Astarti Athanasiadou (b. 1983, GR) is an Amsterdam-based performance artist, movement educator, and artistic researcher whose work investigates radical embodiment and profound listening as modes of situated knowledge production. With a background in dance, movement, and somatic practices, and further studies in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute, her practice operates at the intersection of performance, land-based practices, and daily life.

Her research explores how Body Weather can function as an embodied field research method for resituating performance within rural, agricultural, and communal contexts. Through temporal or long-term engagement with specific sites, she investigates how bodily attunement to climate, labor, and environmental rhythms generates alternative forms of knowledge and performative time. Her work often unfolds through movement laboratories, walking practices, landscape and staged performances, video, text, and score-based practices, frequently developed through collective and dialogic processes.

Athanasiadou is an active member of the Body Weather Amsterdam platform (Bakatsaki, van de Ven), where she contributes to the ongoing production, development and transmission of the practice. She currently focuses on resituating Body Weather within rural and agricultural environments, examining the relationships between performance, farming, and communal dynamics. Her research trajectory has been significantly shaped through long-term collaboration with artist and researcher Stéphane Verlet-Bottero, with whom she has developed multiple Body Weather research processes.

Her research has developed through embedded collaborations with Inland Project (Fernando García Dory) at Inland headquarters in Asturias, Spain, the communal garden of Matadero Madrid, Spain, Four Sisters urban garden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Open Fields / Universalmuseum Joanneum at the farm of Konrad Liebchen in Styria, Austria, Zone Sensible – Parti Poétique in Saint-Denis, Paris, the Farm of Saint-Hubert in Nantes, France, the olive orhard of choreographer Vassiliki Tsagari in Peloponnese, Greece, the collective of ZKM fruit orchard in Karsruhe, Germany. Alongside self-initiated and commissioned projects, she developed collaborative artistic work through the alliances bad royale and blackswans.

In parallel to her artistic research, Athanasiadou is engaged in pedagogy and collective physical practice. She is a member of Dangerous Mouses, a shared physical practice space initiated by Maria Mavridou and Pablo Fontdevila, and co-led with Yurie Umamoto and Stefania Petroula. She works as a research lecturer within the MA Performance Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands and leads the Soma Project, a somatic and movement-based studio practice at Fijnhout, Amsterdam.