2017-2018
It has been almost 10 years of
austerity measures and a financial strangulation driven by the capitalist
system in Greece. The research I undertook in Athens firstly concentrated on the
impact of the financial crisis on the affective and sexual lives of the
population. I was able to identify a significant decline in desire and libido,
caused by a high rate of depression and an increase in affective-emotional
pathologies. This national preoccupation
around money has also caused specific sectors of society to irrevocably link it
to other aspects of daily life – in this case, a “Greek Default” that
associates money (financial status) with sexual capacities.
The Great Arousal
It has been almost 10 years of
austerity measures and a financial strangulation driven by the capitalist
system in Greece. The research I undertook in Athens firstly concentrated on the
impact of the financial crisis on the affective and sexual lives of the
population. I was able to identify a significant decline in desire and libido,
caused by a high rate of depression and an increase in affective-emotional
pathologies. This national preoccupation
around money has also caused specific sectors of society to irrevocably link it
to other aspects of daily life – in this case, a “Greek Default” that
associates money (financial status) with sexual capacities.
The Great Arousal is the mass distribution of an idea:
a call to occupy interconnectedly the rooftops of the city in order to explore
new forms of desire, love and sensuality. It seeks to free bodies and recharge
the libido. This is an event of love
that offers the possibility of thinking about another destiny and possible
ways of counteracting the local reality.
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