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A GUIDE ON HOW TO PREVENT DAILY LIFE ACCIDENTS

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contemporary drama · hilarious poetry · art of crushing

Artemis Chrysostomidou is a theatre director, writer and multidisciplinary artist who creates contemporary drama, hilarious poetry, video installations and text-based works based on distortion, contrast and existential humor. In 2023 her book Oh, that Hand of Yours was presented at Frankfurter Buchmesse (DE) as it was awarded the Young Book Designers Award (GR/DE). In 2018 she was awarded the State Prize for Literature (CY) for her book Dogs Don’t Bark in France | SculptureHer original pieces for theatre include Manipulation and Other Romantic Stories, Altofest, International Contemporary Live Arts Festival Naples, 2024 (IT), Frankfurt LAB, 2021 (DE); Raw Eggs, Altofest, International Contemporary Live Arts Festival Naples, 2023 (IT), Espaço da Penha Lisbon, 2022 (PT); Mortality, Hooray!EXPO Festival, English Theatre Berlin, 2020 (DE); A Guide on How to Prevent Daily Life Accidents, BIOS Athens, 2019 (GR), Words like Oedipus I & II, Clio Theatre, 2011 (GR); The flesh has its own spirit, Block 33 Thessaloniki, 2011 (GR). She has collaborated with various directors, while her work has also been presented as site-specific, text-based art or video installation at Temporars, Muzeum Susch, 2020 (CH); Travers, Copenhagen Contemporary, 2021 (DK) etc. In 2023 she presented the lecture-performance and text-based series This is a High-Level Trauma, Lettrétage Berlin (DE). In 2024 she presented the text-based series and lecture, Egoism: the captivity to the illusion of a victory, Flux I bell Structurs Berlin (DE), the video installation Vision Is Not A Private Experience and the text-based The Value of Nothing as part of the Mäandern Project, Flux I bell and Lichtenberg Studios Berlin (DE). She has received fellowships at O Rumo do Fumo Lisbon, 2022 (PT); Frankfurt LAB, 2021 (DE); Art Stations Foundation Switzerland, 2020 (CH); and European Theatre Convention as European Emerging Artist, 2019 (DE). In November she will be part of BRABA 2024, Alkantara Festival Lisbon (PT), in December of the exhibition Freud, Freude, Fish Intangible, O-a Freundinnen, Flux I bell Structurs Berlin (DE) and in January of the Easton Project Flux I bell, Easton House, Commerzbank Berlin (DE).

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