Myrto Katsimicha
How do we live together in sickness and in health?

We cannot separate the ways we think and feel as well as the ways we experience the world around us from the places where we live and work. In a sense, we are indeed the people of our times. Drawing inspiration from Hippocrates’ “On Airs, Waters and Places,” this piece offers a temporal and spatial perspective of the conditions under which the Athenian art community constantly evolves, in the form of seven notes on lived experience as a cultural worker in Athens.

With the participation of Eirene Efstathiou.

 

Related resources:

Myrto Katsimicha, “Guilty Pleasures,” Enterprise Projects Journal n. 3, September 2019. Available online at: http://enterprise-projects.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/EP-J_03-GP_GR_EN1.pdf

Reshape Remote Athens Working Group: On Fairness, Collaboration and Work in Time of Crisis. A conversation with Myrto Katsimicha, Natassa Dourida, Kostas Tzimoulis, Vassilis Noulas, and Evita Tsokanta, May 2020. Podcast available online at: https://reshape.network/article/athens-working-group-on-fairness-collaboration-and-work-in-time-of-crisis

 

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about, by, through, towards, despite is a podcast series on different aspects of the independent Athens art scene in the aftermath of documenta 14. Produced for p o  s   t  documenta: contemporary arts as territorial agencies, the series provides a multilayered imprint of the local scene by inviting artists, curators, and critics to contribute their thoughts, experiences, and critical positions.

Myrto Katsimicha is a curator based in Athens, Greece. Her research focuses on notions of collectivity and self-organization in the contemporary art field. She currently works at Onassis AiR, artistic research residency program in Athens.