Litsa Spathi - Citizendia

Litsa Spathi (born 1958) is a Greek painter, performer and Fluxus artist, currently living in Heidelberg, Germany and Breda, Netherlands. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Fluxus —a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media Heidelberg is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2006 over 140000 people live within the city's area Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Breda ( is a Municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands She makes collages, objectbooks, fluxus poetry and large acrylic paintings. A collage (From the coller to glue is a work of formal art primarily in the Visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms thus creating a new whole Fluxus poetry is normally created during a performance an essential difference with Visual poetry. She used to be active in mail art as well. Mail art is Art which uses the Postal system as a medium The term mail art can refer to an individual message the medium through which it is sent or Her paintings belong to the category fantastic realism. In 2003 she founded together with Ruud Janssen the Fluxus Heidelberg Center in which they publish their work. Ruud Janssen (b Tilburg July 29, 1959) is a Dutch Fluxus and Mail artist currently living in Breda in the Fluxus Heidelberg Center was founded by Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen. The thematic of her work is closely related to her life.

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. Visible Language is an American journal presenting research and experimentation on the properties of Writing systems particularly Typography. The double issue was developed by Owen Smith and Ken Friedman and published through the Rhode Island School of Design The other artists included as representing New Fluxus artists: Alan Bowman, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, David-Baptiste Chirot, David Cologiovani, Eryk Salvaggio, Cecil Touchon, mIEKAL aND, MTAA, Ruud Janssen, Sol Nte, and Walter Cianciusi. Ken Friedman, (born September 19 1949 in New London, Connecticut) is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental

Spathi attended elementary school in Sami (Kephalonia), high school in Athens, and studied German as foreign language at University Heidelberg, as well as painting, literature, philosophy (National Academy Wolfenbüttel, Germany). Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.

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.

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