IASI. Stage of Recovery, installation view at De Appel, Amsterdam. Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder.

Georgia Sagri

IASI. Stage of Recovery

IASI (Recovery in Greek) involves the recovery of health in the physical sense. The deeper, fuller breath of life. It also involves the reclamation - in the contemporary world - of a civic horizon for performance established within Ancient Greek theatre.

At the Epidaurus Amphitheatre, we find evidence of the interchange between theatrical roles, civic participation and the beginning of medicinal categories - of great inspiration to the artist. Sagri's method addresses physical pain as a symptom of imbalance in social life (and are not to be mistaken for phycho-analytic sessions). Her private one -on-one sessions take place on a soft stage - a functional sculpture devised by the artist especially for the sharing of her process.

IASI. Stage of Recovery was presented in TAVROS, Athens, De Appel, Amsterdam and Mimosa House, London.

“The character of one-to-one practice, allows experimentation to grow on a stage, the Stage of Recovery, designed to provide a soft space for the purpose of the research and only, where unique sessions take place. The nature of the research itself distinguishes research-creation from more conventional, tried-and-tested methodologies.

Moving away from the spectacle and the event- based structure allows me to build upon an ongoing practice, where the word treatment derives. The treatments shape the practice, that is IASI (recovery) through an ongoing creative process. The research takes place on the modular sculpture, the Stage of Recovery. Each treatment is a private one-to-one encounter that builds the content of the research safeguarding personal anonymity.”

IASI. Stage of Recovery, installation view at Mimosa House, London. Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder.

“Throughout the years I recognised that some of my own performance techniques: breathing, voice, movement, could help others to build their own routine of self-recovery.”

Georgia Sagri is represented by The Breeder, Athens.