Andrea Kantos (Palermo 1977). Visual and Transmedial Artist, Founder KaOZ, Co-founder of Dimora OZ and Border Crossing, Artistic Director Spazio Flaccovio. He is interested in the Alter as a first process in which the individual and his destiny in a dense network of plots and frame, connections whose drifts and the principles are absolutely metaphysical. "What we used to call" reality "it is a montage and one wonders if, one in which we live, is the only possible. Starting from the same material, you can create different realities "Postproduction Nicolas Bourriaud. This phrase an idea of condensation and transdisciplinary research and transpersonal process, articulated in projects, collaborations, contexts and very upsetting and different contributions. Cultural research (artistic, philosophical, social) is inherent heterogeneous medium, but with a signature style that often shows up in the text, in prose, in the game (Sprezzatura, Mot d'Esprit, Wit) and literary references.
Exhibitions
2013-14: Erra Et Elabora Tesi/Macerie N.1 (Medusa/Mater, Chiesa del Giglio, Palermo) - N.2 (San Sebastiano/Turkish Apocrypha, Palazzo Costantino di Napoli, Palermo)
2015-16: Locus Amoenus (Montalbano, Trasformatorio). CRISIS: one Body and CRISIS Post-production (UNICORN, Farm Cultural Park, Favara) ReMoto a Luogo, (ORIGINI, Museo Riso, Palermo), MaGriffe (Collezione Fondazione Bartoli - Felter, Sardegna), Pasta Reale (Farm Digital 015, Favara) A no(u)s A (Palermo), Dei Dispendium / Compendium (BIAS Palermo/Venice)
2017-18: This is not a Stand, Understand, support it! (HOTSPOT, Palermo and MCW Magic, Serbia and Imago Mundi/Benetton ZAC) e Gang Bang City (Biennale di Venezia di Architettura), Thauma (BIAS, Museo Riso, Palermo). KaOZ, Color Crossing and Collateral Damage (Manifesta 12 Collateral Event and 5x5x5), Piazza Connection (KaOZ)
2019-20: No Textitle On (ArtForms and Symballein, Museo del Tessile di Prato), Moros/Pathless (Relational Figures, Myymälä2 Gallery) Tokonoma (Border Crossing/Geografico), Infinity Identity (Dimora OZ/Collettivo OZ/BAM), ARKAD (Manifesta 13 e Italian Council)
Curator, Project Manager, Coordinator
2015-16: Origini (Museo Riso, Palermo) Unicorn (Farm Cultural Park, Favara), In Hoc Signo (Palazzo Costantino di Napoli, Palermo)
2017-18: hotspot (Dimora OZ, Palermo), KaOZ, Border Crossing, Art & Connectografy, Liminaria (Manifesta 12, Collateral Event, Palermo), Color Crossing (Manifesta 12, Collateral Event, Palermo)
2019-20 Border Crossing/Geografico (Teatro Garibaldi/KaOZ/Dimora OZ, Palermo), Gravitas (Teatro Garibaldi, Palermo), ARKAD (Manifesta 13 e Italian Council)
Conferences, Talks, Studies and Publications
2015-16: Bridge Art, Talk (Maxxi) Farm Digital 015 Lectures (Farm Cultural Park, Dimora OZ, Antimanifesto (Exploit, Giorgio De Finis)
2017-18: TEXT-EXIT Mobilità, passaggi, compilazione e opposizioni (Nous Sommes Ici/We Are Here), Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art, Modesta di Paola
2019-20: Gravitas Talk(Transeuropa Festival/BAM), Piazza Connection (Edizioni OZ), ARKAD (Manifesta 13 e Italian Council)
