Curatorial work and co-ordination
I've worked as curator and co-curator, as well as research consultant and project co-ordinator with a number of local institutions and artists. My projects try to be wide-reaching, community-building projects that are immersive, research-based and innovatively synthetic, bringing together things that would have been unlikely to otherwise meet (e.g. Someone Has To Do This 2014, displays 2013, Bank of Commons 2013).
Independent collaborations with artists
A combination of curatorial, research, and arts-management
E.g. Collaborator / co-curator: Charalambos & Vaso Sergiou’s change ex change (2014) exhibition / group installation / participatory social experiment.
Worked with Charalambos & Vaso Sergiou, Christos Arvanitis, Christos Araamides, Dynamic Works.
Website / catalogue / documentation: http://changeexchange.sergiou.com/ (Dynamics Works.)
Text: Loizidou, C. (Ed.). (2014) Charalambos & Vaso Sergiou "change ex change."
Point Centre
For a while I kept getting called in by Point Center for Contemporary Art to develop, coordinate and co-curate research-intensive art events and exhibitions with high production values.
- Co-curated and co-ordinated: Point-Eleneio (2015). An art education, research and exhibition project.
- Co-curated and co-ordinated: Displays (2012). A reseach project with intense programming and an experimental (non or group) curated exhibition component.
- Assisted: Haris Epaminonda's Chapters (2013). I was part of the small team that helped produce this exhibition, its educational programme, and its documentation.
Web-presence / content-management
I'll occasionally venture into text-based web-design.
E.g.
This is where I put things most of the time.
An on-going research project exploring academic web-presense, that collects and presents the work of poet, educator, and film-maker Stephanos Stephanides, which mostly means trying to get him to dig into his deep and wondrous archives. The most interesting thing about this project is its reflection on translation and multilingualism.
A content management project: a collaborative wiki for the hack66 community: an innovation center/hackspace hybrid.
Web presence for a grass-root mobilisation project / series of events. My response to an invitation to act as solo curator of the contemporary arts programme for the first Cypriot Gay Pride, by ACCEPT LGBT Cyprus (2014). The site is built on the Research Catalogue (Society for Artistic Research) and a version of it will eventually be submitted for review by the Journal for Artistic Research.
reaphrodite.org/
A website for the Re Aphrodite / Research Association for Arts and Arts Education inititative.
Also noting my consultation for
Part of a larger project I collaborated on. Designed by Dynamic Works.
I'm not sure how it happened, but in 2008 I curated a small exhibition called Curating the Virtual: Cyprus on the Net for the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre. This tried to bring relatively early Cy online memes into the gallery, making the simple point that this was where a cutting-edge of local, subversive, politically-potent creativity could be found. This was part of Under Construction: Alternative Museum Spaces, an 8-month programme which I helped build. I have little documentation from that time. This gave me a leg up with future collaborative curatorial work, e.g.:
Re Aphrodite, 2010 - present
Re Aphrodite has since developed into a more complec collective with increasingly varied actions that, for me, reflect on questions around difference (rather than conflict) and dialectic practice in relation to that, especially with regard to public space an the commons. Re Aphrodite was invited to take part in the MAC Niteroi's Cultural programme accompanying the Brasilian Olympics (2016) as well as to contribute to Elena Parpa's exhibition Πλάνητες, for Paphos European Cultural Capital, 2017.
Book cover: Photography and Cyprus (2014)
"Dodekametri (2003), by Vassilis Kattos"
Video still of installation shots of original sculpture by Vassilis Kattos (2003), exhibited at Re Aphrodite: October 1st (2011, Apotheke)
Promotional material [draft] from Curating the Virtual (curator, solo; NIMAC, 2008).
Perhaps inevitably (given that it was about documentation, and also given that it came out of an archival project--also about documentation) this exhibition project went largely undocumented.
After researching and attempting to map / archive "Cypriot cultural production" with heavy emphasis on the contemporary arts and design (aka as The Archive Project, EKATE-NIMAC, 2007-8), I was invited to put together an exhibition that reflected my findings. Predictably, coming out of that particular research project, I was disinclined to put together an exhibition that would reproduce existing / tired thematic or social constellations in the Cy arts.
Instead I focused on instances of creativity that were only able to exist online.
The catalogue came in the form of a blog: http://curatingthevirtual.blogspot.com/
A contemporary art exhibition / intervention at the Cyprus Ethnological Museum (Kornesios Hadjigeorgakis Mansion) commissioned within In Crisis – Terra Mediterranea, part of the Cultural Programme for the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre and the Antiquities Department of the Republic of Cyprus. The project included an active educational and events programme dealing with issues of historicity, museum display, gender, and domesticity.
Team: Chrystalleni Loizidou & Evi Tselika (curators), NIMAC staff, also see list of contributors
Website / documentation: http://www.reaphrodite.org/#!atmaroudias/cblv
Chrystalleni Loizidou
Φακελάκι#175 / Envelope #175
2008
exhibited at Re Aphrodite: October 1st (Aphotheke)
an exhibition of works of contemporary art and illustration which positioned itself as a creative counter-point to national festivities through works that challenged dominant nationalist discourse through comment on local cultural and socio-political paradoxes.