SOUTH IS THE NEW NORTH, INTRODUCING SOUTH MAGAZINE, THE MAGAZINE WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR

South Magazine, edited by Marina Fokidis, issue 1!

South's page of collaborators


Editor's note by Marina Fokidis


Athens Reality


contribution by Runo Lagomarsino


What is the South? by Nikos Papastergiadis


Southern Comforts: Tropical Baroque, Pirate Thinking by Octavio Zaya


Black Skin, White Masks by Ricardo Nicolau


A Southern Utopia by Juan Andrés Gaitán & María Inés Rodríguez


In Praise of Laziness, Mladen Stilinović


Olympic Airways vintage advert, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou & Poka-Yio


Break Out the Zombie Factory, Cibelle


A Tribute To The “Parthenon Bomber” , Yorgos Vassiliou Makris: Artist, Poet, Writer (1923-1968)


“1981” (Allagi) (2007), Vangelis Vlahos


The Casino of Mont-Parnas, Andreas Angelidakis


Technologies of Friendship and Technologies of Confrontation: Not Even One Square Metre of Sociability? Buenos Aires, Syd Krochmalny


On la Loseta and la Bienal Tropical by Carla Acevedo Yates


on Memories of Underdevolpment (1968)


and a visit to South's offices last December, when the first issue was still under planning

South diagramme

South as a state of Mind

and Marina Fokidis, editor of South, at South offices




Cibelle rehearsing to play during South magazine launch at Kunsthalle Athena


Cibelle playing during the launch of South


crowd at Kunsthalle Athena during the launch and exhibition of South issue 1 on July 2, 2012

and video of Cibelle performing during South's launch and exhibition

Introducing
SOUTH magazine
SOUTH is an arts and culture magazine published in Athens and distributed internationally. Possessed by a spirit of absurd authority, we will try to contaminate the prevailing culture with ideas that derive from southern mythologies such as the "perfect climate", "easy living", "chaos", "corruption", and the "dramatic temperament”, among others. Through our twisted - and "southern" – attitude, expressed through critical essays, artist projects, interviews and features, we would like to give form to the concept of the South as a "state of mind" rather than a set of fixed places on the map. People from different - literal or metaphorical – 'Souths' will renegotiate the southern attitude, partly to define it and partly to invent it, within the post-crisis world. Opening up an unexpected dialogue among neighbourhoods, cities, regions and approaches, SOUTH will be both a magazine and a meeting point for shared intensities.

South
Issue 1, Table of Contents

20—BREAKING NEWS ATHENS
The Politicalisation of Hooliganism, Kostis Papagiorgis
Destroy to Build, Marita Virgioti
Georgia Sagri: The Genuine Does Not Exist
Interview by Apostolos Vasilopoulos

24—SOUTH AS A STATE OF MIND
24 Runo Lagomarsino

26 What is the South? Nikos Papastergiadis

28 Southern Comforts: Tropical Baroque, Pirate Thinking, Octavio Zaya

30 Sour South, Chus Martínez 

34 Black Skin, White Masks, Ricardo Nicolau

38 Inconclusive Rhapsody, Pier Luigi Tazzi

42 Zik’s Dream, Carlos Capelán

44 A Southern Utopia, Juan Andrés Gaitán & María Inés Rodríguez

46 MAC: My Family at “Middle South”, Miltos Manetas

48  In Praise of Laziness, Mladen Stilinović

50 Pasa Dynamis Adynamia, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

52 It’s Grim Up North. It’s Grim Down South Too, Kostis Velonis

56 Behind the (Southern) Looking Glass, Sotirios Bahtsetzis

58 Thriving Inside the Black Hole of Arts Funding, Fotini Barka

60 Xenia Kalpaktsoglou & Poka-Yio

62 Riot shoes, Ramblings on the Enclosure of a Heimat, Angela Dimitrakaki

66 Hegel on the Beach or Why the South is its Own Worst Enemy, Stilpon Nestor

68 Untitled (donkey), A visual comment, Massimiliano Gioni

70 The Hidden Law of a Probable Outcome: On the Development of a Southern Kunsthalle, João Mourão and Luís Silva

74 SOUTH: Learning to Live with the Missing Piece, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

76 Break Out the Zombie Factory, Cibelle

80 South-o-rama, Angelo Plessas

82 River Deep, Mountain High, Javier Peres

84 Everyone Is South of Something, Lorenzo Bruni

86 Breadcrumb Trails, Julieta Aranda

90—TRADITION
A Tribute To The “Parthenon Bomber” , Yorgos Vassiliou Makris: Artist, Poet, Writer (1923-1968) Marina Fokidis
The Ideal Shatters, Christos Chrissopoulos
Diasirmos (Disparagement), George-Icaros Babassakis

100—POLITICS / SHOUT
“1981” (Allagi) (2007), Vangelis Vlahos

106—TRICKSTER
Maurizio Has Left the Building, Caroline Corbetta

108—ARCHITECTURE / LANDSCAPE
The Casino of Mont-Parnas, Andreas Angelidakis

112—MYSTICISM
The Oracle, Ylva Ogland, Sibylla Wadjet Marina Snöfrid Virginia

118—DOMINO
Florence Derieux

FLYING RUMOURS 

120—VISUAL ARTS
Forwards in a Backlash: The Reactivation of the Embros Theatre, A Timely Cultural Paradigm for Athens, Angeliki Roussou & Apostolos Vasilopoulos

Technologies of Friendship and Technologies of Confrontation: Not Even One Square Metre of Sociability? Buenos Aires, Syd Krochmalny

How to Build a Garden. Nicosia, Louiza Papaloizou

Less is More: La Loseta and the Economy of Means. San-Juan, Carla Acevedo-Yates

130—FILM 

Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), Julia Lesage

Insufficient memory space, Revisiting Mania, a film by George Panousopoulos (1985), Venia Vergou

138—MUSIC
South of No North, Post Punk Aloofness in a Warm Climate, Panayotis Barlas & Dimitris Bouras

144—WORD OF MOUTH
An agenda of exhibitions and events not to be missed: Athens, Barcelona, Beirut, Greek Islands, Limassol, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, Peloponnese, Porto, Rome, San Juan, Thessaloniki
Daphne Mangalousi, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Angeliki Roussou, Apostolos Vasilopoulos

150—SHAME
Guest: Penelope Georgiou

SOUTH Credits:
Published by: Dyo Deka Ekdotiki SA, A collaboration of LIFO & Kunsthalle Athena
Editor-in-Chief: Marina Fokidis
Creative Director: Yannis Karlopoulos
Editorial Team: Daphne Mangalousi, Eleanna Papathanasiadi, Angeliki Roussou, Apostolos Vasilopoulos
Editorial Consultants: Dimitris Politakis, Pablo León de la Barra
Logo Design: Angelo Plessas and Yannis Karlopoulos / collaboration

Contact us at info@southmagazine.gr
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Twitter account: South_magazine
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