Thursday, 27 November 2025, 19:00

Hugo Solís 
Bridge GR–MX

sound performance, ambisonics soundscape, 2025
50 min

This performance constructs a sonic bridge between Mexico City and Thessaloniki by braiding together their distinct field recordings. Using immersive Ambisonics audio, the piece manipulates these soundscapes in real time, dynamically playing with perceptions of space and environment. This foundation is then layered with rich synthetic textures and sequenced patterns, generated through a synthesizer and processed with loopers and digital effects.

Hugo Solís is an electronic artist focused on the creative and aesthetic possibilities arising from the intersection of sound, digital technologies, and interactivity. He has exhibited works and given concerts in Mexico and abroad. He regularly participates in specialized events in the fields of art, science, and technology. He has received support, scholarships, and recognition from FONCA, UNAM, TELMEX, MIT, the University of Washington, DXARTS, IMEB-Bourges, Centro Multimedia, Transitio_MX, and Leonardo, among others. He is currently a member of the National System of Researchers. In 2013 and 2019, he was recognized as a member of the National System of Art Creators. He is a full-time professor at the Metropolitan Autonomous University. 

Jaanika Peerna

Warm Offering of Cold

performance, 2025
20 min

For the performance, Jaanika Peerna uses a sculpted piece of ice as the central element of the choreography. Channeling a deeply felt engagement with the climate crisis, particularly the loss of glaciers, Peerna employs ice as a totemic representation of strength, beauty, and environmental fragility in her performances, as well as a medium of erasure, flow, and transformation. The participatory performance connects her installation Cold Love with the body of water just outside the museum.

Jaanika Peerna is an Estonian-born artist based in New York and Lisbon. Her work encompasses drawing, installation, and performance, often dealing with the theme of transitions in light, air, water and other natural phenomena. For her performances she often involves the audience in participatory reflection on the current climate meltdown. Her art practice stems from the corporeal experience of our existence and reaches towards enhanced awareness of the fragility, interconnectedness and wonder of all life. 

She has exhibited her work and performed in the entire New York metropolitan area as well as internationally. Her work is held in numerous private collections in the USA and Europe and is part of the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (France) and the Glyn Vivian Museum (UK). Her work is represented by JHB Gallery, Artrovert and IdeelART. In 2022, her monograph Glacier Elegies was published by Terra Nova Press/MIT Press.

Saturday, 13 December 2025, 20:00*

Vito Palumbo - Niki Lada - Francesco Abbrescia

Skin V 

sound performance, for solo voice with amplification, 2024

14 min

Vito Palumbo has developed the concept of “light-sound”, a concept that goes beyond the notions of color and timbre, and encompasses both a new reflection on certain characteristics of sound and, above all, on their treatment and elaboration through orchestration. His works were born from the abstract idea of ​​a progressive proliferation of “sound seeds”, each of which would generate its own aura, like a shadow. The relationship and spatial superposition of these auras gradually constitute a kaleidoscope of different lights and colors, which comes to life and is articulated in a process of gradual densification.

Niki Lada, mezzo-soprano, performs both 19th-century and contemporary classical repertoire. She appears as the leading female role, Femme, in Nicolas Tzortzis’s opera Le mort et la résurrection, staged by the Greek National Opera in March 2025, and performs Skin V by Vito Palumbo at the MTR Festival in Naples in December 2024.

She has collaborated with Franck Bedrossian, Rosalba Quindici, Divertimento Ensemble, Suono Giallo Ensemble, and Opificio Sonoro, and has performed in venues such as Teatro Litta di Milano and the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto.

In 2024–2025, she served as the leading female voice of the Greek National Opera’s annual composition workshop. 

Vito Palumbo is an Italian composer whose works have been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, and the Athenäum-Quartett Berliner Philharmoniker. A graduate of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, he previously attended the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and received a personal scholarship from Luciano Berio.

In 2005, he was awarded the G. Petrassi Prize by the President of the Italian Republic. A winner of several international competitions, including the Prokofiev Competition, Palumbo has received commissions from major institutions and festivals worldwide, among them Philharmonia Quartett Berlin, Academie de France, and Teatro Petruzzelli. His music has been broadcast by RAI Radiotre, Radio France, and Arté France.

Francesco Abbrescia is an Italian composer and performer of electroacoustic music. He studied piano, singing, and choral conducting, and graduated in Composition and Electronic Music from the “Niccolò Piccinni” Conservatory of Bari, where he now teaches Performance and Interpretation of Electroacoustic Music. His work centers on live electroacoustic performance and computer-based compositional modeling through algorithmic methods. As a sound director and live electronics performer, he has collaborated with composers such as Ivan Fedele, Michele Dall’Ongaro, and Vito Palumbo, as well as with musicians including Francesco D’Orazio and Filippo Lattanzi. His performances have been presented at the Venice Biennale, IRCAM – Visions, and Milano Musica. Winner of the National Arts Award (2008/09), he authored In Human Memories (Ex Chordis, 2024).

