Sophie Fetokaki
Sophie Fetokaki is a performer, writer, musician, and researcher. Her work explores the formation of place-based identity through the repetition of shared embodied techniques, taking the gathering of bodies as a primary site of enquiry. She treats performance as research-oriented reenactment; as an intervention into social forms, in search of new ways of being together. Her most recent performance explores place-making and social reproductive labour in Cyprus, through the ritual of the preparation of fresh black-eyed peas.
Sophie's performance work has been shown at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Amsterdam Fringe Festival (NL), Xarkis Festival (CY) and Cycle Music and Art Festival (IS) among others. Her poetry and nonfiction has been published in several journals, including Chicago Review of Books’ magazine Arcturus (US) and Icelandic multilingual journal Ós, and she was recently commissioned to write a libretto for Deutsche Oper Berlin. She has released compositions with London label Nonclassical and her solo album Abundance received critical acclaim and international radio play.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts, Helsinki, where she works on critical pedagogy. She has published on decolonisation in vocal training and was the curator and host of the seminar series "Whiteness and Sound Studies" for the Centre for Experimental Practices (UK).
Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Reykjavik City Council, Nordic Culture Fund, Cyprus Cultural Services and others.
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