Danae Io (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2021) is an artist living and working in Athens and Rotterdam. Through video, sound, and text, her work addresses various methods through which language becomes actively involved in systematizing and codifying sociopolitical infrastructures.
Danae Io was selected by Delfina Foundation for a two-month artist residency (February-March 2023). During her residency, Danae will continue her research into the nation-building of Greece and its relationship to the idea of Europe. She will examine representations of Greek landscapes in James H. Skene’s drawings(1838-1845) to consider ways of depicting landscapes through film as spaces where different histories co-exist over time, blending social and physical spheres.
Read more about Delfina Foundation and Danae’s residency here.
Danae’s residency is supported by ARTWORKS through its founding donor the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Palimpest Landcapes
Film Program and Q&A
Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London
‘Sprouts of a dragon’s teeth’, the latest short film by Danae Io, will be screening Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London on March 2nd, along with Jean-Marie Straub’s ‘à propos de venise’ and Marianna Christofides’ ‘Days in between’.
Like palimpsest pages on which new writing has been superimposed on the traces of old, this programme of short films looks at landscapes as sites where multiple histories have been inscribed and overwritten on the physical terrain. In their varying filmic languages, the selected works explore landscapes not just as backdrops to narratives but as devices partaking in historical processes.
The selection of films ties in with Danae Io’s research during her residency at Delfina Foundation into ways of depicting landscapes through film as spaces where different histories co-exist over time, blending social and physical spheres. The programme operates by bringing her work in relation to filmmakers that explore the connection between people and land as well as the ways dominant narratives are formed in adjacent locations to her research.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Delfina Foundation artist in residence Danae Io and Viviana Checchia, Residency Curator at Delfina Foundation.
Find more information about Palimpest Landcapes Film Program and Q&A here.
