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.
Friday, November 9, 2018
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Dark Ink Magazine Issue 3 (Fall 2018)
Monday, October 15, 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
Friday, September 21, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Friday, August 31, 2018
Saturday, August 25, 2018
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Angry Old Man (Issue #4)
Three
visual poems published in Angry Old Man, a magazine of experimental art and
poetry.
Friday, July 6, 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Abject Flesh
"Significance is inherent in the human body."
-Julia Kristeva
Abject Flesh is a series of collages created by using various ephemera (such as scrap papers and torn book covers) and photographs found in old erotic magazines and discarded medical manuals. The work deals with the damaged body and subsequently negotiates issues such as fragility, impermanence, disease and death.
The collages could be described as a form of "abject art", a term first introduced in the 1990s by French psychoanalyst and literary theorist Julia Kristeva. In her influential book Powers of Horror: An Essay in Abjection Kristeva talked about the idea of abjection as the basis of a differentiation between the self and non-self (the Other). For Kristeva the abject has an element of ambiguity: it is that which both revolts and attracts; she compares the aesthetic experience of the abject to a cathartic experience, “an impure process that protects from the abject only by dint of being immersed in it”.
Abject Flesh penetrates the most urgent taboos concerning the body and how we perceive it. The shocking and disturbing images force us to confront our innermost fears and agonies and attempt to illuminate those regions of our subconscious mind we would rather leave concealed. Ultimately the work challenges our preconceptions and ethical standards and provokes us to reexamine our established views on mor(t)ality.
View the series at:
http://konmark.com/gallery_738874.html
Thursday, June 28, 2018
3:AM Magazine
Four “Poems
Brut” published in 3:AM Magazine, an online journal of radical literature and
philosophy.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/poembrut38/
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Friday, June 8, 2018
Empty Mirror
Divine
Decay featured in Empty Mirror, a
magazine focusing on books, modern art film, music, writing, and the Beat
Generation.
Friday, June 1, 2018
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Monday, April 2, 2018
Angelic Flights
A
publication entitled “Angelic Flights” is currently in pre-production featuring
artwork by Kon Markogiannis, haiku poems in English and Irish by Gabriel
Rosenstock, Greek translations by Sarah Thilykou and Japanese translations by Maki
Starfield.
“…the exquisite fusion of image and word
renders a deeply satisfying aesthetic experience, whereby we are transmuted by
its profundity, exquisiteness and light. Indeed, accomplished artists in their
own right, photographer and poet have melded their talents to produce a
visceral and ethereal monograph on the flights of angels and in turn have
lifted up our souls to the very gods...”
-Paula
Marvelly (Author & Editor, The Culturium)
“…these
glimpses caught in words or images are each so weightless and so shifting that
you could think they have no substance… that is, until the moment when like
curling smoke and light they touch each other in the darkness, and a bright
perception takes form, looks back at us, comes alive…”
-Philip Gross (Author
& Professor of Creative Writing)
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
The Woven Tale Press
Feature in
The Woven Tale Press (literary and fine arts magazine)
http://www.thewoventalepress.net/2018/02/14/site-review-konmark/
Monday, January 15, 2018
Provoke
"For me cities are enormous bodies of
people's desires."
-Daido Moriyama
Provoke is a photographic interpretation of the fragmentary nature of modern reality and a commentary on our obsession
with the body, sex and materiality in general.
I chose to use high
contrast, gritty and out of focus black and white photographs in order to convey the chaos
of everyday existence and create an imaginal domain which
gravitates between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real.
The combination of photographs with other images
(such as illustrations of butterflies, snakes and bones) was an attempt to create visual
allegories and explore archetypal themes such as sin, redemption, death and
rebirth.
The work ultimately serves as a metaphor for dark emotions
and psychological states (isolation, fear, inner turmoil, subconscious desire etc). My harsh, crude depictions of the human body
and the urban environment occupy an uncertain and
uncomfortable territory that lingers between sensual pleasure and mental
nightmare.
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