Demi Spriggs works at the interface between art and anthropology, and is concerned with what ethnography can be as a performative modality. She makes interactive and mixed media installations that draw from themes of the land, collectivity, heritage, and fiction. She is currently interested in the dynamics of belonging to the land, intimacy, memory and industrialisation. Using ethnographic and sonic research to capture the multiple-dimensions of a space or a relationship between differently lifely things.
She has participated in a number of arts collectives between Athens and London, and is a member of a rolling performance group based in Vienna.
Contested Editing is her publishing platform where she helps authors develop their volumes.
Exhibitions, performances, happenings:
The Grand Mank, Essex Neck, The modern language experiment and SLUICE. Colchester Minories. Essex, 07/2024
How Metal is your Ecocide? Pragovka Art District. Prague, 07/2024
A Retrospective on the Anthropocene, The Institute of Infinite possibilities, Athens. 04/2024
Athens Porn Festival, Lalava, Romantso, Athens, 07/2023
Toxic Temple, Donau Fest, Austria, 04/2023
Matter out of Place launch, word and musical improv., Diving Duck, Vienna, 07/2022
THE MESS, Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna, 05/2022
Isaura - Athina, Open Arts Collective, Empros, 03/2022
A Retrospective on the Anthropocene, PS:Communitism, 02/2022
THE MESS 60 hours, Raum4 Museumsquartier, Vienna, 09/2021
Skoupidia Viotia, Livadia, Greece, 08/2021
Building of a shrine, Stoa Fexi, Athens, 07/2020
I can’t desire in closed spaces (lockdown live stream), 05/2020
Radical Communities of Care, Fountayne Lane Open Day, London, 07/2018
Radical Communities of Care, Anti-University Communitism, Athens, 06/2017
Solidarity film screening series and happening, The Field, London, 01 - 03/2017
Goldsmiths group show, Lewisham, London, 05/2015
Untitled (walking performance), Southend-on-sea, 09/2014
TAP, Southend-on-Sea, 07/2014