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As an artist, I have come to rely on the idea that art can bring about change through the practice of immediate participation. In my artistic research, I strive to explore how this can be done while creating a sense of agency and autonomy for everyone involved as I find these two states of being extremely important when you spend your whole life undermined and neglected. On top of my (video)performances and poetry that act as a vessel for my experience to be shared with flinta feminists and allies worldwide, I organize participatory workshops. My methods include communal play, cultural performativity, and public intervention. My goal is to artistically explore what it means to (not) belong. In my opinion, an artistic practice that is repeated through time and space is more likely to alter a mindset, therefore I find inspiration in lived experiences, often in the realm of tradition. I explore art in the context of cultural heritage (tangible & intangible), and research how its existing forms put a toll on the feminist identity and its roles in the private and public space. Rewriting cultural heritage in places where tradition is at the core of their value (personal & monetary) is a very current and relevant discourse that includes pressing matters such as gendered violence, de-tourism, de-growth, neofascism, abolitionism and more.

Workshops

Traditional Greek Dance Experimental Lab closing event & discussion on gender in collaboration with Circle Dance Project at Tanzterrain 03/2026 Feminist Mantinades Facilitator at WOW Festival 2025, SNFCC 04/2025 Feminist Mantinades Facilitator in collaboration with Torvas AMKE 11/2024 Feminist Komboloi Organizer & Facilitator Lala - queer house of underground arts Crafting & reclaiming traditional beads & neighborhood intervention 10/2024 Tarot as feminist leisure Feminist tarot deck handed out with Katsarida Press at Athens Art Book Fair 09/2024 Feminist Mantinades Organizer & Facilitator Ntizeza feminist art space 09/2023 Organizer & Facilitator Communitism reactivated art space Lived research workshops to reclaim Greek gendered tradition through play and performativity 02/2023 - 04/2023 Amplify: Make the future of Europe yours commissioned by Culture Action Europe, H401, CultuurMakers, Creative Court, Het Geluid Maastricht, DutchCulture, LKCA, Fonds Cultuurparticipatie, Studio Enklaar, iArts & KABK and presented at the Live Hackathon on Europe Day Elemental Policies, subjective mapping intervention reclaiming the AirBnB format and the idea of free movement during climate crises 05/2022 International Open Call Performance & Gender Faculty of Fine Arts, Autonomous University of Queretaro Mexico 173AA, video poem on gender, political identity, and police brutality 08/2021 Group student exhibition Imagine the brain Imagine the other Museum Dr Guislain in Ghent Moving rocks from side to side while counting, video performance on Medusa and gendered biopower 02/2021 Field artistic research & community art project Corona & Communities in collaboration with the Municipality of Maastricht and the CultuurMakers team Research & speculative design on the cultural needs of the neighborhood 09/2020

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Meeting of sharing customs-girls play cretan lyra
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Residencies

Turning The Tide - Evia Local Urban Lab Residency by Intercult, Instytut Kultury Miejskie, Artit, in collaboration with Wiener Bildungsakademiej, Dear Hunτer, Fablevision, co-funded by the European Union Feminsularity, documentary & zine on ecofeminism and Aidipsos women 07/2024 - 08/2024 Ntizeza & Hekler Residency at Four Waters (4 Vode) funded by Culture Moves Europe & Goethe Institut in Ljubanje, Serbia бројаница/komboskini prayer beads jamming and feminist prayers 06/2024 Co-Transpose Residency & Co-Festival in Dikaia village, Evros Performance of reworked local birth/death rituals in collaboration with the Women’s Association & Screening of 173AA silent video poem with live music improvisation and live narration 07/2023 Sender-Receiver Residency by The Or Foundation in UK, NL and Ghana to decolonize second-hand fashion Upcycle Crush online campaign: over-consumers and up-cyclers match to mend clothes and promote fair production, consumption and EPR policies 10/2022 - 08/2023

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