Charikleia (Hari) Marini

Performance: Student Projects, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University
supervisor: Hari Marini

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Education:

• PhD in Theatre and Performance, Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Scholarship from Hellenic Republic Scholarships Foundation (IKY). Thesis title: Re-defining Urban Space Through Performance. Supervisors: Dr Martin Welton and Professor Jen Harvie (2013)
• MA in Advanced Theatre Practice, Central School of Speech and Drama. Scholarship from Hellenic Republic Scholarships Foundation (2005)
• BA in Acting, Arhi Drama School, Athens (2006)
• BSc in Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Patras (1999)

Research Interests:

• Performance practices and Urban Space
• Site-specific performances and Interventions
• Multimedia performance
• Performance, Writing and Architecture

Memberships:

• 2019 Higher Education Academy (UK), Fellowship (PR159719)
• 2010-present International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR): Theatre & Architecture Working Group  

Professional Experience:

• 2021-present Associate Professor of Performance and Intermediality, Department of Audio & Visual Arts, Ionian University.
• 2006-present Founder and Artistic Director, PartSuspended Artist Collective
• 2020-21 & 2022-23, Tutor, Performance: Theory & Practice, Lifelong Learning Center, University of Patras, academic consultant: M. Galani
• 2020-21 Invited Reviewer, Drexel University (Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism), Viral Institute of Performance (Architecture Performance Architecture Summer School), and Pratt School (School of Design)
• 2006-20 Associate Lecturer, Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London
• 2019 Guest Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
• 2015 Acting Tutor, Theatre of Changes (Greece)

Conferences (selected):

• 'Moving Through Mythical Space: Unknown Terrains and Site-based Performance Practices’ (keynote speaker) Tartalo. The VII International Conference on Myth in the Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of the Basque Country (2023)
• ‘Artist Collaboration & Feminist Actions in Cityscapes’, Feminist Scenographies panel, S. Janssen, M. Oteíza, H. Marini, PQ Talks curated by B. Příhodová, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague, Czech Republic (2023)
• ‘Spiralling Words: Πoesia en acció’, N. Díaz-Vicedo (Universitat de les Illes Balears) and H. Marini. International conference: ‘Performative and Experiential Translation: Meaning-Making through Language, Art and Media’. King's College London, Experiential Translation Network (2022)
• ‘Poro(c)ity in the Darkness: Feminist Scenographies and the Public Space’, S. Janssen (Concordia University), M. Oteíza (Wesleyan University) and H. Marini (Ionian University). International conference: ‘Shifting Centres: In the Middle of Nowhere’. University of Iceland, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Theatre & Architecture Working (TAWG) (2022)
• ‘Connecting Xenakis's work to cyberphysical performance in dance education and artistic practice’, I. Zannos,  S. Dimitrakopoulou and H. Marini. Workshop presented at Xenakis 22 Centenary International Symposium, Nafplion (2022)
• ‘Spirals: A Performative Gesture in European Cityscapes’. International conference: ‘Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability and Politics’, National University of Ireland, Galway, ITFR, TAWG (2021)
• ‘Performance, Urban Space and Everyday Life’. Scoping Meeting: Performance, organised by Dr Maro Galani, Department of Education and Social Work, University of Patras (2019)
• ‘Urban Ruins in Athens: An Impermanent Shelter for Graffiti’. International conference: "Theatre and Migration Theatre, Nation and Identity: Between Migration and Stasis". Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, IFTR, TAWG (2018)

Publications (selected):

• 'Artist Collaboration and Unity in Times of Crisis: The Spirals Project’, N. Díaz-Vicedo and H. Marini, Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, 13 (2023), 317-339
• 'On Spirals', B. Bridger, G. Kalogeropoulou, H. Marini, N. Díaz-Vicedo, in European Journal of Women's Studies, 29:1 (2022), 155-189
• 'The Curve is Ruinous: Architecture and the Performative Intervention Spirals', in Dramatic Architectures: Theatre and Performing Arts in Motion , eds. J. Palinhos, J. F. Cubero, L. Pinto. Porto: Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, CEAA/ESAP (2021)
• 28 Διαδρομές της / 28 Paths of Her. Foreword: Dr Barbara Bridger. Translation: Theo Kominis. Translation editing: Andreas Tsanakas, AKAKIA Publications (September 2019)
• ‘Practices in a Museum: The case of Tate Modern’ in Performing Arts in Education, ed. Maro Galani. Patra: University of Patras and Archaeological Museum of Patras, 2018, 81-87
• 'Remain Suspended In-Between', Journal of Greek Media and Culture. Issue editors: Marissia Fragkou and Philip Hager, 3.2 (2017), 229-235
• ‘The ArcelorMittal Orbit’s Ambivalent Effect and the London Olympics: Art, Regeneration, Business and Sustainability’, Contemporary Theatre Review (peer-reviewed), special issue ‘The Cultural Politics of the Olympics: Performing Global Britishness’, issue eds. Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz, 23.4 (2013), 587-592
• ‘A Performative Falling into the Cityscape: The Weathering of the National Theatre’s Exterior’, Performance Research, «On Falling», issue eds Ric Allsopp and Emilyn Claid, 18.4 (2013), 133-142

Artistic work, Interviews, Reviews, Further information:

PartSuspended