performance pathologies: Georgia Sagri

For artist Georgia Sagri, the stage is not a site for execution, presentation, or instruction, but a framework for acknowledgment, rest, and embodied awareness. Within her long-term research practice IASI (ίαση), the term performance pathologies emerges to describe the physiological and affective conditions produced by sustained regimes of productivity, and exposure.

In the summer of 2024, Georgia spent several days at Skowhegan as faculty, working in close rehearsal with participants. Two years later, at Skowhegan NYC, IASI will operate as a temporary and flexible infrastructure—unfolding quietly and accessible without obligation for the individuals across from her. The public program follows a series of IASI one-to-one sessions to reflect on how artistic structures can create conditions for recalibration and sustainable artistic practice.

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About the artist: Georgia Sagri (b. 1979) engages performance as a critical field where the boundaries between art and life, subjectivity and politics, are continuously tested. Her work examines autonomy, invisible labor, affective endurance, and the body’s capacity for transformation, and recovery. Working across performance, sculpture, video, and drawing, Sagri treats each medium as part of a continuous system of embodiment and reflection. She is the Associate Professor of the Studio of Performance at Athens School of Fine Arts (GR), and the founder of the Athens-based independent art space, ΥΛΗ[matter]HYLE, a non-profit dedicated to care practices and social empathy at local and international levels.

Georgia Sagri’s work has been presented widely in major exhibitions and international institutions including: documenta 14, Manifesta 11 (Zurich), Götenberg Biennial (2025), 76th Whitney Biennial, 14th Istanbul Biennial, and solo and group presentations at: MoMA, MoMA PS1, and the Guggenheim Bilbao (New York/Bilbao); Palais de Tokyo (Paris); Gropius Bau (Berlin); Kunsthalle Basel; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz); Skulpturenpark Köln (Cologne); de Appel (Amsterdam); Mimosa House (London); Museum of Cycladic Art (Athens); and the SculptureCenter (New York).

Photo: Georgia Sagri, Gone Gone Beyond, 2025, performance, 30', 15 January 2026, Performance Dessin, Centre Pompidou x Drawing Lab, Paris. Courtesy Georgia Sagri.

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