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Aimée Lê
Aimée Lê is a Vietnamese-American artist; Her work focuses on untranslatability, conceptual excess, authorial control and the ‘anecdotal’ through the lens of internationalism. In Sound Acts she will present the world premiere of her project 'Alice in Saigon', a Vietnamese/French/English/Russian rework of the songs of Greek 60s pop movie diva Aliki Vougiouklaki, with a short accompanying lecture on multilingualism and untranslatability. |
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Akoo-o Akoo-o is a five member group originating from the field of Fine Arts, Music, Literature and Social Sciences with a shared interest in mapping the contemporary urban landscape. At Sound Acts they will hold a workshop in which participants will come into contact with the process of producing a soundscape, sound design, noise mapping and the theoretical framing of site-specific artwork and strollogy by using innovative locative media. |
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Alyssa Moxley & Natasha Poulantza
Alyssa Moxley experiments with microphone techniques, field recording, interviews, composition, digital and analog sound design, and speaker placement,to create detailed sonic interventions and environments that relate to networks of memory and knowledge distribution. Natassa Poulantza is a painter working with digital and analogue techniques of historical juxtaposition. She graduated with a Master’s from Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich in 1996, and has held eight solo exhibitions. At Sound Acts, they will present an interactive audio tour of Vathi Square with site-specific images, recounting oral histories in the area around the now abandoned Hotel Sans Rival. |
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Anna-Maria Kanta Anna Maria-Kanta is an art history scholar based in London. Her research focuses on post-war avant-garde. In Sound Acts she will present a lecture titled “From the concert hall to the kitchen: Uncanny spaces of music production in the 60s". Starting from John Cage’s “Water Walk" and examining material from Fluxus, Kanta attempts a mapping of the shift in sound art and music production from the public space to the intimate, private and quotidian. |
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Aris Powerboy Aris Powerboy, aka Aris Sklavos is a Theatre Studies graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Peloponnese. At Sound Acts he will present the performance "Πράξη Σπουδαία & .", a stand up tragedy focused on the greek family from antiquity to the present day, which moves between theatrology and black metal, the familial tragedies and industrial synth. |
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Charles Céleste Hutchins Charles Céleste Hutchins is a composer and artist who loves the sound of analog electronics and has telepathic conversations with an alien satellite orbiting the earth. In Sound Acts he will present a conceptual work on gendered and sexualised technologies, based on his own self-made Sex Robot #1, a shop dummy with a joystick mounted to its pelvis. |
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Diego Orihuela
Diego Orihuela currently studies at the Critical Curatorial Cybermedia master's program in Geneva. In his work he discusses intersectionality within queer communities using performative and fictional elements combined with autobiographical reflections. In Sound Acts he will present a spoken-word performance titled “In the screen I don’t see Us” addressing sexism, classism, racism and transphobia within the so called LGTBIQ+ community in Peru. |
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Eve Libertine & Charles Webber Eve Libertine is an experimental vocalist and former member of the seminal anarchofeminist punk band Crass. Together with her latest collaborator since 2008, electronic composer Charles Webber, they will present a new collection of spoken word and electronic works, based on highly personal texts; explorations into the individual politics of gender, identity and love. |
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FYTA FYTA is a conceptual audiotextual performance duo aiming at the redefinition of the 'radical' in art, as well as the wiping-out of notions of greek tradition and greekness. For this one-off workshop, the creators of the so-called "conceptual song-writing" genre will assist participants in composing their own conceptual song, made of found materials and with no musical ability required whatsoever. |
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Heidi Hörsturz
Heidi Hörsturz is an audiovisual trash art performance artist that combines modern trash art culture, videoprojections and noisy sound design. Her work, which will be seen for the first time in Athens, presents the desire of contemporary society to get more and more overstimulation in rapidly shrinking attention spans in a search for shocking information and the yearning for a colourful world that tries to replace the current depression. Expect sex trash art attacks, unicorn deconstruction, digital orgasms! |
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Istanbul Queer Art Collective
The Istanbul Queer Art Collective is a performance collective that firmly believes that both gender and sexuality are performative and in constant flux and they try to express that belief through a type of performance art that provokes participation. Currently, the IQAC is engaged in the ongoing project of remaking Fluxus performances, through a process of first “queerifying” and then adapting them to Turkey and in Sound Acts they will present the piece “SOUTH no.3” by Takehisa Kosugi, a piece performed for the first time in Athens. |
