AVATO

AVATO

  • By: Latent Community

Latent Community, an interdisciplinary artist duo (Sotiris Tsiganos and Ionian Bisai) that explores issues of social, political, and ecological injustice through storytelling, oral history, and filmmaking practices, will produce a multimedia platform featuring a podcast and videos exploring the history and identity of Avato (literally, “a site that should not be accessed”), a village in northern Greece that is home to a long-standing Black community. The project focuses on community members’ reflections on their history (usually traced to Ottoman slave trade) and places it in the context of national narratives with the goal of acknowledging the extensive but often-overlooked story of Black presence in Greece and using the microhistory of a village to address issues of identity, whiteness, and belonging in the country today.

PROJECT MATERIAL

Fieldwork Diary
Video
Soundscapes
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