2022 – georgia sagri

Le Grand désenvoûtement Chapitre 1

at Palais de Tokyo

As part of Le Grand désenvoûtement [Spiritual Healing], Georgia Sagri presents a selection of drawings from this process of autonomous self-care. Over the course of the session, volunteers take up position on a stage covered in mattress. The exercises of diaphragm vibration that the artist proposes enables them to observe and localize within their bodies the pains that are symptoms of contemporary lifestyles and social and professional injunctions. Drawing is one tool used by the artist in this process for identifying pain. Through their titles and their visual cues, the drawings presented in this exhibition, which were created in 2020, individually attest to collective ills which enter into resonance here with the reality of a cultural institution that is also a possible pool of more or less unconscious pathologies.

Elsewhere, Georgia Sagri links these cartographies of pain to an incisive analysis of the art field through a reading of texts from her collection Stage of Recovery (Divided Publishing, 2021), which took place on Friday 9 December at 6PM.

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Georgia Sagri, Technique 5_1_5, 7_1_7, 12_1_12, with movement of the arms while focusing on the pain of the shoulder,hips and knees, 2020, & Edith Dekyndt, Radiesthetic Hall, 2008 - ongoing, installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photo by Aurelien Mole © Geogria Sagri

Georgia Sagri, installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photo by Aurelien Mole © Geogria Sagri

Georgia Sagri, Source, Hands and Arms, 2020, installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photo by Aurelien Mole © Geogria Sagri

Georgia Sagri & Edith Dekyndt, installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photo by Aurelien Mole © Geogria Sagri

Georgia Sagri, installation view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Photo by Aurelien Mole © Geogria Sagri

YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal

at Gropius Bau

YOYI is the name of the ceremonial song, dance and coming together that is central to Tiwi culture in northern Australia. YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal references this exclamation – an invitation to come together in celebration and mourning.

Following this invocation, the 25 invited artists embody just as many different strategies to critically challenge, re-invent, expand, perpetuate and disavow notions of care, repair and healing. Certain artists provide a critical lens on how the concept of care has been misused. Others propose methods of repair that differ significantly from Western perspectives. Finally, some ask if healing is possible or even needed. This spectrum of voices resonates through works in video, installations, paintings and performances, exhibited together across the entire ground floor of the Gropius Bau.

With works by Pierre Adler, Brook Andrew, Kader Attia, Tosh Basco, Mohamed Bourouissa, Andrea Büttner, Lavkant Chaudhary, Lygia Clark, André Eugène, Artemisia Gentileschi, Johanna Hedva, Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Eva Kot’átková, Betty Muffler & Maringka Burton, Grace Ndiritu, People’s Archive of Rural India, Outi Pieski, Paula Rego, Tabita Rezaire & Amakaba, Georgia Sagri, Yhonnie Scarce, Reginald Sénatus (Redji), SERAFINE1369 and Wu Tsang

Curated by Brook Andrew, Kader Attia with Giscard Bouchotte, Natasha Ginwala, Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, under the curatorial lead of Stephanie Rosenthal in collaboration with SERAFINE1369, In House: Artist in Residence 2021

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Installation view YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal , 2022 Georgia Sagri: Inhale and Exhale with the mouth turned arms, Treatment 28 September, 2020 | Breathing (7_1_7) | Treatment, May 18th, 2020 | Windface © Gropius Bau, Photo: Laura Fiorio

Installation view YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal , 2022 Georgia Sagri: Treatment, May 18th, 2020 | Breathing (7_1_7) | Inhale and Exhale with the mouth turned arms, Treatment 28 September, 2020 © Gropius Bau, Photo: Laura Fiorio

Holes Spirals Waves: Artist talk by Georgia Sagri

at The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the Project Room

Welcome to a presentation of the artist Georgia Sagri. Georgia Sagri’s talk is organized in the framework of Holes Spirals Waves, a programme that questions forms of chrononormativity and challenge culturally, socially and politically constructed concepts of time.

The talk is preceded by a three-days workshop dedicated to a group of practitioners that investigated, through physical responses and conversations, notions of care, self-recovery, pain, fatigue, exhaustion and anxiety.

KHMxMMM Artist talks Malmö

at Moderna Museet Malmö

KHM x MMM is a series of lectures and artist talks created in collaboration between Malmö Art Academy and Moderna Museet Malmö.

KHM x MMM presents a broad programme of internationally active artists, theorists, writers and curators connected to current themes and exhibitions. The programme and the invited speakers are presented continuously. Free admission.

