Site-specific artistic research · Livanates, Greece · 2026
The project explores the phenomenon of waste accumulating along roadsides, in forests, and in public spaces. Focusing on Livanates (Greece) and its surrounding areas, the project brings together video performances, installations, and exchanges with local authorities concerning abandoned or neglected objects and materials. These exchanges reveal the different ways in which responsibility for waste, public space, and the landscape is assigned, avoided, or displaced.
As a place connected to personal memory and origin, Livanates introduces a subjective dimension to the research. The landscape is therefore approached not as a fixed setting or backdrop, but as a layered environment in which natural, cultural, personal, and material processes continuously intersect. Waste becomes more than a problem of cleanliness or environmental management: it becomes a trace of human activity, attachment, neglect, and changing relationships with the places we inhabit.
The project takes this landscape as both a site of artistic research and a field of observation. The coexistence of cultivated land, coastal ecosystems, historical traces, domestic environments, and abandoned materials provides a starting point for examining how living beings, human-made objects, and their surroundings influence and transform one another. Through video, performance, installation, and correspondence, the work follows these encounters and asks what happens when objects lose their intended function but remain embedded in the environment.
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