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.

Lena Violetta Leitiner and I bonded over Greek food and drinks in Athens. During one of our meetings, we wondered: could these shared meals become an artwork? This question led us to organise a dinner with local Athenians and the nearly dried-up Ilissos river as our dinner guests. We were joined by unanticipated guests too, such as birds and orange-throwing teenagers. As parasitic guests in the classic sense of the word (the Greek παράσιτος refers to a person who eats at the table of another), they nestled in our conversations about life, rivers, and parasites.

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. I thereby treat these materials as tools to expose and unsettle taken-for-granted views and naturalized routines of daily life.

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