TRIPTYCH
TRIPTYCH is a live performance of persistence, endurance, and fragile sounds. Stripped back to the essence of movement and sound, the three-part work becomes deliberately unspectacular, situating the audience at the intersection of its components. Through a rigorous engagement with movement, amplification, processing, noise, drones, and feedback, TRIPTYCH stretches time and shifts perception. TRIPTYCH unfolds through three tableaux: murmuration, cruising, and otolith.
● murmuration is an immersive duet between a dancer (Eugenia Demeglio) and a sound artist (φø). The dancer’s repetitive movements are captured, amplified, processed, and diffused directly to the audience through headphones. Each listener is offered the experience of the intricate interplay between movement and sound from the microphone’s perspective.
● cruising builds upon this dialogue (this time between dancer Mary Kate Sheehan and φø) with a focus on the lower body, flirting with rhythm and subtle variation. The dancer’s percussive footwork—drawing on tap and traditional Irish dancing—is captured and built into intricate textures. The focused, minimal tasks generate a hypnotic, evolving architecture of sound, where time stretches, collapses, and folds upon itself.
● otolith concludes with a purely sonic tableau, performed on bagpipes by Florian Kolb and on feedback double bass by Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris. The shifting sonic environment of sustained drones and low-frequency interactions unfolds over time, in an interplay of magnitude, distance and variation
Across its three tableaux, TRIPTYCH draws inspiration from natural systems: bird flocks, insect swarms, ocean waves and the fragile negotiations between repetition and variation. The work reflects on singularity within systems, on the minuteness of human actions and their interconnectedness. By exploring persistence, the performers undergo a shift in perception: motion, sound, and vibration open from the quotidian toward the transcendent.
🔷 Eugenia Demeglio is an arts laborer based in Athens. She holds a BA in Choreography from Codarts and an MA in Art Curation from Falmouth University. Her creative practice questions the space between
disciplines, exploring diverse media and devising frameworks that foster individuality within collaboration. Her work has been presented at European institutions and festivals including ARC for Dance, Big Bang Festival, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Kalamata Dance Festival, and the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée.
🔷 Mary Kate Sheehan is a contemporary dance artist from California, currently based in Athens. She holds a BA in Performing Arts (Dance) from St. Mary’s College of California. She has performed with Yvonne Rainer, KEIGWIN + COMPANY, and Sean Curran Company at venues including MoMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Performa19 Biennial. A longtime collaborator with Ehrstrand Dance Collective/Julia Ehrstrand, she has performed across the USA, Europe, Taiwan, Ghana, and Mexico.
🔷 Fotis (φø) Rovolis (they/he/she) explores electronic music composition, blurring boundaries between sound and space through installations, soundscapes, and political, imaginative, and queer perspectives. They contributed to the soundtrack of This is Right: Zak, Life and After (2021) and the play Yvoni (2022), and presented work at the 6th Acoustic Ecology Conference and Xenakis22 Conference. A collaborator with Yusra magazine, φο studied Architecture in Thessaly and Sonology in The Hague, recently earning an MA in Music Creation for New Media at EKPA.
www.instagram.com/thisisnotfaux
🔷 Florian Kolb is a musician, performer, and curator based in Zurich. He plays percussion, double bass, violone, and various bagpipes. His work focuses on improvised, contemporary, folk, and baroque music, as well as their hybrid forms, and he frequently collaborates in theatre contexts. With the collective #workoutjazz, he organizes the Madness concert series for experimental art and Marathon3000, featuring 100 performances in one evening. The collective received the Förderpreis des Kantons Zürich.
www.instagram.com/florian_kolb_music
🔷 Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris is an Athens-based artist and researcher working across sound, feedback systems, and intermedia performance. His practice treats feedback as both method and material, generating music, durational performances, interactive installations, and collaborative works. Before returning to Greece in 2018, he studied and worked in the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. He is a member of the Music, Acoustics and Technology Lab and Assistant Professor in Music-Making and Interactive Media at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, researching cybernetics and generative performance systems.