25.12.08
Polyxene Kasda
Her main work is Myth/Network {1990-2009}, initiated in the Meeting of the Worlds in Joensu, Finland’90, an innovative project characterized by research, experimentation and world interactive installations:
- The Chrysalis world installation {1990-1994} in 27 countries, with simultaneous cultural events, like the parallel happening in the State University of Cleveland, Ohio, USA and the Municipality of Athens, in 1991.
- The Maps of the Hidden Treasure (1994-1996) linking Greek mythological sites with contemporary consciousness, under the auspices of the European Network of Poetry {Belgium} and the Municipal Radio of Athens.
- Fugue (1996-1998) which consists of variations of a monumental Fibonacci structure in 5 places of the world: the Castro di Piovera in Italy, the University of Lucian Blaga in Sibiu Romania, the Lykaion Mountain in Arcadia, the Aegean Foundation in the island of Paros, Greece…
At the closure of her 18 years long project is her PXK ROUTE world installation {2004-2008} dedicated to the Olympic principle of regeneration, which links her Olympic Chrysalis monument 2004 in Athens, with many countries of the world like Italy {Βiennale di Poesia I Alessandria 05}, Cyprus
{ N. Leucosia 05}, China {2nd Biennale of Beijing 05}, Syria { FMC 06}, Uzbekistan {4rth Biennale of Tashkent 07}, France {Nuit Blanche, Anvers-aux-Abesses, Paris 07} to close in the Olympic Fine Arts 2008 in Beijing
In 2008 she started her project Doodling in the World in the 3rd Biennale of Beijing and several European countries like Belgium {Stedelijke Akademie, Harelbeke} and Italy { Biennale di poesia di Alessandria, Genoa Arie Del Tempo and Sardinia Arte Fiera}.
Her telecommunications team project { Artooth } for the European Capitals of Europe 2007 was selected by the French association Arscenic to be realized in Greece, Luxemburg and Romania simultaneously.
She is a poet and an author of interdisciplinary articles and essays. She wrote documentaries for Greek national TV, worked for the Greek national radio and has participated in several conferences all over the world. The latest were the conference of the Third Biennale of Beijing 9/6/08 and the 14th Biennale of Poetry of Alexandria, Italy 17/10/08.
Her last poetic essay was PAI written in French, translated by Eugene Van Itterbeek in Flemish and Mirca Ivanescu in Romanian, published in all three languages by Seven Sleepers, coed University Press Lucian Blaga ’97. PAI has participated in the Frankfurt International Book fair ’97 and was published in Greek, in 2004, by Tyflomyga ed.
She is member of IAA UNESCO and curator of international events of the artistic association Artooth in Athens.