Maria Sideri

Maria Sideri is an artist and researcher.

Influenced by her background in anthropology and history of religion, and through different research methods, her work explores embodied and affective performance archives. Her investigations turn to the body as an archive and archivist alike, and towards the notions of memorization and possession as artistic methodologies uncovering oral histories of bodies that are often silenced.

Working with the body as a basic medium, her practice involves performance, text, voice, and sound, and is shaped around themes of representation, re-enactment, and feminisms. Her solo practice is equally informed by various collaborations with community and youth projects that investigate the body as a tool of documentation for oral histories, with an aim to preserve or create alternative archives of affect and empowerment.

Maria has received a sponsorship from the Arts Council of England for the project “Vibrant Matter/La Métachorie” and was awarded the SNF Artist Fellowship Program ARTWORKS in 2018 in Athens. Since March 2018, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Macedonia in the Department of Applied and Visual Arts.