— Michail Pan

Interdisciplinary

Performance Artist

Musician

Flow Artist

— Based

Netherlands

Athens

Michail Pan. is an interdisciplinary experimental artist based between the Netherlands and Athens. His curiosity lies between movement, physical theatre, puppetry, and music, exploring the relationships between the body, voice, sound, and objects.

He is currently in his second year of the Master's in Performance Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts. His research focuses on how rhythmic and repetitive structures in performance can create conditions for the transmission of embodied knowledge between performer and audience. Through his practice, he explores how subtle changes in sound, movement, and attention can shape the experience of both the performer and the audience, drawing inspiration from practitioners such as Mark Fleishman and G. I. Gurdjieff.

He creates worlds that explore through technology and ritual structures the use of the body as a medium for expression. His work often combines movement, throat singing, live (spatial) sound, masks, DIY objects and puppetry.

Alongside his performance and research he also composes and performs live music, including his debut album Penumbra under the name Architect of the Machine, alongside scoring and performing live for theatre, dance, and audiovisual projects in Greece and internationally.

— Project Name

Held Momentum:

Body primed to move, trained not to proceed

Duration: 2,5 hours

— Role

Creator

Performer

— Date 6/2/2026

Artez University of Arts

Held Momentum is a durational political performance sculpture

The political problem this work addresses is how authority within European border regimes is no longer enforced only through visible force, but through regulation that is internalised by the body. 

Borders function by dividing bodies into categories that determine access, delay, and permission. Freedom distributed unevenly according to citizenship and legality. Though, the border is not only something one encounters at a checkpoint, but something carried, felt as fatigue and anticipation

The purpose of the performance is to make this internalised regulation visible and experiential. Through stillness, fatigue, and held movement in a forward position, the performance makes this process visible, showing how permission accumulates in the body and how freedom becomes conditional rather than given.

The work is informed by Michel Foucault’s understanding of disciplinary power, which describes how control becomes effective when it no longer needs to be imposed, because the body has learned to self-regulate through repetition, interruption, and endurance.

Part of Politically Engaged Performance Making module guided by Vest&Page at the Artez University of Arts

— PROJECT NAME

Performance Lecture: On the importance of initiation and trance states

— ROLE

Live sound manipulation Narration

— DATE

07/07/2026

Setup: Dark room, Quadraphonic setup, seating in a circle

This Performance lecture explores how sound, repetition, and sustained attention can shape an audience’s perception of time and create conditions for a shared, embodied experience.

The work combines a quadraphonic sound system, with four speakers positioned around the performance space, and a live repetitive sonic composition built around a number of different resonant bells. Through looping structures and the manipulation of the spatial movement of sound, the audience is invited to listen beyond the recognition of individual sounds and become aware and attentive to the subtle changes in rhythm and perception.

— PROJECT NAME

FELELEM

— ROLE

Producer

Musician Director

— DATE

3/12/2023

FELELEM is an improvisational music and dance performance exploring the multifaceted nature of fear. Featuring a collaborative ensemble of three musicians and one dancer, the piece invites audiences into a visceral and deeply personal journey, where each artist interprets their unique experiences of fear through a fusion of improvised sound, movement, and storytelling. Transforming fear from a paralyzing force into a shared somatic language.

As the producer and director, I orchestrated this multidisciplinary collaboration, bringing together a talented group of artists. Together, we delved into our everyday fears, translating these raw emotions into a dynamic interplay of music and dance. My focus was on experimenting with the creative process and how can a creation emerge from sharing narratives of the now through the lens of each individual, and how can we create a spiralling narrative, a reflective journey for both the performers and the audience.

— PROJECT NAME

Battles in the Depths of the Hell of Your Mind

— ROLE

Director

Performer

Music Producer

— DATE

20/05/2023

Battles is a Multidisciplinary performance which explores the multifaceted topic of fear and how it can be translated into sound, body movement and the use of props to create a narrative.

Battles in the Depths of the Hell of your Mind emerged from a visceral exploration of fear and doubt as daily barriers to self-liberation. As both performer and director, I translated personal despair into a raw, physical language, allegoric movements, fractured speech, and repetitive soundscape. Collaborating with my teacher Aliki Dourmazer, the work became a ritual of catharsis, where the performer undergoes through a three stage process of accepting fear. Through improvisation and grotesque physicality, the performance confronts how fear etches itself onto the body, transforming personal struggle into collective witnessing. Battles is an offering, a space where vulnerability becomes a catalyst for resilience

— PROJECT NAME

Hybridation

— ROLE

Performer

— DATE

11/12/2023

A performance that was part of the workshop with well known French artist Olivier De Sagazan and a collaboration with Despoina Douzi a visual artist

Hybridation is inspired by Olivier’s vision of a dynamic mask and the hybrid form of two bodies interconnecting with the help of clay. The process of hybridation starts the moment two naked bodies touch and then the unconscious mind takes over, the scenes created are a pure form of the unconscious of two bodies, two souls interconnecting. 

— PROJECT NAME

Dance of the Exiled

— ROLE

Performer, Music Producer

— DATE

20/06/2023

Dance of the exiled emerged from the creation of a musical piece in which is an outcry of the exiled which oppose the social norm, living like pagans under the light of the moon, preserving the fire of one self.

My first musical and video release under the name Architect of the Machine.

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