MAY 2024 - JANUARY 2025
FILIPPOS TSITSOPOULOS
THE EXPLORATION OF AUTHENTIC IDENTITY
In search of a miracle
– Lecture and performance with visual objects, masks, one projector and theatrical passages –
Download PDF (223KB, english)
Considering the often polarised fragmented identities that we perform and how to bring the interiorised authentic self and the exterior constructed self together. The goal is to examine socially constructed patterns of behaviour, create situations in which the participants break or transcend the internal feedback loops that control their own actions, and address the power structures we inhabit and perpetrate.
Filippos Tsitsopoulos (1967) is a painter, installation, media and performance artist who explores the limits and the interfaces between performance and painting since the 1990s. His practice engages the spectator/participant to a “new” form of theatre that integrates performativity as a catalyst of our daily life. Theatrical conventions and props are applied to his visual practices such as masks made from living materials including animals or plants. His video installations have been exhibited at a variety of distinguished venues and contemporary art institutions including:
MAY 2024 - JANUARY 2025
FILIPPOS TSITSOPOULOS
THE EXPLORATION OF AUTHENTIC IDENTITY
Considering the often polarised fragmented identities that we perform and how to bring the interiorised authentic self and the exterior constructed self together. The goal is to examine socially constructed patterns of behaviour, create situations in which the participants break or transcend the internal feedback loops that control their own actions, and address the power structures we inhabit and perpetrate.
Filippos Tsitsopoulos (1967) is a painter, installation, media and performance artist who explores the limits and the interfaces between performance and painting since the 1990s. His practice engages the spectator/participant to a “new” form of theatre that integrates performativity as a catalyst of our daily life. Theatrical conventions and props are applied to his visual practices such as masks made from living materials including animals or plants. His video installations have been exhibited at a variety of distinguished venues and contemporary art institutions including:
In search of a miracle
– Lecture and performance with visual objects, masks, one projector and theatrical passages –
Download PDF (223KB, english)
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