Dr. Nik Pantazopoulos
Details
Department: School of Art
Campus: City Campus Australia
nikos.pantazopoulos@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Nik Pantazopoulos is an artist, researcher and educator based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Pantazopoulos is an academic with a studio based practice that explores the body and his history through a psychoanalytic lens. He develops his practice led research through a Freudian and Lacanian lens. His research is further informed by a critical theory, art history and contemporary art influenced by Ancient Greek mythologies, rituals and homosexual narratives and there ongoing contribution to a culture of erasure, resistance and hegemonic politics. Pantazopoulos' work uses, drawing, sculpture, performance, photography and the moving image with an empasis on the haptic process.
Supervisor projects
- Against nature, a material re-telling of a colonised river
- 30 May 2024
- New Topographies of Memory and Chance: Expanded Photography, Algorithms, and Transnational Belonging in Ho Chi Minh City
- 15 Jun 2021
- Sites of Uncertainty: Reframing Australian Architectural Photography
- 2 Jul 2018
- Views from Expatria: Photographing Place and Self in Transience
- 27 Feb 2017
Teaching interests
Nik Pantazopoulos has been an educator at RMIT since 2008 teaching within the Photography Discipline in the school of Art and across other disciplines. His focus is on studio based practice and making contemporary art that tell stories with photography, drawing sculpture and the moving image.
Research interests
Photography, drawing, sculpture and the moving image.
