Danae Io

State of Concept presents the first solo exhibition in Greece of the Greek, Rotterdam-based artist Danae Io, entitled Landform Instrument. Τhe exhibition is the third in the Bona Fide series, dedicated to contribute to the promotion of young Greek and international artists and critics/curators, and is accompanied by a text by the writer and researcher Amelia Groom.

A critical exploration of the emergent ‘closed camps’ and
associated control room at the Ministry of Migration and
Asylum, Athens.

Group exhibition with Josse Pyl, Danae Io, Pleun Gokken and Jelte van Lente

I presented my film as part of a screening program at ICA, London. Like palimpsest pages on which new writing has been superimposed on the traces of old, this program of short films looks at landscapes as sites where multiple histories have been inscribed and overwritten on the physical terrain. In their varying cinematic languages, the selected works explore landscapes not just as backdrops to narratives but as devices partaking in historical processes.

During her residency at Delfina Foundation, Danae developed her artistic research into the role of myth in the nation-building of Greece and its relationship to Europe.

"The city of Thebes forms the background to many a Greek tragedy. In Sprouts of a dragon's teeth, Greek filmmaker Danae Io shows us the reality of modern-day Thebes. The poet Stathis Gourgouris provides us with the words that describe the human element, while the images reflect on the land, the surroundings and on decay." – Christiaan Boesenach

An open system is porous; its boundaries are permeable by energy and matter. It is in constant exchange with its surroundings; information, myths, capital, ideas, scent, debris and people flow inexhaustibly between and through systems and their environments. The open system cannot exist in a state of equilibrium; its health is wholly dependent on input, process and output. UKS – Young Artists' Society presents new works by five young artists. The works respectively present fragments of an online

UKS – Young Artists’ Society presents new works by five young artists. The works respectively present fragments of an online dating site; the foundational myth of the Greek city of Thebes; sculptural repetition; a peek into the lunchbreaks of Korean factory workers; and a space clothed in a miasma of ancient plants. Each work a system of its own, they inhabit UKS’ new headquarters as we open our doors to spark the exchange of energy.

Within the framework of their project Schemas of Uncertainty, Danae Io will give a talk on the performative effects of models. Using examples from climate modeling to finance they will seek to think through modeling as a process of translation from complex systems to accessible projections, considering their role in creating future scenarios.

The title of the show is borrowed from Rachel Zucker's book-long poem Eating the Underworld which re-tells the myth of Persephone, the daughter of Demeter who ran away from her mother to marry Hades and was the only mythical figure that could move between the world of the living and the underworld. The artists read the role of the pomegranate fruit in the myth as a link between the world above and under, a refusal of dichotomies by being in between or both.

A curated program investigating the increasing reliance on technology within migration systems. From exploring technologies as methods of both making and discrediting evidence, to the role of tech in forming an unevenly distributed restriction on bodies, and to the border as a site of growing investment and profit, their research and practice contributes to exposing and thinking through the surge in technological strategies for exclusion in, and by, Europe.

I have been a core Tutor MA Critical Inquiry Lab since 2020, teaching theory and research methodologies.

Schemas of Uncertainty is a research project on the relation between prediction and prescription within current socio-political structures.Initially starting as a cross-departmental research group at the Sandberg Institute in 2018, the project has taken multiple formats including a book, an online publication , a symposium and various workshop series.

On June 7 from 8pm we give the floor to Danae Io and Ioanna Gerakidi who will be performing In The Current Of The Situation, a composition of oral stories and eroto-historiographies tracing the mnemonic representations of unrequited sentiments of eros, love, lust and desire . This email correspondence project is fragile, vulnerable, proximate, and intimate.

System of Systems is a multidisciplinary research project that analyzes the bureaucratic, spatial and technological conditions that shape Europe's migration landscape. We collaborate with a range of practitioners – activists to artists, policy makers to academics – to elucidate how nation states use complex and overlapping systems to produce, manage and process migration.