Museum of Sporting Dystopia

Museum of Sporting Dystopia
Athens Photo Festival
Thu 17 Sep - Sun 15 Nov
Benaki Museum / Pireos 138

Participating artists:
Marilena Aligizaki
Pavlos Fysakis
Kostas Kapsianis
Nikos Papadimitriou
Panos Sklavenitis
Yiannis Theodoropoulos
Vassilis Vlastaras
Pasqua Vorgia

Curated by: Konstantinos Argianas

The Museum of Sporting Dystopia aims to address emerging issues around sports in the current biopolitical condition.
Unlike the traditional sports museums, which can be seen as topologies of apotheosis and triumph, the Museum of Sporting Dystopia, a non-museum inside the Benaki Museum and a heterotopia as well, invites the visitor to rethink on uncertainties and "rifts" in the sporting, and therefore socio-political, field.
In other words, the Museum of Sporting Dystopia explores aspects of a dystopian post-athletic world that seems to have already come.