The Black Circle in Moscow, 2011

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Kostis Stafylakis and Vana Kostayola perform The Black Circle : The Moscow Declaration and the Crusade of the Blond Genus.

Performance and Documentary Video Installation at Media Impact: International Festival of Activist Art (curated by Tania Volcova), part of the 4th Moscow Biennale (curated by Peter Weibel), 2011.

The “Black Circle” project was first presented in May 2010. The project shows a series of aggressive and esoteric speeches based on the study of groups belonging to the trend of Third-positionism (Autonomous Nationalism, National Anarchism, National Bolshevism, Radical Traditionalism). Groups of this peculiar trend exist in Greece since the 90s. They are early splits of the Golden Dawn neo-Nazi movement. Since 2008, some of these kernels tried to influence parts of the youth. Most notorious are the “Black Lilly” and the “Independent Meandrian Nationalists”. Through studying the rhetoric of the Black Lilly group, KavecS (Kostis Stafylakis & Vana Kostayola) crafted the Black Circle: a mimetic reproduction of this strange ideological amalgam of anticapitalism, ethno-communitarianism and love for the medieval society. Different versions of the Black Circle have been presented in Athens (aaart, XYZ Outlet), at the 4th Moscow Biennial (Media Impact Show), at the “Truth is Concrete” marathon of activist art (Graz), at Palais de Tokyo (“Hell as Pavilion” show) and elsewhere.

For the Moscow Biennale, KavecS combined a real event, the meeting of the russian and the greek prime minister, (Putting and Papandreou) together with conspiracy theories of a well known greek nationalist tv persona, with prophesies of a greek monk and with historical references of the russian party of National Bolsheviks and its past and present leaders.

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