Editorial

Irini Marinaki & Konstantinos Stefanis

Origin: Static Issue 02
Content:

"From its inception Static aimed to explore certain paradoxes in the cultural field. The impact of trafficking in cultural practice and theory was the main incentive for our choice. Equally, we were interested in highlighting what we thought as the impossibility of solidifying its meaning and workings as a concept… 'Trafficking' is not a neologism, but has been in use for a long time to describe various forms of exchange. It appears, however, to have been used in the past interchangeably and concurrently to denote in some cases legal and acceptable and in others illegal or improper trading. It is primarily towards the end of the nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century that trafficking becomes associated with law in order to refer to an underhand operation such as drug dealing and human exploitation..."  

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Contributors:

Irini Marinaki studied photography and video art at Focus (Institute of Photography and Video Art) in Athens, Greece. She holds a BA (Hons) in Art History and Critical Studies from Camberwell College of Arts, and a MA in Art History from Goldsmiths College. She has worked as a free-lance photographer, art critic and archivist for various institutions including: the photography department of ELIA (Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive), Athens; IMTIIE (Institute for the Study of Regional History and History of Enterprises), Piraeus, Greece; the audiovisual collection of ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London et.al. She is a PhD student at the London Consortium. Her thesis explores the work of Greek art theorists, curators and art editors such as: Nicolas Calas, Alexander Iolas and Stratis Eleftheriadis (Teriade).

Konstantinos Stefanis studied art history at Camberwell College of Arts (BA Hons) and at Goldsmiths College (MA). He has worked at the Benaki Museum in Athens, the audiovisual collection of ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London et.al. His research interests are in modernism, German twentieth century thought, architecture and urbanism. He is a PhD student at the London Consortium. His research takes the form of an exploration of the workings of myth in modern culture, paying particular attention to modern day mythopoeia and monumentality in relation to artists and exhibition culture.

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