VISUAL CULTURE
Demetris Taliotis: Profile
Demetris Taliotis (b. 1980, Nicosia, Cyprus) graduated from Goldsmiths College, London with a BA in Fine Art in 2002, and subsequently worked at the Athens School of Fine Arts as a research fellow (2002-2003). In 2004 he successfully completed the MA in Architectural and Spatial Culture course of Middlesex University, and has since worked, amongst others, in the theatre (including as assistant director for Hedda Gabler, “Cyprus State Theatre”: http://www.thoc.org.cy/index.htm in 2004 and director for 4.48 Psychosis, Discord: Drama in 2005), as a part-time lecturer and as a copywriter and project-based creative director for the TBWA\ network.
As a practising artist he has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions, and has acted as a representative for both the Republic of Greece and the Republic of Cyprus in international fine art biennials and fora (Athens, 2003 Paris, 2006; Istanbul, 2007). He was selected and invited to participate in Manifesta 6, later cancelled. He is a member of Omada Ergasias, a Jarryesque art legion whose interests span from portable culinary technologies to representations of vernacular and local modernists architectures (see Nicosia Architectural Biennale 2007), to left-leaning Mediterranean football teams (see ‘I’m Marxist with Groucho Leanings’, Berlin 2007) to Makarios III. He is a member of the editorial team of UNDO, a bilingual critical art journal and he has written widely on issues of art, architecture and poetry.
