Walk. Stop. Recite.
2022
Street action, digital prints on paper
Volos, Greece
Online action,
digital image files
I stand on the street, between the Court House entrance and Eleftherias (Liberty) Square, in the city centre of Volos, handing out a series of cards to passers-by. On the front, the cards feature photographs of wildflowers I encountered while walking the Vasileios Mangos trail. Cleared and maintained by Giannis in memory of his son, the path links the city with the village of Stagiates. On the back, each card bears an address and a quote. The cement factory, hospital, police station and courthouse are sites where the Greek state’s repressive forces brutally attacked protesters and Vasileios Mangos on 13 and 14 June 2020, as they demanded an end to ecological plunder and waste burning in the city. Once these locations have been reached, excerpts from Vasileios’s testimony, published from the hospital on social media, may be recited.
The street intervention continues online.
Download, share, print and distribute. Let Vasileios’s words travel from hand to hand, from place to place, from struggle to struggle.
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