Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos, & I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently a dual degree student at MIT, pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction. I am curious about the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society, I have explored my interests through academic research, teaching, large scale installations, performances, audio-visual investigations, & practical work experience at firms in Athens. GR, New York, NY & London, GB.

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I am one half of Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating sets of future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.

Oo-PS

I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that modulates between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about memory, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet


Acropolitics
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR
Anthology of Damage & Reinvention Acropolitics reframes the Acropolis as a political instrument with the capacity to produce new meaning through moments of damage, intervention & reinterpretation.

Structured as a detailed anthology & glossary, the seventy-page book traces a counterhistory of the monument through five operative conditions [ruination, fragmentation, deselection, appropriation, & interpretation], each demonstrating how acts can be both destructive & generative, shaping how the Acropolis is governed, represented & mobilized. By viewing destruction & restoration as parallel political operations, the project undermines the idea of a singular, stable Classical ideal, & presents the Acropolis as an active site of symbolic & cultural negotiation.

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