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

φø (Fotis Rovolis)

Cyborgutt 2.0

sound performance, 2023
18 min

Cyborgutt is an electroacoustic interactive composition for a performer and biosensors, creating a soundspace/narration of a genderfluid body. The performer, through biosensors, controls in real-time, a pre-recorded soundscape based on all of the sounds the body can produce, as well as their live breathing and heartbeat. The works, thus, create an environment, where the vital rhythms of the oneself, give flow to the sounds they produce and merge them together in patterns. Three main rhythms are used as the basic structure, the conscious determined breathing, the unconscious determined heartbeat and the unconscious undetermined gutt. 

As the result of a research bridging queer theory, cyborg politics and the field of music, the work observes the gendered boundaries of the body, voice and sounds, which are trapped in stereotypical binary perceptions. Bringing together Butler, Harraway and Massumi, the different rigid trajectories are deconstructed under a common notion of fluidity and boundarylessness. The voice has no gender. Listening is the process that assigns gender to it. 

φø (Fotis Rovolis) is the sound artist behind Invisible Soma. Having studied Architecture (Thessaly), Electroacoustic music composition (Sonology/Artscience, Hague; NKUA, Athens), φø explores the boundaries between sound, body and space through installations, soundscapes, performances, digital collages and videos. A central part of their process is finding a certain sound bank and creating everything out of it. In their works they express political, imaginary and queer narrations, using alternative identities and alias (Zirlar Mord Ω', norcimo ii). They have collaborated on short films, theatrical pieces and performances and have presented papers at international conferences including ICMC (Seoul) and SMC (Porto). Recently they took part in the 6th Festival of Contemporary Dance Compartments dance project (To treno sto Rouf) and in Worlds within worlds program by NCSR "Demokritos" and Fluxus Laboratory. 

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

Dafin Antoniadou & Andrey Smirnov 
Ηχόσωμα (Echo-soma)
performance for a dancer, terpsitone, and computer, 2025 
30 min

Ηχόσωμα (Echo-soma) presents the collaborative work of artist-researcher Andrey Smirnov and choreographer Dafin Antoniadou. The performance is structured around a unique historical instrument: the terpsitone. Originally invented by Leon Theremin in 1931 as the first instrument to convert a dancer’s full-body movements into sound, it was never mass-produced and remains a rarity. This performance features Smirnov's 2025 reconstruction.

Within an active bio-feedback loop, Antoniadou’s choreography engages the instrument as a partner. Her movements, from subtle gestures to expansive leaps, directly influence the sound’s pitch and texture. This dialogue makes the dancer’s body the central agent of a live-composed sonic universe, exploring the eternal theme of creation and destruction in real time.

Dafin Antoniadou is a choreographer and performer whose work explores the body as a vessel for the technological and narrative dimensions of sound. Her practice treats movement as an essential extension of sonic material, creating powerful, cinematic stories that investigate the limits of human consciousness. This methodology translates to a collaborative spectrum. Through her ongoing collaboration with composer Constantine Skourlis, she has created works like the audio-visual installation DEEP HORIZON, as well as the choreography and film Vanishing Point, that explore the body as a place of information and memory, all productions of Onassis Stegi (2021). With composer Filippos Sakagian, she presented Dionysian Skin at IRCAM/Centre Pompidou (2022). Their continued work, KTVC [hypnos] – collective hypnosis experience at NFM (2025), further explores this territory. Her newest work, Darkest White, premiered at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (GRAPE, 2025) continues to delve deeper into the multidimensional use of sound as a performative tool for storytelling. Antoniadou is a recipient of the ARTWORKS award (2021) and an Aerowaves artist (2022). 

Andrey Smirnov is an artist and researcher based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He is a special scientific associate at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection in Thessaloniki, the founder of the Theremin Center in Moscow (1992), Rodchenko Sound Lab at the Rodchenko Art School in Moscow (2017) and Zerkalo Art Space in Thessaloniki (2025). His collection of the historical documents and instruments has been combined with extensive research into the history of music technology with broad experience in composition, interactive performance and curatorial activities. He is the author of the monographs 'Sound In Z: Experiments in “Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th Century Russia” (London, 2013) and “In Search of Lost Sound. Experimental Sound Culture in Russia and the USSR in the First Half of the Twentieth Century’s” (Moscow, 2020) (The Book of the Year Award at Innovation 2021 Competition, Moscow).

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

Saturday, 20 December 2025, 16:00 & 20:00

Maria F. Dolores & Paula Pin (Transnoise)
Transnoise Meet Inside the BioArtLab/ bioTranslab
workshop and performance, 2025
workshop 16:00–20:00*

performance 20:00*

4 hours

BioArtLab/ bioTranslab is a space of experimentation dedicated to the study of nature, feminist ecology, and the promotion of open science. By deactivating capitalist logic, its purpose is to use and produce free software and open source tools. It creates spaces for sharing and co-production of knowledge that start from the experiences of the body and extend towards collective interventions. During the workshop we will collectively build a microscope by hacking a web cam. Through our microvision we will try to imagine a holistic transfeminist approach to health and care. The workshop will end with a collective performance consisting of modular synth sounds, visuals by the microscopes, enhanced with recorded interventions from people working at public hospitals in Greece. 

