Evangelia VS (aka Abyss X) is a multidisciplinary artist from Crete, working across performance, music, dance, moving image, creative direction and event curation. With an academic background in computer science and the performing arts, she holds a Master’s in Performance from Central Saint Martins.

She has released music on acclaimed labels including AD 93, Halcyon Veil, Danse Noire and Infinite Machine, with her work also featured in fashion shows and campaigns for houses such as Mugler and Luis de Javier. Her collaborations extend to Grammy-nominated producers Rabit and SOPHIE, as well as Chinese-American filmmaker and visual artist Andrew Thomas Huang.

Beyond music, Evangelia VS has contributed choreography, movement direction and video design to productions presented by the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece and the Mediterranean Biennale.

Her cross-disciplinary practice is a culmination of methodologies in aesthetic presentation resulting from cavernous groundwork and playful experimentation. It delves into matters of the body, eco-grief, surveillance, commodification of the feminine, eroticism, war, violence, pop culture and memory. Using her body and voice as vessels for socio-political inquiry, she crafts performances that unfold as tableaux vivants where sound, movement and scenography converge through potent symbolism and a punk ethos.

Evangelia VS is the founder and curator of Nature Loves Courage Festival and she has presented and toured her work internationally at major festivals and cultural venues, including La MaMa, Audra Festival x Kino Pavasaris, National Sawdust, Tanzquartier Wien, Performance Space New York, Phoenix Central Park, 3537.org, La Gaîté Lyrique, ICA Miami, Art Basel Miami, Southbank Centre (Royal Festival Hall & Purcell Room), La Casa Encendida, Vooruit, the Biennale of Moving Image (Geneva), Small Epidaurus Theatre, HAU2, DOKUFEST, MONOM, Wysing Arts Centre, Tai Kwun among many others.