18th September - 18th December, Thessaloniki
Georgia Sagri
Born in Athens, Greece in 1979
Lives and works in New York, USA
2006-08 MFA Columbia University, New York, US
1997-02 Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
1991-03 National Music School of Athens, Cello Higher Diploma
Awards
2007 Joan Sovern Sculpture Award
2005 Spyropoulos Foundation, 2nd Award, Athens, Greece
2001 Deste Foundation, 1st Prize, Performance: In the Shop Window, Athens, Greece
Scholarships
2006 Fulbright Foundation
2006 A.S. Onassis Foundation
2006 Leventis Foundation
2006 Propondis Foundation
2008 Founder and Editor in Chief of audio-only magazine FORTÉ
Solo Exhibitions & Performances
2011 Μοντέλο της Αντιγόνης, Real Fine Arts, New York [ http://realfinearts.com/index.php?/ongoing/georgia- sagri/ ]
Masks/Species of Politics, The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (curated by Nancy Spector)
2010 One, SOTOSO, Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier 167, Brussels
2009 ΓΑΛΑΞΗ/ Another Study of the Same Page, A.D. gallery, Athens, Greece
Georgia Sagri, Vitamin Kids for Trio A, one night event, Artists Space, New York (curated by Amy Owen)
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and If Approaching Pain Gives You a Way of Recovering the
Memory of Flesh Then Go Elsewhere, On Stellar Rays, New York
Yze Alone, performance at The National Theater of Greece, Rex Theater, Upper Circle Foyer, Athens, Greece (curated by Ghislaine Dantan and Eleni Coucou )
2008 Edtaonisl, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London [http://www.anthonyreynolds.com/home.htm]
When you see me again it won’t be me, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’,
Smith Stewart Gallery, New York
2005 Confession, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
2003 Georgia Sagri, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
Group Exhibitions
2011 MASSAGE [Paul, Rosenkranz, Sagri, Walczak], AndrewRoth Gallery, New York (curated by Alex Kitnick) [http://www.andrewroth.com/massage_release.html]
2010 Reconstruction #1 On Stellar Rays, New York
Perpetuum nonstabile: Cantata #2 for Lost House Painters, Solo Viola and a Jukebox, performance by Daniel Bozhkov and Georgia Sagri. Cello Suite No.3 in C major by Johann Sebastian Bach, Raul Garcia, viola, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Diego Singh)
2009 One Minute More, The Kitchen, New York (curated by Debra Singer)
Looking back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (curated by Primary Information)
Vlassis Caniaris. In Contrapunto, National Bank Cultural Foundation, Athens, Greece
The First Image, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussilon, Sete, France (curated by Denys Zacharopoulos)
2008 A Seer Out of Season, On Stellar Rays, New York (curated by Candice Mandey and Tairone Bastien)
Women Only, Beltsios Collection, Margaris Gallery, Amfilochia, Greece (curated by Sotirios Bahtertzis)
Yes, AR/Contemporary Gallery, Milan (curated by Tairone Bastien)
Altoids Awards, performance with Ei Arakawa, New Museum, New York
Below Is The Sea And Our Desert Is Beside Us, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39
Columbia University Thesis Show, Fisher Landau Art Center, Long Island, New York (curated by Joao Ribas)
This is the waiting room, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’, The Unfair Art
Fair, Rome, Italy
When you see me again it won’t be me, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’,
Smith Stewart Gallery, New York
After Dark, Bushwick Star, New York
Untitled: This is what is going to happen, Lumen House, New York (curated by Summer Guthrey)
Nichts Ist Aufregend, Nichts Ist Sexy, Nichts Ist Nicht Peinlich, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’ Mumok, Vienna (curated by Achim Hochdörfer und Tanja Widmann)
2007 Mini Concerts in Back Valley, Smith Stewart Gallery, New York
Below Is The Sea And Our Desert Is Beside Us Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (curated by XYZ)
