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Reflecting on the Kapodistrian Orphanage and Aegina Prison University of Dundee DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Objects as Portals Material Engagement and the Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change. Reflecting on the Kapodistrian Orphanage and Aegina Prison Vlachaki, Eleni Award date: 2019 Link to publication General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 07. Oct. 2021 Objects as Portals: Material Engagement and the Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change Reflecting on the Kapodistrian Orphanage and Aegina Prison Elika (Eleni) Vlachaki DOJ College of Art & Design University of Dundee A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy October 2019 i Contents Contents ............................................................................................................................. i Illustrations ....................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................. v Declaration ....................................................................................................................... ix Abstract ............................................................................................................................. x Preface ............................................................................................................................... 1 I. Introductions .............................................................................................................. 6 1. Objects as Portals ................................................................................................... 6 2. A Silent Presence ................................................................................................... 7 3. A Point of View: Inside or Outside ....................................................................... 8 4. The Boat ................................................................................................................. 9 5. Aegina, Kapodistrias and the Orphanage ............................................................ 10 6. ‗School and Museum‘ .......................................................................................... 13 7. The Aegina Prison ............................................................................................... 15 8. Restoration ........................................................................................................... 18 II. Impressions ............................................................................................................. 24 1. The Selfish Giant ................................................................................................. 24 2. Injury .................................................................................................................... 27 3. Vexations ............................................................................................................. 28 4. The Church Festival ............................................................................................. 29 5. ―Les Petites Madeleines‖ ..................................................................................... 30 III. Shifting: Towards a Practice-Led PhD .................................................................. 34 1. The Project ........................................................................................................... 34 2. The Approach ...................................................................................................... 35 3. Inside and Outside. Towards a PhD proposal ...................................................... 36 4. Projections ........................................................................................................... 38 IV. A Pilot Project ....................................................................................................... 40 1. A Study Trip to Greece ........................................................................................ 40 2. Χscillations .......................................................................................................... 50 3. Talantoseis ........................................................................................................... 51 ii 4. Sympraxis ............................................................................................................ 59 V. Towards the exhibition Enthymemata .................................................................... 63 1. The Trojan Horse of Art ...................................................................................... 63 2. Tesserae ............................................................................................................... 65 3. Meandering .......................................................................................................... 67 4. The Apple ............................................................................................................ 73 5. Focusing ............................................................................................................... 79 VI. To the Other Side .................................................................................................. 82 1. The Olivewood Cigarette Case. ........................................................................... 82 2. Back to the Beginning: The Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina ........... 97 3. Κείμενα και Ανηικείμενα / Οbjects and Σexts ................................................... 101 4. The Exhibition ................................................................................................... 104 5. Outcomes ........................................................................................................... 110 Conclusion / Re-Collection ........................................................................................... 114 Bibliography .................................................................................................................. 121 Appendices .................................................................................................................... 127 Appendix 1 ............................................................................................................. 127 Appendix 2 ............................................................................................................. 136 Appendix 3 ............................................................................................................. 137 Appendix 4 ............................................................................................................. 138 Appendix 5 ............................................................................................................. 139 Appendix 6 ............................................................................................................. 140 Appendix 7 ............................................................................................................. 141 Appendix 8 ............................................................................................................. 144 Appendix 9 ............................................................................................................. 148 Appendix 10 ........................................................................................................... 158 Appendix 11 ........................................................................................................... 160 Appendix 12 ........................................................................................................... 163 Appendix 13 ........................................................................................................... 169 Appendix 14 ........................................................................................................... 177 iii Illustrations 1. Elika Vlachaki, Home, 360°, DJCAD, 2014 ................................................................. 1 2. Home, 360° .................................................................................................................... 2 3. Elika Vlachaki, Boat, Aegina 1977 ............................................................................... 6 4. The Kapodistrian Orphanage and Aegina Prison .......................................................... 7 5. The Radio ...................................................................................................................... 8 6. f/b ELLAS ..................................................................................................................... 9 7. ―AEGINA from the anchorage‖, 1839 .......................................................................
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