The Danish Institute in Athens (2024)

Format: Residency, research

One month in Athens sticking our hands in antiquity.

Looking at active and inactive marble quarries, missing and liquid pieces of historical fragments, Parthenon as a construction site, post-treatment, storage, shape, and materiality of disassembled pieces from the current and former restoration. 

People:

Niki Bouras, Vasileia Manidaki (Y.S.M.A) Sanne Hoffmann, Rasmus Sevelsted,

Materials:

marble, cardboard(found), plasticbags(found), olive oil, vase, pot shards

Places:

Acropolis, The Dionysos Marble Quarry, Penteli, The Nordic Library