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Christina Georgiou (Cyprus)
Born in Nicosia (Cyprus), Christina Georgiou
lives and works in Nicosia (Cyprus). Her artwork
is shaped through live performances and per-
formance devised for the camera, and explores
site-specificity through psycho-geography while
using live art as a site-responsive means. Her per-
formances are often characterised by repetitive
behaviour, durational actions, public interactions
and site-specific interventions. She investigates
interactivity through repetition and duration while
building a physical dialogue with the viewer. Her
body is the fundamental element of her work and
the central component of her artistic creation, con-
ceptualised as subject and object, mediumandmat-
ter, site and map of experiential multiplicity.
Christina Georgiou has presented her work at inter-
national biennials, exhibitions, galleries, museums,
cultural events and festivals in Cyprus, Greece,
UK, Finland, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia,
Lithuania, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Ger-
many, Poland, The Netherlands, Czech Republic,
Russia, Mexico and Chile. Her performance
Eter-
nal Return #1
was awarded the “Special Prize”
from Leo Galleries (Italy and Switzerland), and
she was a finalist artist amongst 8,000 participants
at the 6
th
Arte LagunaArt Prize at the VeniceArse-
nal in 2012. She is the Founder, Director and Cu-
rator of the Cyprus International Performance Art
Festival (CIPAF) and the Founder and Director of
the Cyprus International Performance Art Society
(CIPAS). Christina Georgiou was born in Nicosia
(Cyprus) and lives and works in Nicosia (Cyprus).
Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith (Germany/London)
Born in Braunschweig, Germany, Dagmar I.
Glausnitzer-Smith lives and works in Braunsch-
weig and London (UK). She graduated in 2000
from the Royal College of Art and in 1994 from
Goldsmiths’ College, London. After the comple-
tion of a two-year Picker Fellowship at Kingston
University in 2003, Dagmar returned to Germany
where she organised international PerformanceArt
Workshops “pure action in art in action” (www.
kunstwirkstoff.de), City site-specific 12-hour
Performance Art Workshops during study trips
(
Werktag
). Furthermore, Dagmar developed the
international exhibition -
transitstation
-
sitstation.de) in several European cities (London
2003, Berlin 2005, Edinburgh 2006 and Copenha-
gen in 2010, collaboration with the Royal Danish
Academy, and 2013 and 2014 Cyprus International
PerformanceArt Festival).
Dagmar is also an external examiner and visiting
lecturer in Helsinki, Copenhagen and Halle.
Her work is evolved and characterised by the
means of two-dimensional image, by the prolonged
process of transformation and by the development
of making an object. It is the idea of placement and
presentation of object and body, which requires the
recognition of a specific context. It is auto-fictional
in process and immediate in pure action.
Glausnitzer-Smith also works with Alexander
Rues, as Eru and Seven of Eglise, a collaboration
of experimental sound and live performance art.
Fausto Gracia (Mexico)
Born in Querétaro, Mexico, in 1984, Fausto Gra-
cia lives and works in Mexico.He is a Visual Artist.
Since 2008, his work focuses on performance and
process while exploring the body as a tool of ex-
pression and communication to the context. He has
Christina Georgiou - (Dis)locating the Body series of site-specific
actions, Cyprus 2012. Photo in collaboration with Marilena S.
Ray Langenbach - Bone Gay Performance Art Festival,
Bern 2012, Photograph by Peter Zumstein
