Prologue: Quoting Absence
a four-channel sound installation
by Christodoulos Panayiotou, 2006
With Pedro Ferreira, Caroline Humfress, Jem Finer,
Dorothea Debus
Commisioned and produced by the
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
ISBN 1-901352-30-7 978-1-901352-30-6
A transcript of the recorded conversation, which took place on the
4rth July 2006 at 24/ Recording an Rehersal Studios, Oxford.
Prologue: Quoting Absence is the first part of a three-part work based
on the structure of the academic dissertation. Four speakers with
connections to Oxford Universit were invited to have a conversation
on the theme of absence.
Love is overrated,
a conversation between Christodoulos Panayiotou and Shiri Reznik
on the performance Slow Dance Marathon, 2006
Commisioned and produced for the Exhibition “Crossing:
a contemporary view” in the framework of the program”
Crossings: Movement of People and Movement of Cultures”
Supported by theCulture 2000 Framework-
Program of the European Union
ISBN 978-9963-9071-3-7
The conversation took place in Tel Aviv in April 2006
and was first presented at the Museum of Modern Art,
Oxford in September 2006, reenacted
by actors Sasha Waddel and Liam Evans-Ford.