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Jennifer Torrence Jennifer Torrence is an Oslo-based percussion soloist and chamber musician. Her work is about the organic integration of theatre and percussion, the notion of gesture, and found sound. In Sound Acts she will present the piece 'No Say No Way' by French composer François Sarhan, an “anti-lecture-performance” covering the history, mystery, beauty, truth, and transcendence of the iconic percussion instrument, the triangle (△). |
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Kassiani Kappelos
Kassiani Kappelos is a sound artist based in London. Her work features visual art fragments, performative elements and electronic soundscapes. For Sound Acts she will build an interactive installation through which she will map an affective field of sexuality and memory. An intimate space where poetry and nostalgia meet sound collages and diaristic confessions creating a multi-sensory exploration of identity. |
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Kharálampos Goyós
Kharálampos Goyós is a composer. His artistic practice examines the relevance of traditional operatic codes for contemporary music theatre as well as the viability of the former in the face of postmodern subjectivity, politics and thought. In Sound Acts he will present a part of an opera-in-progress, with a libretto that brings together the writings of Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan with the memory of 80s pop manga-toon heroine Candy Candy. Featuring: Stamatis Pakakis (tenor), Iason Marmaras (baritone/harpsichord), Alexis Kotsopoulos (electric guitar), Angelos Liakakis (cello), Yiorgos Arnis (double bass) and the voice of Lenia Safiropoulou. Drawings by Korina Gougouli. |
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Maria Papadomanolaki Maria Papadomanolaki works within the fields of sound design for dance and film, networked performances, exploratory workshops, installation and transmission art. In Sound Acts she will present a live-from-London online soundwalk based on feminist readings about motherhood, with which the audience can interact and whose development will be based on audience requests. |
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Miss Saturation
In 2011 Yiannis Loukos (composer, pianist), Natasha Papadopoulou (artist, performer) and Eleftheria Togia (violinist, musicologist) came together and tried to create a common language of communication bringing together music, narration and visual-digital arts and discovering a common ground: improvisation. The result of this collaboration is the creation of the audio-oral improvisatory project Radio Opera. In Sound Acts, they will present Miss Saturation, the story of a digital heroine travelling in time discoursing about social mysteries and colourful realities. |
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Natasha Lall Natasha Lall is a multidisciplinary artist exploring dysphoria in the digital realm. Dominantly working with film, but also with text and as a DJ, their work comments on issues of hyper-reality, excessive research and digital body politics. In Sound Acts, they will present 3 films documenting the failure of the online body as an 'escape' from flesh body dysphoria. |
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Neele Hülcker Neele Hülcker works in fields of soundart, musictheatre, performance, instrumental and electronic music, composing situations, actions, interventions, installations and performing herself. In Sound Acts she will present an ASMR-cyborg-Performance (the internet phenomenon known as „autonomous sensory meridian response“) producing microphone-amplified silent sounds like whispering, hair brushing, crinkling or cracking noises triggering tingly sensations. |
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Nicephor Herrantes
Nicephor Herrantes is a Modern Greek Studies Scholar, and a researcher at the University of São Paulo. His lecture/performance in Sound Acts examines an unpublished manuscript of Nikolaos Politis (1850-1921), the father of Greek Folk-Studies. This manuscript contains twenty-four disavowed “selections from the songs of the Greek people”. These silenced texts raise issues about various forms of homoerotic desire, while they decry the impossibility for different kinds of radical subjects to become worthy of mourning. |
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Nicola Woodham
Nicola Woodham makes non-verbal sounds and uses audio devices to distort her voice in her performances. The non-human-verbal is a way for her to project a sense of voices to come or in a process of becoming. In Sound Acts, she will present a piece that draws from her own resistance of being monitored: as a female performing body, as a woman making loud noises in public, as a citizen. The aim is to temporarily create a fantastical world that reveals the becoming of a non human entity. |
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Nikolaos Vourdoulas & Louisa Doloxa Nikolaos Vourdoulas is a cultural anthropologist specializing in non-musicology and Louisa Doloxa a bowel-artist and culturologist. At Sound Acts they will present a series of "queer” episodes in the history of Greek music. They will accomplish that by sprinkling a series of songs with cultural, anthropological and musicological "perverted" analyses and executions. |
