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TERESA COS IS AN ARTIST AND COMPOSER BASED IN LONDON. INDEBTED FOREVER TO RHYTHMANALYSIS AND DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY, THEIR AUDIO AND VISUAL WORKS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCORES MAP AND DISRUPT CULTURALLY AND HISTORICALLY FABRICATED NOTIONS OF TIME, IDENTITY, MEMORY AND DESIRE.
COMBINING TRADITIONAL FILM AND MUSICAL SYNTAX WITH RANDOMISED PROCESSES INTRINSIC TO IMPROVISATION AND AUTOMATION (THE LOOP), COS EXPLORES THE POTENTIAL OF EXPANDED SOUND AND CINEMA, TO REAPPROPRIATE THE SPACES OF WONDER AND DREAMING TOO LONG EXPLOITED BY THE CAPITALIST SPELL.
TERESA COS HAS PRESENTED THEIR WORK AND PERFORMED IN VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS INCLUDING: CAFE OTO, RADIOPHRENIA/CCA GLASGOW, KBC BELGRADE, 3RD INDUSTRIAL ART BIENNIAL, CASINO LUXEMBOURG, BB15, ARGOS CENTRE FOR AUDIOVISUAL ARTS, Q-O2, WIELS CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE, KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU, FONDAZIONE BARUCHELLO, THE MAC-METROPOLITAN ARTS CENTRE BELFAST, CENTRALE FIES, CAREOF, MOSTYN GALLERY, FONDAZIONE BEVILACQUA LA MASA AND THE 14TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE. THEY HAVE TAKEN PART IN SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PROGRAMMES, INCLUDING RUPERT RESIDENCY, WIELS RESIDENCY, LIVE WORKS/CENTRALE FIES, VISIO-EUROPEAN PROGRAMME ON ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGES AND THE BOTÍN FOUNDATION WORKSHOP WITH TACITA DEAN.
COS COMPLETED THEIR ARTISTIC TRAINING AT THE JAN VAN EYCK ACADEMY IN MAASTRICHT AND HOLDS A MASTERS DEGREE IN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON-LCC. THEY HAVE PREVIOUSLY CONCLUDED POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE AT THE IUAV UNIVERSITY OF VENICE.
COS IS CURRENTLY ASSOCIATE LECTURER IN THE MA DESIGN: EXPANDED PRACTICE AT GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND PSYCHODYNAMIC PYSCHOTHERAPY TRAINEE AT THE SOCIETY OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN LONDON.
MUSIC RELEASES:
2023, KARNOFSKY’S SCORE, FUTURA RESISTENZA
2022, THE ARCHIVE OF LOOPS: BROADCAST, HARD RETURN
2022, THE ARCHIVE OF LOOPS_VOL 3 (ONCE UPON A TIME), SELF-RELEASE
2021, WEEK NINE, WITH JULIA E DYCK AND CAROLINE PROFANTER, TAKUROKU/CAFE OTO
2020, OSCILLATION MAYDAY RADIO MARATHON 4, UMLAND EDITIONS/Q-O2
2019, THE ARCHIVE OF LOOPS VOL.1&2, SELF-RELEASE
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
ARGOS CENTRE FOR AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
FONDAZIONE BEVILACQUA LA MASA
SELECTED TEXTS:
2024, TERESA COS: KARNOFSKY’S SCORE, REVIEW BY VITO CAMARRETTA, CHAIN D.L.K.
2023, A MATTER OF ABSTRACTION, BY PIERO BISELLO
2022, INANIMATE BEINGS ALSO HAVE FINITE LIVES, BY ZORANA ĐACOVIĆ MINNITI
2019, A TIME-ACHE, BY BEATRICE FORCHINI, DIE REFERENTIN
2018, THE (IR)REVERSIBILITY OF THE THINGS EXISTING ALL AROUND US, BY HUIB HAYE VAN DER WERF, MOUSSE MAGAZINE
2018, TERESA COS’ BINARY DECONSTRUCTIONS AND RITUAL AUDITORIES, THE WORD MAGAZINE
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