Nik Pantazopoulos

Dr. Nik Pantazopoulos

Lecturer

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Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Nik Pantazopoulos is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in Naarm/Melbourne.

 

Exploring art history and the way in which public and private space is influenced by immigrant queer culture and erased by hegemonic politics, his work traverses drawing, photography and moving image.

 

Pantazopoulos’ practice shaped by ancient Greek legacies and rituals and their influences on Modernism, Minimalism, relational, outsider art activities, and labour and its economic values in our society.

 

 

Supervisor projects

  • Against nature, a material re-telling of a colonised river
  • 30 May 2024
  • Ho Chi Minh City the emerging transnational identity of a Megacity
  • 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 in the Art School. His focus has been on ways of expanding the image through different material and spatial investigation that are informed by Queer immigrant cultures.

Research interests

Photography, Drawing and the moving image.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.