Στο Λαιμό (aka On The Neck), 2025/ 2026 I director
Sto Laimo unfolds through a collective, polyphonic process based on the creator’s eponymous feature-length script. Ten autonomous works — spanning performance, video art and sound — converge into a unified hybrid performative environment.
At its core, the piece addresses childhood sexual abuse and the mechanisms of silence surrounding it. Set in a village that appears to conceal more than it reveals, the story of Nefeli becomes a psychological landscape where trauma resurfaces through projection, fragmentation and embodied memory.
Reality and dream intertwine as suppressed experience seeks form. What remains “in the throat” — unspoken, internalized, inherited — gradually manifests through image, sound and physical presence.
The courtyard transforms into the fictional village of “Laimos,” inviting the audience to move through an immersive terrain of visual and sonic fragments — a space where private trauma meets collective silence.
Selected Interview: efsyn.gr , 2025
Project Documentation (Instagram)
Presented at: PLEX, Athens, Greece
Duration: 60 minutes
Dramaturgy & Direction: Vera Iona Papadopoulou
Performance Artists: Anastasia Anastasiadou, Evgenia Vakalopoulou, Antonina Vlouti, Eliza Krikoni, Eleni Panagiotakopoulou, Evie Stelliou, Kalliopi Takaki, Margarita Tsouloucha
Voice Performers: Leon, Naeko
Video Art: Kostis Kontogeorgos, Eleni Tsamadia
Live Camera Performer: Faye Psixopaidopoulou
Sound Artist: Andrii Sichkovskyi
Scenography: Eliza Krikoni
Graphic Design: Kostis Kontogeorgos
Produced by: Spiti8
Εκείνες (They), 2024 I director
Roza Eskenazi and Gabriella Ushakova. Two great women who immigrated to Greece in their childhood. Women who transcended the conditions, limitations and rules as defined by era, gender, social class and historical events in order to experience self-expression and self-realization through their desires, traumas, ideas, inclinations and their personality. An excavation into their inner world speaks to what others believe and say about “Them”. The room turns into a place of memory, a refuge of consolation and desire. You will find papers, pens and an open suitcase. You can leave a message in memory of those who are no longer with us. The performance plays iteratively without intervals.
https://veraiona.com/εκεινεσ-they/
Performance Rooms 2024, Kappatos Gallery
Duration: 30 minutes.
Director/ curator: Vera Iona Papadopoulou
Performers: Antonina Vlouti, Anna Papadaki
Assistant Director: Eliza Krikoni
Sound: Andrii Sichkovskyi
The Moment, 2015 I artist
Performance based on instruction scores* by Yoko Ono and Vera Iona Papadopoulou.
Created within YOKO ONO MORNING PEACE 2015, the global sunrise gathering organized by MoMA PopRally in celebration of the MoMA retrospective Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960–1971, the work was presented at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
Responding to Yoko Ono’s solstice score, Vera Iona Papadopoulou composed a second, audience-directed instruction that structured the live event. The performance unfolded at sunrise as a participatory action centered on silence, attention and shared presence.
Through a minimal structure and temporal limitation, the work transformed listening, light and collective stillness into the primary materials of the piece.
https://garagemca.org/en/event/yoko-ono-morning-peace-2015
Presented at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, “YOKO ONO: MORNING PEACE”, Organized by MoMA PopRally, Moscow, Russia
Concept & Performance: Vera Iona Papadopoulou
*Instruction Scores
Yoko Ono, Spring 2015
On the solstice at sunrise
celebrate mornings of past, future, and now.
Listen to the world.
Touch each other when the sun comes up.
Vera Iona Papadopoulou, Summer 2015
The morning. The silence. The peace.
Until 3:45 you have to choose your chair and sit down.
The only instruction is silence.
Listen to yourself. Listen to the silence.
Please close your telephone.
You can’t shoot pictures during the performance.
Give yourself the chance to be in the moment.
Only today. Only these 15 minutes.
You will have a mirror.
Think of one word — a wish — you want to say to the world.
At sunrise, touch the light and send it to each other through the mirror.
Playback, 2014 I artist
Score-based participatory performance.
Presented within “do it Moscow 2014” at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Playback was developed in response to the exhibition’s central premise: the artwork as instruction, open to reinterpretation and enactment.
Inspired by a text by Lucy R. Lippard, the performance unfolded through a minimal audience score delivered via an iPad. Participants were invited to recall recent emotional states, reduce them to a single word or action, and activate a timer.
Each submitted word was immediately projected onto a screen behind the performer. In real time, the artist translated the word into an improvised physical and vocal response.
The projected word functioned simultaneously as score, witness and trace. The performance operated as a live mechanism of affective translation — a passage from language to body, from private memory to public embodiment — exposing the tension between representation and lived experience.
Presented at
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art “do it Moscow 2014”, Moscow, Russia (Exhibition conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist; organized by Garage Museum in collaboration with Independent Curators International, New York.)
Concept & Performance: Vera Iona Papadopoulou
Inspired by: Lucy R. Lippard
