Aristotle remains one of the greatest thinkers of all times. Noted for several texts, his philosophy and tutor of Alexander the Great, Aristotle’s importance remains true even today. In his honor, Maria Zervos has re-created one of Aristotles most famous practices.

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Artist recreates concept of Aristotle
ATHENS, Greece
ATHENS, Greece – Aristotle remains one of the greatest thinkers of all times. Noted for several texts, his philosophy
and tutor of Alexander the Great, Aristotle’s importance remains true even today. In his honor, Maria Zervos has re-
created one of Aristotles most famous practices.
The peripatetic is a combination of walking and teaching, often traveling to different locales and places of interest.
Modern science and study of learning supports the idea of kinetic learning, so Aristotle’s idea of movement as a
teaching method works.
Zervos work is appropriately titled Peripatetics, and Zeros has chosen the perfect location for her project, the city of
Athens, Greece. Her goal is to bring old and new within film and print; she wants to show how Athens is eternal and
still has significant importance.
“My film will have footage from the city’s ancient ruins matched to a 21st modern city. I have also collaborated with
several fellow artists to bring a unique, multi-modal look to the idea of the peripatetic, said Zeros in a recent interview.
Zeros has retained artists such as Svetlana Boym, Heather Felty, Maria Koundoura and Pablo Medina. Each are
actively engaged with the themes of nomadism, transition, appearance, disappearance, crossroads, geography,
history, politics, unsettlement, archaeology, exile, estrangement and migration, all concepts that were common in the
time of Aristotle.
Zeros has a very impressive resume for the project. She is a Fulbright scholar at Harvard in the Film and Visual
Studies department, working on art research. She also taught at Harvard and Emerson College. Her work has been
in galleries across the world: New York, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, France and England. She has won several
awards for her work.
“My nomadic energy together with my writing are the driving forces behind my art work as a whole. I believe the art of
poetry and the poetry of art do not refer simply to words or images any more than poetry is expressed exclusively by
writing,” Zeros said.
Zeros has a Kickstarter campaign, a Facebook page for the project, and a personal website. Additional information on
her Peripatetics and other projects is available there.
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Maria Zervos
maria-zervos@hotmail.com
0030 697 351 99 32 Greece
804 477 9093