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 play between the ‘fake’ and the ‘real’. Her current interest is sound as a way of knowing-feeling.
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:
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
Publications:
Matter out of Place, zine. Contested Editing. (editor, chapter contributor)
Toxic Temple. ed. Anna Lerchbaumer and Kilian Joerg. De Gruyter (chapter contributor with Sabrina Buehn)
FAKES: we haven’t chosen what our memories will be. Engagée Journal. (article contributor)
Art collective participation:
Empros Autonomous Theatre
Communitism
Turbo Service