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Artist Statement
The emergence of technical advancements has transformed the way the body activates, composes and diffuses its presence. Every aspect of life is a performance for an undefined and continuous spectacle. There is no clear distinction between the producer and her product. The role of the author is diffused and the DJ becomes the paradigm for generations that met inside clubs, in huge music festivals and spent much of their time in constant transit, targeting an alternative form of work or even no work.

I’m interested in the dematerialized means of production in music industry and its agents, with the use of countless tools – re-mixing, sampling, copy and pasting, designing, becoming the model, giving service for, arranging and turning into the catalyst for any sort of diverse actions.   

The apparatus - architectures, plans, transportations, transmissions, communications, technologies, gadgets, any software of any sort, translations upon reproductions and re-translations - defines our perception, accumulation, and interaction. For my recent pieces, music is a method and operation. The rehearsal and the performance happens simultaneously by reciting movement modules that I find around me : on the internet, on various media, products, billboards, which then will be repeated again and again and presented in real time as sound phrases, melodies, rhythms, bases. This operation can exist in fields of constant flux, where individual and group interweaves. Social gathering is not bound anymore by any particular tradition. Relations are not created only through physical interaction but in circuits where acts turn into materials, texts, traces, media fragments that are available and can be immediately used. Gestures are carrying history and they can expand, develop and transform into new sources and waves which I observe, mimic and compose. For example in the piece Mask / Species of Politics I worked on several source materials. Some of the most recent were: the Greek prime minister’s hand gestures in the parliament, the woman’s cry at the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the smile of a teenager at an uprising.

The moment of composition is an environment of sound, pleasure, beats and exploration.
CV
GEORGIA SAGRI

Born in Athens, Greece in 1979

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sgeorgiaster@gmail.com
http://www.georgiasagri.blogspot.com

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2006-08    MFA Columbia University, New York, US
1997-02         Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
1991-03         National Music School of Athens, Cello Higher Diploma

Awards

2007              Joan Sovern Sculpture Award
2005            Spyropoulos Foundation, 2nd Award, Athens, Greece
2001             Deste Foundation, 1st Prize, Performance: In the Shop Window, Athens, Greece

Scholarships

2006              Fulbright Foundation
2006              A.S. Onassis Foundation
2006              Leventis Foundation
2006              Propondis Foundation


Projects:

FORTÉ       Founder and editor of audio-only magazine: www.magazineforte.com

SALOON    An ongoing collaborative project: saloon.saloon@gmail.com

2008             Blake Rayne and Kerstin Braetsch, LIC studio, NY
                     DEBO and Jean Jo, On Stellar Rays and Orchard street, NY
2009             Jason Loebs and Thomas Torres Cordova, Metropolitan Museum of Arts, the Chinese garden, NY
                     Charles Mayton and Viola Yesiltac, LIC studio, NY
                     Davis Rhodes and the sea, at the beach, GR
                     Carissa Rodriguez and Patrick Pryce, Canal street, NY
                     Oh friends there are no friends, 1st Saloon install, group show : No Bees No Blueberries, curated by Sairina Basta and Tyler Coburn, Harris Liebermann Gallery, NY
2010             Terri and Donna, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
                     KU and Mano Plizzi, BYOB, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens
                     Charly M. Cabarett (Eric Angles, Jacob Schillinger, Ilya Lipkin), Lowestrasse 25, Berlin
2011             Loretta Farhenhotz and Hans Chrisitan Lotz, Duane Reade store, 14th street, NY

Solo Exhibitions & Performances

2011     OWEN, Socrates Sculpture Garden FLOAT, NY (curated by Cleopatra’s)
                      Live Portfolio part of the Grand Openings: Return of the Blogs, MoMa, NY (curated by Sabine   Breitwieser, Ana Janevski and Jenny Schlenzka
                      Μοντέλο της Αντιγόνης, Antigone Model, Real Fine Arts, New York
Mask / Species of Politics, The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (curated by Nancy Spector)
2010     One, SOTOSO, Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier 167, Brussels
2009    ΓΑΛΑΞΗ/ Another Study of the Same Page, A.D. gallery, Athens, Greece
     Georgia Sagri, Vitamin Kids for Trio A, one night event, Artists Space, New York (curated by Amy Owen)
                      Do Jaguar, On Stellar Rays, New York
Yze Alone, performance at The National Theater of Greece, Rex Theater, Upper Circle Foyer, Athens,  Greece (curated by Ghislaine Dantan and Eleni Coucou )
2008        Edtaonisl, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
                        When you see me again it won’t be me, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’,         
                      Smith Stewart Gallery, New York
2005        Confession, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
2003         Georgia Sagri, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece

