Konstantinos Menelaou

KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU
FILM / ART DIRECTION

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.....CURATION / PRODUCTION

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..........FRINGE FILM FESTIVAL

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APRIL 2012

FASHION SHORTS

Town Hall Hotel, 8 Patriot Square, London E2 9NF
15th April 2012

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

Town Hall Hotel hosts FASHION SHORTS, a selection of short films exploring the intrinsic relationship between fashion and queer aesthetics and displaying vibrant elements of design, style and sexuality.

Participating artists: Nicola Formichetti and Branislav Jankic, Zaiba Jabbar, Philip Riches, Romain Brau, Bell Soto, Elvis Di Fazio, Vincent Gagliostro, Romy Tielman, Konstantinos Menelaou, Maya Nightingale, Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont, Alexandros Pissourios, Romy Tielman, Socrates Mitsios & Actually Huizenga.
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APRIL 2012

SUPER 8 CAM

Dalston Superstore Basement, 117 Kingsland Road, London
13 - 15 April 2012

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

A series of six intimate portraits by local artists Antonio da Silva, Keem, Konstantinos Menelaou, Marie Schuller, Jason Bradbury and Mei Chan shot in Super 8. Artists were given a brief to create a personal moment between themselves and the subject of their affection/obsession. The video pieces document the relationship between artist and subject as well as exploring the gaze of the viewer taking the viewpoint of the artist. A film camera has the ability to grant power to the filmographer and by proxy the viewer, and put the subject in a vulnerable position. However when the role play is on equal terms then the game becomes an intense erotic experience. Each portrait was shot to give the process of filming the same importance as the subject being filmed and thus expose the filmmaker as much as the subject. The result are six video pieces that are exhibited without any editing, no post production alterations and no sound.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Keem was established as an exploration into the nature of collaboration. Through methodology, ongoing discussion and debate, Keem produces photographic and video work which continuously questions subjectivity, materiality and identity.

Marie Schuller is a London based filmmaker. Her work has been screened internationally and nominated at numerous film festivals including La Jolla, NYC fashion film festival and ASVOFF, where she received the prize of ‘Best Director of Fashion’ in 2012. Since 2010 she works for SHOWstudio as editor of Nick Knight’s fashion films and continues to contribute to SHOWstudio’s film series as a filmmaker.

Mei is a London-based creative who by day is chained to a niche sector of the construction industry. And in the remaining crevasses of time, dabbles in photography.

Konstantinos Menelaou’s roles as a film-maker and art director are interconnected and they are defined by his practice as a writer, director, editor, curator and producer. Recent screenings have taken place at Cannes Film Festival, PICA, Miami Art Basel, Centre Pompidou, Barbican Art Gallery and the BFI. Recent curatorial projects have taken place at Centre Pompidou, Miami Art Basel and The White Cubicle.

Jason Bradbury has been working as a director for the past three years. Since graduating BA(Hons) Film Production in 2009 he has worked on collaborations in a variety of mediums, mainly film and video which has included collaborating with innovate fashion designers and music artists. He also works in narrative fiction, directing the short ‘We Once Were Tide’ in 2011 and is now developing a feature with writer Matthew Kyne Baskott.

Antonio da Silva is a Portuguese artist filmmaker based in London who used his dance and performance background to create erotic art films. He is most interested in visual storytelling, journeys of perception, encounters with people and places.
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APRIL 2012

THE AFTER LOUIE INSTALLATION PROJECT
by VINCENT WILLIAM GAGLIOSTRO

White Cubicle Gallery, George & Dragon, 2-4 Hackney Road, London E2 7NS
12- 26 April 2012

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

THE AFTER LOUIE INSTALLATION PROJECT responds to Gagliostro’s personal as well as a communal romantic longing for a pre-AIDS/ Guiliani/Sex in the City New York in all its social, artistic and sexual glory. Presented as a timeline and arranged on a ledge of weathered old wood all images are presented as artifacts, markers of time, of loss and of looking for perhaps a better future. Inspired by the short memoir of Gagliostro’s friend William Wilson who died as a result of HIV/AIDS in 1999, the installation serves as a vantage point from which to view the pre-AIDS New York gay life and gay life today. The video work companion piece will be shown in the Vincent Gagliostro programme at Town Hall Hotel on Sunday 15th April as part of Fringe!

