VOL.xxxviii

bifurcations and ghost attractor


plot hole_ do what is fair!, 2019, essay installation
The archival installation plot hole_do what is fair! uses golf as a symbolic field of collusion, confrontation, exclusion and discrimination, underscoring its restrictions in terms of class, gender and ethnicity. The artist focuses on the political and social aspect of the game with reference to a series of seemingly unconnected case studies in a mini-golf course: the presidents of the US and their ideological opponents; the golf course ruins of Mount Parnitha after the devastating wildfires of 2007; the first golf course in colonial Africa; the golf ball thrown on the Moon by the American Alan Shepard in 1971. Overall, questioning the moral precepts of the sport.








Όταν ο Γασπαράκης Δελ(λ)αγραμμάτικας πρόσφερε στον Joseph Pitton de Tournefort μισό αρνί, κρασί και αναψυκτικά, 2019

On November 22, 1700, the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) visited Andros during his tour of the Aegean islands. In his travel chronicle, he describes the short stay on the island, mentioning inter alia, events that took place and his meetings with locals. He comments in his text that he didn’t receive the expected hospitality which was provided previously from the locals to the travelers, as precisely described by Jeande Thevenot (1665). However, he seems to be impressed by the gentle movement of Gasparakis Del(l)agrammatikas, who sent to him and his companions “[...] half lamb, fine wine and bever- ages[...]”1 to diner at the Monastery of Holy Mary where they would lodge on the first day of their arrival. Following the thread of the event with Gasparakis Del(l)agrammatikas, which was quoted by Tournefort, - Giannis Delagrammatikas who bears the same patronymic surname with the hospitable Andriotis - looks for blood ties and relatives-in-law in order to reconstruct the genealogical tree of his family.
The work When Gasparakis Del(l)agrammatikas offered to Joseph Pitton de Tournefort half lamp, fine wine and beverages is recommended as a quasi-invention which highlights the accidental diversions that shape the narrative of lineage.
1TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de. Relation d’un Voyage du Levant..., τ. ΙΙ, Παρίσι, Imprimerie Royale, M.DCCXVII [=1717].