<b><font size="2">PPC_T / Farkadona</font> project at AAO exhibition</b><br><br><img title="camp1.jpg" alt="camp1.jpg" src="cid:ii_1306413061109f98"><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">Post Programmed City_Territory:<b> </b>PPC_T/Farkadona is an interdisciplinary, self-administrated
collaborative project. It consists of a series of cultural activities,
workshops, devices of interaction with territory and public events. Moreover,
it focuses primarily on Emergency Case Situations as seen at the settlement of
the repatriated community of Greek-Pontians from the former Soviet
Union in Farkadona, in the district of Trikala, Thessaly-Greece. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">The settlement was created in the early 90s as a
result of a state policy of peripheral dispersion of refugees in organized
camps and units.<span> </span>Nineteen years after
their rehabilitation the residents of the community still live under conditions
of degradation, ghettoization and “exception”. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">Based on the significance of territory as a
“reception” of human activity, PPC_T/Farkadona examines the ways in which the
marginalized community can be rehabilitated and incorporated in the existing
landscape, the local society and in the economic, cultural and political life. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">Participatory Devices
and Processes of Auto-organization</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">PPC_T/Farkadona as social practice incorporates art
and cultural strategies such as urban interventions, interactive media,
guerrilla architectural transformations of existing spaces, project-based
community practices and service dispersals. It cultivates a network of fellow
practitioners and supporting institutions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">This social practice concentration focuses on
questions of participation, auto-organisation, free knowledge, autonomous
zones, aesthetics, collaboration, persona, media strategies, new ways of
production and distributions of cultural products, and activism that cross into
real-life social situations and institutions. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">These varied forms of public engagement are linked
critically through theories of social formation, pluralism, relational art, and
</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-US">“</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">radical democracy”. Architects, artists, networking producers, cultural
operators working in these modalities either choose to co-create their works
with the specific audience of local community, or propose critical
interventions within existing social systems that inspire debate or catalyze
social exchange. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">PPC_T’s field-based model immerses all participants in
critical discourses and provides them with specific context and opportunities
for creation. <br>
Central to the social practice concentration are the workshops which are based
on diverse creative processes including urban environment, formal and informal
organizations, new forms and networks of cultural production and distribution.
The workshops are structured around participatory devices, group discussions
and individual meetings, all leading to the creation of collective cultural projects
and to the critique of finished products. This environment forms the basis of a
dialog-centred creative process, serving as a meeting room, a place for
research, and a site for production. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-GB">The above description demonstrates that PPCT/Farkadona
has the intention to fight against social degradation, isolation and
ghettoization and reduce unemployment through a series of cultural practices.
This framework provides the political relevance of the project </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="EN-US">and
interacts with similar projects as AAO.</span></p>
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