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Alexandros Tsamouris

This theme took shape during my military service through
the drawings/journal of ideas of a newcomer to the military
world of paranoia. It was first presented in 2008 as
an installation of drawings and photographs, an attempt
to record the concept of Hellenic Army-Fatherland. Basically,
the State of Emergency is a virtual state that was first
founded in the framework of my Military Service as an idea,
in order for me to be able to justify the paranoia known as
the Hellenic Army; to be able to absorb the acts and orders
executed for no reason at all; the insipid circumstances
that I experienced everyday in a world that I did not know
could still exist. The State of Emergency is my state, a state
within a state, founded and governed by me. I founded it so
that I could act through it as a personality, a persona that
emerges to comment, criticise and offer to help as much
as possible to integrate or reconstitute, or even to reject or
recreate the term ‘Fatherland’. The purpose of this installation
in the framework of the exhibition is to record the
lost spaces that were once army camps and are now home
to abandoned military facilities. When looking at the map
of the city and comparing these spaces with other spaces
having a completely different function in other cities of almost
the same size, one cannot help but realise the lack of
responsibility of the part of the state.
Parts of the installation
Campaign table: The map of the city lying on the campaign
table. The invasion strategy of the State of Emergency,
which aims at liberating the city, is marked with yellow
flags (the colour-emblem of the state). White obelisks are
placed on the spots-army camps that will be occupied in
order to build universities, hospitals, museums, etc.
Study: Aerial photographs taken through a satellite record
the spaces of the former army camps, as well as spaces in
other countries that house museums and hospitals such as
the Memorial Hospital in New York, the University of Oxford,
etc. The identification of the two spaces gives us a picture
of what these lost spaces could house if we truly desired it.
The emblem of the State of Emergency and the portrait
of the leader, as the leader of the country and saviour of
the city.
External Actions
In the framework of the exhibition, the interactive part of
the installation titled State of Emergency involves occupying
these spaces and claiming them through the symbolic
act of posting the S.O.F. emblem on the army camp gates.

Alexandros Tsamouris

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  State Of Emergency, 2009




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