Dramaturgy as a Practice of Lateral Movement (2020-)
A research project together with dr. Efrosini Protopapa, that studies dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement and, in turn, moving laterally as a dramaturgical practice. Moving laterally, sideways, instead of linearly and directly, possibilises decentering, incidentalness, incosistency and opaqueness in knowledge and attention. In our aim to resist the anxiety of reasserting knowledge, and to suspend knowing by maintaining what is present, we are also searching for ways to move with our research sideways. We take into account that in western educational institutions and organizations, moving/thinking is mostly expected to be progressive and quantifiable, and laterality is usually associated with thinking creatively or ‘out of the box’ rarely contributing to decentering actions thereafter. This research is taking the form of public exchanges, performative dialogues, writings and seminars (see here, here and here).
PSi#26 - Crises of Care: Act Respond Engage (2020)
Georgelou is co-curator of the stream on Materiality and Corporeality at the Performance Studies international conference, in Rijeka, Croatia.
More: http://psi2020rijeka.com/the-streams/materiality-and-corporeality/call-for-proposals
The Young: Postgraduate Symposium (since 2014)
Georgelou is co-initiator the international postgraduate exchange platform dedicated to critical voices that are in the early stages of their research. These exchanges are primarily led, organized by and consisted of MA students. It is a collaboration between Utrecht University, University of Groningen, ArtEZ Master of Theatre Practices, University of University of Roehampton, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, DOCH Stockholm, University of Antwerp and Gent University.
Dramaturgy 'At Work' (2014-2017)
A collaborative project conducted together with dr. Efrosini Protopapa and dr. Danae Theodoridou, ‘Dramaturgy at Work’ consisted of and developed through a series of workshops and roundtable discussions that approach dramaturgy from different perspectives. These took place all over Europe and have led to a book The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performace (2017, Valiz)
More: https://dramaturgyatwork.wordpress.com/
PSi Manifesto Lexicon (ongoing)
Georgelou is co-editor of the ongoing PSi online platform ‘Manifesto Lexicon’, which aims to create a multi-lingual lexicon as a manifesto for critical discourse, multiplying our perspectives and understandings of what Performance Studies is through regional perspectives.
More: http://www.psimanifestolexicon.org/page/lexicon
The Art of Lawlesness (2012-2015)
Georgelou was co-initiator of a series of encounters, debates and events that have taken place in Athens, Amsterdam and Berlin, aiming to explore artistic, activist and political practices that operate at the borders of the Law. The hypothesis was that the constitution of the law demands a performative, interpretative and violent act (coup de force). Against this backdrop, we investigated practices that negotiate the borderlines and margins of law and the possibilities for action. Guests included political philosophers, artists, psychiatrists, activists, lawyers and criminologists. Georgelou is co-editor of the publication The Art of Lawlessness (2015).
More: https://liveartsinstitutegr.wordpress.com/, http://hetveemtheater.nl/en/production/working-group-on-art-of-lawlessness-2/
Syros – a bet on the potentiality of cooperation (2013)
An eight-days encounter in Syros, Greece, between international performance scholars and artists aiming towards the publication of the book. Rather than centering on a specific theme, it was proposed that the book is produced through a coming together of a group of individual writers (who propose their own distinct themes and writing practices) and is the result of specific conditions of sharing time and space in Syros. Georgelou curated this encounter together with dr. Efrosini Protopapa and dr. Danae Theodoridou.
PSi Regional Research Cluster ‘Encounters in Synchronous Time’ (2011)
Georgelou was one of the curators of this research cluster that took place in Athens, Greece. Problematizing the notions of ‘contemporaneity’ and ‘synchronicity’ in regional and international artistic contexts, it consisted of panels, experimental presentation formats and discussion between international and Greek performing arts scholars and practitioners.
More: http://encountersinsynchronoustime.wordpress.com/
Symposium ‘Communi(cat)ion of Crisis’ (2011)
Panel discussions, lectures, installations, performances and workshops took place in Nafpaktos, Greece, during this Symposium that Georgelou co-curated as founding member of the ‘Institute for Live Arts Research’. Drawing focus on the notions of community, communication and crisis, it additionally activated a ‘different’ network of spaces across the city of Nafpaktos.