I will be showing new work F O L L Y at BIOS Athens in Love Letters to a (Post-) Europe, a two-day festival curated by Lisa Alexander in the context of a rapidly changing Europe and in a country bearing the brunt of austerity. This 2-day event asks artists to respond with 'the action, idea or form of a love letter. Of now. It may also be ending it. An action approaching another, a double listening'.
F O L L Y ia a short live performance accompanying a video of David Bowie performing "Heroes" in post-Wall Berlin, in 2002, having written it when he had a studio beside the Wall in 1977. It is intended as act of accompaniment, an absurd attempt to share a stage with Bowie, a singular gesture of trying to meet his soaring voice and spirit in virtual space. Working with the material, I have been thinking about Berlin’s changing fortunes and the longer narrative of “Heroes”; how each time Bowie played it in Berlin, the city’s position in the world was utterly different.
Participating artists: Kate Adams (UK), Demosthenes Agrafiotis(GR), Brian Catling (UK), cris cheek (UK), Robin Deacon (UK/USA), Vassiliki Dimou (GR), Tim Etchells (UK), Alec Finlay (UK), Matthew Goulish (USA), Guy Harries (UK), Steven C Harvey (UK), Catherine Hoffmann (UK), Wendy Houstoun (UK),Mikhail Karikis (GR/UK), Brian Lobel (USA/UK), Claire MacDonald (UK), Georgios Makkas (GR), Ivana Müller (HR/FR), Mariela Nestora (GR), Kira O’Reilly (IE/UK),Florence Peake (UK), Erica Scourti (UK/GR), Maria Sideri (GR), Anna Sherbany (UK), Jungmin Song (KR), Yoko Tawada (JP/DE), Nikki Tomlinson (UK)
Friday 2 & Saturday 3 October 2015 at BIOS in Athens
