evi nakou

evi nakou is a musician and sound artist. Guided by collaborative methodologies, her practice is a hotchpotch of listening and sharing gestures of sound, text, and performance. Her work explores proximity and intimacy through accentuating situated stories in an improvised and semi-structured manner – stories often untold, unheard or erased. evi is a co-founder of the music ensemble Breakfast Club quartet and has recently joined the Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research collective as a co-coordinator of the research area Art as Research: Visual, Performative, and Documentary Knowledges.

She has collaborated with organizations such as the Barbican Centre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Women for Refugee Women, Melissa Network, Goethe-Insitut Athen, New York Philharmonic, CTM Festival, Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Onassis Stegi, on the basis of conceiving and facilitating context-led pedagogies and performing arts practices. She has coordinated workshops on music and sound improvisation and collaborative composition with people from diverse backgrounds and life paths, locally and internationally, namely Beit AlMusica in Palestine, La Sonora in Argentina, and Drum Works in the United Kingdom, as well as the Korydallos Prison Complex, the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA), various schools, and hospice, health care, and detention facilities in Attica, Greece.

evi shares a flat overlooking the Athenian concrete jungle.