Open Studio: Demetrios Navras
Artist-in-Garden-Residency
Demetrios Navras is a queer dance artist, environmental scientist and witch from Crete whose work moves between dance, digital media and rituals. During the residency, Demetrios Navras explores the cultural garden as a hybrid and technological space and applies the glitch aesthetic of earlier works to the project TARAHI (Greek for, among other things, trouble, disorder, turmoil).
The Open Studio provides an insight into the research.
Duration: ca. 1 h
Language: English
Registration via:
Janka Dold
Residency program
dold@hellerau.org
Demetrios Navras (they/she/he/it) is a queer dance artist, Environmental Science graduate, and witch from Crete, whose work moves between dance, digital media, and ritual. Their artistic practice explores queer temporalities, post-humanism, and the fluid intersections of nature, technology, and magic. They have performed and co-created in numerous productions, including “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (Gropius Bau, Berlin), “Zweiter Versuch über Das Turnen” (Impulse Theatre Festival), “Pulse and An Der Schwelle” (Alte Feuerwache, Cologne), “Kranich” (Tanzhaus NRW) and “Beyond the Threshold of I” (Studio ProArte, Freiburg) and Pink Water (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum). Their solo work “There Is No Other Troy For You To Burn” merges rituals, computer glitches, and the non-human, while “Training For No Future” examines queer embodiments and the instability of a collapsing extractives capitalism. Through movement and interdisciplinary experimentation, Demetrios engages with themes of decoloniality, transformation, and the body as a site of resistance, challenging dominant narratives and reimagining new ways of being.