VINCENT WILLIAM GAGLIOSTRO
Vincent Williiam Gagliostro joined the New York art world in 1972. . In 1987 he became a founding member of ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a group which would successfully position the burgeoning AIDS health crisis as a political crisis as well. . In the early 90’s Gagliostro created with three friends a quarterly journal titled, xxxFRUIT and he became the creative director of QW, a New York weekly Gay news magazine. Most recently his focus has been on multi-disciplinary installations with an emphasis on film/video. His work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the Wellcome Trust.

THE WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY
The White Cubicle Toilet Gallery measures 1.40 by 1.40 metres, is located within the Ladies Toilet of The George and Dragon Public House, and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. White Cubicle presents a discerning program of local and international manifestations as an antidote to London’s sometimes extremely commodified art scene. Past exhibitions have included: Butt Magazine, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, General Idea and avaf, Basso Magazin, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin), Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/ Hate Magazine, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset and many more.
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NOVEMBER 2011

F/A1

The Wrong Weather Gallery, Avenida da Boavista, 754, Porto,
November 20th - December 3rd 2011

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

The Wrong Weather Gallery is pleased to announce F/A1, a video art exhibition that marks a new approach toward the genre of fashion film, illuminating fashion in the moving image through provocative concepts and fresh styles of presentation.

Based on the creative credentials of the participating artists, F/A1 presents a selection of new work that introduces a new way of making, expressing and perceiving moving images that deal with the subject of fashion.

Participating artists JOE LALLY, KATHRYN FERGUSON, MADALEINE TRIGG, MAYA NIGHTINGALE, PHILLIP NEIL MARTIN, ANTONIO DA SILVA, SOCRATES MITSIOS & ACTUALLY HUIZENGA, STAVRO CHRISTO VLACHAKIS, TARRYN GILL & PILAR MATA DUPONT

About The Wrong Weather Gallery
Because fashion is an art form, and because the discourse and options of the most creative designers foreshadow the most daring ideas of our time, Wrong Weather opened a space devoted to the Visual Arts, showcasing artists whose language speaks to the world of fashion. Previews Artists showing at the Gallery: Bruce LaBruce, Mustafa Sabbagh and Katrina del Mar.
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OCTOBER 2011

ASVOFF ART

SERGIO CRUZ, KATHRYN FERGUSON, SOCRATES MITSIOS & ACTUALLY HUIZENGA,
ALEX NOBLE, CHARLIE LE MINDU AND SIMON PREEN

Centre Pompidou, Paris
7-9 October 2011

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM FESTIVAL (ASVOFF) is pleased to announce “ASVOFF ART”, a video art exhibition that introduces a creative collaboration between experimental video artists and innovative fashion designers. As a key catalyst for the evolution of the fashion film genre, each edition of ASVOFF celebrates experimentation and rewards new and daring ideas, hence, the debut of ‘ASVOFF ART’ for the fourth edition of the festival.

ASVOFF ART marks a new approach toward the genre, illuminating fashion in the moving image through provocative concepts and fresh styles of presentation. Based on the creative credentials of the participating artists and fashion designers, ASVOFF ART aims to push the fashion film genre even further and to introduce a new way of making, expressing and perceiving moving images that deal with the subjects of fashion, style and beauty.
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DECEMBER 2010

VOYEUR

Boulan South Beach 220 21st Street, Miami Beach
3rd & 4th December 2010

Curated by Indira Cesarine & Konstantinos Menelaou

The Young Patrons Circle of American Friends of the Louvre (AFL) and the Contemporaries of the Miami Art Museum will be celebrating XXXX Magazine’s forthcoming issue, Voyeur, with an exhibition on the theme of voyeurism featuring contemporary art as well as the magazine’s latest fashion film and video art productions in a two day exhibit launching the evening of December 3, 2010 at Art Basel Miami Beach.

In celebration of the new issue, AFL and XXXX Magazine have commissioned Anne Huntington oF AHM Industries to conceive of an exhibition of contemporary art around the theme of “Voyeur”. Quintessentially Art’s Gary Krimershmoys, will be serving as an curatorial advisor to the exhibition. Video art will be curated by Indira Cesarine, Creative Director of XXXX Magazine, in collaboration with
film-maker/curator Konstantinos Menelaou.The exhibition will take place in the heart of South Beach at Boulan South Beach, a new luxury condominium opening in January 2011.
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FEBRUARY 2010

LONDON FASHION SHORTS

MACHINE-A, 60 Berwick Street, London W1F 8SU
19-24 February 2010

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

MACHINE-A hosts London Fashion Shorts, a group exhibition featuring artists and filmmakers whose work explores the commercial and aesthetic possibilities of art and fashion. London Fashion Shorts brings together video artists creating work for a fashion designer or delivering imagery with a fashion aesthetic.

