Artists from all over the world talk about the concept of home, displacement, immigration, through 9 projects at the cutting edge of the avant-garde. FFF strikes for 13 days, imaginatively reclaiming public and private spaces in central Athens and Piraeus.
The 4th Fast Forward Festival quietly penetrates into abandoned hotels and galleries, enters old railway stations, descends to the Silos and the stone warehouse in Piraeus to walk around the narrow streets and hidden squares of Drapetsona. The three emblematic landmarks of this year's FFF, the Constitution, Omonia and the Port of Piraeus, “coexist” with heterotopic areas, such as the radioactive exclusion zones of Fukushima and Chernobyl, as well as refugee camps in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. A world that moves uncontrollably from unimpeded movement to complete immobility and absolute militarization of borders, the coexistence of different places and, consequently, times automatically acquires a socio-political dimension. The 4th FFF articulates itself around “heterotypes of crisis”, that is, forbidden, invisible and marginalized places where, as Foucault writes, spaces and times intertwine that could not normally coexist.