RHETORIC - HILL OF THE PNIX 2017
Video View Rhetoric – Hill of the Pnix. 2017 © Youssef Tabti
RHETORIC – Hill of the PNIX marks the end of Youssef
Tabti’s Istanbul trilogy. The work revolves around the theme of freedom
of speech and democracy. Only the first two parts, however, could be
completed in Istanbul. After the coup attempt in 2016, Tabti had to
relocate the project to a neighbouring country – Greece. In Athens
met with Christos Yannaras, a theologian and philosopher whose theses
have caused controversy far beyond Greece. In the centre of the Pnix,
the place of popular assemblies in ancient Athens, Yannaras reminds us
of the rhetoric art of democracy and thus sensitizes us for the current
threat to freedom of expression.
Videoinstallation 2017 (with vinyl adhesive from the map of the Pnix and metal sculptures inspired by desk for the speaker. originally there are also a stone with the word "Bema" engraved in it-the Bema was used as an orator's platform in the ancien world)
Installation View at Roter Salon im Palais am Festungsgraben. Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater
3. Berliner Herbstsalon 2017 Installation View at Roter Salon im Palais am Festungsgraben. Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater
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