Theo Prodromidis

Biography

Theo Prodromidis (b. 1979, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a visual artist who lives and works in and around Αthens, Greece. He has been a fellow of ARTWORKS, Onassis AiR, SNFPHI at Columbia University and AFIELD a.o. Theo's artistic research and practice on performativity, participation and citizenship have been activated in institutional and non-formal spaces of learning, action and exhibition. In 2023, he was in residence at the Public Activities Department of the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.  

The research with the working title “waveforms upon waves, waterfront tongues amplified” that will be activated for the residency, is a development of current research and practice that focuses on participation as a tool for investigating citizenship formation through co-learning processes. The research will activate a series of meetings and walks that could lead to the sharing of strategies and working models of how artistic practices can mediate the projection of emerging identities through sharing languages and rhythms.  

Approaching the city as a form of negotiation for intersectional struggles, the research aims to develop an archive that weaves together moments of action in the city, environmental audio from the region, discussions and notes. Mediterranean port cities are repositories of such networks of memory and action, structures that bear witness to the transformation of landscapes and people, to vertical and horizontal negotiations, waveforms upon waves.