Noisy Words

Noisy Words once again brings together artists, authors, performers, and thinkers who view noise as a space of creative and political possibility.

Through workshops, conversations, and performances, noise is explored as rupture and disruption—not only as an acoustic phenomenon, but as an expression of resistance, memory, and multiplicity. Between language, sound, and body, spaces emerge where the boundaries of communication, musical form, and linguistic discipline are questioned.

The festival invites collective listening—to the fragmented, the unspoken, and the hidden—creating a polyphonic echo against control and coherence.

Participating artists / thinkers / practitioners:
Vasilia Georgiou (GR), Yara Mekawei (EGY/DE), Tanasgol Sabbagh (IR/DE), E Scourti (GR/UK)
Curated by: Evi Nakou

A project by the Goethe-Institut Athens in collaboration with KET TV Control Centre.
  *During all events of Noisy Words we will uphold the following zero-tolerance policy against any form of discrimination, harassment, sexist and racist language; no act is considered too small to be addressed. Artists who are interested in exploring this avenue of writing and making work either as a new endeavour or as an opening to deepen their ongoing practice or research are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to FLINTA persons and those who have limited accessibility to similar learning opportunities. 

WHEN & WHERE

October 9 & 10, 2025 + October 15 & 16, 2025
Goethe-Institut Athens

Time: 16:00–19:00 each day

Maximum number of participants: 5–10 artists

Application deadline: September 28, 2025

THE WORKSHOP

What if mistakes, interruptions, or misunderstandings could help us create something new?
In this four-day workshop, we’ll explore how friction—such as glitches in speech, mistranslations, background noise, or overlapping voices—can open up surprising and creative ways to work with words and sound.

Using simple tools like our phones and loop pedals, we’ll experiment with recording, layering, and performing text together. We’ll write, walk, listen, and use our surroundings to collect everyday language and sounds. Through group writing, performance, and playful experiments, we’ll explore how collaboration can challenge the idea of a single authorial "voice" and help us discover new material.
Inspired by a range of writers and thinkers, this workshop is open to anyone curious about writing, sound, performance, and collaborative creation.

The workshops will culminate in an opportunity to present at an Open Mic session at KET.

Workshop facilitator: E Scourti
Working language: English (peer-to-peer translation available upon request)

E SCOURTI

E Scourti is an artist and writer based in Athens and London. They have exhibited internationally, including at the High Line (New York), Serendicity Festival (Hong Kong), Ochto (Athens), Wellcome Collection, Hayward Gallery, Munich Kunstverein, ICA London, and the Athens Biennale. Their solo show Profiles of You was presented in 2023 at EMST, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

Their writing has been published in On Care (Ma Biblioteque, 2020), Spells (Spiral House, 2018 & 2025), and Fiction as Method (Sternberg, 2017), among others. Solo publications include The Outage (Banner Repeater, 2014), No to Self (Veer, 2023), and As the non-world falls away (TEXTZ, 2024).

They are co-lead of the AUTO project, part of the Feminist Duration Reading Group residency at CCA Goldsmiths.

APPLICATION

Please send your application to: kultur.athen@goethe.de
Subject line: Friction as Form: A Workshop on Writing, Sound & Collaboration

Thank you for the many applications we received.