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counts. It is this operation of putting forth, and yet also what is withdrawn, which undoes through the moment of intimacy. In another register, if we consider the term solvency in light of what is currently underway in Greece, with the Eurozone crisis and Germany’s desire for Greece to impose solvency at any cost, it presents in both forms with an unfolding dissolution. Solvent form 77 It is tied intrinsically to the rhetoric of collapse, solvent in the face of the solvency of social and economic breakdown. We see it in the observations and framing in the news
starvation wages, but geopolitical standoffs continue unflaggingly, with NATO presently engaged in a new Cold War with Russia and China – a phenomenon that even Henry Kissinger denounces as reckless. Drone strikes, kill lists, torture, extraordinary rendition and indefinite detention characterise today’s distorted constitutional law, supported and sanctioned by all major western governments. Foreign debt has shaken both the US economy as well as the Eurozone, where now even the IMF has conceded to Greece that its austerity policies are inoperative. Nuclear proliferation
,’ according to reporter Jason Farago, and a ‘fair chunk of Documenta’s 37 million euro budget (about $40 million) has gone into nearly bankrupt Greek art organizations, which you can think of as an artsy stand-in for the eurozone transfer payments that Germany continues to resist.’93 Other relationships were also revived through Documenta’s occupation of Athens, with locals and newcomers forging new collaborations with the visiting art world. But overall, the diversion of funds to Athens’s public art institutions through the Documenta enterprise was the most astonishing
. Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, I Love Germany – Greece / part of CREDITS series, 2013. Print on plastic, 8.5 x 5.4 cm. Courtesy of Janez Janša. The artists in this collective changed their names to the name of the leader of the Slovene National Party and former Prime Minister. They often display official documents like passports and identity papers as part of their work. In the case of I Love Germany – Greece , they operationalize ‘I heart’ t-shirts in the context of the crises of the Eurozone