Tania Bizoumi | Láfyra (working title)

This project begins with an exploration of spoken word performance as a space where meaning becomes fluid, unstable, and embodied. At its core lies the relationship between written and spoken language. On the page, I work with rhythm, tone, and emotional charge through syntax, pacing, and layout. During my stay at Onassis AiR, I aim to test how meaning shifts when static text becomes voice and presence, and to experiment with format through poetic writing, improvisation, conversational rhythm, and sonic elements.

Thematically, this work-in-progress explores the emotional dissonance of late capitalism, the absurdity of our attempts to create meaning, and the tension between internal worlds and external systems. I am interested in how language behaves under these pressures: how it carries or distorts memory, power, and consciousness; how it translates across context and time; and where it fractures or glitches.

The project will take shape through the development of “Láfyra”, a text-based work about the objects left behind from past relationships. Referencing religious relics, sacramentals, talismans, and Victorian love tokens, the piece reflects on intimacy, obsession, loneliness, and the metaphysical residue carried by objects.