Cut Loose
Lanfranco Aceti, the Director of Arts Administration @ Boston University will have a conversation at New York University on on March 24 with Stefanos Tsivopoulos (who represented Greece at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013). The event is chaired by Prof. Mechthild Schmidt Feist. You can join them on March 24 at 6pm, at NYU-SPS 7e12 street, room 321. Please RSVP here to guarantee a seat: http://bit.ly/1UYOlyH – there are limited seats and they will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Also, please bring a form of ID.
The talk, Cut Loose: On the Far Side of Post-democracies and Post-citizens, follows the publication of an issue that Aceti has edited for the Journal of Visual Culture titled CUT. The conversation between Aceti and Tsivopoulos stems from a new essay that Aceti has been writing and that looks at the conflicting relationship between citizens and state hierarchies as consequence of the financial and social crises as well as from a new publication/artwork that Tsivopoulos has developed around a news series of artworks titled Archive Crisis: Shaking Up the Shelves of History which focus on the current socio-political unrest in Greece, Europe and the United States.
Image: Stefanos Tsivopoulos, ‘History Zero’ (2013), video still. Courtesy: Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ biography
Stefanos Tsivopoulos was born in 1973. He lives and works between Amsterdam and Athens. Stefano’s Tsivopoulos’s artworks have been selected for numerous international solo and collective exhibits and he represented Greece at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013, Curator Syrago Tsiara. Tsivopoulos’s film-based works are investigations into the rift between reality and its fictional reconstruction in both film and memory. He is most interested in the subjective interpretation of history and the idea of a mediated reality, which he alludes to through allegories and rhetorical narratives. Tsivopoulos’s subjects typically borrow from Czechoslovakian and European history; he has, in fact, used found and archival footage from 1960s television programs in his own works, as well as images of the equipment and technology used to create the original programs and fictitious sets made to resemble TV studios of the era. In presenting these episodes, Tsivopoulos often creates immersive, multi-channel installations.