Athens Now Then
Stanley Schtinter
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From the publisher
"The other vision, the other path, the other road..."
In 2014, London being crap, English artist and interventionist Stanley Schtinter moved to Athens. The Greek capital, many claimed, was in no state at all, somewhere between freefall and perdition, still reeling from a predatory bailout and punitive austerity measures, its walls graffiti-caked and pockmarked by riots.
Gareth Evans, then curator of moving image at London's Whitechapel Gallery, invited Schtinter to put together a programme of films encountered on his journey (Athens NOW). This gathering soon travelled to the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture in New York where a plan to produce a book about the project was hatched. The publication was designed and edited - but the world spun faster, and the printing stalled.
In 2025, ten years later, occasioned by Schtinter's return to New York - Athens NOW Then. Here are all the edition's original contents, including never-before-published translations of Katerina Gogou's poems by the late Jack Hirschman; Eurofuck (don't ask); conversations involving Toby Lee, Rebekah Rutkoff, Marina Gioti, Blaise Kirschner, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Gareth Evans. Also: an extensive postscript by Schtinter that revisits the gleeful defiance of Athens then, its vigour and anarchism, its refusal to become someone else's story....
Risograph publication. Edition of 200 copies.