Group Exhibitions

2011      MASSAGE [Paul, Rosenkranz, Sagri, Walczak], AndrewRoth Gallery, New York (curated by Alex      Kitnick)
2010         Reconstruction #1 On Stellar Rays, New York
    Perpetuum nonstabile: Cantata #2 for Lost House Painters, Solo Viola and a Jukebox, performance by Daniel Bozhkov and Georgia Sagri. Cello Suite No.3 in C major by Johann Sebastian Bach, Raul Garcia, viola, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
    Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Diego Singh)
2009        One Minute More, The Kitchen, New York (curated by Debra Singer)
        Looking back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (curated by Primary Information)
        Vlassis Caniaris. In Contrapunto, National Bank Cultural Foundation, Athens, Greece
    The First Image, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussilon, Sete, France (curated by   Denys Zacharopoulos)
2008            A Seer Out of Season, On Stellar Rays, New York (curated by Candice Mandey and Tairone Bastien) 
                      Women Only, Beltsios Collection, Margaris Gallery, Amfilochia, Greece (curated by Sotirios Bahtertzis)
    Yes, AR/Contemporary Gallery, Milan (curated by Tairone Bastien)
     Kissing My Canvas, performance with Ei Arakawa, New Museum, New York
     Below Is The Sea And Our Desert Is Beside Us, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39
     Columbia University Thesis Show, Fisher Landau Art Center, Long Island, New York (curated by Joao Ribas)
This is the waiting room, dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’ (Kerstin Braetsch, Allison Katz, Adele Roder, Georgia Sagri), The Unfair Art Fair, Rome, Italy
                     When you see me again it won’t be me, dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’ (Kerstin Braetsch, Allison Katz, Adele Roder, Georgia Sagri), Smith Stewart Gallery, New York
        After Dark, Bushwick Star, New York
    Untitled: This is what is going to happen, Lumen House, New York (curated by Summer Guthrey)
Nichts Ist Aufregend, Nichts Ist Sexy, Nichts Ist Nicht Peinlich, dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’ (Kerstin Braetsch, Allison Katz, Adele Roder, Georgia Sagri) Mumok, Vienna (curated by Achim Hochdörfer und Tanja Widmann)
2007        Mini Concerts in Back Valley, Smith Stewart Gallery, New York
     Below Is The Sea And Our Desert Is Beside Us Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (curated by XYZ) 
        Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (curated by Jeffrey Deitz)
        Dream and Trauma, Works from Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, a joint project with Kusthalle Wien
                      and Mumok Museum, Wien
        1st Year MFA Show, Columbia University, New York
2006             Panic Room, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
    An Outing: The Beltsios Collection: Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st Century, Trikala, Greece
                      Art Fab ‘Women in Europe’, group exhibition, Saint Tropez, France
    Tatoo My Art, group exhibition, A.Antonopoulou.Art, Athens, Greece (curated by Nadja Argyropoulou0
2005           The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, QUARTER, Centro Produzione                                                    
                       Arte, Florence, Italy (curated by Marina Fokidis)
                       Protaseis, Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece
              The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
                       Homage to Drawing, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
                       The Simple Life, Hydra High School, Hydra, Greece
                       7 Performances & A Conversation, Athens, Greece
          Lost in Translation, Hellenic American Union, Athens,   Greece
2004          Manderlay, Hotel Astoria, Thessaloniki, Greece
          Videokunst Geist, Gemeinschaft und Tschai, Athens, Greece
            Domestic Alien, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece (curated by Kostis Velonis)
         Et In Iraq Ego, Alpha Station, Athens, Greece
          Processing Radar, Technopolis, Municipality of Athens, Athens, Greece
          Breakthrough! Greece 2004: Contemporary Perspective in the Visual Arts, ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain
2003          So Much… So Great, Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, Greece (curated by Xenia Kalpaktzoglou)
          Solus Locus, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
     Radar, Contemporary Arts for European Cities, Venice Biennale, Centro Civicio, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
          Anthem to Freedom, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
2002         Seeing is Beleiving, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece
         Still Life I, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
         Glimpses, digital loops, htpp://www.softknot.gr/glimpses
         Ruins Inhabitants- Still Life II, Hotel Theoxenia, , Portaria, Greece
2001              In the Shop Window, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
         A Damaged Piece of Video for Closed Eyes, Café Muller, Rotterdam, Holland
         Before You Enter Take Your Shoes Off, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2000             Night Town Café, Rotterdam, Holland
1999             Polytechnic 1999, the Polytechnic, Patission Street, Athens, Greece
1997            Fluxus, The Factory, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
               
