Installation: TRANSMOGRIFICATION by Nelson Santos Every act of creation is also an act of destruction. The creation of something new and different, something that has not yet been, demands the destruction of the old and the typical, what is now and what has come before. The presence of destruction is at the core of the creative process itself." (Scott Kiser). http://nelson-santos.co.uk/
Philoxenia is an action group led by A.T. , which started its activities in the autumn of 2015 due to great amounts of people who were fleeing from war torn territories and seeking refuge in the European soil.. Philoxenia was formed by individual independent volunteers who were in Lesbos at the time, resolving immediate needs of people who were arriving on various shores continuously; giving away dry clothing, warm tea and soup, arranging transport to a safe area within the island etc. The necessity of immediate action on different locations on the island gave birth to the idea of having a mobile kitchen, which was made possible by independent fund raisers and individual donations within the first couple of weeks and Philoxenia Mobile Kitchen Project was born. After couple of months of the delivery of warm soup and tea on Lesbos due to changing EU border policies and augmented border patrols, Philoxenia Mobile Kitchen went to Turkey in Spring 2016, where thousands of people were stranded in the unofficial refugee camps, to coordinate food distribution and organization of local kitchens in the Selcuk prefecture. After being "invited to leave the country" by Turkish law enforcement, Philoxenia continued its activities for a couple of months in the streets of Belgrade, where hundreds were waiting without any possibility to cook for themselves, to find a way deeper into Europe. In the summer of 2016 along with other individuals which were active in the Macedonian border, Philoxenia established a permanent kitchen (Soul Food Kirchen / Philoxenia Kitchen) in Thessaloniki, Greece, which since then, prepares and distributes meals 2 times a day, every day, for the people on the streets (refugees and homeless) and couple of official and not official camps.