Daniel Andreas Neofetou (born 1 February 1989) is a British theorist and filmmaker. He is the author of the books Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator (2012) and Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War (2021). He is a regular contributor to The Wire, Art Monthly and Artforum, and has written for Mute, Complex, Flash Art and Le Phare, the journal of Le Centre culturel suisse.Krogh Groth, Sanne; Schulz, Holger. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art. NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Neofetou, Daniel. "Art Investigation". Art Monthly, 17 June 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020Clark, Tom. "Consistency (or indexicality)" Research.tomclrk.com, 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2020Neofetou, Daniel. "Brief and Wholly Concrete Moments". Mute, 28 October 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2020Neofetou, Daniel. "Damn Good Coffee: David Lynch Adverts Up There With Twin Peaks?". Complex UK, 8 October 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020 He has also published academic journal articles in Journal of Contemporary Painting, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Arts, Getty Research Journal and Philosophy & Social Criticism.A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting. Ingenta Connect. Retrieved 25 July 2020"Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behavior in Swing Time (1936)". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020 He is currently a lecturer at Middlesex University.
Early life Neofetou was born in Leamington Spa, England on 1 February 1989. He studied at University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London, at which he completed a PhD entitled Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism, initially under the supervision of Mark Fisher, and subsequently under the supervision of Josephine Berry and Marina Vishmidt."Eyes in the Heat: The Question Concerning Abstract Expressionism". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 25 July 2020
Career His first book, a monograph on David Lynch entitled Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator (2012), was published by Zero Books."Good Day Today: Synopsis, Reviews". John Hunt Publishing. Retrieved 25 July 2020Buckland, Warren. "David Lynch swerves: uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire". Taylor & Francis online, 30 January 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020"Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator". Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 July 2020 In 2018, he curated Divine Cargo, an evening of performance art at South London Gallery."Divine Cargo, Sat 11 AUG 2018, 6PM". South London Gallery, 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2020 In 2018, he contributed to ‘The Annotated Reader’, a publication and exhibition curated by Ryan Gander. In early 2019, he contributed a short essay to the King's College London project "Technologically Fabricated Intimacy.""Technologically Fabricated Intimacy". King’s Cultural Community. Retrieved 26 July 2020
His second book, Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War was published in October 2021 with Bloomsbury Publishing."Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War". Google Books. Retrieved 26 July 2020 In a review in Leonardo, Jan Baetens writes that it is 'an important contribution to the study of abstract expressionism' which provides 'very stimulating new interpretations of the discourses that have “made” abstract expressionism what it was.'
As a filmmaker, Neofetou wrote and directed the 2024 short film Promulgate, starring Sophie Cundale, which won the award of Best Low Budget Film in the third period of the 2024 Milano Indie Movie Awards.. He also, alongside filmmaker Ralph Pritchard, co-wrote and directed the 2025 short film Collaborative Efforts, which was selected to screen at the 2026 Mammoth Lakes Film Festival.https://mammothlakesfilmfestival.eventive.org/schedule/69f151030bde981d2565207f
Bibliography
Books Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises the Spectator. Zero Books, 2012.
Scholarly articles
'Greenberg After Duchamp: Postmodernism and the Meaning of Medium Specificity,' Selva: A Journal of the History of Art, 2025, 6, 105-121. 'The Flesh of Negation: Adorno and Merleau-Ponty contra Heidegger,' Philosophy & Social Criticism, January 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211066852 'Greenberg's Marxism: Clement Greenberg's Unfinished Essay Draft on André Breton's "Political Position of Surrealism" (1935),' Getty Research Journal, 2021, 14:, 205–219, https://doi.org/10.1086/716587 ‘Political Art Criticism and the Need for Theory,’ Arts, 2021, 10(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts10010001 ‘Laughing and Crying and Dancing: The Limits of Human Behaviour in Swing Time’, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 38:6, pp. 541–558, https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2020.1780901 ‘A world for us: On the prefiguration of reconciliation in Barnett Newman’s painting,’ Journal of Contemporary Painting, 2019, 5:1, pp. 147–61, https://doi.org/10.1386/jcp.5.1.147_1
References
External links Daniel Neofetou at The Wire