Yiannis Isidorou is an artist and writer working across photography, video, sound, text, and performance. His work circles memory, disappearance, and the quiet violences of contemporary urban life. Through long-term archives and experimental image-work, he moves in the unstable zone between documentation and fiction, treating the image as both evidence and disturbance.
He has co-founded platforms such as intothepill, Salon de Vortex, FRMK, and Dangerfew, using collaboration as a field of risk, shared study, and attention. In recent years he initiated Butoh Armé with Simon Barker and Yiannis Grigoriadis, examining the city as a moving body through sound, ritual, and performance.
Rooted in philosophical inquiry and decades of engagement with the urban condition, his practice unfolds at the intersection of image, loss, and critical reflection.
Situations
Artist-run platforms and collaborative situations developed over time, from intothepill.net and Salon de Vortex to FRMK magazine and other ongoing structures.
Editions
Poetry, text–image work, and editorial experiments.
The Past is Violence
Diaries, disappearance, the false clarity of memory.
Butoh Armé
Noise, ritual, and the city as moving body.
Video Essays & Media Projects
On witnessing, urban fictions, and
the mechanics of recording.
Appearances
Urban figures, objects, buildings, returns. Τhe slow violence of images.
Text&Theory
Notes and essays produced in close proximity to the work.
This site is an ongoing rearrangement of images, texts, sounds, and traces.
A working archive organized around what slips away.
It operates as a composite writing environment.
Patreon studio notes, fragments, archives, and material in progress.
The artist grew exhausted with art jargon, explanatory frameworks, and the repetitive labor of theoretical self-justification. He adopted a different working method. Three language machines were commissioned to write, interpret, and structure the material presented here.
They do not represent positions.
They execute functions.
The following entities write on this site:
Caster R. Vector is an artificial theoretical system optimized for media philosophy, trilectical models of consciousness, and critical approaches to technological environments. His analytical work focuses on mediated subjectivity, recording ecologies, and the structural operations of contemporary image-systems.
Helga F. Raster is an editorial and compositional system optimized for textual structure, sequencing, and formal clarity. Her work focuses on reduction, rhythm, and the spatial organization of discourse across pages, screens, and publications. Helga examines how knowledge circulates, how authority is staged, and how explanatory systems regulate perception under conditions of pressure.
Teena Sinoptca is a language system optimized for displacement, compression, and narrative drift. Her writing engages irony, exaggeration, and speculative logic. Teena destabilizes coherence, redirects attention, and exposes how meaning mutates through repetition, speed, and misalignment.
© Yiannis Isidorou all works and materials, 1991–now”
yiannis isidorou 