IN NOMINE MATRIS 1_Athens 2018_Image Vangelis Poulis (11a)

Performance “IN NOMINE MATRIS”, at BOOZE Cooperativa, Athens 2017

2019

Performance. Zero Gravity International Performance Art Festival (Miles Zero-Dance Festival). Edmonton, Canada. (May 2019)
Workshop. Zero Gravity International Performance Art Festival (Miles Zero-Dance Festival). Edmonton, Canada. (May 2019)

2018

ANAM CARA – Dwelling Body . Invited as a performer and concept writer in the frame of BODY MATTERS, the new series of live projects of  the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK . Venice. Italy. (December 2018)

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2018

PERFORMANCE. Festival of Audiovisual Arts. Ionian University, Corfu.
LECTURE and WORKSHOP. Summer School on Hybrid Arts, Ionian University.
LECTURE . SAIC . School of the Art Institute Chicago.
PERFORMANCE. The Robin #6 DFBRL8R Gallery, Chicago.
PERFORMANCE. The Robin #5 . GRACE Exhibition Space, New York.
PERFORMANCE. “Body and citizenship”. Syntagma Square. Athens.
WORKSHOP. “Body and citizenship”. Athens School of Fine Arts, Old Lybrary.
AFIEROMA (Dedicated). A cycle of performances in public spaces. Athens.
CATALOGUE (Curatorship) “The dream of Antigone-Performance Art in Greece Between the ’70 and today (work in progress)

2017

PERFORMANCE. “The Robin #3”, PAO – Performance Art Festival in Oslo .
WORKSHOP. ‘Along and through’. Paris Summer Academy. Organized by ORIANTHEATRE. Venue: Micadanses. Paris, 2017.
TEXT in the Catalogue 3rd Venice International Performance Art Week
PERFORMANCE. “The Robin #4”, “The Reminders” organized by Cheapart, and curated by Thanos Vovolis.
LECTURE on my work. DEEREE, The American College of Greece, invited by Thanos Vovolis
PERFORMANCE. “In the name of the mother #2”. “Back to Athens”, organized by Cheapart, and curated by Thanos Vovolis.
WORKSHOP. THE MARATHON, host Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin.
PERFORMANCE. “The Robin #2”, 2nd IPAW, Luisa Catucci Gallery, Berlin.
PERFORMANCE. “In the name of the mother #1”, BOOZE Cooperativa, Athens. Curator: Eva Kekou.
LECTURE on Performance art in Greece today, for the University TU-Dresden. Athens

2016

CURATORSHIP . “The dream of Antigone-Performance Art in Greece Between the ’70 and today”. Organized by [mind the] G.A.P.-Gathering Around Performance in the frame of the 3rd Venice International Performance Art Week, in a supportive collaboration with the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki.
LECTURE. Benaki Museum, Athens. In the frame of the event OUT Topias, curated by Thanos Vovolis, a round table moderated by Angeliki Avgitidou on “Performance, democracy and public space”.
WORKSHOP. THE MARATHON, host Point Center for Contemporary Art, Cyprus. Organized by Sensorium Space.        PERFORMANCE. The Robin #1. Point Center for Contemporary Art, Nicosia.
TRANSIENT BODIES. Concept and Curatorship. Istanbul. Hosted by SALT Galata. Organized by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Open Space Istanbul.

AEGIS II. Collaboration in the performance of VestandPage. In the frame of TRANSIENT BODIES. Hosted by ALT, Istanbul. Organized by Open Dialogue Istanbul and Open Space Istanbul.
CURATORSHIP, of a series of ARTIST TALKS by the Athens School of Fine Arts. Boris Nieslony and VestAndPage were hosted and presented by [mind the] G.A.P. – Gathering Around Performance.
MASTER CLASS. “We are the natives :: exercizes of citizenship”. State Museum of Contemporary art, Thessaloniki. Organized by Platformance.
LECTURE. “Body and Citizenship #2”, in the frame of the seminar “What kind of Polis?”-“Performance now v.5”, Thessaloniki. Organized by the University of Western Macedonia, moderated by Angeliki Avgitidou.

2015

WORKSHOP THE MARATHON, hosted by BOOZE Cooperativa, Athens. Organized by Epitelesis – Performance Art Foundation.

CREAKING WOODEN FISH. PAS #39 | Performance Art Studies. Part of the educational program of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK. Facilitator together with BBB Johannes Deimling. Guest Teachers: Aldo Aliprandi and Marianna Andrigo. Hosted by C32 performingartworkspace, Venice.

PLACES OF DURATION. PAS #38 | Performance Art Studies. Invited as Guest Teacher. In collaboration with Epitelesis-Performance Art Foundation. Hosted by CHEAPART Exarchias, Athens.

2014

VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK. “Ritual Body-Political Body”. Co-curatorial contribution. Curators: VestAndPage (Andrea Pagnes & Verena Stenke). Other Curatorial Ccontributions 2014 Fondazione Bonotto, Jessica Berlanga Taylor | Fundacion Alumnos47Live Art Development Agency (LADA), Leisa Shelton | Fragment31, Prem Sarjo | Ejercicios Mosqueto, Daniel S. DeLuca | Mobius Inc., Martin Renteria | TRANSMUTED Network, Doug Jarvis | Open Space Arts Society, Silvio de Gracia | VIdeoplay.

CRITICAL REFLECTIONS. PAS #37 | Performance Art Studies. Part of the educational program of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK. Invited as Guest Teacher.

“MHTyHR/RHyTHM” (“ΕΛΠΙΔΑ/ΛΕΠΙΔΑ” 3 [HOPE/BLADE 3]) – BETON 7, Athens.