Transnoise (Maria F. Dolores & Paula Pin) was formed around 2010 coming out of the trans hack feminist postporn community of Barcelona. Experimenting on recycling and hacking low-cost technologies, used free code to build DIY circuits, explored collectively the notion of witchcraft performing cyborg hybrid identities and offered workshops of body post-gender instruments. At present, Maria F. Dolores is co-founder of Athens Museum Of Queer Arts and  part of the collective NIONIA, fostering transfeminist culture in Greece. Paola Pin based in Galicia, researches open source autonomous practices, designs and fabricates devices, runs BioArtLab/ bioTranslab, located always in the intersection where biology, science and queer art collide.

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

Saturday, 24 January 2026, 19:00*

Eva Duru & Anthie Kyrkou

+αφές

theremin-voice-synth

sound performance with the theremin and electronics, 2025

35 min

In this project Eva Douru and Anthi Kyrkou, two musicians who share a common love for the liminal spaces between sound and voice, will present a sonic landscape that balances between atmosphere and music. The two artists will combine theremin with live voice loops, piano, synths and electronics to create dreamy soundscapes. They will reimagine beloved previous century's orchestral themes, improvise upon them and blend them with their own compositions.

Eva Duru is a keyboardist, thereminist, and vocalist from Larissa, based in Thessaloniki. She studied classical piano and Music, Art and Science at the University of Macedonia. She has performed as both musician and dancer in theatrical and performance projects at major Greek festivals, including the Thessaloniki Biennale and Athens Epidaurus Festival. Since beginning her exploration of synthesizers and the theremin in 2012, she has toured and recorded with numerous indie-alternative groups and renowned Greek solo artists. A devoted vinyl collector, she also works as a DJ.

Anthie Kyrkou was born in Ioannina and currently based in Thessaloniki. She studied piano, music theory, singing and vocal improvisation. Over the past decade, she has taken part in numerous interdisciplinary and musical projects, performing and recording with various bands. Her first solo project was 7 Songs I Will Tell You (2012) — an original musical collage built on parallels and correlations between well-known musical themes, performed entirely with toy instruments and children’s musical devices. In November 2018, she released her debut album, Goodnight Little Moon — thirteen pop-infused tracks blending electronic elements, psychedelic moods, and avant-garde timbres.

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.

Anastasia Fiori Metallinou & Tilemachos Moussas

Interdisciplinary Sonic Exploration: Astronomical Data Sonification in Contemporary Jazz-Baroque Fusion

music performance, 2025 

45 min 

This experimental artistic project explores the intersection of astronomy and music by sonifying astronomical phenomena — ranging from magnetic storms to pulsar emissions — and integrating them into contemporary musical compositions. The framework fuses early Baroque vocal traditions with modern jazz harmonic language, creating a dialogue between historical and contemporary musical vocabularies.

Instrumentation — including electric guitar, loops, and musical saw — establishes a distinctive timbral landscape that interacts seamlessly with the soprano voice of Anastasia Metallinou. By translating astrophysical data into sound, the project investigates how celestial phenomena can serve as generative material for composition, transforming scientific observation into artistic expression.

The result is an innovative exploration of sonic outer space, where data-driven sonification and musical creativity converge, opening new avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry and expanding the boundaries of auditory perception.

Anastasia Fiori Μetallinou is a Public Outreach Officer at Thissio Visitor Center of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and a National Outreach Coordinator of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). She received her diploma in Physics, and her M.Sc. degree in Atmospheric and Environmental Physics from the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, and her Ph.D in “Development and Recovery of Magnetic Storms in Geospace”. Her research background is on simulating ion acceleration in the Earth’s magnetosphere during magnetic storms.

She has received a diploma in classical singing. As an astronomer and musician she has been involved in sonification projects in order to engage the general public to astronomy through sound. She collaborates with composers of electronic music, sound engineers and musicologists from the Department of Music of the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens and the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at Ionian University in Greece, for sonifying scientific data. She contributes to the dissemination of astronomy and space physics concepts with public lectures, articles in the media and TV shows.

Tilemachos Moussas is a composer and multi-instrumentalist, currently pursuing a PhD at the Department of Music Studies, NKUA, on augmented vocal expression and improvisation with digital media. He holds a Master’s in Jazz Guitar and degrees in Education and Agricultural Studies. He has studied at major conservatories and plays theremin, musical saw, berimbau, didgeridoo, and lavta.

His work combines composition, improvisation, and AI technologies using Python and Max/MSP.

He has written music for over 70 theatre and dance productions, collaborating with institutions such as BAM, CCRMA, IRCAM, Tanztheater Wuppertal, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece, and the Greek National Opera.

*Entrance with the exhibition’s ticket.