Selected Bibliography

2011     Alex Kitnick, ‘Bad Memory: Interview with Georgia Sagri’, Idiom Magazine (idiommag.com), 27 April [http://idiommag.com/2011/04/bad-memory-interview-with-georgia-sagri/]
    Ken Johnson, ‘Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures’, New York Times, April
2010    David Velasco, ‘Drama Queen’, Artforum, September
    Stephanie Bailey, Exhibition Review, Art Papers, March/April (ill.)
    Georgia Sagri interview with Christopher Marinos, Kaput, February (ill.)
2009    Natalie Bell, ‘One Minute More’, Art Papers, November / December
    Charlie Schultz, ‘One Minute More’, Art Slant, September
    Alex Gartenfeld , ‘A Stage of Her Own: Georgia Sagri’, Art in America, August
    Georgia Sagri, ‘Georgia Sagri’, Flash Art, March
2008      Carolina Busta, ‘New York’, Artforum, December
       Lilly Wei, ‘Destroy, They Said’, Art In America, June/July (ill.)
       Dr. Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Interventionist and Public-Responive Art in Greece, Res, May (ill.)
       P. Georgiadou, ‘Deuteri Anagnosi’, Vogue Hellas, April (ill.)
2007     ‘Crimes of Passion’, www.mosaiko.gr, February
2006      Petros Birbilis, ‘Georgia Sagri’, Vima Donna, April (ill.)
2005         Marina Fokidis, ‘Georgia Sagri’, Flash Art, July-September (ill.)
         Despina Zevkeli, ‘Twenty One’, Athinorama, 12-19 May (ill.)
         Despina Zevkeli, ‘Georgia Sagri; Confession, I Performer Apousiazi’, Athinorama, 12-19 May (ill.)
         Dora Papageorgiou, ‘Exi Theates sti Faka Tis’, Eleftherotipia, 27 May (ill.)
        ‘Parousiasi: Georgia Sagri’  Time Out Athens, 21 April (ill.)
        ‘I Martires Mias Performance’, Athinorama, 21-28 April (ill.)
         Augustinos Zenakos, ‘Na Bgei Kaneis i Na Mi Bgei?’, Vima Donna, March (ill.)
         Eliana Dimadi and Despina Zevkeli, ‘To Soma Diadilonei’, Athinorama, 10 March (ill.)
       ‘Ta Dora ton Allon’, To Vima, 20 February (ill.)     
        Vaggelis Blahos, ‘Chameni sti Metafrasi’, Time Out Athens, 17 February
        Fotini Barka, ‘ Apantochi tis to Koino’, Eleftherotipia, February (ill.)
2004       ‘To Koritsi tis Diplanis Vitrinas’, Kathimerini, 25 December (ill.)
                     ‘Techni k Lemargia’, To Vima, 14 November (ill.)
        Natasa Adamou, ‘ Georgia Sagri’, Time Out Athens, 4-11 March (ill.)
       ‘Art Athina’, Athinorama, 29 April (ill.)
2003       ‘Thimithite’, Marie Claire, December
        Antonis Galanopoulos, ‘ D-Eikastiki Parembasi’, Eleftherotipia, 26 November (ill.)
        ‘Georgia Sagri’, The S Magazine, 13 November (ill.)
       ‘Performance in Progress’, Athinorama, 20-27 November (ill.)
        Giorgios Tzirtzilakis, ‘Ti Mpori Ena Soma?’, Athens Voice, 23-29 October (ill.)
       ‘Perfomance se Tris Fasis’, Athinorama, 16-23 October (ill.)
         Mairi Adamopoulou, ‘Georgia Sagri, Egine Techni Chiropodara Demeni’, Ta Nea, 23 October (ill.)
       ‘Egkainia; Georgia Sagri’, Time Out Athens, 23-29 October (ill.)
        Dionisia Lagiou,’Ekkolaptomeni Kallitexnes’, Ethnos, 28 May (ill.)
       ‘Ta Apominaria Mias Performance’, Athinorama, 13-20 March (ill.)
            Maria Tsilibidou, ‘ “Ymnos eis tin Eleftherian” Me Tavli, Prefa Kai Bioloncello’, Investors World, 8-9
        March (ill.)
       ‘Ymnos eis tin Eleftherian’, Epsilon, 9 March (ill.)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2010-11
(source material, screen shot, image 1)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2011
(photo booth rehearsal, image 1)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance,
2010-11
(source material, screen shot, image 2)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2011
(photo booth rehearsal, image 2)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2010-11
(source material, screen shot, image 3)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2011
(photo booth rehearsal, image 3)
ONE, performance, 2010, SOTOSO, Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier 167, Brussels
Antigone Model, performance, 2011,
Real Fine Arts, NY
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2010-11
(source material, screen shot, image 5)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2010-11
(source material, screen shot, image 5)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2010-11
(source material, screen shot, image 5)
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2011
(photo booth rehearsal, image 5)
LIVE PORTFOLIO, 3h performance, part of Grand Openings Return of The Blogs, 2011, MoMa, NY
LIVE PORTFOLIO, 3h performance, part of Grand Openings Return of The Blogs, 2011, MoMa, NY
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2011, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
MASK / SPECIES OF POLITICS, performance, 2011, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
The Invisible Ones, 4h performance for one by one viewer,  2008, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
The Invisible Ones, 4h performance for one by one viewer, 2008, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London