BidA International Bienial 2005 / Thessaloniki - SeviLle

ELLI CHRYSIDOU
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BIDA Biennial 2005

BIDA 2005 is the third chapter in the new  phase of the International Biennial of Sports in Art, which celebrates its 16th edition in 2005. The entity in charge of organising BIDA 2005 is the Sports Council attached to the Ministry of Culture of Spain. For the first time, the Biennial is presented outside of Spain.
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The Body Is Soul's Tomb (2005), video installation
The work is dedicated to the boxer Livander Johnson, who died on the 23rd of September 2005, after a deadly punch during a match. 

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Las Atarazanas, Seville, Spain
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"Kaftantzoglio" Stadium ,Thessaloniki, Greece

 Thessaloniki, Greece - Seville, Spain

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
& "Kaftantzoglio" Stadium
 
Thessaloniki, Greece
9-18 September 2005 

Las Atarazanas 
Seville, Spain
September-November 2005 

Artistic Directors, BIDA 2005:
Marta Moriarty, Antonio Arean

Coordinators, Greek Participation
& BIDA 2005 Presentation in Greece:

ArtBOX.gr

Curators, Greek Participation:
Sania Papa, Christos Savvidis
Manolis Baboussis, Fernando Baena, Yoan Ben-David, Juan Carlos Bracho, Elli Chrisidou, Joan Cortes, El Perro, Javier Grandes, Effie Halivopoulou, Rula Hallawani, Ersi Hatziargyrou, Youla Hatzigeorgiou, Sofia Jack, Konstantin Kakanias, Hassan Khan, Giorgos Lazongas, Frederique Lecerf, Juan Linares, Clara Montoya, Olivier Dupont, Walter Niedermayr, Leda Papaconstantinou, Alexandros Psychoulis, Tobias Putrih, Danae Stratou, Chryse Tsiota, Uri Tzaig, Avi Shaham, Daniel Vega, Jose Luis Vicario

Gallery

Installation Views

Which body?

Elli Chrysidou
1967-1973, Greece, Dictatorship
Sport: “For each city a stadium, for each village a gymnasium”.
Sport: a means of imposition, discipline, disorientation, competition, domination, power.
“The body is the grave of the soul”
Plato
Body: convention, lie, deception, means of communication, a cause for fantasy, expression of senses. Eroticism.
Sport: physical energy, daily, stable, disciplined, as necessary as bread. Erotic expression of the body.
“The pleasure of movement, of exercising, of erotic expression of the body now depends on the need for success”.
“A tortuous relationship with regard to the body, with regard to his body, with regard to the body of others, that is, whatever does good, also in consequence does harm...
 
Thessaloniki, 2005
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  • Portfolio
  • Projects
    • Fragmented Memories 2024
    • ΑRT & POLITICS 2024
    • NO TRESPASSING 2024
    • Vanitas 2023-24
    • Power of the Gaze 2023
    • RED OF LOSS 2022
    • PITCHIPOI 2022
    • X Cities 2021 - today
    • FREIRAUM 2020
    • How To (2020-2021)
    • THE BIG EXODUS (2019-2020) UK-FR
    • Η Μνήμη της Επανάστασης 2018
    • RightToTheFuture_StPetersburg_2017
    • BodySoulPlace_China_2017
    • ΚΟΙΝΟI ΙΕΡΟI ΤOΠΟΙ 2017
    • Xanadu - New York 2017
    • Materia Prima -Nice 2017
    • Infinite Complexity - New York - 2016
    • Biennale de l’UMAM - France 2014
    • What have you done... - Thessaloniki - 2012
    • REQUIEM - Thessaloniki/Nice/Paris - 2010
    • TALENTS #4 - Slick Art Fair, Paris, 2008
    • ARTISTERIUM - Georgia - 2010
    • CAPTIVATED - Ukraine - 2008
    • SARAJEVO WINTER - 2006
    • BIDA - Greece / Spain - 2005
    • Visions - Athens/Thessaloniki - 2005
    • ATHENS BY ART - 2004
    • KODRA - Thess - 2004
    • ELEMENTS - Yeni Cami - Thess - 1999
  • Contact