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Chrisoula Lionis is a writer and cultural producer based between Athens and Manchester. Working at the intersection of visual culture, cultural politics, and resilience studies, Lionis holds a PhD in Visual Culture (UNSW Australia, 2013) and is the author of books Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film (I.B. Tauris, 2016, 2022) and (ed) Comedy in Crises: The Weaponisation of Humour in Contemporary Art (Palgrave, 2023). She has published widely including in journals Social Text, Third Text, Cultural Politics, and the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology and has curated individual and group projects including Beyond the Last Sky: Contemporary Palestinian Art and Video (Australian Centre for Photography, 2012), Missing Time (UTS Gallery, 2022), and Traces of Displacement (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2023).
Lionis’ has held several international teaching and research positions, including at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (UNSW Australia) in Sydney, the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, and most recently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester for Horizon2020 project Laughing in an Emergency: Humour, Cultural Resilience and Contemporary Art.
Lionis is the co-director of the pedagogical platform Artists for Artists, Chair of Exhibitions at Hunar Symposia, and is currently a Research Fellow on Understanding Displacement Aesthetics - an AHRC project that analyses the impact of artistic responses to displacement and refugeedom.
Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Culture), UNSW Australia (2009-2013) Thesis: Punchline: The Emergence of Humour in Palestinian Art and Film
Bachelor of Art Theory (Honours, Class 1), UNSW Australia (2003-2007)
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Research Associate, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales
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Lionis, C. (Recipient), 2013
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Lionis, C. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
31/08/12
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6/11/09
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