For Vassiliea Stylianidou artistic creation is a continuous process of confrontation
with public and private history, that is, public and private spaces. Stylianidou
works as a video and installation artist, also using related artistic media such as text
and sound in her works. Stylianidou addresses further themes in her work such
as family, power and language. In doing so, she creates a richly associative model
for utopian historical revision that challenges us to re-cycle and re-construct ones
own present within ones personal history.
„IM PARK_I Lie to History_Let´s build your beautiful tower, you charming boy!“
(2008-09) is the performance of a play in front of a video camera. The play takes
place in a park behind the high rise of the Allianz buildings in Berlin. It is a performance
collage between two persons and a choir. A threefold dynamic evolves:
between the speaker, the higher authority and the public. The speaker (the artist)
recites a text accompanied by cut-outs from current newspapers, political speeches.
A tower is erected from screws and chewed chewing gum. This screw-chewinggum-
tower presumes the role of a totem-pole, around which the rituals of the play
are performed.