Intangible Commons

#projectsemedaki Creative Reuse Fashion Intervention Athens, Greece 2019 House of Refashion #projectsemedaki Working with 100% recycled materials, this creative reuse fashion project features the Greek semedaki. Traditional handmade textiles with intricate original design details, using techniques that have evolved over thousands of years of…

Sustainable Fashion ProjectSocial PracticeAthens, Greece 2018-2019 Creative Reuse is a convergence between arts, fashion, sustainability and community in Athens, Greece. The project fosters a social and creative network through weekly skill shares in textile alteration, sewing, design and embellishment and a monthly clothing swap. …

Marriage Home Power Work installation and performance SIDE Gallery Jaipur, India 2015 Sometimes you are in a place yet you do not see the place. A reason to go beyond your own way of life is not always presented to you. The walk and…

Surviving the Future: Precarious Body and Work design challenge SIDE gallery Jaipur, India 2015 Surviving the Future was a four-day design workshop in which teams of fashion students were challenged to address systemic waste and exploitation within the garment industry. As globalization changes the…

Video Portraits community engagement Basilicata, Italy 2014 Video portraits was the first project in which I used my camera as a means of engagement to spark conversations and to make connections, rather than a tool for collecting images and sounds. After working in broadcast…

Proximities, a collaboration with passTRESpass Athens soundtrack and performance Benaki Museum  Athens, Greece 2016 The work is to pose questions regarding how we negotiate boundaries on the different levels; human relationships, physical space, and cultural practices. Participants explore movement vocabulary with an emphasis on…

Reflections through Movements solo show cumulative installation CROSS Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Share, listen, and discover with others ways to separate self from the systems constructed around us. Created through merging the traditions of psychogeography and free association, this installation seeks to break out of the…

Paros Poetry Translation Symposium Video Poems Isternia, Tinos, Greece 2018 words helen dimos ghazal mosadeq elizabeth willis marty hiatt katia gousia sudden darling & ari banias william rowe larry kearney Toilet of the Voice images and sound maria juliana byck Please dont make me…

Greeting the Sun TRT: 04:30 Documentary Short Athens, Greece 2018 The launch of the Metaxouriou Carnival season of 2018.  Joyous pandemonium on the streets of Athens. Greeting the Sun documents 8 hours of revelry; from dawn until the late afternoon the city is ours…

Video Installation: Preview performance and  interventions Athens, Greece 2018 I am working on a video installation: here is a short excerpt from the upcoming projections. Music Credit Atermon…

Athens Subsumption performance , interventions and workshops Athens, Greece 2014-ongoing subsumption.space The goal of Athens Subsumption is to trace subsumption within the urban environment through a process whereby the universal and particular are brought into relation. We are building a generative, socially integrated practice…

Elouda: Solidarity to Locality video portrait Sithonia, Chalkidiki, Greece, 2017 A short video made while in an artist residency in Pyrgadikia – Agios Nikolaos, Sithonia, Chalkidiki, Greece. Surrounded by lush olive groves a few steps from Elaionas beach Artist and Performer Maria Softis stewards…

Video Projects New York, NY 2005-2016 Unfolding the Whole, Installation 2010, New York, NY Lenswipe, 2010, New York, NY Levity, 2010, New York, NY Dream, 2010, New York, NY Immersion, Video Installation, 2009 New York, NY Sky Road, 2009, New York, NY Serene Fury,…

Video Projects Santa Rosa, CA 2017 Paradise Ridge family winery is committed to land stewardship, sustainability, and to inspiring community while sharing the bounty of Paradise — wine, beauty, art and LOVE. This series of short videos introduces some of the people that make…

Poem of Lefkes video poem Paros, Greece, 2016 A meditation on the rhythms, shapes, patterns, and soundscapes of a small village on a Greek island. Inhabited since before 2400 BC, Lefkes was a hub of commerce during the Byzantine period, and served as capital…

Creating the Cultural Commons community engagement website Matera, Italy 2014 Map Matera Una risorsa per la comunità is the beginning of a long-term plan to develop economic, social, cultural, and environmental sustainability practices in Matera, Italy. The motivation behind this project is build the…

Steel Sewn River two channel video installation Traveling within Everyday Life TAV Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Revealing that which is rendered invisible or obscured in fleeting interactions with the urban environment offer a glimpse of the territories that hover beyond the borders of familiarity. A…

Stewardship Series Documentary Shorts County Durham, England 2014 and Cataluña, Spain 2015 A series of interviews investigating the concept of stewardship from a wealthy hedge fund manager taking over vast holdings of property previously bequeathed by royalty to the church, to a community coming together to revitalize…

Video Archive New York, NY 2005-2016 Documentation of selected performance and public interventions, productions with community organizations and youth, animations, and feature-length documentary projects. Puppets Protest Pipeline, USA Verdad, Telesur 2014 Dinasaurs Occupy the Kochs at Museum of Natural History, New York, Public Intervention,…

Skopelos International Film Festival for Youth community video projects Skopelos, Greece 2013-2017 In 2013 as resident filmmaker at the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts on the Greek island of Skopelos, I produced several community video projects. Since then I have returned annually for the…