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​“ Documena has extracted the political subject of choice from Documenta's rhetoric, the "queer indigenous" person, and carried out various actions in which its members perform as queer indigenous Greeks – with the charge that Documenta is projecting the sentimental idea of the noble resisting subject not only onto non-Western cultures but to Greece as well.”

Summer of the Shamans
Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

​​“ Other initiatives deploy a common strategy of overidentification, whereby they convincingly mimic existing power structures in society to expose the success of full-scale ideological self-identification, i.e. “woke trolling.” Examples include Documena, whose name borrows the Ancient Greek word for “the perceptions that function as a given; those things believed in or hoped for.”
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Let them eat Art! Dissent on documenta 14s periphery,
Benjamin Busch, ArtSlant

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Initiated and directed by Athanasios Anagnostopoulos and Fil Ieropoulos and later joined by a larger group of artists and theorists, Documena (incorporating Documena TV-on-Demand) was a project that sought to respond to how contemporary art production engages with the intense European crisis, coinciding with documenta 14 and intending to examine the latter’s decision to voluntarily relocate itself from Kassel to Athens (“Learning from Athens”) along with the ideological presumptions that seem to guide such a choice.

​The Documena interventions and TV-style chat-show were a continuous disruption to the mundane local art scene during the art fair's stay in Athens and the most rigorous and severe critique to the neo-orientalist and naively patriotic discourses of documenta14’s theoretical premise.

The Documena team co-designed and participated to the opening of the 6th Athens Biennale "Waiting for the Barbarians" and its online teaser trailers, as well as completely took over the Biennale's exhibition space (Bageion Theatre) for the closing event “Resurrection with Documena” on the 15th of April 2017.