PUBLICATIONS/ RECORDINGS/ EXHIBITIONS

2024:

• Group show “The Poem Returns as an Echo: Dialogues with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)” at Institute For Contemporary Art (ISET), Athens 2024 /visual poetry.

2023:

• Some of D.I.’s poems were translated into French by Barbara Dimopoulou for the poetry journal Nioques 28-28 GRÈCE-ΕΛΛΑΔΑ (May 2023).

• The poem The New Grotesque is published in the Kruk Book, An Anthology for Frances Kruk. Published by Materials.

2022:

• The poem What is Yours and What is Mine is published in the last issue of Stillpoint mag, in response to Lucy deLire’s essay “Lessons in Love II: The Erotics of Toxicity” featured in Issue 011: SLEEP.

• Following an open call by the online magazine Stillpoint, D.I. was selected along with the visual artist Andrea Garcia Vasquez to collaborate on a joint project for the JUDGE issue. You may read and watch their response to the theme here.

2020:

2020:

D.I.’s pamphlet Electric Sarcasm is out as part of the part of UDP’s 2020 Pamphlet Series: twenty commissioned essays on collective work, translation, performance, pedagogy, poetics, and small press publishing, Ugly Dukling Presse (2020).

Praise: “Many writers are called ‘relentless.’ Dimitra Ioannou truly deserves this accolade. Electric Sarcasm is a book of urgent and intelligent address. This work is shaken by incredulity at the falsifying systems, and systematic falsifications, which immerse us no less in financial precarity than in weaponized plague. Yet it is shaken, and shakes, like an earthquake. With each prose piece, etymological transformation, or isolate ritual, you feel the foreshock of poem as event and anticipate the aftershock of poem as analysis even while you are in the shocking midst of poem as anger and lament. The plurilingualism and etymological wit by which English, French, and Greek flow into each other becomes a holding, if not a healing, for Ioannou is able to invoke the competing political and cultural freight and status of each language’s worldview. Her text moves on with the devastating nimbleness of a being that knows what it is to live well and with a sense of continuity, yet which feels compelled to overwrite itself as a fragment, sometimes in order to make durational sense of this absurd moment of competing histories and precarious futures. This book is darkly enjoyable, abyssal, and clarifying. I am in awe of how it bodies forth our time.” – Vahni Capildeo

2019:

• D.I. co-hosted with Theo Chiotis a reading night as part of the feminist exhibition Voyage Around My Room, curated by Kika Kyriakakou for PCAI. “The exhibition embarks from Virginia Woolf s legendary essay “A room of one s own” and its relevance to newly introduced sociological and political concepts like digital feminism and the #metoo movement.” Poets and artists (Anna Lascari, Jeane Graff, Antonis Katsouris, Mochi, D.I., Maria Dolores…) perform their own works or works by others (Nat Raha, So Mayer). On Thursday 17th 2019, at 19:00, in the Athens Municipality Arts Center. FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/452091812276804/

• The poems The New Nothing, Untitled, Untitled, La Promesse are published in SPLINTER ISSUE NO. 5: FEBRUARY 2019, a poetry magazine edited by Gizem Okulu and David Grundy.

You may purchase your copy here: http://splintermag.blogspot.com/2017/08/splinter-magazine-issue-1.html#more

• D.I. recorded the poems Untitled & Centuries Are Far From Definitive Texts for All: Collected Voices – June, 15 2017, Athens. The project aims to cultivate, to preserve, to transmit the polyphony of responses to the exhibitions and events transpiring in Athens over the spring and summer of 2017. Produced by the Goethe-Institut Athen as part of ‘apropos documenta’, in collaboration with Radio Athènes. Curated by Helena Papadopoulos and Thomas Boutoux.

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• The poem I Would Love to Be Able to Persuade You is published in DATABLEED 7, May 2017.

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• The poem Turn Me Into A Country Tonight is published in a special edition by the artist Sofia Stevi on the occasion of her solo show at The Breeder gallery in Athens (19 Jan. 2017 to 18 Feb. 2017). It’s republished on The Breeder‘s site.

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• The visual poem Every Present Until Time Changes is A List of Questions was presented at the group show Regarding Nikolaos Kallas at the School of Fine Arts in Athens (Oct. 2016). You can watch it here in greek.

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• The poem Neo/Colonies is published in Tears in the Fence 46, September 2016. The poem in its greek version was exhibited at the group show Whispers at the Contemporary Art Museum of Crete (October 2015-February 2016).

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• The poem Autobiographies Might Pass for Silence is published in DATABLEED 3, February 2016.

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• The poem Incomplete Syntax is published in the anthology Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis published by Penned in the Margins, and edited by the poet Theodoros Chiotis. For more info, see: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2015/09/the-greek-crisis-ignites-a-radical-new-generation-of-poets/

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• The poems When a Future is Made to Pass, and Textovore are published in Blackbox Manifold 14, Spring 2015. The journal is edited by Alex Houen and Adam Piette. http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue14/DimitraIoannouBM14.html

RAIN TAXI REVIEW

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• The poems Ml or More and Lupography are published in Litmus III, the haematological issue, July 2015. Litmus publishing is a new press exploring the interaction between poetry and science. The journal is edited by Dorothy Lehane and Elinor Cleghorn. Issue 3’s Guest Editor is Sarah Crewe, and contributing editor David Rees. http://www.litmuspublishing.co.uk/Shop/2054-8915-3

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• The poem Don’t Make Me Tell You Again That What You Say Will Always Be Heard is published in the print journal a glimpse of, 2014.

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• The prose texts On the Banks of the Ilissos and The Athenian Zone, and the poem Anti_bodies are published in the print journal a glimpse of, 2013.

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• The poem Geography  is published in the online journal a glimpse of, 2010.

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• The poem Parcel is published in the online journal a glimpse of, 2009.

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• The experimental novella Soy Sea is published by Futura editions, Athens, 2008. You can read a sample here.