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Biography |
Stefanos Tsivopoulos (b.
1973), is a Greek artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Athens. He recently completed a 2 years residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Recent shows include the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 1st Athens Biennial, Kassel Kunstverein Friedericianum, International Project Space Birmingham,1st Thessaloniki Biennial, the Deste Prize, Museum Het Domein, Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Montevideo Arts Institute Amsterdam, Center Photographique d_lle-de-France Paris, Sammlung Essl Vienna. He is the winner of Golden Cube Award 2008, at the 25th Kassel film festival. During 2009 he is an artist in residence at Platform Garanti in Istanbul. |
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Festival
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| 2008 Stefanos Tsivopoulos - The Real The Story The Storyteller, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade YU
2007 In Present Tense, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens GR |
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Filmography |
2008 Untitled (In Plato's Cave), video installation
2008 Reverse, video installation
2007 The Remake, film
2007 The Interview, video installation 2006 Land, film
2006 Play, video installation 2005 Three men, film 2005 True Fiction, video installation 2005 Occupation Unknown, documentary
2004 Actors, video installation 2004 Under Construction, documentary
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Contact |
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Tommaso Albinoni 36
1083 HM, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31611107914
E-mail: stefanzabba@yahoo.com
AD Gallery
3 Pallados Street 105 54 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 322 87 85
Fax: +30 210 322 87 85
E-mail: ad@otenet.gr
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Composers |
| | Director, Creative Producer: | Stefanos Tsivopoulos | | Part1 -The Interview Veteran: | Bora B. | | Journallist: | Nick Hawton | | Camera, editing: | Bata Babic | | Interpreter: | Marina Markovic Part2 -An Interview with War | | Director: | Gregor Zupanc | | Scenario: | Gregor Zupanc, Bolle Bolle | | Editing: | Nenad Barbul | | Director of Photography: | Nemanja Jovanov | | Set designer: | Jovana Cvetkovic | | Actors: Milovan: Igor Borojevic, Alen: | Andreja Maricic, Nevena: Nevena Nejkov, Boris: Miki Damjanovic, | | Voice: | Marina Markovic | | Production: | Museum of Contemporary Art Athens | | Co Production: | Alternative Film Center Belgrade, MOCAB Museum of Contemporay Art Belgrade |
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Summary |
The work “The Interview” is structured in two parts: in the first the artist commissions an English journalist to obtain an interview from a Serb veteran, with the aid of an interpreter, and with the guide-line to focus on his personal and psycho-logical relation with the war.
The interview follows the typology and conventions of television journalistic products as to the use of the camera and neutral presentation, keeping a distance, of the participants.
In the second part, the artist asks a professional scenario writer of Serb origin to undertake the adaptation of the transcript of the interview of the veteran, including two more figures into the story: a cameraman and a woman interpreter.
The scenario adopts codes of cinematographic practices and fictional narrations developed around stereotyped perceptions of constructed characters and their relationships.
The director about his film
Truth begins with an axiom of truth.
It begins with a decision.
Decision to say that an event has taken place.
Alain Badiou, The Political As A Truth Procedure
In the centre of my artistic practice is the research, collection and analysis of archive photos, newsreels, film archives and other historically related imagery that constitute part of our collective memory.
These documents are taken out of their historical context and used in my work in a reverse mode instead of serving their purpose they are deployed to tell a new story.
By questioning the axiomatic value of a document, I'm at the same time stating that we are strongly appealed by the document as it is.
Trying to expose the aura of photographic document while revealing my own suspicion in its power to prove validity.
To show the paradox of the document and its inherent contradictions without using the witness, but rather the document itself as subject.
In the core of my work exists the following assumption that: It is the way a story is been told rather the story itself.
The origin of the story as a true or a not true event comes second to the image’s ability to create genuine emotions and overlook facts.
So archives are not necessarily serving as ‘representatives’ of the Historical truth rather are just another way to tell a story.
-Stefanos Tsivopoulos |
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Distribution |
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Tommaso Albinoni 36
1083 HM, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31611107914
E-mail: stefanzabba@yahoo.com
AD Gallery
3 Pallados Street 105 54 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 322 87 85
Fax: +30 210 322 87 85
E-mail: ad@otenet.gr
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