Angeliki Avgitidou
Angeliki Avgitidou studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and fine arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (MA, PhD). Her PhD thesis “The artist as subject in creative stasis and drasis explored through performative subjectivity in media art and diary practice” was funded by the AHRB, the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece and the London Institute. She has exhibited internationally in venues such as the ICA (London) and the French Museum of Photography and she has participated at the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, its Performance Festival and the International Biennial of Performance Deformes (Chile). She was part of the national representation of Greece at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (2015) and at the 15th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale of Venice (2016).
Angeliki organizes the events Performance now since 2010. She has taught postgraduate courses for the Greek Open University, for the UoWM, where is works as Associate Professor and during the Summer School of Transart Institute. She also teaches at the MA Art and the Public Sphere course at AUTh. She is author of “Performance Art: the basics. A beginner’s course guide” (under publication), co-author of “Memory Transference” (2009), and co-editor of “Performance now: Performative practices in art and actions in situ” (2013, in Greek). Her research interests include the everyday, autobiographical practices, gender, performance and politics, performance and the archive and pedagogical methodologies within artistic contexts.
Practice Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist with an educational background in art, architecture and theory. I work mostly with performance exploring public space and the public sphere as an arena for the representation and negotiation of identity, memory and difference through the juxtaposition of personal and collective histories. I am interested in site-specific work and the role the site, as a term that encompasses more than the actual location, can play as co-author of the work itself. Recent explorations have included an examination of the nature of performance as an ephemeral and non-object art and the implications of such characteristics in the economy of art and the archiving of performance art.
Practice includes (media, genres, e.g. curating, photography):
Performance, video art, art interventions in public space.
Related research & practice areas:
experimental pedagogies;
foreignness, otherness
international diaspora and exiled states;
memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive;
publishing as an art practice;
space and temporary architecture;
walking as an art practice;