Face to Face with the Many – Action with Video Calls (2014)

Margarita Tsomou investigated acts and forms of (self-)representation of the protests at Syntagma Square in the protests of 2011 in Greece. In her research process, Face to Face with the Many – Action with Video Calls was a one-on-one assembly, organised through videocalls in a Hamburg Internet café. It tried to create a format that tested forms of representation of the many by the many. Tsomou invited participants of the occupation of Syntagma Square to Skype conversations with twelve audience members from Hamburg to talk for one hour about their singular stories of the occupation, discuss its sustainability and current topics such as Europe, elections, self-organisation, solidarity and alternative economics. Margarita Tsomou, Face to Face with the Many – Action with Video Calls, 2014, Hamburg