Kon Markogiannis is an experimental photographer, collage artist, existential poet, philosophical essayist, independent researcher and spiritual seeker with an interest in gnostic themes such as death, mortality, the human condition, the exploration of the psyche and the evolution of consciousness.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
(Im)mortality
These photographs are part of the "(Im)mortality" series which
mainly deals with the “memento mori” theme. Photographs are typically used as a way of reliving the past and
remembering the deceased. In a certain sense the photographic medium can be seen as a “weapon”
against the ephemeral and the ever-constant flow of time. The act of taking a photograph may
be immediate/instant (like pointing and shooting a gun) but its results are
timeless. One could say
that by photographically recording “reality” one acquires the ability to slow
down time and “immortalize” a transient moment. In L’Acte Photographique
Phillipe Dubois suggests that the act of taking a photograph is “an
instantaneous abduction of the object out of the world into another world, into
another kind of time”.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The "Human Condition" series
Human Condition:
This series of photographic self-portraits is about existential anguish
and alienation, and also an attempt to emphasize the human factor in a
deadening commodified society. The nude body functions as a metaphor for truth and
honesty; being naked (in a metaphoric sense) means that you are not hiding
anything, that you are not pretending. The images hint that by facing
isolation, darkness and negativity one can ultimately find light, spirituality,
a purpose in life. As Soren Kierkegaard once said:
In order to swim one takes
off all one's clothes-in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far
more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts,
conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked. [1]
This work can be seen as a reaction against the anti-values, nihilism,
easy consumption and immorality that commodity culture has imposed on us. It is
also a reaction against postmodern art/ theory
and a way of restoring the importance of subjectivity and personal expression
-which were undermined by movements such as poststructuralist postmodernism and
theorists such as Roland Barthes who declared the “death of the author” [2]. This work should not be seen only as an aesthetic object and
cultural artifice, but also as an expression of its author. Konmark believes
that in this highly competitive and alienating society we live in there is a
need to focus on the Individual, and therefore creates art which is of a highly
personal nature-ultimately becoming transpersonal.
[1] Moire, E. C. (ed.) (2002) Provocations :
Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard. Available at www.plough.com/ebooks/pdfs/Provocations.pdf
[2] Barthes,
R. (1977) ‘The Death of the Author’ in Stephen Heath (trans. &ed.) Image-Music-Text. Fontana.
View the project at: http://konmark.com/gallery_47208.html
Monday, October 15, 2012
UEL Prof Doc Fine Art Viva Exhibition
Friday, October 5, 2012
Sunday, September 30, 2012
INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
A
COLLECTION OF INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ON TOPICS SUCH AS INDIVIDUALITY, SUFFERING,
THE MEANING OF LIFE, THE NATURE OF MAN, MORTALITY, SPIRITUALITY, THE AFTERLIFE.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
All Deaths (a sound experiment-tribute to Hermann Hesse)
All Deaths
I have already died all deaths,
And I am going to die all deaths again,
Die the death of the wood in the tree,
Die the stone death in the mountain,
Earth death in the sand,
Leaf death in the crackling summer grass
And the poor bloody human death.
I will be born again, flowers,
Tree and grass I will be born again,
Fish and deer, bird and butterfly,
And out of every form,
Longing will drag me up the stairways
To the last suffering,
Up to the suffering of men.
O quivered tensed bow,
When the raging fist of longing
Commands both poles of life
To bend to each other!
Yet often, and many times over,
You will hunt me down from death to birth
On the painful track of the creations,
The glorious track of the creations.
And I am going to die all deaths again,
Die the death of the wood in the tree,
Die the stone death in the mountain,
Earth death in the sand,
Leaf death in the crackling summer grass
And the poor bloody human death.
I will be born again, flowers,
Tree and grass I will be born again,
Fish and deer, bird and butterfly,
And out of every form,
Longing will drag me up the stairways
To the last suffering,
Up to the suffering of men.
O quivered tensed bow,
When the raging fist of longing
Commands both poles of life
To bend to each other!
Yet often, and many times over,
You will hunt me down from death to birth
On the painful track of the creations,
The glorious track of the creations.
(Hermann Hesse)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Konmark
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