ABSTRACT
This chapter presents 3rd Athens Biennale's (AB3) curatorial strategies and the ways they came to be articulated mainly through excerpts from the press preview and personal interviews. The AB3 opened its doors to the public on the 22 October 2011, the day that, more than 500,000 people demonstrated in the centre of Athens against the austerity measures, and closed its gates on 11 December, after one government had already collapsed in Greece. AB3’s references to Greek social and political life, however, did not only engage with official discourses concerning classical antiquity, but also with a set of different periods and histories. The translocal branding of the Athens Biennale, as embraced by the organisers, was activated through the conceptual lines. The Athens Biennale was perceived as a localised manifestation, originating from and intervening within an international circuit of display and biennial forms.
