b. Athens, Greece, 1993 - based in Los Angeles, California.
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou is an interdisciplinary artist working across moving image, installation, performance, and sculpture. Their practice constructs speculative worlds that move between reality and fiction, centering queer, femme, and non-human voices that exist at the edges of dominant social, technological, and economic systems. Through staged situations, embodied performance, and cinematic environments, they explore how softness, intimacy, and collectivity can operate as forms of resistance.
Rather than following linear narratives or fixed meanings, Tsagkaropoulou’s work unfolds through ambiguity, and sensory experience to explore queer time and space. They are interested in how bodies relate, rehearse roles, and form temporary alliances, allowing vulnerability, desire, and failure to remain present. Technology appears in their work not as progress or spectacle, but as atmosphere and condition, entangled with labor, care, and affect.
Their projects take the form of multi-channel video installations, performative environments, and participatory sculptural structures that invite viewers to inhabit shared spaces over time. They often work with embodied technologies as part of these environments, treating them as collaborators, costumes, or infrastructures that shape attention, intimacy, and presence. Cinema is approached as something spatial and collective, expanding beyond the screen into situations where meaning is felt rather than explained.
Tsagkaropoulou’s practice is method-led rather than medium-led. Each project functions as a chapter within a larger world, and the world remains consistent even as the form shifts. They work through staging, rehearsal, repetition, and collaboration, building environments where alternative forms of intimacy, care, and coexistence can emerge.
Antigoni is a PhD candidate in Media Arts & Practice at USC School of Cinematic Arts. They hold an Integrated Master in Visual Arts and Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Arts in Greece and an MFA in Media Arts from UCLA's School of the Arts and Architecture, supported by numerous scholarships, including those from the Fulbright Foundation, the Onassis Foundation, and the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Their work has been supported and exhibited by institutions such as Bristol’s Center for Contemporary Arts (Arnolfini), Honor Fraser Gallery, REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), PST Art, Gray Area, Hebbel Am Ufer (HAU), Wrightwood 659, NRW_Forum, National Opera of Greece, NRW-Forum Dusseldorf, and the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale, among others.
email: antigonibunny@gmail.com tsagkaro@usc.edu
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