Chrysanthi Koumianaki
One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer, 2015–2017

Calendar pages, cut in half, create a new rule or a form of anarchy.
New days, months, unlimited posibilities of dates.
Ten 2015 calendars were used for this installation in the foyer of an open-air cinema in central Athens, during the winter when the cinema is closed

Text by the artist.

What if a month consisted of 214 days and January merged with May? What if a week started on Thursday and ended on Tuesday? How many hours would one work per day, for how many hours would they relax or for how long would they sleep in this case? Who would hierarchize it and who would guide the program? In this work, I propose the end of regular times. (…)

Excerpt of an interview of Chrysanthi Koumianaki, published on collecteurs.com.