Angelo Plessas
Documenta 14
April 6, 2017–September 17, 2017Athens
The Experimental Education Protocol, #ExeDuPro is an alternative educational model founded and curated by Angelo Plessas and it is structured around experiential and communal learning. It’s an ongoing navigation of opinions, personalities and approaches who would coexist and one will learn from each other. The participating initiators bring together ideas, fragments and considerations in order to experiment with the experiential and experience the experiment. The conditioning of the school is open and different classrooms are formed revolving around influences of nature, spirituality, rituals, topicalities, rethinking institutions and urban mechanisms.
In 2017 Angelo Plessas nearby neighbor in Athens Maria Zamanou-Mickelson disclosed to his that she had been a spy in the Second World War. She recounted that as a teenager during the German occupation, she was commissioned by the Greek Secret Service to spy on the movements of German aircrafts from her house. She imparted her reports about the coming attacks to the Greek and Allied forces in the same manner that the Pythia of Delphi read the movements of birds and offered omens and predictions. During his conversations with Maria, this self-taught heroine, Plessas was stunned by how penetrating her perception, how edgy her inborn logic, how solid her gaze were.
Maria Zamanou-Mickelson became the focus of the case study for the second edition of the Experimental Education Protocol (#Exedupro) in Delphi, Greece. In this symbolic context, ten people from different backgrounds and generations became Pythias, preparing a task, and keeping their instincts alive in constant intimate contact with each other. During the annual meeting of the Experimental Education Protocol, the biography of Maria Zamanou- Mickelson and the location of Delphi were open to many interpretations, fostering deep, unconscious, and infinite content, beauty, warm relationships, and a fantastic time.
Angelo Plessas installation for documenta 14 in Athens is staged with the documentation of the 2nd edition of the Experimental Education Protocol.
