Phoebe Giannisi

Phoebe Giannisi is a Professor at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, a poet and an architect. Her work investigates the poetics of voice, body, and place. She is the author of seven poetry books, including “Omirika” (Kedros, 2009), which was also published in German (“Homerika,” Reinecke und Voss, 2016, translated by Dirk Uwe Hansen) and in English (“Homerica,” World Poetry Books, 2017, translated by Brian Sneeden and selected by Anne Carson as a Favorite Book of 2017 [Paris Review]). Giannisi’s most recent book is “Chimera” (Kastaniotis, 2019).

Selected solo exhibitions include: TETTIX, EMST (Athens, 2012) and AIGAI_O, Angeliki Chatzimichali Museum (with Iris Lycourioti, 2015). In 2016, she gave the performance lecture “Nomos, The Land Song” at the Onassis Cultural Center New York.

Phoebe Giannisi also collaborates with Zissis Kotionis on projects in the field of ecopoetics, including: “The Ark. Old Seeds for New Cultures” (12th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010); “Nothing to Do with Dionysos – Dionysus Tub” (Akademia Platonos, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2011), “Kernos. A Plate for All” (“Householding,” Bauhaus, Dessau, 2015), “Nature / Culture Calling” (Nordbanhof, Museum of Architecture, Vienna Biennale, 2017).