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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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Group exhibition
Zurich, Switzerland
Participating in the Anonymous Drawing Project at SIHLQUAI55 OFFSPACE, December 9 - 18, 2011.
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Group exhibition
Vienna, Austria
Participating in the Anonymous Drawing Project at METAmART - der Ausstellungsparcours, November 24, 2011 - February 19, 2012.
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Exhibition review
London, UK
The exhibition "Minor Revisions" is on the weekly picklist of artslant.com. Read the review of the exhibition.
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Group exhibition
London, UK
Curating the group exhibition Minor Revisions at Tenderpixel Gallery in London, UK.
Opening: August 11, 2011
Duration: August 11 - September 3, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
Tenderpixel is pleased to present the group exhibition Minor Revisions, curated by the artist Marina Kassianidou. The exhibition focuses on the use of found objects or images. Each artist presents work that results from the layering of the original object or image, with all its previous history and meanings, with the artist’s action. The artistic intervention, or whatever the artist does to each object, does not completely erase the object but rather revises it. In a sense, the found object and the artistic gesture come to work together. As such, meaning in these works is not produced in isolation from the world. Rather, the meanings produced are a combination of what was there with what was added, emphasizing overlaps and interconnectedness. The viewers are asked to look at the works closely and reconsider how they may be understood as both everyday objects/images and artworks.
The artists participating in the exhibition include Rebecca Chalmers, Cadi Froehlich, Cristina Garrido, Andrea Muendelein, Loizos Olympios, Gali Timen and Marina Kassianidou.
Chalmers makes intricate drawings on the inner surface of found envelopes. These drawings are informed by the existing patterns and colours on each envelope. As a result, the drawings sometimes partially blend in with the printed design. Froehlich presents a different type of drawing on a found side table. Her intervention, which is based on the passage of time, evokes past moments as well as potential future moments in which this side table might participate.
Garrido’s work focuses on ‘erasing’ existing information from found or purchased printed material. Her labour-intensive process of working raises questions concerning value and worthlessness. Muendelein presents a photography installation based on a collection of found photographs from 1900 depicting land- scapes, travel encounters and street scenes. By revisiting fragments from these private histories today, Muendelein’s work explores their resonance in the present.
Olympios photographs found footage, capturing the response of his digital camera to the TV monitor or the demise of scrambled low-resolution trailers from the Internet. The resulting captured image is transformed, leading to the undoing of film genres, the destruction of images, and the concealment or deconstruction of the depicted body. Timen has performed very simple and humorous actions to alter two found toys. Despite their simplicity, her actions manage to effectively revise the narrative associated with each toy, resulting in double or multiple meanings. Finally, Kassianidou has used found surfaces to create collages that partially disrupt existing patterns in space.
For more information see Tenderpixel's web site.
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Conference
San Sebastian, Spain
Participating in The Image Conference, September 26 - 27, 2011.
Presentation title: In the Gap between Visibility and Invisibility: The 'Fugitive' Image
Abstract
In everyday life, the terms visibility and invisibility are presented as opposites. In visual art, visibility traditionally rests with the artist's marks viewers are interested in seeing the image produced. This focus on visibility and vision in Western culture has been severely criticized by feminist theorists, such as Luce Irigaray.
This paper will delve into the gap between visibility and invisibility, 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 visibility and invisibility. The aim is to create moments of 'undecidability' between these terms. What kinds of relationships and meanings can be unravelled by exploring the in-between of visibility and invisibility?
The methodology I have adopted for my practice-based research involves using marks that relate to the surface being marked - its appearance, use and history. This approach enables the conceptualization of complex relationships between mark and surface. Oftentimes, my marks are partially lost in the surface, either by being so subtle that they cannot be perceived from a distance, or by becoming confused with other marks. The faint traces create a 'fugitive' image that almost escapes vision.
Through the discussion of my practice, as well as references to other artists, such as Louise Hopkins, and theories regarding visibility and invisibility, such as those of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I will explore how the visibility/invisibility duality can be problematized through the making, installing and viewing of artworks. Using the concepts of 'zones of indiscernibility', developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and of partial subjects/objects, theorized by Bracha Ettinger, I will argue that the border between visibility and invisibility can be destabilized. Furthermore, I will propose that this destabilization challenges the status of artworks, viewers and artist.
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Lecture
London, UK
Giving a guest lecture at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, May 12, 2011, 10 am.
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Talk
London, UK
Giving a talk as part of The Practice Exchange seminar series.
March 2, 2011, 10 am - 12 pm, Green Room, Chelsea College of Art and Design
For more information, see the Practice Exchange
web site.
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Group exhibition
Massachusetts, USA
Participating in the exhibition "An Exchange with Sol LeWitt," curated by Regine Basha, at
MASS MoCa (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).
Opening: January 23, 2011
Duration: January 23, 2011 - March 31, 2011
For more information, see the MASS MoCa
web site.
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Exhibition review
Paris, France
A review (in French) of the exhibition "Chypre 2010, L’art au présent," can be found on Connaissancedesarts.com.
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Group exhibition
Chicago, IL
Participating in an exhibition for the North Branch Projects opening.
Opening: September 17, 6:00 - 9:00 pm at North Branch Projects (3550 W. Lawrence)
Come celebrate the grand opening of the new Community Binding project in Albany Park: North Branch Projects, this Friday! We have a nice roster of artists sharing some of their sketchbooks and ideas behind their processes (a rotating display/exhibition happening throughout): Dominique Enriquez Alexander, Orlando Camacho, Melissa Jay Craig, John Golden, Regin Igloria, Jen Hunt Johnson, Marina Kassianidou, Peter Kepha, Al Ramirez, Jen Thomas,travis, Books from the Chicago Underground Library and others.
Check out the website for more information: www.northbranchprojects.com.
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Publication
Scotland, UK
Contributed a painting for the How to paint a donkey publication.
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