Performance Group Geopoetics

s. Its aim is to explore the environment as a collective experience and reveal it as a mythical narrative of the present moment. Geopoetics has devised performances in Aegina (The Bridge Project, 2012), Nisyros (Geopoetics, 2013), Athens (Topofilia, 2013) and abroad (Czech Republic, England and France, 2014-2015). With the walking performance Representation (2016) the group participated in the platform of young artists: "Civil Theme", Experimental Scene -1 of the National and Athens Biennale 2015-2017 OMONIA. With performance Topophilia (2016), the group took part in [OUT]TOP/AS exhibition of performance & public/ outdoor space in Benaki Museum; with the performance Εν με το γυρίν (everything on its own time) in VIVARIUM CYPRUS & ECO ART PROJECT, Pafos Cultural Capital 2017. The group presented on the hill of Lycabettus, a site and time-based performance 277 meters, for ATHENS & EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL 2017 and performance et-men or breathe in the Yeni Mosque for the 52nd Dimitria Festival (Thessaloniki, 2017). In 2018 Geopoetics devised a hiking performance in Apanou Meria Syrou entitled Stonelines. In the spring of 2019 the group presented a site-based performance Women in a Car Wash (archive trouble) in Aparat Athens και in the summer the participatory walking event The Mountain Body in Prespa National Park. In the summer of 2021 the group was funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture for the site-specific walking performance Rea Frantzi [exit] based on the book of C. Vakalopoulos H Grammi toy Orizonta and organized in the form of a loop in the center of Athens (Exarcheia area). For more information and audiovisual material see https://annatzakou-geopoetics.com