kyklà[removed] is a small imprint, a series of texts resonating with phenomena in the Aegean Archipelago. kyklà[removed] is a publishing project in Athens, driven by a trans-disciplinary group of artists, exploring critical and experimental positions in writing. With each volume in this series, we are slowly forming a catalogue of liquid forms of modernity: corporeal bodies – historical and actual, real, and imaginative.
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keywords: island topographies, archipelago culture, experiences in landscapes, urbanism, architecture, corporeality, historical (dis)continuities, queer culture, gender equality, non-patriarchy, travel and tourism narratives, photography, art and poetry.
Through navigation, our westernized sense of perspective has established a common horizon, simplifying islands as visual spots at the surface of the sea. Islands are not exotic entities alone in the sea waters. Islands remain interconnected with the mainland and each other, from the top of the mountains to the hidden topographies of the sea bed: a myriad of creatures and non-organic matter which lives in constant symbiosis with water; tectonic plates, fossil fuel pipes, and data cables.
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Free Love Paid Love
Expressions of Affection in Mykonos
Nowhere in Cycladic culture has love been defined in a singular all-encompassing manner. Forces of attraction, affection, connection, and relation were ascribed in a plurality of ways. Through symposia in Delos, the tax haven of antiquity, 17th-century transactions of love involving pirates, slaves, and Mykonians; naturist communities reliving sexual freedom in the 1960-70s and 21st-century tourists quest in search of love, free or paid; this book gathers fragments of expressions of affection across Mykonos island. Mykonos has long defined itself as a self-ruling place far away from realities lived elsewhere.
contributions by Nicolas Lakiotakis, Juan Duque, Denis Maksimov, Dimitra Kondylatou
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The Architect is Absent
Approaching the Cycladic Holiday House
The white cubical house, the vernacular architecture in the Aegean Archipelago, knows no author. Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection. The white-washed Cycladic House has become iconic to the image of Greece through the construction of national and tourism narratives. What happens when an architect steps into this process of anonymous transmission of skills? In 1966 music composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis articulated a response to this tradition and designed, from his base in Paris, a holiday house on the island of Amorgos while choosing to remain absent throughout the construction process.
contributions by Sharon Kanach, Hulya Ertas, Mâkhi Xenakis, Sven Sterken, David Bergé, Dimitra Kondylatou
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The Sleeping Hermaphrodite
Waking up from a Lethargic Confinement
What can a reclining marble sculpture, conceived through a myth in Greek antiquity, tell us today about the fluidity of our gender construction? What has been the role of aesthetic and historical canons in the construction of the female and male genders? Is ‘the sleeping Hermaphrodite’ really asleep? Or has she/he been induced to a long lethargic state, punished and confined by the history of gender normalization?
contributions by Paul B. Preciado, Juan Duque, Nicolas Lakiotakis, Denis Maksimov
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Public Health in Crisis
Confined in the Aegean Archipelago
Epidemics and pandemics undermine societies and highlight the vulnerability of relations people have created to the land, other species, and each other. This book presents fragments of disease management in the Mediterranean from the 15th-century onwards and in the Aegean Archipelago in the last two centuries. From religious to medical approaches to the Bubonic Plague, through the creation of lazarettos, to the famine in occupied Syros, to ghost ships drifting on the Mediterranean: citizens are forced to avoid citizens. Public health in crisis: confinement versus mobility, awakening memories of totalitarian regimes.
contributions by Dimitra Kondylatou, Nicolas Lakiotakis, Hulya Ertas, David Bergé
The production of this book received the support of Goethe-Institut Athen.
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kyklà[removed] team: Juan Duque, Dimitra Kondylatou, Nicolas Lakiotakis, Hulya Ertas, Denis Maksimov, Costas Kalogeropoulos (design), Roland Brauchli (logo), Foteini Salvaridi (social media), Alan Wainwright (photography) and Dimitris Katsanis (website)
project directed by David Bergé
media contact: Nicolas Lakiotakis distribution greece: Dimitra Kondylatou distribution international: David Bergé
kyklà[removed] is an imprint of PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPANDED PUBLISHING ATHENS, a not-for-profit organization registered in Brussels
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