Intangible Commons

An intimate and extended observation of plant and animal life on my Athens balcony. Each individual journey and identity is intermingled with the biodiversity of this 30 square meter space. Daily observations and epiphanies guide a gentle documentation of wonder and exchange. Deeper relationships…

Collective Project Presenting traditional & musical improvisational theater in Athens, Greece, WHOOSH brings together Greece/UK, Germany, France, and the United States in an experimental musical English-language performance collective. Whoosh presents a pop up jukebox of our signature brand of playful and revealing improvisational theater.…

Collective Project 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…

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…

Collective Project The Beehive: Creative Makerspace: Khora Community Center Athens, Greece June 2019 – May 2023 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…

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…

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…

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

Collective Project 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…

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,…

#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…

Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival GREECE  JUNE 7- 23, 2019 Co-Curator, International Research & Development Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival What is Eros TQAF is a grassroots initiative designed to effect long-term change in entrenched misconceptions and prejudice towards queer and LGBT community through art and…

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,…

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…

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…

Elouda: Solidarity to Locality video portrait Sithonia, Chalkidiki, Greece, 2017 A short video made while in an artist residency in Pyrgadikia – Agios Nikolaos, Sithonia, Chalkidiki, Greece. Surrounded by lush olive groves a few steps from Elaionas beach Artist and Performer Maria Softis stewards…

Collective Project 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…

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…