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Stage of Recovery at Moderna Museet Malmö

SPINE

at the institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse

Georgia Sagri presents and develops with the students the tactile forces and her techniques of IASI (recovery). In the training, physical responses, as well as conversations with the students, furthers the investigation and the analysis of care, self-recovery, pain and fatigue, exhaustion, and anxiety. Georgia Sagri organized one-to-one meetings with the students. The assemblage of visual, gestural, and vocal impressions of the accumulated bodily experiences explored simultaneously on a personal and collective level: their chronic pains and their releases will form the backbone, the SPINE, of the resulting final presentation

Case_L Conversations

at Friart, Switzerland

Case_L, the deployment, in the form of an exhibition, of artist Georgia’s Sagri practice of self-recovery and her ongoing research on the physiological and pathological conditions of the body in a hyper-capitalist society.

Parallel program:

Conversation with Georgia Sagri, Mai-Thu Perret and Bea Schlingelhoff

Conversation with the Georgia Sagri, the curator Nicolas Brulhart and guest

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Choreographic Devices

at The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Choreography is no longer simply the art of making dances: complex models of the choreographic are increasingly tasked to investigate and animate the intersecting spatial, corporeal, affective and informational dimensions of being entangled with the world.

What kind of choreographic arrangements can we compose to put diverse thinkers and practitioners in relation to one another? What kinds of time spaces can be plotted, imagined and enacted, when the symposium itself is choreographed and takes shape as a sequence of sessions, each brought to life by different hosts? Through contributions and interventions by over 30 international protagonists from across an expanded ecology of practices, this multi-format symposium speculates on the affordances of choreographic (re-)arrangements and their complex forms of co-production, and tests how organisational formats, material assemblages, and modes of being alongside each other, might be choreographed otherwise.

Choreographic Devices assembles contributors operating across multiple disciplinary boundaries, including Murat Adash (artist), Edwina Ashton (artist), D. Graham Burnett (teacher, writer, interdisciplinary maker), Ofri Cnaani (artist), Augusto Corrieri (artist), Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin + Bojana Janković) (artists), Lou Forster (art historian, curator), keyon gaskin (artist), Martin Hargreaves (dramaturg, writer, performer), Vlatka Horvat (artist), Lenio Kaklea (choreographer, dancer, writer), Sarah Keenan (writer, theorist), André Lepecki (performance studies theorist, curator), Jason Edward Lewis (digital media theorist, poet, software designer), Raimundas Malasauskas (silk painter), Tavi Meraud (artist), Samaneh Moafi (architect, investigator), Rebecca Moss (artist), Harun Morrison (artist, writer), Sandra Noeth (body theorist, curator), Lara Pawson (writer), Daniela Perazzo (dance and performance theorist), Stamatia Portanova (theorist), Filipa Ramos (writer, curator), Irit Rogoff (educator, theorist), Florian Roithmayr (artist), Georgia Sagri (artist), Edgar Schmitz (artist), SERAFINE1369 (artist), Noémie Solomon (theorist, curator), Matthias Sperling (artist, choreographer, performer), Starhawk (author, permaculture designer, teacher, activist), Soap Bubble (complex mathematical problem), and Arkadi Zaides (choreographer).

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Institute of Artistic Practices 2022

at Tabakalera, San Sebastian

Guest teachers: Rosalind Nashashibi, Georgia Sagri, Lea Porsager, David Bestué, Ainara Elgoibar, Alejandro Cesarco, Ibon Aranberri, Jon Mikel Euba, Asier Mendizabal, Itziar Okariz, Mattin, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Isabel Herguera, Erlea Maneros Zabala and Txaro Arrazola

Tutors: Ibon Aranberri (artist), Asier Mendizabal (artist and Professor at KKH, Royal Institute of Art of Stockholm), and Itziar Okariz (artist)

Study Committee made up of Catalina Lozano (Chief Curator at Artium Museoa), Oier Etxeberria (Head of Public Programmes and curator at Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture), and the three aforementioned tutors.

The proposed mechanics are designed to encourage each guest artist to offer a unique vision of his/her own creative processes. A question is posed to all guest teachers as a frame for their proposal which serves as a definition of the program: Which practical knowledge that informs your practice can you share with others? This brings the methodology of the programme close to the relationships that are created in the workshop space, in the specific practices that are carried out in each moment and situation and not in a theoretical procedure. Said methodology will be put into practice by means of exercises, workshops, and other ad hoc meetings.

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Institute of Artistic Practices 2022 at Tabakalera, Spain

Prizing Eccentric Talents II

a group exhibition curated by George Bekirakis and Angelo Plessas.

works by: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Anastasia Douka, Dionisis Kavallieratos, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Niki Kanagkini, Alexandra Kehayoglou, Miltos Manetas, Maria Papadimitriou, Eleni Papazoglou, Angelo Plessas, Georgia Sagri, Eva Stefani.

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Prizing Eccentric Talents II, installation view, P.E.T. Projects

Case_L

Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg

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