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (curated by Jeffrey Deitz)
Dream and Trauma, Works from Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, a joint project with Kusthalle Wien
and Mumok Museum, Wien
1st Year MFA Show, Columbia University, New York
2006 Panic Room, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
An Outing: The Beltsios Collection: Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st Century, Trikala, Greece
Art Fab ‘Women in Europe’, group exhibition, Saint Tropez, France
Tatoo My Art, group exhibition, A.Antonopoulou.Art, Athens, Greece (curated by Nadja Argyropoulou0
2005 The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, QUARTER, Centro Produzione
Arte, Florence, Italy (curated by Marina Fokidis)
Protaseis, Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Homage to Drawing, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
The Simple Life, Hydra High School, Hydra, Greece
7 Performances & A Conversation, Athens, Greece
Lost in Translation, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
2004 Manderlay, Hotel Astoria, Thessaloniki, Greece
Videokunst Geist, Gemeinschaft und Tschai, Athens, Greece
Domestic Alien, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece (curated by Kostis Velonis)
Et In Iraq Ego, Alpha Station, Athens, Greece
Processing Radar, Technopolis, Municipality of Athens, Athens, Greece
Breakthrough! Greece 2004: Contemporary Perspective in the Visual Arts, ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain
2003 So Much… So Great, Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, Greece (curated by Xenia Kalpaktzoglou)
Solus Locus, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
Radar, Contemporary Arts for European Cities, Venice Biennale, Centro Civicio, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
Anthem to Freedom, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
2002 Seeing is Beleiving, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
Still Life I, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Glimpses, digital loops, htpp://www.softknot.gr/glimpses
Ruins Inhabitants- Still Life II, Hotel Theoxenia, , Portaria, Greece
2001 In the Shop Window, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
A Damaged Piece of Video for Closed Eyes, Café Muller, Rotterdam, Holland
Before You Enter Take Your Shoes Off, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2000 Night Town Café, Rotterdam, Holland
1999 Polytechnic 1999, the Polytechnic, Patission Street, Athens, Greece
1997 Fluxus, The Factory, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Selected Bibliography
2011 Alex Kitnick, ‘Bad Memory: Interview with Georgia Sagri’, Idiom Magazine (idiommag.com), 27 April [http://idiommag.com/2011/04/bad-memory-interview-with-georgia-sagri/]
Ken Johnson, ‘Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures’, New York Times, April
2010 David Velasco, ‘Drama Queen’, Artforum, September
Stephanie Bailey, Exhibition Review, Art Papers, March/April (ill.)
Georgia Sagri interview with Christopher Marinos, Kaput, February (ill.)
2009 Natalie Bell, ‘One Minute More’, Art Papers, November / December
Charlie Schultz, ‘One Minute More’, Art Slant, September
Alex Gartenfeld , ‘A Stage of Her Own: Georgia Sagri’, Art in America, August
Georgia Sagri, ‘Georgia Sagri’, Flash Art, March
2008 Carolina Busta, ‘New York’, Artforum, December
Lilly Wei, ‘Destroy, They Said’, Art In America, June/July (ill.)
Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Interventionist and Public-Responive Art in Greece, Res, May (ill.)
P. Georgiadou, ‘Deuteri Anagnosi’, Vogue Hellas, April (ill.)
2007 ‘Crimes of Passion’, www.mosaiko.gr, February
2006 Petros Birbilis, ‘Georgia Sagri’, Vima Donna, April (ill.)
2005 Marina Fokidis, ‘Georgia Sagri’, Flash Art, July-September (ill.)
Despina Zevkeli, ‘Twenty One’, Athinorama, 12-19 May (ill.)
Despina Zevkeli, ‘Georgia Sagri; Confession, I Performer Apousiazi’, Athinorama, 12-19 May (ill.)
Dora Papageorgiou, ‘Exi Theates sti Faka Tis’, Eleftherotipia, 27 May (ill.)
