Apr 15 -
The Symposium “Drachma; Iconography and Symbolic Value” took place at the Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece on Tuesday the 5th of April 2011. The presentations and the discussion were, we think, very exciting and gave a further push to the project! All the presentations will be translated and published in a special issue of the re-public.gr
Drachma is a research initiative, involving artists and theorists across disciplines, with an interest in the Greek economic reality and the Greek currency as a manifestation of this reality. We are investigating the Drachma as a symbol of economic value, national identity and political power, as they are expressed historically in the imagery of the currency. The iconographic and the symbolic representations of the Drachma, in the concrete syntactic context of notes and coins, provide a specific frame of reference to our analysis of Greece today. Our methodology includes archival research, art, economic theory, political design, psychoanalysis ... Our production will culminate into a symposium, an exhibition, and a publication.
