DEO projects is an alter-institution based in Chios island, Greece. It explores institutionality as a living and growing polymorph in constant flux. Adapted, layered or erased, its programme shifts and develops in cyclic timescales through interventions that take the form of commissions, exhibitions, public programmes, or residencies.
Based on values of care, trust, and generosity, DEO projects is committed to supporting transnational dialogue and the existing cultural infrastructure of the island. As a spaceless cultural entity, the organisation operates across the island in collaboration with local museums and associations, non-institutional spaces, and the public realm. Research thematics emerge from the multi-layered historical, social, and cultural roots of the North-eastern Island in the Aegean, and expand beyond its geographical limits through the stories travelled across the sea.
DEO projects aims to create a fertile and inclusive space to radically re-examine symptoms of the past, embodied wounds, patterns of objective thinking and deconstruct the ideologies and connotations inherent to such experiences. By cultivating an interdisciplinary ethos through multiple types of knowledge, somatic experiences, land wisdom, and worldviews within and beyond the creative sphere, DEO projects aims to produce heterogeneous research, alternative formats and highlight overlooked voices. A discursive platform that invites international and local artists, curators, thinkers, patrons, together with ecologists, healers, scientists, artisans, visitors, journalists and viewers to collectively search for new modes of knowledge production towards cultural, social and political change.
Chios island, Greece
