PHONY UTOPIA, 2004, Athens from porno star Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 3 min 78 sec
✓ Published: 16-Dec-2017

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Mary Zygouri in her artwork “Parasite: Phoney Utopia”, appropriates the pornocinema site-specific location “Star” in Omonoia Square. Adapting the “parasite” strategy enters to a mainly masculine site and this intervention leads to the destabilization of the pre-existing limits of the space. This location is defined as a range of the world of the “other”, a place where immigrants, homosexuals but also homeless men spend time. This space is approached as an existent no space where