The program of films blends genres, mixes the commercial with the underground, and shows how moving image can represent and interpret fashion.

London Fashion Shorts will tie in with Fashion Week presentations by Gemma Slack, Gabriella Marina Gonzalez and Asger Juel Larsen accompanied by a video installation by Menelaou & Rueberg.

Contributing Artists:
Alex Turvey, Bogstandard, Creative Nation, Cyril Guyot, Ethesham Haque & Dan Price, Monica Elkelv,
Indira Cesarine, Nigel Hosang, Panagiotis Delilabros, Romy & Maxim Northover, Tom Dean, Reid Van Renesse.
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SEPTEMBER 2009

NEW YORK FASHION SHORTS

Tribeca Grand Hotel, 2 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
September 11th , 2009

Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou

New York Fashion Shorts will be showcasing 14 of the best fashion related short videos and films from across the world. The event will debut on September 11th , 2009 at 11pm during New York Fashion Week. The late night screening is being hosted by the Tribeca Grand Hotel, New York, and an after party is to follow with music by the Misshapes.

Presented by designer Bruno Grizzo, and curated by the artist Konstantinos Menelaou, the screening is dedicated to promoting a medium, which has become an invaluable source of inspiration, originality and vision. The program
represents a few of the many talented artists who are working in video form. It is a natural development of the creative means the internet brings about, and it makes perfect sense to explore it not only for commercial use but also for its immense aesthetic possibilities.