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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. Their film works often revisit materials from the past, a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance, wondering about and excavating unrepresented or illegible moments of utopia in history, at times creating illegitimate collaborations–partly fictitious, partly cross-temporal. Four of their films will be presented in Sound Acts for the first time to the Athenian audience. |
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Peter Cant & Krzysztof Honowski Conceptual performers Peter Cant and Krzysztof Honowski present a durational performance, which will develop and progress in Sound Acts. Bringing together their previous work on Cavafy's Alexandria, Kenneth Anger's seminal film Kustom Kar Kommandos and dubbing / karaoke playfulness, they will create an abstract world of multireferentiality in the post-identitarian gay millieu. |
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Quimera Rosa
Quimera Rosa (Pink Chimera) was born in the postporn movement in Barcelona in 2008, and since then it's been in nomadic mode. QR is a lab that researches and experiments on the body, informed by transfeminist and postidentitary discourse, seeing bodies as a platform for public intervention. In Sound Acts they will present a performance which aims at escaping an endless list of binomial categories on which our identities are constructed. |
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Robin Buckley Robin Buckley is a sound artist and musician studying at the London College of Communication. His work explores the politics and aesthetics of academic institutions, club culture and technology. In Sound Acts he will present a piece of anti-art that draws upon Fluxus concepts as well as John Cage’s Imaginary Landscape 4, taking the sound of one of the most popular YouTube videos of the day and blending, fragmenting, washing it into the ether. |
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Sofia Bempeza Sofia Bempeza is an artist, writer, performer and cultural symptom based in Zurich and Vienna. She teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts and pursues her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In Sound Acts she will present a performative re-enactment of Carole Roussopoulos'/Delphine Seyrig's film "S.C.U.M. manifesto", an hommage to the flamboyantly misandrist manifest by Valerie Solanas. |
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Tim Lienhard presents "One Zero One"
Tim Lienhard has been working as a TV documentarist for 30 years, producing and directing more than seventy feature-documentaries. In Sound Acts he will present "One Zero One: The Story of Cybersissy and Baybjane", a film that follows a portion of the lives of 33-year-old Maroccaine-German Mourad and 48-year-old Dutch Antoine, two drag-performers, who work on the meeting point between disability politics, Leigh Bowery-esque cabaret and club culture. The film will be screened in Athens for the first time. |
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Tritotetartes
34es (Tritotetartes) is an avant-drag performance collective operating between Katerini (the greek capital of drag) and London. For Sound Acts they have prepared a multimedia extravaganza of gigantic proportions, featuring some of Athens's most fierce/weird drag queens tackling greekness, religion, fashion, identity, opera etc. Brace yourselves for an explosive festival closure featuring Zackie Oh, Anna Goula, Tritopemptes, Swarzkova Adolf Ina, Chraja, Filothei, Darlissa Berry, the Draconian Royal family, Elias Karniaris, Gona, Nana Beef, Bodyguard, Margaret Yang! |
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Vassiliea Stylianidou
Vassiliea Stylianidou works as a video and installation artist, using in her works related artistic media such as text, sound/music and performance. Her works deal with the limits inherent in systems of order and discipline such as architecture, body, power, family, gender and language. For Sound Acts she will present the performance “Dark Light Appears Lightly Dark. By FOR AN ANONYMOUS FUGITIVE AUTHOR”_ a performative sound installation about the complicated relationship between the collective body, economy and sexuality. |
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Yorgia Karidi Yorgia Karidi is a performing artist who composes & improvises electroacoustic music. In Sound Acts, she will present “O KOSMOS MU”, a short performance / musical theatre piece in three parts. The performance is developed around the theme “fragile thoughts & odd associations of a girl on an afternoon that turns to night” and incorporates situationist references and ASMR qualities. |
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Zillah Minx presents "She's a Punk Rocker"
Zillah Minx, singer of the punk band Rubella Ballet, spent ten years collecting interviews of female punk artists talking about the experience of being a woman in the punk movement in the late 70s. Presented in Athens for the first time, the film tells subcultural stories and discusses body politics in punk, including a variety of rarely seen archive material as well as interviews with seminal punk heroines, amongst them: Poly Styrene, Eve Libertine and Gee of Crass, members of Poison Girls and the Slits and others! |
