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Twixt cup and lip
Polyxene Kasda
Installation 200X1000cm, printed digital/manual images, 2018
The West Balkan Peninsula is undergoing a transitional
state of self-restructuring that raises issues of regional connectivity and
integration; a convergence challenge largely shaped by its geo-plastic
peculiarities formulated in its irrational and yet persisting dogmatic formulas
and legends. In a rudimentary attempt to raise mythical awareness and get
emotional proximity to this unexplored “virtual space of spectrality”
(Derrida), I started surfing on the Balkan legendary waves, leaving behind me a
panegyrikon trail of playful doodles. In so doing, I came across haunting figures
like the Albanian kallikantzaros and the terrible ما شاء الله Shtryga with the pale blue eyes..Ι
hovered over the Serbian well of Ορφεύς and the pyramid mountain Rtanj said to conceal a spaceship …I met the
Slavic three headed dragon Zmey and I witnessed the fly-harassed Bosnian bull
Tur balancing on a multieyed fish while carrying the globe on its back…   |
| Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, BoWB 2018 |
Poly Kasda, Twixt Cup and Lip, surfing on the WB legendary spaces, Biennale of Western Balkans 2018. https://bowb.org/?p=5990
Short bio
Poly Kasda’s lifetime Project Myth/Network 1990-2018 is a polymorphic
reticulation of overview art-installations, spectral space cartographies,
linguistic games and agro-techno-psycho-social art generating community
projects; a dispersive configuration echoing the archetype of transition
underlying our contemporary paradigm shift…
M/N first biodegradable interactive world installation in 300 sites of
the world was launched in the Meeting of the Worlds PAND conference, Museum of
Modern Art of Joensuu, Finland on the 33-6-1990, composing an ideography of the
World Wide Web before its spreading. It was completed with her overview PXK
Route 2004-2017 intercontinental installation anchored in 27 international
events, with her handprocessed material PXK.
Life Achievement Award Visionary Art Italy 2017 – Best Artwork Award
PrimopianolivinGallery Lecce 2017-Honorary Silver Medal Greek Chamber of the
Arts 2009- Gold Medal Olympic Fine Arts of Beijing 2008 – Collection
certificates of Biennials of Beijing 2005-2008, Biennial of Tashkent 2007,
MEADOWS Beirut 2012- Cultural Contribution Silver Medal Award Lucian Blaga
University of Sibiu Romania 2007 – Three Golden Medals French Academy of Poets
of Alexandria..
With a multi-disciplinary academic background in Arts-Physics-Psychology,
she is author of many articles and essays; her documentary The Adventures of
the Eye 1986 (dir. M. Gastine, Greek National TV) and her Greek essay The
Conscious Eye 1988 were one of the earliest encounters of Art theory, cognitive
science and AI.
Kondos-Kasda, Artificial Intelligence Professor John Kondos needles Poly
Kasda’s Conscious Eye, NotiosAnemos/ Amazon 2015.
Legacy: Project Myth/Network 1 is archived in the National Museum of Modern
Art. Code 1595. Emst.gr/gr/collections.
Donation Xagoraris 1991.
Her work is documented in the interdisciplinary conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence
proceedings 2017 Ionian University of Corfu Greece ART THEORY
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN GREECE: A DOCUMENTATION OF 30 YEARS OF
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WITH DIALOG BETWEEN POLY KASDA AND JOHN KONTOS
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https://polykasda.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwVQBYbIcmw
The under-determination in Polyxene Kasda’s work
