Attuning with out of place
This PhD by practice investigates questions around attuning to places through the perspective of out of place, taking as a case study the old city of Nicosia.
With specific emphasis on transitory forms of subnature found in interstitial landscapes, the project examines the ecologically, geographically, and historically peripheral, and proposes the discursive form of essay installations as a way of thinking through the complexities of topopoetics.
By employing affectual and empathetic practices of attending and attuning to these phenomena and drawing on literature from post-humanism, the work articulates an inquiry around notions of placeness through the paradoxical engagement with elements that are commonly considered out-of-place.
Moreover, by drawing on literature from the fields of geohumanities, urban design, colonial cartography, plant taxonomy and site-specific art the research harvests resonances of historical events, minor stories and detritus features deeply rooted in the shaping of places due to colonial practices.
The essayistic style of writing integrates diverse forms of language, mingling poetic and speculative language with historical narration, and explores embodied situatedness as an affectual epistemological condition.
Videos, images, language and voice-over are interlaced in the fluid and non-linear form of the essay installations. The discursive essay installation where spatial tropes and meandering modes of spectatorship are traced in tentative ways, prompts a perceptual reorientation and invites original approaches to the field of site specificity, while raising questions about ideology and place, origins, belonging and displacement, and the estranged view from out of place.
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Biography
Constantinos Taliotis’s art spans sculpture, photography, video art and immersive installation. Inspired by histories of architecture, film and popular culture and driven by his interest in site specificity, perception and time, his practice invites audiences into familiar worlds made unfamiliar. In his most recent works, Taliotis engages the public sphere through architectural interventions that treat the exhibition space as a medium through staged narratives about the here and now, while creating an embodied experience for the viewer.
Degrees
BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design University of the Arts, London, 2006
MA Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory, Middlesex University, London, 2008
Experience
Lecturer, University of Nicosia, Fine Art Program, 2018-ongoing
Stage Designer, Cyprus Theatre Organization, 2 5 1, Nicosia, 2019
Production Designer, LEXI, Miss Julie, Nicosia, 2016
Production Designer, Cyprus Theatre Organization, Spring Awakening, Nicosia, 2013
Awards
55th La Biennale di Venezia, The Cyprus Pavilion, Special Mention, 2013
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(2019) Appendix, Porcino, ChertLüdde Gallery, Berlin
(2019) The Pavilion, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia
(2018) FORMS, L'Œil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada
(2017) Paradise Productions, Pilot Galeri, Istanbul
(2013) 50 Years of James Bond against Architecture, Pilot Galeri, Istanbul
(2012) Casting Modernist Architecture, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
(2011) You can be a cop, a criminal or a lawyer. When you are facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?, APOTHEKE, Nicosia
(2009) War Fever, Nicosia Municipal Art Center
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(2019) hypersurfacing, Nicosia Municipal Art Center
(2019) Terra Incognita, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
(2018) Imago Mundi: Join the dots, Salone degli Incanti, Luciano Benetton Collection, Trieste, Italy
(2017) 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
(2017) So close yet so far away, The Petach Tikva Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv
(2016) Never shown on purpose, Circle 1, Berlin
(2016) AyeBaDome: Super, Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia
(2013) 55th La Biennale di Venezia, The Cyprus Pavilion, Italy
(2012) Young Greek photographers’ award, Shortlisted, Technopolis, Athens
(2012) In Crisis, Terra Mediterranea, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre
(2012) Aftermath, AKBANK Centre, Istanbul
(2012) Once upon a time in the future, Galerie Metro, Berlin
(2011) Arte laguna art prize, Shortlisted for the Photography Award, Venice, Italy
Publications
(2017) 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalogue
(2017) European Eyes on Japan, Monograph, EU-Japan Fest Publication
(2017) So close yet so far away, Exhibition Catalogue, The Petach Tikva Museum of Modern Art
(2016) The Window of Arts, October Issue, No. 397, pg. 87, Monthly Selection Magazine Review, Japan, Article by Mihoko Nishikawa
(2015) Arcus Project, Artist-in-residency, Bi-annual Catalogue
(2013) 55th La Biennale di Venezia, Exhibition Catalogue
(2013) Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, Exhibition Catalogue
(2012) The Glamour of Cheap Films, The pictorial worlds of Constantinos Taliotis, by Claus Löser, BE Magazine, Issue 19, December 2012
(2012) Casting Modernist Architecture, Constantinos Taliotis (ed.), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany, ISBN 978-3-941230-21-7
(2010) Under the fridge’s light, Constantinos Taliotis, VDM Publishing House, Germany, ISBN 978-3-639-31917-0
Additional information
(2016) Forum Expanded, Presentation series, VHS Cyprus: A lost history, 66th International Film Festspiel Berlin, Akademie der Künste
(2014) Artist Talk Series, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
(2013) Artist Talk Series, Node Centre for Curatorial Studies, Berlin