Close to spiritual anarchism, Georgia Sagri’s writing happens in the heat of negotiation. Starting in the months leading up to the occupation of Zuccotti Park in 2011, which became the movement for people’s self-governance known as Occupy, this book carries the energy and commitment of open struggle, direct address, self-organisation and public assembly. It is a critique of representation and its implicit oblivion, told through a decade of artistic and activist practice. The writing is a mode of recovery, it is pre-content shared to encourage open processes in art, thinking and action.
978-1-9164250-7-1
13.9 × 21.6 cm
160 pp paperback
6 May 2021
Non-fiction
Art
£ 10.99
Insightful, passionate, flowing and jarring. Stage of Recovery is a creative journey that invites the reader to reflect on and reimagine society.
This book proposes a singular bio-aesthetic, an original way of living with each other, against the ever more delirious diktats of planetary techno-capitalism. Sagri’s is an extraordinary example of a practice where, as with the Situationists, art becomes indiscernible from politics.
Stage of Recovery observes a decade of revolutionary animism. There is no score of absolute ethics, the subject is made in anarchy. Her presence pulses in sustained relation.
About the author
Georgia Sagri (born Athens, 1979) lives and works in Athens and New York. Her practice is influenced by her ongoing engagement in political movements and struggles on issues of autonomy, empowerment and self-organisation. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of Void Network, a cultural, political and philosophical collective operating in Athens. In 2011 she was one of the main organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. Since 2013 she has been a member of the assembly of the Embros Theatre Occupation, and in 2014 she initiated Ύλη[matter]HYLE, a semi-public cultural space in the heart of Athens. She is professor of performance at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Endorsements
Insightful, passionate, flowing and jarring. Stage of Recovery is a creative journey that invites the reader to reflect on and reimagine society.
This book proposes a singular bio-aesthetic, an original way of living with each other, against the ever more delirious diktats of planetary techno-capitalism. Sagri’s is an extraordinary example of a practice where, as with the Situationists, art becomes indiscernible from politics.
Stage of Recovery observes a decade of revolutionary animism. There is no score of absolute ethics, the subject is made in anarchy. Her presence pulses in sustained relation.
I am convinced that Sagri’s thinking in action is ultimately dedicated to the empowerment of the mass corporeality of the nameless, and to self-recovery from psychosomatic pains suffered in this world of hell.
Sagri captures affects of anti-capitalist resistance invisible within much political writing. When she writes she uses the whole wall (and climbs over it), reminds us of our powerful, vulnerable bodies, and does not shy away from paradox. Her highly personal practice (‘Don’t call it politics’) at Ύλη[matter]HYLE once offered important clarity in my own life – may her book reach all those who cannot stand on the balcony.
Press
- Afterall Breathing and Breaking. Georgia Sagri’s IASI
- Flash Art Georgia Sagri: Anarchia spiritual
- Ignota Ignota Books of the Year 2021: Part II
- Cashmere Radio Something Like #33 – A Sixth Sense, An Electric Touch
- NERO Editions Feeling through the Other
In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities
Tosquelles: Healing Institutions
A Toast to St Martirià
Twenty Shadows
Night Philosophy
Holy Smoke
I have brought you a severed hand
London-rose | Beauty Will Save the World
Bourgeois Coldness
Flood Tide
Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent
Wave of Blood
In Thrall
Darryl
Artificial Gut Feeling
Disorganisation & Sex
What the Fire Sees—A Divided Reader
Journey to the East of France
World of Interiors
Again! Plenitude and Repetition
How to Leave the World
Another Sun
This Poor Book
Let Them Rot
Bosses
Self-portrait