Joseph DeLappe / Seminar
On 6, 7, 8, 9 July 2020 Joseph DeLappe offers an online workshop to the students of the Athens School of Fine Arts, to complete his contribution to the Public Hazards program, conducted by ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture. This online seminar is an inspiring and abundant journey through recent political conflicts, war-zones, resistances, activism, gaming, public engagement and dilemmas. It focuses on a lineage of projects that function at the intersections of computer gaming, art/technology, real world and online interventionist strategies engaging our geo-political contexts. The workshop culminates with a collective reaction to aspects of the Covid crisis with use of paper-crafted masks. This performance will be recorded and screened at the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel and ViZ’s media outlets. DeLappe’s show and workshop launched the Public Hazards program by ViZ Laboratory for Visual Culture. The program will investigate recent transformations of the idea of the public in the post-social media era of generalized alert, sanitary policies, and fear of contagion.