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Birds WG is a healer, writer, and performance artist based in Rotterdam. Their work focuses on the complexity of the human condition and the universe. They believe in diversity and dialogue as methodologies for conflict resolution and peace. They believe that words and images are indisputable healing forces. They write fiction, non-fiction, poetry, lyrics, and text for performance.
Performances and Exhibitions
| 24.10.2024 — | Live Poetry improvisation in collaboration with music band Slow Frequencies, Performing Arts Forum (PAF), France. |
| 10.06.2023 — | Poetry (extract from Incomplete), Open Mic – Poetry International x Unwanted Words at LantarenVenster, Rotterdam. |
| 03.10.2024 — | Live Poetry improvisation in collaboration with music band Slow Frequencies, at Extratonal Infrastructure #15, Varia, Rotterdam. Listen on bandcamp.com |
| 22.05.2024 — | Poetry (safety workshop), Open mic. Unwanted Words, Rotterdam. Read here |
| 08.05.2024 — | Text (the elephant question), anonymous poetry seven-day event It’s Pathetic. I love it, Performing Arts Forum (PAF), France. |
| 24.04.2024 — | Text (the elephant question), Open mic. Unwanted Words, Rotterdam. |
| 28–30.03.24 — | Participation at collective exhibition with W1555, South Explorer, Rotterdam. Read more on southexplorer.nl |
| 15.03.2024 — | Solo Performance (Incomplete), Varia, Rotterdam. |
| 11.10.2023 — | Poetry (extract from Incomplete), Open mic. Unwanted Words, Rotterdam. |
| 01.08.2023 — | Solo Performance (Incomplete), Queer Currents Festival at Oude Kerk Amsterdam. See queercurrents.com |
| 27.07.2023 — | Solo Performance (Incomplete), Performing Arts Forum (PAF), France. Watch on vimeo.com |
| 01.07.2023 — | Solo Performance (Incomplete), Wolk, Rotterdam. |
Books, Zines, Magazines
Writer of the column in the spiritual corner for Buurtkrant, community magazine, published and distributed three times a year, Rotterdam, 2022–ongoing. Read at w1555.org
Collaborations
Poem published at collective anonymous poetry publication Bless Your Jelly (also part of the editorial and printing process), anonymous poetry seven-day event It’s Pathetic. I love it, at Performing Arts Forum (PAF), France, 2024
When I lose my connection to you, text for zine a collaboration with alpha kartsaki (drawings, design and production by alpha kartsaki), Berlin 2023 Read on alpha-kartsaki.com
Interview contribution for Touch Response book by Lore Smolders, Brussels, 2023. Go to loresmolders.be
Interview contribution for this is my name book by alpha kartsaki, Berlin, 2022. Read on alpha-kartsaki.com
Video performance for experimental vocal duet EquiVox (vocalists Panayota Haloulakou and Konstantina Samakovli), Athens, Greece/ Boston, US, 2022. Listen on youtube
Lyrics and text for songs created and produced by Panayota Haloulakou (composition, keys, voices, recording of nature sounds, audio & video production), Boston, US 2022-ongoing. Listen on youtube
Part of the editorial team for Buurtkrant, community magazine, published and distributed three times a year, Rotterdam, 2022–ongoing
In 2007, after I completed my masters in performance making, I continued my research on transcendental experiences of performing text until 2013. I created performances with texts that I loved, written by writers I admired. After 2013 I took a 10 years’ pause from performing. It was time to start writing myself. During this period I continued giving workshops on methodologies for creating transcendental experiences in text based performance in academic settings. In 2023 I returned to performing, now with my own texts, and without a research agenda. Since then I continue writing and performing, watching my old research methodologies shift and expand, relearning the vocabulary that bridges the space between text and transcendence in performance, including in it notions of incompleteness, healing, diversity, and the promotion of peace.
Workshops (2013–2022)
Attempting transcendental experiences of the text, Part I & II, University of Amsterdam.
Text Performatives/Embodied Texts: Performance Rituals of Self-Doubt, Masters Institute of Visual Arts, Department of Visual Arts and Post Contemporary Practice, AVANS University of applied sciences, Den Bosh, 2021.
Transcendental Performatives of the Text (short presentation) Summer School Concepts of Holiness: Performing Belief, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz , Germany, 2015.
Transcendental Performatives of the Text, Performance Religion and Spirituality Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Stockholm, 2016.
Performances (2007–2013)
New Moon, TransFumArte, Madrid, 2012.
Olvido, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain, 2011.
Whether you come or not I am here, (seven performances with Birds WG and seven invited artists) Espacio Menos1, Madrid, 2011.
Defeat and Memory, Block 33, Thessaloniki, 2010.
Defeat and Memory, Tabacalera, Madrid, 2010.
Little Moon of Paper, (Residency) Macerata, Marche, Italy, 2009.
Birthday, ArtHouse Project, Thessaloniki, 2008.
Birthday, ArtHouse Project, Barcelona, 2008.
The Task, Goldsmiths University, London, 2007.
Films and Videos (2007–2012)
DIVAx2, 9’ 56’’, 2007.
Birthday, 5’ 22’’, 2010.
The extinction of the red man, 4’’, 2012.