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Visual artist and photographer Anne Marie Slater shared her recent 2019 Artist Residency with the Victoria Square Project {Artist Rick Lowe (USA) Documenta 14 in collaboration with Artist, Maria Papadimitriou (GR)} in Athens, Greece in a workshop at 丁香园AV Woodward鈥檚 entitled Intersections, Athens. The workshop highlighted the place based context of social practice that considers people and context. 

In the case of Athens, political change, migration and the pressure of globalisation on cities led to recent protests in Athens against rent increases due to extensive AirBnBs in neighbourhoods.  Slater鈥檚 recent 2019 Artist Residency and research was with the Victoria Square Project located in the centre district of Athens a historic Athenian neighbourhood that currently is a hub for migrant families, and refugees waiting for papers, support, and new home destinations and is also experiencing an increase in street drugs and sex work.  

Ms. Slater鈥檚 residency with a focus on empowerment for youth, gender equity, and women鈥檚 voice in public spaces drew from her work in the inner city, Downtown Eastside (DTES) and other diverse neighbourhoods with vulnerable and multi-ethnic communities in Vancouver, Canada. Within the interdisciplinary urban matrix Slater鈥檚 field work identified similar and different situations in the inner city neighbourhoods of Athens. 

The 2019 Athens Residency produced a photographic exhibition  which explores Victoria Square through the female gaze, women photographers, and gender equity in the public realm in collaboration with young women from the local Open Schools high school and other neighbourhood organizations. The project was presented by the Victoria Square Project and Neuron Village (Canada). Additionally Ms. Slater created a new photographic/ sound installation TI NAF TO exploring acoustic spaces and gender that was in the recent exhibition Emfylo-蟺慰喂蔚委谓 / To Construct the Gender Exhibit s in Athens, Greece at a.antonopoulou.art and initiated a new project of conceptual photographic works 鈥淏asketball鈥� and 鈥淐afe鈥� (Athens 2019) that is ongoing. Ms. Slater鈥檚 arts practice is located within her project studio Neuron Village a collaborative arts research space and draws from the small is beautiful movement in 鈥渙pposition to the cult of bigness鈥� (Leopold Kohr).

Anne Marie Slater

Anne Marie Slater (Scotland) is a Canadian photographer, installation, and social practice artist.

Slater鈥檚 social practice is interdisciplinary and research-based and incorporates her long term interests and practice in critically inspired Artist-led community engagement, aesthetics, participatory community planning, the public realm, and historical archives, Her fieldwork and site-specific projects consider unheard voices in the public realm. Her recent 2019 Artist in Residence with the Victoria Square Project {Artist Rick Lowe (USA) Documenta 14 in collaboration with Artist, Maria Papadimitriou (GR)} began in 2017 and recently completed a second research and production phase in the Spring of 2019.

Slater鈥檚 themes of Neighbourhood Light: Life in our neighbourhood references her long term interest in neighbourhoods and the small, local, beauty as the intersection of local economies and interdisciplinary connections that exist in contrast to global mega structures of cities and systems.