MUSIC FROM PLANET EARTH: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Anna Papathanasiou is a Greek- Canadian interdisciplinary artist. With roots in the fine arts and music she has created her own language through sound, video, performance, installation and sculpture works. Also a founding member and leading singer in the grunge band Puta Volcano Anna has studied Classical Piano and musical theory at the Athenaeum Maria Callas Conservatory, she has graduated from the Sports and Physical Education University [DUTH], holds a Bachelor at the Athens School of Fine Arts [ASFA] in painting and is currently running through her second year at the MFA in Visual Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts [ASFA] . Her works have been exhibited and performed in the U.S, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, Greece and Canada. She has performed alongside artists including the Black Keys, The Black Angels and Marci Ramone. In 2018 she presented her live piece “EAT” in New York, during the “The Time Bomb Gala” as a resident artist and during the Discover Watermill Day (Southampton, NY) where she participated at the Watermill Center International Summer Program under the direction of Robert Wilson. As part of the F.T.I.j team she also performed the piece “Empathetic Body” at the Architectural Biennale of Venezia at the Swamp Pavilion. She completed her residency in La Serre Arts Vivants at Ecole Nationale De Theatre held at Monument National in Montreal, Canada. The piece “Dancing with R” was completed as a somatic performance of 12 days in total duration with stops at cities of France, Spain and Andorra in some of the most emblematic buildings of Ricardo Bofill. Her video- performance “Christmas Tree” was exhibited at the Art Props, Kunst- Interventionen in Mannheim, Germany while she has also presented her works in the form of video, performance or public interventions in Japan, Digital Biennale, Electric Nights, Palais de Paris, Tokyo, Greece, Athens Biennale, Omonoia, “Infantry Square” and “Whispering in a room of Screamers”, Acropolis at the Bottom. She is a founding member of the “FTIJ.s” group and the “Das Ist Genau” project.

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