Participating Directors:
ALEX GIOMO, BIJOUX ALTAMIRANO, MONICA ELKELV-DARREN KARL SMITH, JASON LAST, JORDAN MATTOS, KATHRYN FERGUSON, KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU & MARLON RUEBERG, INDIRA CESARINE,
WILLEM JASPERT & STEPHAN LANGMANIS, PANAGIOTIS DELILABROS, MARTYNKA WAWRZYNIAK/NOAH RUBIN, ROMY+MAXIM NORTHOVER, RONNIT HASSON, NIGEL HOSANG.
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	KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU FILM / ART DIRECTION
	............................FILM / VIDEO .....CURATION / PRODUCTION .........................THE CRUISING ..........FRINGE FILM FESTIVAL ............................................BIO ............................................C.V .................................CONTACT ........................................BLOG	APRIL 2012 FASHION SHORTS Town Hall Hotel, 8 Patriot Square, London E2 9NF 15th April 2012 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou Town Hall Hotel hosts FASHION SHORTS, a selection of short films exploring the intrinsic relationship between fashion and queer aesthetics and displaying vibrant elements of design, style and sexuality. Participating artists: Nicola Formichetti and Branislav Jankic, Zaiba Jabbar, Philip Riches, Romain Brau, Bell Soto, Elvis Di Fazio, Vincent Gagliostro, Romy Tielman, Konstantinos Menelaou, Maya Nightingale, Tarryn Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont, Alexandros Pissourios, Romy Tielman, Socrates Mitsios & Actually Huizenga. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		APRIL 2012 SUPER 8 CAM Dalston Superstore Basement, 117 Kingsland Road, London 13 - 15 April 2012 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou A series of six intimate portraits by local artists Antonio da Silva, Keem, Konstantinos Menelaou, Marie Schuller, Jason Bradbury and Mei Chan shot in Super 8. Artists were given a brief to create a personal moment between themselves and the subject of their affection/obsession. The video pieces document the relationship between artist and subject as well as exploring the gaze of the viewer taking the viewpoint of the artist. A film camera has the ability to grant power to the filmographer and by proxy the viewer, and put the subject in a vulnerable position. However when the role play is on equal terms then the game becomes an intense erotic experience. Each portrait was shot to give the process of filming the same importance as the subject being filmed and thus expose the filmmaker as much as the subject. The result are six video pieces that are exhibited without any editing, no post production alterations and no sound. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Keem was established as an exploration into the nature of collaboration. Through methodology, ongoing discussion and debate, Keem produces photographic and video work which continuously questions subjectivity, materiality and identity. Marie Schuller is a London based filmmaker. Her work has been screened internationally and nominated at numerous film festivals including La Jolla, NYC fashion film festival and ASVOFF, where she received the prize of ‘Best Director of Fashion’ in 2012. Since 2010 she works for SHOWstudio as editor of Nick Knight’s fashion films and continues to contribute to SHOWstudio’s film series as a filmmaker. Mei is a London-based creative who by day is chained to a niche sector of the construction industry. And in the remaining crevasses of time, dabbles in photography. Konstantinos Menelaou’s roles as a film-maker and art director are interconnected and they are defined by his practice as a writer, director, editor, curator and producer. Recent screenings have taken place at Cannes Film Festival, PICA, Miami Art Basel, Centre Pompidou, Barbican Art Gallery and the BFI. Recent curatorial projects have taken place at Centre Pompidou, Miami Art Basel and The White Cubicle. Jason Bradbury has been working as a director for the past three years. Since graduating BA(Hons) Film Production in 2009 he has worked on collaborations in a variety of mediums, mainly film and video which has included collaborating with innovate fashion designers and music artists. He also works in narrative fiction, directing the short ‘We Once Were Tide’ in 2011 and is now developing a feature with writer Matthew Kyne Baskott. Antonio da Silva is a Portuguese artist filmmaker based in London who used his dance and performance background to create erotic art films. He is most interested in visual storytelling, journeys of perception, encounters with people and places. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		APRIL 2012 THE AFTER LOUIE INSTALLATION PROJECT by VINCENT WILLIAM GAGLIOSTRO White Cubicle Gallery, George & Dragon, 2-4 Hackney Road, London E2 7NS 12- 26 April 2012 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou THE AFTER LOUIE INSTALLATION PROJECT responds to Gagliostro’s personal as well as a communal romantic longing for a pre-AIDS/ Guiliani/Sex in the City New York in all its social, artistic and sexual glory. Presented as a timeline and arranged on a ledge of weathered old wood all images are presented as artifacts, markers of time, of loss and of looking for perhaps a better future. Inspired by the short memoir of Gagliostro’s friend William Wilson who died as a result of HIV/AIDS in 1999, the installation serves as a vantage point from which to view the pre-AIDS New York gay life and gay life today. The video work companion piece will be shown in the Vincent Gagliostro programme at Town Hall Hotel on Sunday 15th April as part of Fringe! VINCENT WILLIAM GAGLIOSTRO Vincent Williiam Gagliostro joined the New York art world in 1972. . In 1987 he became a founding member of ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a group which would successfully position the burgeoning AIDS health crisis as a political crisis as well. . In the early 90’s Gagliostro created with three friends a quarterly journal titled, xxxFRUIT and he became the creative director of QW, a New York weekly Gay news magazine. Most recently his focus has been on multi-disciplinary installations with an emphasis on film/video. His work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the Wellcome Trust. THE WHITE CUBICLE TOILET GALLERY The White Cubicle Toilet Gallery measures 1.40 by 1.40 metres, is located within the Ladies Toilet of The George and Dragon Public House, and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. White Cubicle presents a discerning program of local and international manifestations as an antidote to London’s sometimes extremely commodified art scene. Past exhibitions have included: Butt Magazine, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, General Idea and avaf, Basso Magazin, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin), Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/ Hate Magazine, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset and many more. