we have just added an amazing project for September/October in Santorini inspired by the September/October weather that surrounds us at present. The leaves are turning, but the cacti never die....
What else when you have to leave a city and are still reconciling its lasting impressions? A windy day, a politician causing traffic jams with his outrageous motorcade, a walk atop a hill with poplars on the river, a look through an artists’ squat, petite...
This seems like such a long time ago. Walking through the vast corridors of the Arsenale building, through the blocked prohibited passages, light-less away from the thousands of things on display. A claustrophobic glimpse away from the hundred meter diorama screens of AES+F into a...
The first day, the first after first days in so many cities these last months, each firsts. As is second nature to my arrivals to the island these last three years, I fly at dawn. The island heat revs. There is so much water and...
Processing through endless amazing material from two weeks of intense island scouring, very late nights, very active legs, onslaught of creatives together on one island...
10:00 - Most rise to break fast. 10:30 - We head to the conference center to print things for the last time. 10:45 - Our return is surprisingly expedient; we assemble folders for the visitors. 11:30 - Jessica and Ana greet the directors at the Santorini Palace and...