Thessaloniki Performance Festival 

Green dreams, water deities and techno prophecies

Venue: MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts

Linguistic, sonic and visual patterns, terrestrial and digital sounds, immersive environments that include water, soil, plants and other elements of nature, peculiar post-human creatures, subaquatic and telluric synergies, and oriental ballets, are just some of the elements that make up the programme of the Thessaloniki Performance Festival in the framework of the 8th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art.

This year’s Performance Festival is comprised of a video exhibition (28.04-14.05), a film screening and four performances, which all aspires to expose the true fragility of a society based on individualism and brutal domination. The Thessaloniki Performance Festival takes an ecofeminist stance, protesting prevailing ideologies related to nature and femininities and proposing paths for social change and justice. It focuses on ritual practices as a means of raising awareness and prompting to action, opens portals that will let us explore how spirituality and technology intertwine within the current volatile landscape, and will explore the interconnections between human and non-human beings, as well as the ways for their peaceful co-existence and co-evolution. It will reveal and address contested areas and will examine concepts related to both current and future representations of identity, castigating dominant social norms and issues of gender and power in our anthropocentric era.

The programme in brief

28 April – 14 May

Exhibition with videos by the festival’s participating artists

Tuesday 09 May, 21:00

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens

Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure, 80’

Film screening; The film will be commented by the artists via live internet connection.

Wednesday 10 May, 21:00

Niya B

Ekdysis, 40’

Thursday 11 May, 21:00

Agnes Momirski

siXren (verbum medicinae), 40’

Friday 12 May, 21:00

Ayşenur and the Orientalist Ballet

Deep Green Orient: trauma and healing in a decolonized Aegean ecotopia, 45’

Saturday 13 May, 21:00

Eva Giannakopoulou

Ichthyolatry, 45’