Litsa Spathi

Litsa Spathi (born July 12th, 1958) is a Greek painter, visual poet, performer, Intermedia and Fluxus artist. She makes collages, objectbooks, fluxus poetry and large acrylic paintings. She used to be active in mail art as well. In 2003 she founded together with Ruud Janssen the Fluxus Heidelberg Center in which they publish their work. She is currently living in Heidelberg, Germany and Breda, Netherlands.
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Spathi was selected to publish an essay as one of eleven contemporary "New Fluxus" artists who are seen to 'inhabit the site of Fluxus, developing and interpreting the Fluxus tradition in a new way.' in a special double issue of the journal Visible Language on Fluxus. The double issue was developed by Owen Smith and Ken Friedman and published through the Rhode Island School of Design In 2007 Spathi founded Fluxlist Europe as a performance. This is a digital platform for Fluxus artists and visual poets to publish their work and to discuss the new and old Fluxus.
In 2010 her visual poetry videos were discussed in the publication 'Hauptdarsteller Schrift. Ein Überblick über Schrift in Film und Video von 1895-2009. Epistemata Literaturwissenschaft Bd. 693' published by Königshausen & Neumann. In 2014 her videos were published in the exhibition catalog 'Schriftfilme: Schrift als Bild in Bewegung' by Hatje Cantz and shown in the exhibition which took place at ZKM Karlsruhe from November 2013 till January 2014.

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