Sofia Underground @ the Thessaloniki Performance Art Festival

From 29 June to 9 July 2015, SOFIA UNDERGROUND Performance Art Festival has been presented at the 5th Thessaloniki Biennial for Contemporary Art.

The presentation of SOFIA UNDERGROUND was realized due to the invitation of Irini Papaconstantinou – curator and coordinator of the Thessaloniki Performance Art Festival whose conduction was part of the main program of the Biennial, in 2015 – for a fourth consecutive time. This year, in addition to acts of performance artists the program of the Thessaloniki Performance Art Festival included video projections representing three other festivаls: Cyprus International Performance Art Festival, Videoplay and SOFIA UNDERGROUND. The event ended with a international conference examining the topic of the nature of performance art in Greece.

The the Thessaloniki audience SOFIA UNDERGROUND was presented in video documentation consisting of selected fragments from the past three editions of the festival – held in Sofia, respectively in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Dauhaus & eXAF @ the Thessaloniki Performance Festival / a part of the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale