Biennale participation
June-July 2013, Ancona, Italy
Participating in Mediterranea 16: Errors Allowed. More info coming soon.
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Group exhibition
May 2013, Berkeley, CA, USA
Participating in the 10th Annual Fletcher Lab Art Show, May 17, 5-8pm, Stanley building, UC Berkeley campus.
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Conference
June 2013, London, UK
Will be participating in TRACES 2013 Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 14, 2013. More info coming soon.
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Conference
Chicago, IL, USA
Will be participating in the 2013 Image Conference in Chicago. More info coming soon.
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Book
November 2012
Etan Ilfeld's book Beyond Contemporary Art, in which my work is included, is now available on Amazon US, Amazon UK and at Tate Modern.
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Group exhibition
August-November 2012, Givatayim, Israel
Participating in the exhibition Lunch Box at Water Institute gallery, Givatayim, Israel. Curated by Gali Timen. Exhibition is open till November 16.
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T-shirt design
October 2012
I have designed a T-shirt for Sequoia Tees. My design is found here.
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Book
October 2012
Featured artist in the book Beyond Contemporary Art by Etan Ilfeld. The book will be released in October 2012. More info on Amazon.
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Journal article
October 2012
My paper "In the Gap between Visibility and Invisibility: The 'Fugitive' Image" has been published in The International Journal of the Image, Volume 2, Issue 3.
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Poster design and exhibition
September 2012, California, USA
Designed a poster for 100 Thousand Poets for Change event in Nicosia. It has been selected for a special exhibition at the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Headquarters Event in Santa Rosa, California on September 29.
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Artist residencies/fellowships
Summer 2012, USA
Awarded residencies/fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences and the Ragdale Foundation.
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Group exhibition
August-September 2012, Düsseldorf, Germany
Will be participating in the exhibition PALIMPSEST2012.
Location: The Art
Space, Düsseldorf, Germany
Opening: August 27, 2012
Duration: August 27-September 29, 2012
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Biennale participation
August-September 2012, Santorini, Greece
Participating in the 1st International Biennale
of Santorini, (drawing section curated by Anneca York).
Locations: All over Santorini
Opening: August 1, 2012
Duration: August 1-September 30, 2012
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Conference
July 2012, Irvine, CA, USA
Will be presenting a paper at the Third Derrida Today conference.
Dates: July 11-13, 2012
Location: University of California Irvine, USA.
For more information and for the conference program, visit the conference
web site.
Paper title: "Retrieving" the retrait: An Encounter between Jacques Derrida and Contemporary Art Practice
Abstract:
This paper enacts an encounter between Jacques Derrida's writings on the
trait and retrait and two contemporary artistic practices that involve
marking on already marked surfaces. By exploring the overlap and tensions
between them as relating to issues of marking, repetition, invisibility
and otherness, the paper re-examines Derrida's trait and retrait and explores
how his thinking may affect and be affected by contemporary visual art
practices. In Memoirs of the Blind, Derrida proposes a relation between
blindness, memory and the trait--the draftsperson must look away from the
object or person drawn in order to make the drawing. Derrida also suggests
a relation between trait and retrait--the trait is always a retrait, implying
both redrawing and withdrawal. These ideas are juxtaposed with the works
on furnishing fabrics of the British artist Louise Hopkins and my own
drawings on found or already marked surfaces. Both practices involve the
duplication of pre-existing marks. Hopkins replicates the printed marks
found on the fabrics by painting over or in-between the pre-existing
images. In my work, I often re-create pre-existing marks, such as stains
or shadows, by subtly drawing over them. The drawing of marks over the
original pre-existing marks leads to the partial concealment of both.
Moreover, the juxtaposition of pre-existing marks with those of the artist,
leads to confusion between the two. The paper explores how notions of
concealment and confusion that arise through these two practices might
interact with or problematize Derrida’s notion of the retrait, the repeated
and self-eclipsing trait. Furthermore, by looking at these practices through
the lens of Derrida’s trait and retrait, I suggest that a path opens for
re-thinking the relationship with the other through art--whether that other
is the artist’s mark in relation to the surface and its pre-existing marks,
or the artist in relation to the viewer.
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Exhibition review
May 2012, Tel Aviv, Israel
Review of In the night they used to take off on the online newspaper Aurora Israel (text in Spanish).
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Group exhibition
Tel Aviv, Israel
Participating in the exhibition In the night they used to take off, curated by Gali Timen.
Locations: FishnDag shop, 182 Dizengoff Street; FishnDag showroom, 17 Masaryk Square, Tel Aviv
Opening: May 1, 2012
Duration: May 1-June 20, 2012
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Conference
Dundee, UK
Will be presenting a paper at the conference Engendering Dialogue II Seeing Things Differently: Art, Philosophy, and
the Futures of Feminism.
Dates: March 30-31, 2012
Location: Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and The University of Dundee.
For more information and for the conference program, visit the conference
web site.
Paper title: In-between Marks and Surfaces: Relating to the Self and to the Other
Abstract:
Historically, in painting and drawing the mark has enjoyed a higher status than the surface. The viewers are usually
interested in seeing the artist's mark, which differentiates itself from the surface. The surface, in turn, forms the
"other" of the mark. Several writers, such as Griselda Pollock and Bracha Ettinger, have argued that the structure of
painting depends on the presence or absence of a mark. According to these theorists, painting follows a phallic logic
premised on absence/presence and self/other that privileges presence/self over absence/other. This paper will delve
into the gap between mark and surface, primarily through a discussion of my practice-based research in painting,
drawing and collage on various surfaces. This work explores the alternative(s) to a strict hierarchical antithesis
between mark and surface. The aim is to create moments of indiscernibility or "undecidability" between the two terms.
What kinds of relationships and meanings can be unravelled by exploring the in-between of mark and surface?
How might this exploration enable a re-thinking of the relationship to the other?
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Group exhibition
Nicosia and Dusseldorf
Will be participating in the exhibition PALIMPSEST2012.
Location: The Art Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
Opening: March 30, 2012
Duration: March 30-April 11, 2012
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Mailing list
Cyberspace
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Web pages
Cyberspace
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Exhibition review
January 2012, London, UK
Review of London Art Fair on spoonfed.
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Art Fair
January 2012, London, UK
Participating in the London Art Fair (January 18 - 22, 2012) with Tenderpixel gallery. Read the press release and more info on the London Art Fair.
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Web pages
Cyberspace
I am now on twitter! Find me @MKassianidou.
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