Tending Sheep, Goats and Windturbines
Alexandros Bouris
Mezzanine
Thursday 12/3, 10:00

Kafireas in southern Euboea, also known as Kavo Doro, isolated and exposed to wind and waves, occupies its own place on the map. The main activities in the villages of Kavo Doro are goat and sheep herding and the wind energy industry. Goats and wind turbines may not appear to have a direct connection; however, amid the transformations of the contemporary era, such unconventional relationships seem to flourish. Yet they share a common denominator: care—care for both animal and machine. Residents of the wider area are professionally engaged in caring for goats and sheep as well as wind turbines.

Successive arrays of wind turbines, endless electricity cables, abandoned villages, very few inhabitants, and countless goats characterize the landscape. They coexist—or at least attempt to—as the wind industry dramatically affects the area, transforming it into an industrial landscape where each of us becomes an intruder in an environment that has already moved beyond us.

Alexandros Bouris studied architecture at the University of Thessaly and currently works at Antonas Architects in Athens. His research project Caring for Goats, Sheep, and Wind Turbines has been presented at film and photography festivals. His interests focus on questions of rural space and the transformation of the countryside.

Within the framework of the course
PELION CHŌRA: Dissecting and Reweaving a Mountain

By The Observatory of the Countryside
Tutor: Metaxia Markaki