"The Marathon Marathon Project took place at the Acropolis Museum in Athens between the afternoon of Sunday 31 October and the early morning of Monday 1 November 2010. ... Hans Ulrich Obrist and Nadja Argyropoulou invited numerous Greek and non-Greek contributors from many different disciplines to talk about the turbulent present, share their intuitions about the future and reflect on their understanding of the past. The project was organised under the auspices of the Ministry of Cultre and Tourism with the DESTE Foundation of Contemporary Art as creative collaborator. ... [T]his DESTE publication archives the project's proceedings. The book also includes in-depth interviews, conducted at the same time, with two renowned figures of Greek culture: the poet Nanos Valaoritis and the aritst Vlassis Caniaris."--Cover.
Summary:
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Nadja Argyropoulou, the Marathon Marathon Project took place at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece between the afternoon of Sunday, October 31 and the early morning of Monday, November 1, 2010. The 12-hour discussion was held to coincide with the 2500th anniversary of the battle of Marathon (490 BC), and addressed the notion of the Marathon race as a format of enduring collective endeavor and transcultural communication. An extension of the series of Marathon events - conceived by Obrist and held at Serpentine Galleries in London and in various cities around the world - the Marathon Marathon Project explored questions of identity, antiquity, democracy and the politics of representation at a time when the outbreak of the Greek crisis was becoming symbolic of larger socioeconomic shifts and political rifts.
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