Querring Ecologies

Performative approaches
within and around bodies of water and waterscapes

Blended Intensive Programme
Volos, March 16-20, 2026

 

-Department of Architecture and
 Department of Culture, Creative Media and Industries,
University of Thessaly

-École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

-École de Recherche Graphique, Brussels

 

 Performance 17st of March.

Beginning of Spring 

MANTRI (Pen), Kalamaki larisis next to lake Karla

 

Images and Video: Nikos Ioannidis

 

 

Prelude: Grey March Sky

 

Poem from

Goatsong.

 

Translated from the greek by Brian Sneeden.#goatsong @fitzcarraldoeditions

 

 

 

Prelude: Grey March Sky

Each spring I give again the burial of myself.

I bury the others, the previous springs

I bury this spring, which is not like the rest

I bury myself in spring

so that I may crawl inside my body in summer

and tear from the desiccated hide of autumn

and winter, stubbornly, to insist the ghost

of my compulsion

winter would have absolute freedom

existence in the vast expanse

of Mongolian highlands, the gallop

of long-haired horses, the words

of singers from another season, storytellers

but—

like when at the end of winter, in the fatigue and exhaustion

of daily regimen

a star flashes suddenly in the sky

of the cup of wine we are drinking

in solitude together

and the star’s glint leading us astray

down old paths driving us to open once more

we owe this opening, the paths nearly closed

from branches and ferns

we owe this abandonment

again and again each year we bury

what we were and leave behind

an exoskeleton of singular form

each different but multiple

we bury it with ritual in the grasses

we leave it in the bright stems

of weeds we clung to we rip out

we bury it in the sand, we toss it in the sea

on the way we meet women carrying bouquets

of wildflowers, gazing off. Slowly

and tortuously we begin to clear the paths

there in the middle space of the half-opened

beneath the earth in myriad creatures

spring is sleeping.