
The Urge of Being
10 days creative expedition on the sailing boat LAFRI
September 8th - 17th, 2025
Lesbos - Andros
Navigation on the Northern Aegena Sea, Greece
International creative expedition and workshop by
Daniela Marcozzi /Marcozzi Contemporary Theater
in collaboration with LAFRIonArt&Beyond,
a sailing and art project created by the skipper and artist Nikolas Piperas.
The Urge of Being is a creative expedition and workshop on the sailing boat LAFRI.
It is a sea voyage open to performing artists and artists of all genres, creatives and researchers. The expedition includes an initial dry-land workshop, 10 days of sailing in the Aegean Sea on the sailing boat LAFRI and a final workshop and site-specific performance to our final destination.
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Why do we do this expedition?
In the last years, I have launched many projects, residencies and site-specific performances on the sea, on boats, and in contact with grey whales in Baja California, Mexico.
Motivated by the vivid and inexplicable sense of recognition and sense of belonging that I - and many people - feel when we are at the sea, I began bringing my artistic practice closer and closer to the sea and her creatures.
What happens to the creative processes when we take it away from the studio or from the theater - away from a purely anthropocentric setting - and we bring it in touch with the sea?
What happens when we expose ourselves and our creative processes to the immensity of the sea?
Dates : 08.09 - 17.09.2025
Lesbos > Andros
- 08.09 Mytilene (Lesbos)
Meeting in the morning, initial workshop + food shopping
We sleep aboard LAFRI.
- 09.09. - 15.09
Navigation North Aegean heading to Andros
- 16.09
Final site-specific workshop and performance in Andros
- 17.09:
Helping to clean the boat & disembark
Total costs
Single cabin: 1250€
Shared cabin: we can talk personally about this option
This amount will be paid in installments.
The costs includes: daily creative workshop in different locations and on the boat, boat expenses, fuel, water, food on board, port fees, accommodation.
The costs doesn’t include: drinks, cleaning, cooking, helping the skipper with sailing the boat.
TECHNICAL INFO AND REGISTRATION
The workshop has a limited number of participants:
For info and registration, please contact Daniela Marcozzi at
phone/whatsapp +39 351 886 7010
... see you on board!
head graphic: Nicole Shakarishvili
photos: Rosalba Limonciello, Nikolas Piperas, Ilaria Di Maio, Daniela Marcozzi (Expedition 2024)