MARINA GIOTI

Dates of residency: January till February 2019
Born: 1972
Nationality: Greek
Lives and works: Athens, Greece
Education:
 2004   MA Media and Political Communication, National Kapodistrian University of Athens
1997  MSc Environmental Pollution Science, Brunel University
Selected shows/screenings:
2019 Atlas: A Sοund Cartography of Europe, Centre Pompidou, Paris  (also shown at ZKM, Karlsruhe and Onassis Cultural Center, Athens)
2019 Harmonie Inconnue, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris
2018 Berlinale-Forum Expanded, Berlin
2017 Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel

THE ARTIST
Marina Gioti is a filmmaker and visual artist born and based in Athens. She studied Chemical Engineering, Environmental Management, Filmmaking, and Media and Communication. Her work has been screened and exhibited worldwide at museums and international film festivals including Berlinale and the Toronto Film Festival. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, three art biennials and most recently at documenta 14, where she presented her debut feature documentary, The Invisible Hands. In her works, which comprise of films, installations and media art pieces, she often revisits historical eras and stories offering parallel and often tragicomic re-readings to dominant narratives. Archival and scientific research alongside observation are playing a crucial role in her practice, while objets trouvés and cultural ‘debris’ (objects, films, recordings, ruins) serve as raw material or situate themselves at the center of some of her works. An important part of her interests, expressed largely through her media art practice, is situated at the intersection of art, science, and the environment.

THE RESIDENCY
While in Beirut, Gioti researched artifacts and stories of Lebanese and Middle Eastern music recordings that took place at a now derelict historic phonographic plant in Greece, alongside exploring urban psychogeographies for an ongoing photographic project. She also screened her film The Invisible Hands at the Sursock Museum in Beirut. 

Marina Gioti’s residency is supported by Onassis AiR: an (inter)national artistic research residency program of the Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, within the scope of the Onassis Future initiative.