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		NOVEMBER 2011 F/A1 The Wrong Weather Gallery, Avenida da Boavista, 754, Porto, November 20th - December 3rd 2011 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou The Wrong Weather Gallery is pleased to announce F/A1, a video art exhibition that marks a new approach toward the genre of fashion film, illuminating fashion in the moving image through provocative concepts and fresh styles of presentation. Based on the creative credentials of the participating artists, F/A1 presents a selection of new work that introduces a new way of making, expressing and perceiving moving images that deal with the subject of fashion. Participating artists JOE LALLY, KATHRYN FERGUSON, MADALEINE TRIGG, MAYA NIGHTINGALE, PHILLIP NEIL MARTIN, ANTONIO DA SILVA, SOCRATES MITSIOS & ACTUALLY HUIZENGA, STAVRO CHRISTO VLACHAKIS, TARRYN GILL & PILAR MATA DUPONT About The Wrong Weather Gallery Because fashion is an art form, and because the discourse and options of the most creative designers foreshadow the most daring ideas of our time, Wrong Weather opened a space devoted to the Visual Arts, showcasing artists whose language speaks to the world of fashion. Previews Artists showing at the Gallery: Bruce LaBruce, Mustafa Sabbagh and Katrina del Mar. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		OCTOBER 2011 ASVOFF ART SERGIO CRUZ, KATHRYN FERGUSON, SOCRATES MITSIOS & ACTUALLY HUIZENGA, ALEX NOBLE, CHARLIE LE MINDU AND SIMON PREEN Centre Pompidou, Paris 7-9 October 2011 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM FESTIVAL (ASVOFF) is pleased to announce “ASVOFF ART”, a video art exhibition that introduces a creative collaboration between experimental video artists and innovative fashion designers. As a key catalyst for the evolution of the fashion film genre, each edition of ASVOFF celebrates experimentation and rewards new and daring ideas, hence, the debut of ‘ASVOFF ART’ for the fourth edition of the festival. ASVOFF ART marks a new approach toward the genre, illuminating fashion in the moving image through provocative concepts and fresh styles of presentation. Based on the creative credentials of the participating artists and fashion designers, ASVOFF ART aims to push the fashion film genre even further and to introduce a new way of making, expressing and perceiving moving images that deal with the subjects of fashion, style and beauty. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		DECEMBER 2010 VOYEUR Boulan South Beach 220 21st Street, Miami Beach 3rd & 4th December 2010 Curated by Indira Cesarine & Konstantinos Menelaou The Young Patrons Circle of American Friends of the Louvre (AFL) and the Contemporaries of the Miami Art Museum will be celebrating XXXX Magazine’s forthcoming issue, Voyeur, with an exhibition on the theme of voyeurism featuring contemporary art as well as the magazine’s latest fashion film and video art productions in a two day exhibit launching the evening of December 3, 2010 at Art Basel Miami Beach. In celebration of the new issue, AFL and XXXX Magazine have commissioned Anne Huntington oF AHM Industries to conceive of an exhibition of contemporary art around the theme of “Voyeur”. Quintessentially Art’s Gary Krimershmoys, will be serving as an curatorial advisor to the exhibition. Video art will be curated by Indira Cesarine, Creative Director of XXXX Magazine, in collaboration with film-maker/curator Konstantinos Menelaou.The exhibition will take place in the heart of South Beach at Boulan South Beach, a new luxury condominium opening in January 2011. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		FEBRUARY 2010 LONDON FASHION SHORTS MACHINE-A, 60 Berwick Street, London W1F 8SU 19-24 February 2010 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou MACHINE-A hosts London Fashion Shorts, a group exhibition featuring artists and filmmakers whose work explores the commercial and aesthetic possibilities of art and fashion. London Fashion Shorts brings together video artists creating work for a fashion designer or delivering imagery with a fashion aesthetic. The program of films blends genres, mixes the commercial with the underground, and shows how moving image can represent and interpret fashion. London Fashion Shorts will tie in with Fashion Week presentations by Gemma Slack, Gabriella Marina Gonzalez and Asger Juel Larsen accompanied by a video installation by Menelaou & Rueberg. Contributing Artists: Alex Turvey, Bogstandard, Creative Nation, Cyril Guyot, Ethesham Haque & Dan Price, Monica Elkelv, Indira Cesarine, Nigel Hosang, Panagiotis Delilabros, Romy & Maxim Northover, Tom Dean, Reid Van Renesse. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................
		SEPTEMBER 2009 NEW YORK FASHION SHORTS Tribeca Grand Hotel, 2 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY September 11th , 2009 Curated by Konstantinos Menelaou New York Fashion Shorts will be showcasing 14 of the best fashion related short videos and films from across the world. The event will debut on September 11th , 2009 at 11pm during New York Fashion Week. The late night screening is being hosted by the Tribeca Grand Hotel, New York, and an after party is to follow with music by the Misshapes. Presented by designer Bruno Grizzo, and curated by the artist Konstantinos Menelaou, the screening is dedicated to promoting a medium, which has become an invaluable source of inspiration, originality and vision. The program represents a few of the many talented artists who are working in video form. It is a natural development of the creative means the internet brings about, and it makes perfect sense to explore it not only for commercial use but also for its immense aesthetic possibilities. Participating Directors: ALEX GIOMO, BIJOUX ALTAMIRANO, MONICA ELKELV-DARREN KARL SMITH, JASON LAST, JORDAN MATTOS, KATHRYN FERGUSON, KONSTANTINOS MENELAOU & MARLON RUEBERG, INDIRA CESARINE, WILLEM JASPERT & STEPHAN LANGMANIS, PANAGIOTIS DELILABROS, MARTYNKA WAWRZYNIAK/NOAH RUBIN, ROMY+MAXIM NORTHOVER, RONNIT HASSON, NIGEL HOSANG. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................