Venice Survival Guide #1
by Despina Stokou, 15.May 2013
Venice will be swamped with New Yorkers this year and they are competitive, chatty little mother **ckers. You (Berliners!) have to up your game.
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How To Speak Art/Lesson# 2 : Serial Thanking
by Despina Stokou, 20.March 2013
A conversation opener and a conversation closer, the standard opening line in emails and a must-have closing line as well, especially in emails communicating an order, or a disagreement. A social greeting, a farewell, a conversation filler: "Thanks"
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How Did I Do it - Introduction
by Despina Stokou, 5.February 2013
As with press releases and horoscopes, self-improvement guides are practically useless. Unlike press releases, I flip through “success manuals” religiously. “Think Big to be Big.””Big Ideas start Small”...
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How to speak Art/ Lesson #1: Negation
by Despina Stokou, 12.September 2012
In the uncertainty of our ever shifting art times; where anybody could be somebody any minute (and nobody the next),  nobody risks disappointing a conversation partner who might eventually outrank him, politeness is religion and negation does not sound like one. It sounds like an affirmation. A few examples.
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Definitions
by Despina Stokou, 4.September 2012
In high school it was "What kind of music do you like?" In South Korea it is "How old are you?" It is maybe the social equivalent of dog sniffing- What these questions really seek to find out is: where do you classify in comparison to me. Are you a friend or a fiend? In our circle it is the question "Who do you show with?"...    
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Guggenheim Lab presentation@Artitude
Lingua Franca und die Kunstkacke
by Despina Stokou, 16.March 2012
This new language, spoken in art openings and events...It is of course English, or Euro English* but it is also more than that. The main characteristic of this language- lets call it PR Language or Art English, is that nothing means what it says.
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