Maria Christoforidou

°1979
en
Maria Christoforidou is an artist and independent curator. She is a theory lecturer at Falmouth and Plymouth Universities, co-curator of ‘Decalcomania’ curatorial experiment and founder of 'T-Rex Cinema'. Maria spends her time agonising over words and sentences, lateral images, deconstruction, books, collaboration and feminist art history. She forms one third of ‘Various Writings’, an arts-based research platform and programme of exhibition/publishing projects investigating acts of writing 
 

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  • Various Writings: Chapter One (2018) author(s): Dion Star, Lizzie Ridout, Maria Christoforidou published in: RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
    VARIOUS WRITINGS: CHAPTER I There are rumours that writing will cease, books will die, the digital eye will take over. Standing at the edge of this precipice we look away from these preoccupations. Instead we look back, investigating the act of writing through systematic consideration, attempting to disregard all preconceptions. This exposition focuses on the gestural and uses Vilém Flusser’s concept of ‘pseudo writing’, to analyse the interaction between the physical actions and the technologies of writing. The first act of Various Writings’ was a response to Vilém Flusser’s text The Gesture of Writing. This text radicalised our ideas on what constitutes research and thematised the conditions of sharing in ‘other’ terms. Flusser meticulously disassembles the act of writing. We follow in his footsteps, using personal mythologies, Oulipian constraints / translations, taxonomies and non-verbal conversations as implements to excavate relics of writing. We collect codes, tools, surfaces; test writing against various technologies and translate it into movements, attitudes and objects.
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