ABOUT.
STATEMENT
I am
Creating with Transdisciplinary Practices,
Narrating through Material Structures,
Reducing hierarchy,
Activating perception.
BIO
Ioannis Panagiotou is a Greek UK-based artist, composer and researcher. He is the creator of transdisciplinary performances, installations, concert music and music for media (theatre, dance, animation, film, performance art).
Works of him have been commissioned by The New What Now, Dialogues Festival, PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, Greek National Opera, Audio Visual Arts Festival, Corfu's Museum of Asian Art, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, RCS Bridge Week, St Andrews University and the Days of Electroacoustic Music. He has also collaborated with contemporary ensembles such as Red Note, Decoda, Edinburgh Quartet, Plus-Minus Ensemble, Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra, Peter Nelson's Contemporary Ensemble, St Andrews New Music Ensemble, Rush Hour Ensemble and Portativ Ensemble.
Ioannis is a PhD candidate in Transdisciplinary Arts at the University of Edinburgh. He works as a Teaching Assistant in Sculpture at the Edinburgh College of Art. He is also a member of HELMCA (National Federation member of the CIME) and has worked as a researcher in Hybrid Arts at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus and tutor in Composition and The Performing Arts at the Ionian University.
He has received funding from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's Bridge Week and the Equality and Diversity Fund and the Postgraduate Research Fund from the University of Edinburgh.
Ioannis has received an MA in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and an IMA Degree from the Ionian University, where he studied Art and Composition for Film, Theatre and the Performing Arts. He has studied Composition with Martin Parker, Simon Steen-Andersen, Juliana Hodkinson, Gareth Williams, David Fennessy, Oliver Searle, Dimitra Trypani, Vassilis Kitsos and Dimitris Maragopoulos, Sonic Arts and Interactive Composition with Alistair McDonald, Film Music with Yati Durant, Art with Kevin Dagg, Bill Psarras and Nikos Kokkalis and Byzantine Musicology with Dimitrios Giannelos.
Finally, he has participated in seminars with Marcus Stockhausen, Niels Rønsholdt, John McLeod, André Bellmont, Stelarc, Roy Ascott, Brian Eno, Keneth Hesketh, Judith Weir, Thomas Simaku, Ed Bennet and Stephen Goss among others.
Action
Body
Creation
Dislocation
Experience
Form
Geography
Hybrid
Immersion
Journey
Keeping
Layering
Materialism
Narration
Object
Perception
Question
Relation
Self-referentialism
Transdisciplinary
Vibration
Urban
Weird
Xenophilia
Yet
Zip