Audio paper for International Walking Encounters/Conference 
Sunday July 4th to Sunday July 11th 2021, Prespa, Greece

Performing Memory In Familiar Places

Voice: Maria Sideri, Clarissa Ramos Saccheli
vocals from far away: Kostis Kylimis and George Zachos
Electronics: Maria Sideri 
Produced: George Zachos 

Text: manuals how to write  political speeches in Indonesia. The text is recorded after devising an exercise of exhaustion with my friend Clarissa in order to see how the voice and the delivery of the text changes through exhaustion. TO be continued... 
 

Indonesia

"Το όνομα της"  (her name) είναι ένα ηχητικό έργο αφιερωμένο στις εξόριστες γυναίκες της Ανάφης κατα τη διάρκεια της δικτατορίας του Mεταξά. Παρουσιάστηκε στα πλαίσια της έκθεσης "φαινόμενα" στην Ανάφη τον Ιούλιο του 2021 σε ανάθεση από το  State of Concept. 

το ονόμα της (her name)
Maria Sideri 
Displacement (ektopisi) a peculiar hostage taking, a violent and forced change of residency. During the dictatorship of Metaxa in Greece(1936-1941), the practice of displacement has functioned as a mean of pressure that along with the use of psychological and physical violence, had as an aim the renunciation of one’s political and ideological ideas and aimed at intimidating and inactivating citizens who staffed unions, democratic political bodies and scientific and artistic associations.
Between 1938- 1942, a number of women were displaced in Anafi. Workers in factories of tobacco, silk or craft enterprises, tailors, one of them a teacher, mainly coming from the north of Greece, very little is known about their stories, their revendications for equal pay and equal salaries and their feminist actions during the Metaxa dictatorship. Margaret Kenna, informs us that there are no testimonies from women themselves about their own displacement in Anafi during the Metaxa period. The little information of their time in exile derives from written testimonies by men. Displaced in the islands and displaced from history, this audio narration aims to recall their names and stories and mark their trace in the island of Anafi.    
The women displaced in Anafi during the Metaxa dictatorship were : Ilektra Apostolou, Elisavet Iliadou-Zagourtzi, Anastasia Nikolaidou, Maria Desipri- Svolou, Eirini Skalidou, Athanasia Tsakiri, Margarita Kotsaki, Sofia or Smaro Kritikou, Ourania Mattheolaka, Rosa Retzina, Maria Varouchidou, Vasiliki Karatzoumani or Karatsoumaki and Panagiota or Athanasia Kanaria. 

φαινόμενα
July 5–12, 2021, Anafi, Greece
The Kerenidis Pepe Collection and the Association Phenomenon present
φαινόμενα, a one-week program of contemporary art taking place on the Aegean island of Anafi, Greece, between 5–12 July, 2021, in collaboration with the invited art spaces 3 137, EIGHT, Enterprise Projects, The Island Club and State of Concept Athens, from Greece and Cyprus. Having as a starting point questions of spatialities and heterotopias in connection to the island as a place as well as to its history, each space will have one day to orchestrate an event —a performance, a screening, a reading, a community game, an art installation in the public space— that will function as a chapter in a longer open-ended story that unfolds over the week.

Το όνομά της (her name)

Somewhere Nice
International Summerfestival Kampgnagel
interactions 2024 
tanz: digital LAB
 
Exercises in Taking a Break by LIGNA
 
Frankfurt | Hamburg
 
In the hustle and bustle of the festival, selected benches in the public space between the various venues invite visitors to linger. Visitors can stop there and listen to the stories of international artists using an app specially developed by LIGNA. In ‘Meet Me at the Bench. Exercises in Taking a Break’ we meet artists who are living in exile, fleeing wars or armed conflicts and unbearable social conditions. With them, we embark on an acoustic journey into their worlds and transform the benches in Frankfurt and Offenbach into places where unexpected encounters can take place. Will we relax and enjoy a breath of fresh air together on equal terms? Or will our perspectives shift against the backdrop of European (colonial) history?
 
Location:Frankfurt-Offenbach
 
Cast & Credits
Concept, Production: LIGNA (Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners, Torsten Michaelsen)
Voices: The artists and Christine Nothofer, Isaak Dentler (German synchronisation)
Programming the App: DCP
Dramaturgical Support: Anna Bründl
Translation: Michael Hein, Dorothee Calvillo, Christina Barrera, WU Xueqing
Contributing Artists: Andrezza Alves (Recife, Brasilia, z.Zt. Lisbon, Portugal), Maryam Bagheri (Teheran, Iran), Mitra Ziaei Kia (Teheran, Iran, z.Zt.Aukland, New Zealand), Chto Delat (St. Petersburg, Russia, z.Zt.Hamburg, Germany) Tamara Cubas (Montevideo, Urugay), Ishvara Devati (Jakarta, Indonesia), Raquel Meseguer (Bristol, England), Nature Theater of Oklahoma (New York, USA), Tedious Work (Birmingham, England, z.Zt.Freiburg, Germany / Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Anton Ovchinnikov (Kiev, Ukraine, z.Zt.Vilnius, Latvia), Panaibra Gabriel Canda (Maputo, Mozambique), Park Fiction (Hamburg, Germany), Maria Sideri (Athens, Greece), Mohamed Toukabri (Tunis, Tunesia, currently Bruxelles, Belgium), Zora Snake (Jaounde, Cameroon / Bruxelles, Belgium), Wen Hui (Beijing, China, z.Zt. Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
 
Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit der Regionalpark Rhein-Main GmbH
 
About the event: https://theaterderwelt.de/en/meet-me-at-the-bench/
 
Download the application :https://theaterderwelt.de/en/meet-me-at-the-bench/

Somewhere Nice

this track was made for the event LOVE LETTERS TO EUROPE  
curated by Lisa Alexander at BIOS in ATHENS
http://lovelettersposteurope.tumblr.com/artists

Vocals-Piano: Maria Sideri 
Guitars: Thanasis Tzinkovits 
Bass Clarinet: Thanos Sideris 
Trumpet: George Avramidis

Produced by: Thanasis Tzinkovits 
Recorded by : Tasos Korkovelos 


The Union

Take me to your Favourite Place is an audio publication that departs from my residency in the Villa Empain in Bruxelles between November and December 2018 and culminates in the occasion of Festival Signal#7 in August 2018. 
With the support of CIFAS, this publication marks my passage from the city of Bruxelles through various encounters, a workshop and interviews. Through subjective geography, this object suggests to think around how women passing by or living in Bruxelles experience topographical restrictions today.

Maria Sideri

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