athanasios aA Thanatos

ATHANASIOS CONTRA MUNDUM
aA ˙Post Mortem Art˙ Ω

Athanasios Anagnostopoulos (1989) aka Rev Thanatos is minister of the Church of Psychoanalysis, artist and writer. His work with film, performance and writing focuses on religious and secular belief, radical ideology and fanaticism, anxiety and love of the Other. He is the spiritual force behind the psychoanalytic persona Thanatos and has participated in and co-curated critical art projects such as Documena at the 6th Athens Biennial 2017 and the varieté performance art nights Glam Slam! Athens. He is founding editor of the publication MAGMA – Art, Politics, Poetics.

Who is Thanatos?

He is death, crucifixion, a fetishistic compensation for a de facto absence: True Love is incompatible with art; the more the art the less the love.

Talk about Thanatos.

Thanatos is a matter of Faith.

Are aAs organised around a loss? And is this paranoia or perverse respect?

aAs are leftovers, dialogic remainders.