Talk by Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis at KIRIK

Nadie atraviesa la región sin ensuciarse (2015) by Regina José Galindo.
Courtesy of the artist and prometeo gallery di Ida Pisani Milan/Lucca.

Talk by Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis
Rethinking the Public: The Critical Work of Mourning

KIRIK, 18 January 2022, 16:30 (CET)
Online event

Video documentation of the event available here

In their talk, Athena Athanasiou and Elena Tzelepis focus on the critical mattering of vulnerability in multiform sites and temporalities that underwrite the global present. They take critical poetics of mourning and agonism as a way to attend to the question whether and how the contingencies of vulnerability are taken up as situated knowledges of radical political imagination. They reflect on the implications of (un)breathability in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the global mobilization against gendered violence by deploying Antigone’s decolonial feminist instantiations in the context of contemporary activism.

Athena Athanasiou is Dean and Professor of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece).

Elena Tzelepis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece).

KIRIK* is a research-based, participatory and critical initiative for people and topics in the cracks.