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Dying on Stage
Christodoulos Panayiotou

  • Performance

Chris­to­doulos Panayi­otou has chosen the form of the per­formed lec­ture to deal with the ver­ti­gin­ous ques­tion of death’s rela­tion­ship to the stage.


How can death be rep­res­en­ted on stage?

Christo­doulos Panayiotou’s work attempts to answer this ques­tion which under­scores the his­tory of West­ern theatre through a piece which com­bines theatre, a lec­ture and a per­form­ance, archiv­al work and digress­ive intro­spec­tion, where a broad ref­er­en­tial net­work calls upon icons like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dal­ida, Molière, Amy Wine­house, Michael Jack­son or Rudolf Nureyev.

Using a vari­ety of film and music­al mater­i­al, Panayi­otou ana­tom­izes the concept of tra­gic irony to delve into the enigma of the rela­tion between spec­tat­ors, act­ors and char­ac­ters. Evok­ing urgency, bliss, men­ace, desire, Chris­to­doulos Panayi­otou blurs the lines between high­brow and low­brow to con­front the audi­ence with the many faces of the inev­it­able. By examin­ing the bal­let La Bay­adère staged by Rudolf Nureyev as he was dying from AIDS, Dying on Stage com­poses a mosa­ic, a score where the artist inserts his own sub­jectiv­ity in the flow of the con­tem­por­ary images wash­ing over us – chal­len­ging con­ven­tions, pay­ing homage to the theatre.


Conception and interpretation by Christodoulos Panayiotou, with the participation of
Jean Capeille (Chapter 1)
Delegated production center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie

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From July 4, 2023 to July 6, 2023
Le Magasin Électrique
dying_on_stage©Bea Borgers
Credits
© Bea Borgers
© Bea Borgers

Exhibition: "One Year" by Christodoulos Panayiotou

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Fantasy, desire, theatrics of disillusionment and manifold political histories are key thematics of the exhibition which, for the first time, brings together elements from the artist’s entire career.



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Christodoulos Panayiotou

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Christodoulos Panayiotou was in residence at LUMA Arles from september to november 2021.

Born in 1978 in Limassol, Cyprus, he lives and works in Limassol. Christodoulos Panayiotou's wide-ranging research focuses on the identification and uncovering of hidden narratives in the visual records of history and time. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held (amongst others) at the 56th Venice Biennial, The Cyprus Pavilion; Camden Art Centre, London; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Centre de Création contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours; Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kunsthalle Zürich; Casino Luxembourg; CCA Kitakyushu; Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig; Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny; and at Point Center of Contemporary Art, Nicosia. In 2019 he collaborated on the conception of the Emma Kunz - Visionary Drawings exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. His work was also shown in a number of group exhibitions including: the 8th Melle Biennale; the 14th Lyon Biennial; the 13th Sharjah Biennial; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel; 8th Berlin Biennale; 7th Liverpool Biennial; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museion, Bolzano; Migros Museum, Zürich; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Ashkal Alwan Center for Contemporary Arts, Beirut; Artist Space, New York; MoCA Miami.