Programme

Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman & Daniel Keller – The Seasteaders. In The Seasteaders, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller examine the controversial “seasteading” movement, initiated by a group of libertarians seeking to build floating, tax-free cities as experimental societies beyond government control. While presented as solutions to governmental “stagnation” and climate change, the film reveals links to anti-democratic, techno-utopian, and alt-right ideologies. Through this screening, the Athens Biennale invites us to confront this uneasy entanglement and to question new forms of colonialism amid today’s global crises.

A physical and poetic performance that delves into the body’s memory, maternal legacy, and the silent weight of trauma. Through symbolic gestures, fragmented monologues, and intimate rituals with stone, water, and fabric, exploring themes of pain, resilience, and transformation. Blending personal narrative with collective emotion, the piece becomes a space where memory and the tragic beauty of the body intertwine.

Como una casa is a medium-length film that recounts Ainara's entire journey in Spain and the violence she suffered in Madrid's Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros.

Antonis Vais, in collaboration with 12 performers of the ASFA Laboratory 12 (Professor Poka Yio), reclaim the pier of Gate E8 at the port of Piraeus. In this land’s edge, whose only border is the sea, they wish to reposition corporeality at the core of site-specific research. Seeking ways, situations, and conditions in which the individual, as part of a larger whole and as a unit, relates to the arrival, departure from, and stay in intermediate places of temporary habitation – such as the port – they activate a perpetual movement: that of the multitude, whose function aims to overemphasize the importance of transience.

For Untitled (Figures) Lenio Kaklea embraces everything that is queer in her through a catalogue of danced figures (the cowgirl, leather culture, disco and the figure of the sailor) and pays homage to the capacity of queer cultures, teaching us to love the female body.

In Athena’s Antennas, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, in collaboration with two performers, proposes a series of ephemeral public sculptures. Turning her gaze to the rooftops of Athens’ apartment buildings as the city’s edges, she imagines the buildings as bodies and their rooftops and balconies as limbs. The industrial equipment found there transforms into an evolving form of public sculpture, like a peculiar parasitic forest or an open-air sculpture gallery. Satellite dishes are translated into wicker hats and become props within an evolving stage setting.

Liquid Ports group show with works by Ileana Arnaoutou & Ismene King, Despina Charitonidi, Eleni Mylonas, Maria Nikiforaki

Alinda Dimitriou, Nikos Kanakis, Fournoi, A Female Society, 1983, 47′. On the island of Fournoi, in Ikaria, a researcher observes the lives of the inhabitants. He has neither a script nor prepared questions; he simply observes. The island thus comes alive before our eyes, through its inhabitants, their memories, their struggles, and their daily labor. 10 19:45>20:45

Arc Carrier is a site-specific sound performance that explores the relationship between electricity and acoustics, transforming invisible electromagnetic fields into sonic matter that resonates throughout space.

For Untitled (Figures) Lenio Kaklea embraces everything that is queer in her through a catalogue of danced figures (the cowgirl, leather culture, disco and the figure of the sailor) and pays homage to the capacity of queer cultures, teaching us to love the female body.

A far out live electronics set that attempts to save almost extinct folk ear bugs, by revamping and arranging them for voice, vocoder and modular synthesizer.

Come and play with us Cycladoupolis, the board game created by the Museum of Cycladic Art and WWF aiming to inform and raise awareness of the Cycladic civilization and its heritage as well as the environmental challenges of the Cycladic islands.

The sustainability expert and children’s books author Eleni Andreadis reads excerpts from her new, book, a fresh collection of fairy tales, where old, classic stories are overturned and recreated for the modern era, highlighting the power of fairy tales to make our planet better!

Bring Your Own Book! Join us for a warm and welcoming reading circle where everyone is invited to bring a book they love—on stories, traditions, culture, or the climate of the Mediterranean. We’ll share passages aloud, listen to each other’s choices, and celebrate the diverse voices of the region. After the readings, we’ll dive into creative exercises inspired by the texts, sparking imagination, conversation, and connection. 

Explore the rich cultural currents of the Mediterranean through movement in this immersive dance workshop, combining somatic practices and choreography inspired by landscapes, rhythms, and migration stories.