This is the ethnography of the "Mykoniots d'election," a 'gang'
of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of
Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community
of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on
working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an
extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the
transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from
its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a
spatial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an
idiosyncratic fluidity. In mythology Delos, the island of Apollo,
was condemned by the gods to be an island in constant movement.
Mykonos, as a signifier of a new form of ontological nomadism,
semiotically shares such assumptions. "The Nomads of Mykonos" keep
returning to a series of alternative affective groups largely in
order to heal a split: between their desire for autonomy, rebellion
and aloneness and their need to affectively belong to a
collectivity. Mykonos for the "Mykoniots d'election" is their
permanent 'stopover'; their regular comings and goings discursively
project onto Mykonos' space an allegorical (discordant) notion of
'home'.
Pola Bousiou was born and educated in Thessaloniki, Greece, and
later at the London School of Economics where she received her PhD
in social anthropology. Subsequently she has turned to film-making;
in her current research she is exploring the relationship between
anthropology and film by deconstructing her auto-ethnographic text
into an experimental film narrative.
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