ARCO Calatlogue

I have been very busy lately and didn't find the time to post lots of things I wanted to. I will try to do so with some articles and publications. Here is some pages from ARCO solo show with Rodeo curated by Vasif Kortun. Texts by Vasif Kortun and Sylvia Kouvalis.







Christodoulos Panayiotou’s work has hovered between different themes and ideas, each time expressed in various forms and media. His “works are performance-based and collectively span every level of what one could describe as a spectrum of the performative in art– from, creating a space for activities such as dancing, directing actors and events, to the recording and tracing of both the artist’s and society’s ‘performances’ ” (APT).

Originally coming from dance and choreography Panayiotou’s work is based on research and his performance-related works require peculiar social involvement. In “Sunday” confetti was collected by workers of the municipality of Limassol and later pilled up in the gallery (2005); “Slow Dance Marathon” (2005) is an on-going series of public slow-dancing days organized in different cities with voluntary participants and his latest “GUYSGOCRAZY” (2007) an audited pornographic orgy was initiated and then filmed by Panayiotou with elevated pre and post moments of the hour-long event.

His work is best perceived in chapters and one of the most striking is “Absence”. It was originally conceived as a single work where the artist invited four intellectuals each representing one of the four main disciplines of Oxford University to discuss ‘absence’. The solo presentation in Arco’ 08 will be formed around this theme.

Sylvia Kouvali