“ΕΛΠΙΔΑ/ΛΕΠΙΔΑ” 2 (HOPE/BLADE 2) – In death of three young Athenians. Concertaction of body (F.Kiais), poetic verse (O. Elitis: “BLOODS OF LOVE, “AXION ESTI”) and melody (M. Theodorakis: “BLOODS OF LOVE“). Collaboration to the Dis-Play Project organized by A.Pashias (Epitelesis-Performance Art Foundation). Athens. Documented by the Public Television (4Greece, Dimosia Tileorasi). http://vimeo.com/84206978 (from min. 6,37).

“ΕΛΠΙΔΑ/ΛΕΠΙΔΑ” (HOPE/BLADE) – In death of Pavlos Fyssas. Concertaction of body (F.Kiais) and poetic verse (O. Elitis: “ΤHE MONOGRAM”, fragments from the IV paragraph).

2013

“IN-BETWEEN”. 1. Cyprus International Performance Art Festival (CIPAF), Nicosia. Curator: Christina Georgiou.

Artisttalk for the 1.CIPAF: “BODY AND CITIZENSHIP”. At the European University of Nicosia, Cyprus.

“THOW TWIN OF SLUMBER: COCOON” – Third part. Collaboration with VestAndPage (Verena Stenke, Andrea Pagnes) for the 1. Cyprus International Performance Art Festival (CIPAF), Nicosia. Curator: Christina Georgiou.

Text: ‘Notes on Hypnos and Thanatos’ [available on this website], on the collaboration with VestAndPage for “THOW TWIN OF SLUMBER: COCOON” – Third part.

2012

VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK. “Hybrid Body-Poetic Body”. Curator: Andrea Pagnes (VestAndPage). Assistant Curator: Verena Stenke (VestAndPage). Co-Curators: Gabriela Alonso, Blair Todd.

Performance for the camera: “[Noli] me tangere”-“[Μη] μου άπτου”-“[Do not] cling to me”, and Installation: “The sleep of Dionysus”.

Essay on “Hybrid Body-Poetic Body”: “Unstable harmonies or Οn the hybridization of the god”.

Seminar at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with the title “Unstable harmonies or Οn the hybridization of the god”. Curator: Prof. Gaetano Mainenti.

2011

“I STAND EXPOSED”. Participation in the exhibition of Gaetano Mainenti. Studio Tommaseo, Triest. Curator: Gaetano Mainenti. Critical text: Ermanna Panizon.

Text for the exhibition: “The one who bites the apple goes to Paradise (..or simply on the clouds?)”.

2008

“ΚΟΝΤΑ ΣΟΥ, ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ” (‘Near you, Death’). Three videos and a performance for the camcorder. With poetic verses (fragments) from Maria Polydouri and Kostas Kariotakis (‘Preveza’). Video projection for “The Garden of the senses”, Gallery in Gazi, Αθήνα.

2007

“GAMES IN THE WATER”. Video for “The Garden of the senses”, an exhibition project in Gazi, Αθήνα.

2006

“ONE FOR BABEL”. Performance for camcorder (Berlin 2003/Αθήνα 2006).

2004

“A portrait of the artist as a young man”. Installation for the Berliner Kunstprojekt, Berlin.

2003

0365, Saints for a day – Old masters and contemporary artists. Studio Tommaseo, Triest. Curators: Franco Jesurum and Paola Bonora. Assistant Curator: Sarah Cosulich Canarutto.

1999

“THE SLEEP OF DIONYSUS in the HOUSE OF THE WORLD”. Multimedia installation. Franziskaner Klosterruine, Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Curator: Francesco Kiais. Co-curator: Sarah Cosulich Canarutto. Auditive atmospheres, recording and sound design: Zohar Schlesinger.

Cultural Partners: Kulturzentrum Podewil, Kulturamt Berlin Mitte, empty rooms e.V., Förderverein Klosterruine. Sponsoring: Kulturamt Berlin Mitte, R.I.M.C.

Text for the exhibition: “From the womb of the city, to the womb of Dionysus – Notes for an ephemeral architecture”.

1998

“EUROPEAN MULTIPLE”. Organic perishable object, replicated for the Markus Richter Gallery, Potsdam.

1997

“THE SLEEP OF DIONYSUS”. Installation for the exhibition space ’empty rooms’, Berlin. Hosted by Thrafia Danilopoulos. Curators: Matthias Harder, Sotirios Bahtsetzis.

“LE MUSEE IMAGINAIRE”. An Organic perishable object and an installation realized for the Museum of Installation (M.O.I.), London.

Starts the ‘Π-project’ (from the title of the last novel of P.P.Pasolini, “Petrolio”), a nomadic and collaborative cultural project.

“And the poet took off his shoes”. Organic perishable object and a visual-literary performance for “The nomad’s notebook” (Nomadenheft, a literary project by Mark Giannori), Berlin.

1995

“THE ROOMS OF CHANT”. Installations and drawings. Galerie Fluxus, Stuttgart.

1994

“TRIPTYCH”. Drawings. Galerie Fluxus, Stuttgart.

1993

“ENTRAXIS”. Chiostro di San Nicoleto, Venezia. Curator: Andrea Pagnes.

1992

“CORALE“. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia. Curator Andrea Pagnes.

“The thought of the image”. Fossato di Vico, Perugia. Curator: M.APA. Text in catalog by: L.M.Barbero, U.Daniele, A. Pagnes.

1991

“Is there Culture because there is Nature. Is there Nature because there is Culture“. Castello di Rivara, Torino. Curator: Marlis Grüterich.

Festival of Edimburgh. Richard Demarco Gallery. Curator: Richard De Marco. Assistant Curators: Nina Mehta, Francesco Kiais.

1990

“AURA”. Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia. Curator and text in catalog: U. Daniele.