Sound Acts

sound acts was a three-year research project and annual get-together, a showcase of projects that bring together performance art/gesture, sound/music and gender/body/identity. the work of eighty artists, performers and academics has been presented in three festivals. the project’s purpose has been twofold: on the one hand it has been an opportunity to establish connections between greek practitioners/theoreticians and the international community and on the other a chance to bring the athenian audience in contact with work that is generally left outside of local sound art and music showcases. having been called "the festival that will make the average greek mum shake in hysteria" by vice magazine and a showcase "for open-minded people who question the boundaries between different arts" by lifo, sound acts has been considered an important influence for the development of queer arts in greece. in the years after the festival's appearance, local art institutions showed an interesting turn