Yorgos Biris

Wild Thyme Music #3 – A Sonic Interaction In 2004, musicologist Helga de la Motte Haber told me about composer Rolf Julius’ idea for a sound installation next to a highway that would make you forget the sound of traffic. The idea of such an ‘acoustic hole’, as she called it, has fascinated me ever…

(amvrosios gousgounis) ο λ(ο)υομενος – the bather installation I staged a brittle bather on a concrete beach that only exists in code.Nothing holds—yet it stands.

Bambambam There is no Country but childhood’s (R. Barthes) A theatrical performance between tenderness and morbidity. Are we ever truly innocent? A conversation between our inner space and the very special space of this abandoned factory. This special space, a huge room without windows, became part of the performance. The sound had an intense reverberation…

Mrs. Holle Just Left the Building

Magic Curtain The curtain enhances the desertedness of the space. “Obviously somebody tried to make themselves at home“, the driver sadly thinks while passing by. I found this mythical quote in Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972: „When you look at the curtain, you are overcome with a deep sense of happiness, but…

Metallic tree planting, revenge of the iron beam. I decided to plant metallic trees with some iron beams i had taken from a demolished building, in this way i wanted to manifest the “revenge of the iron beams”. Instead of the iron to be used as a structure material, it will be presenting itself like…