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Greece Athen

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8:00 PM

Crow, Pirate, Fly

Concert Performance | Performed by Hannah Silva

  • Goethe-Institut Athen

  • English
  • free
  • Part of series: Noisy Words 2026

Hannah Silva

Hannah Silva

Hannah Silva will loop and glitch vocal play, articulations and haunting sounds with content from their long awaited second poetry collection, Crow, Pirate, Fly. They present a manifesto of pain, pleasure, domination and submission. A power play of identities, authors, lovers and mothers, Crow, Pirate, Fly is subversive and compelling, intimate and estranging, animal and alien. Ten years in gestation, this genre-queering text began as a cut up of Kathy Acker's literary terrorism with E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, and now emerges as its own thing—dark, wild, innovative and pregnant with desire.

There are no safe words.

The concert is supported by British Council.

About Hannah Silva:

Hannah Silva is a writer and performer confronting big ideas through formal innovation and a seriously playful approach to language, voice and technology. Known for vocal gymnastics, poetic looping, and queering AI, their work spans nonfiction, sound poetry, eight BBC radio dramas, and two decades of critically acclaimed experiments in performance. Silva’s unconventional memoir, My Child, the Algorithm (2023) weaves their experiences of love and queer single parenting into conversations with a toddler and an early, glitchy open source grassroots language model. Their record Talk in a bit, fuses sound poetry, language, percussion and electronica and was the Wire’s top 25 record of 2018. Crow, Pirate, Fly, Silva’s long awaited second poetry collection is available from Bad Betty Press now.