Selected Work - Installations — Constantinos Gallis

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 pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture at MIT, & I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction, & was awarded the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research.

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. I have exhibited my work in Athens GR, Cambridge MA, Stanford CA & San Francisco CA.

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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 spaces, distance & uncertainty.

Shrinking Violet

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Site-Specific Sculptural & Ambient Work

Confluence[w/ E. Petersen, K. Han, A. Adriano, L. Laugharn]
San Francisco, CA
Confluence was a week-long ambient light installation atop the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, the tallest building in the Bay Area. The project was a response to the way in which daily urban life separates us from nature; how we perceive a distance between ourselves & the water, land, & living beings which sustain us.

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Murmuration of LightStanford, CA
Attempting to capture the visual disarray of exposed cables, graffiti & layered posters, as well as the sonic discomposure of cars, electrical buzzes & loud conversations, I created Urban Distortion, a series of drawings fundamentally anchored in the density of lines.

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Memory Pavilion[w/ E. Petersen, K. Han]
Stanford, CA
The Memory Pavilion was selected from a pool of nearly 100 projects to be featured in the 2023 Frost Arts & Music Festival, where the theme of the year was Sacred Spaces. When considering this exhibition’s theme, Ethan, Katie & I quickly realized that themes of ritual & memory resonated between our shared notions of sanctity.

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The Ephemeral[w/ Twenty Collaborators]
Stanford, CA
This project was created alongside twenty-one students, & it inhabited the grove outside the Anderson Collection. Straddling the disciplines of architecture & structural engineering, we created a membrane ‘tensegrity’ system to form the modules.

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