mezedes on the ilissos — a parasitic dinner

dinner, sound installation
2022

A collaboration with Lena Violetta Leitner. Many thanks to Anastassia Papadima and Giorgos Tsiongas.

What has happened to the rivers in Athens? This is what Vienna-based artist Lena Violetta Leitner and I asked ourselves. We decided to organise a dinner close to the Ilissos, once a fast-flowing river whose history goes back to Plato’s times. As ‘parasites’ in the classic sense of the word (from the Greek word παράσιτος, referring to a person who eats at the table of another), we shared a meal inside the riverbed. Together with two locals, we discussed Athens’ rivers and our own ‘parasitical’ experiences.

The project was later presented as a sound installation at State of Concept in Athens, as part of the event Where is the river? on 28 April, 2022.

Photos of the dinner, the invitation, the menu, and the sound-installation. Photos courtesy of Lena Violetta Leitner and Frederiek Simons.

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Textile artist, researcher, and writer based in Amsterdam. I work with textiles and other material forms as a way of thinking and researching. In doing so, I treat these materials as tools to expose and unsettle taken-for-granted views and naturalized routines of daily life.

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