Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like Episode 7 Explores "The People" and Apostolos Georgiou

Episode 7 of the radio program Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, hosted by Richard Finlay Fletcher, was released on October 7, 2026. The episode examines the concept of "The People" and individuals within democratic visual culture, centering on Apostolos Georgiou's painting Untitled (2016). Georgiou, a Greek painter born in Thessaloniki in 1952, was included in documenta 14. The episode features a quote from Marina Fokidis describing a figure named Costas who could be from 1950, the sixties, eighties, or 2000s, reflecting uncertainty about identity and time. It also references Hans Haacke's Wir alle sind das Volk (We All Are the People) through a link to a Harvard Art Museums gallery talk. The program includes a musical outro, Taylor Swift's Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) from 2024, with Swift explaining that the song is set in an American town where the American dream did not materialize. A footnote segment presents a text by Adespotes Stiles titled "The Waltz of the Dirty Streets," which critiques the question "What do you propose?" as a rhetorical device that emerged in the late 1980s under neoliberalism, arguing that any proposal is constrained by sacred market structures. The episode also links to a related article, "A Curriculum of Imposters: Here Now, There Then, On On."