‘Parousiasi: Georgia Sagri’ Time Out Athens, 21 April (ill.)
‘I Martires Mias Performance’, Athinorama, 21-28 April (ill.)
Augustinos Zenakos, ‘Na Bgei Kaneis i Na Mi Bgei?’, Vima Donna, March (ill.)
Eliana Dimadi and Despina Zevkeli, ‘To Soma Diadilonei’, Athinorama, 10 March (ill.)
‘Ta Dora ton Allon’, To Vima, 20 February (ill.)
Vaggelis Blahos, ‘Chameni sti Metafrasi’, Time Out Athens, 17 February
Fotini Barka, ‘ Apantochi tis to Koino’, Eleftherotipia, February (ill.)
2004 ‘To Koritsi tis Diplanis Vitrinas’, Kathimerini, 25 December (ill.)
‘Techni k Lemargia’, To Vima, 14 November (ill.)
Natasa Adamou, ‘ Georgia Sagri’, Time Out Athens, 4-11 March (ill.)
‘Art Athina’, Athinorama, 29 April (ill.)
2003 ‘Thimithite’, Marie Claire, December
Antonis Galanopoulos, ‘ D-Eikastiki Parembasi’, Eleftherotipia, 26 November (ill.)
‘Georgia Sagri’, The S Magazine, 13 November (ill.)
‘Performance in Progress’, Athinorama, 20-27 November (ill.)
Giorgios Tzirtzilakis, ‘Ti Mpori Ena Soma?’, Athens Voice, 23-29 October (ill.)
‘Perfomance se Tris Fasis’, Athinorama, 16-23 October (ill.)
Mairi Adamopoulou, ‘Georgia Sagri, Egine Techni Chiropodara Demeni’, Ta Nea, 23 October (ill.)
‘Egkainia; Georgia Sagri’, Time Out Athens, 23-29 October (ill.)
Dionisia Lagiou,’Ekkolaptomeni Kallitexnes’, Ethnos, 28 May (ill.)
‘Ta Apominaria Mias Performance’, Athinorama, 13-20 March (ill.)
Maria Tsilibidou, ‘ “Ymnos eis tin Eleftherian” Me Tavli, Prefa Kai Bioloncello’, Investors World, 8-9
March (ill.)
‘Ymnos eis tin Eleftherian’, Epsilon, 9 March (ill.)
The emergence of technical advancements has transformed the way the body activates, composes and diffuses its presence. Every aspect of life is a performance of an undefined and continuous spectacle. There is no clear distinction between the producer and her product. The role of the author is diffused and the role of the DJ becomes the paradigm for the generations that meet inside clubs, in huge music festivals and spend much of their time in airports, in constant transit, targeting an alternative form of work or even no work; looking for something exciting, fast, vibrant.
It is evident that the dematerialization of the means of musical production has transformed our cultural landscape. For my work, music is method and operation. The music industry and its agents with the use of countless tools – re-mixing, sampling, copy and pasting, designing, becoming the model, giving service for, arranging and sometimes turning into the catalyst for any sort of different operations – set ways to think of performance art today.
Included and excluded from all kinds of physical and virtual environments, we are required to constantly recreate our identities and their characteristics. The character, then, cannot exist if there isn’t a performance strong enough to define its purpose. The apparatus - architectures, plans, transportations, transmissions, communications, technologies, gadgets, any software of any sort, translations upon reproductions and re-translations - defines our perception, accumulation, and interaction. Rhythms create groups and define structures. Dances operate in fields of constant flux, which when inside and outside interweave. Social gathering is not bound by any tradition. Relations are not created through ideological frames. Acts turn into traces, layers of history and media fragments. Gestures develop and transform into new sources, materials, and waves.
My attempt is to observe, listen and score those manifestations and present them in space. We are part of the movies we create, the advertisements that promote our subjectivities, and the images of our own. Information is like Prozac, a comfort tool, which makes us functional, and gives us chances to participate.
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