Intangible Commons

Working collectively these zines combine research, texts, exercises and images gathered for workshops, public space interventions and presentations.…

Mouries Collective is a fluid and interdisciplinary group of female artists, researchers and  therapists based in Athens, Greece. Originally gathered due to our common interests in healing and  divination practices, we recently focused on developing connections with trees, plants and the  diverse beings with…

Radical care – protest and social change through fashion WAYS OF CARING – PRACTICING SOLIDARITY organized by ArtEZ University of the Arts, in collaboration with State of Fashion Supported by Gemeente Arnhem. A participatory online workshop by House of Refashion CONFERENCE PROGRAM The House of…

Textile Stories BEIN 2021 Textile Bienalle Kranj, Slovenia July-August 2021 Installation text: Over three weeks social practice artist Maria Juliana Byck investigated the embedded social, cultural and emotional implications of textiles in Kranj. Holding a wealth of inter-generational wisdom, textiles contain a complex network…

Art Pluriverse: A Community Science Series Intangible Cultural Heritage | Art | Open Knowledge Biennale of Western Balkans 1st edition: Textile Month December 2020 “Art Pluriverse” is an annual community science series initiated by the Biennale of Western Balkans in connection with the History…

HOUSE OF REFASHIONCircular Fashion Place-based Interventions This creative reuse project features new designs made of 100% recycled clothing. The goal is to raise awareness of the environmental and social issues related to the over-consumption of low quality clothing, to inspire more sustainable fashion choices,…

This series documents the emergency Covid-19 response coordinated by volunteers in Athens, Greece. With diverse backgrounds, skills and experiences, their goal was to to support refugees and displaced people in need of essential services during the first lockdown. These mini documentaries highlight the work…

Steel Sewn River two channel video installation Traveling within Everyday Life TAV Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Revealing that which is rendered invisible or obscured in fleeting interactions with the urban environment. This installation offers a glimpse of the territories that hover beyond the borders of…

MARRIAGE  HOME  POWER  WORK Installation and Performance SIDE Gallery Jaipur, India 2015 Sometimes you are in a place yet you do not see the place. A reason to go beyond your own way of life is not always presented to you. The walk and…

Reflections through Movements Solo show, cumulative installation CROSS Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 2016 Share, listen, and discover with others, ways to separate self from the systems constructed around us. Created through merging the traditions of psychogeography and documentary film, this installation seeks to break out…

Athens Subsumption traces the commodification and financialization of our daily life by bringing the universal and particular into relation. We are building a generative, socially integrated practice to observe and respond to new geographies emerging locally from the backdrop of globalization. Where space is…

Paros Poetry Translation Symposium Video Poems Isternia, Tinos, Greece 2018 words helen dimos ghazal mosadeq elizabeth willis marty hiatt katia gousia sudden darling & ari banias william rowe larry kearney Toilet of the Voice images and sound maria juliana byck Please dont make me…

Poem of Lefkes Paros, Greece, 2016 A meditation on the rhythms, shapes, patterns, and soundscapes of a small village on a Greek island. Inhabited since before 2400 BC, Lefkes was a hub of commerce during the Byzantine period, and served as capital of Paros…

Khora Community Center Athens, Greece 2019 – onging The Beehive is a welcoming and supportive maker space with a focus on art and creative expression as a means to well-being and mental health. After forced displacement refugees face many obstacles to thriving and integration,…

Greeting the Sun TRT: 04:30 Documentary Short Athens, Greece 2018 The launch of the Metaxouriou Carnival season of 2018.  Joyous pandemonium on the streets of Athens. Greeting the Sun documents 8 hours of revelry; from dawn until the late afternoon the city is ours…

#PROJECTSEMEDAKI Collective Fashion Show  Victoria Square Project Athens, Greece 2019 and Yellow Days Festival, Athens School of Fine Arts 2019   #ProjectSemedaki is the result of discovering large quantities of unwanted or unused handmade textiles in Greece. Most are forgotten, thrown away or stored…

Artists’ Cooperative Documenta 14, Public Program February – May 2017 Economic and social relations can be fair, equal, and collaborative, transferring ownership back to the collective through cooperation. The Cooperativist Society was a platform to facilitate fair economic relationships between documenta 14 artists, visitors,…

Video Installation: Preview performance and interventions Athens, Greece 2021 I am working on a music video installation for a soon-to-be announced venue in Athens, Greece. Here is a short excerpt from the upcoming projections. Music Credit Atermon…

CREATIVE REUSE LAB Social Practice Victoria Square Project Athens, Greece 2018-2019 Creative Reuse Lab, organized and curated by Maria Juliana Byck, took place over nine months, during the course of which weekly sustainable arts skillshares were held. The Lab was a convergence between arts,…