Project Leads, Contributors & Acknowledgements  

Artist: Anna Pangalou

Anna Pangalou is a vocal and sound installation artist whose work explores the boundaries between classical vocal tradition and experimental sound. Formally trained as a classical singer in Cannes, Vienna, Rome, and Athens, she has received distinctions from institutions such as the Onassis Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. Over the years, her artistic focus has shifted toward contemporary and experimental music, collaborating with pioneering composers and curators who recognize the unique qualities of her voice. She has performed at renowned festivals and institutions, including documenta 14 and Onassis Stegi, engaging with innovative vocal compositions that challenge conventional performance practices. Her work has been presented across Europe and internationally, spanning concert halls, museums, and interdisciplinary platforms that foreground experimental sound and performance.

Her recent work expands into the realm of soundscapes, acoustic ecology, and spatial perception, integrating voice, breath, and environmental sound into site-specific installations. Central to her practice is an ongoing investigation into the relationship between the human body and its surrounding environment, often using breath as both material and metaphor. Continuing to develop site-specific works, Anna seeks collaboration with artists and thinkers from diverse disciplines, exploring new modes of perception and experience through sound, space, and the human voice. Her projects frequently engage with place as both context and collaborator, positioning sound as a means of attunement to the subtle, often overlooked dynamics of lived environments. https://annapangalou.net/

Curator: Meg Shiffler 

Meg Shiffler is a curator, writer, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and the founder of Cities of Glass, a ten-year independent curatorial initiative commissioning site-responsive work by global artists working across performance, sound, social practice, visual art, and more. Through Cities of Glass, she is exploring how artists can reveal the layered histories, cultures, and lived experiences of cities through projects rooted in place.

Shiffler previously served as Galleries Director and Chief Curator for the San Francisco Arts Commission from 2005 to 2022, where she worked with more than 1,400 artists and developed civic and international contemporary art initiatives. She is currently the inaugural Director of Artist Space Trust, a Community Land Trust dedicated to permanently affordable, community-owned housing and live/work spaces for Bay Area artists. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, exhibition catalogues, magazines and SFMOMA’s Open Space blog, and she has taught and lectured at institutions including the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University.

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Eric Rodenbeck (ΜΟΡΙΑΙΕΛΑΙΑΙ / Sacred Olives interactive map design) is the founder of Stamen Design, which builds beautiful, playful, technically sophisticated mapping and data visualization projects for clients from the Dalai Lama to the World Health Organization to scientists and artists around the world. Eric also teaches architecture at Harvard University. For ΜΟΡΙΑΙΕΛΑΙΑΙ / Sacred Olives, Eric created pigment from the leaves and bark of Anna’s trees and designed the interactive project map.  

Jason Hanasik (ΜΟΡΙΑΙΕΛΑΙΑΙ / Sacred Olives photography) is an Athens-based award-winning filmmaker, artist, journalist, and curator whose work spans film, photography, writing, and exhibition-making. For ΜΟΡΙΑΙΕΛΑΙΑΙ / Sacred Olives, Jason created photographic portraits of Anna’s trees. www.jasonhanasik.com

Freddie Faulkenberry (ΜΟΡΙΑΙΕΛΑΙΑΙ / Sacred Olives photography) is a people, lifestyle, travel and leisure photographer based in Athens. Freddie captured a university student tour during the project’s soft launch in November 2025. 

Anna Pangalou would like to thank:

• Professor Yiorgos Klimis and the students of Panteion University of Athens
• Professor Zafos Xagoraris & Adjunct Professor Stefanos Levidis, and the students of School of Fine Arts
• Artemis A. Zenetou, Fulbright Executive Director and the Fulbright Team for their help and support on the soft launch 
• Christos Karagiorgos, a dear friend and peripatetic companion on all the stages of the formulation of the project. 
• Anargyros Deniozos, a dear friend and valuable collaborator for all his guidance and feedback on the sound compositions.
• Michalis Koroneos, owner of the wine distillery where the Holy Icon lives, for all his support and holy wine.
• All the people that I have met in the neighborhood around Plato’s Academy for their warm response and the talks we had in the process of the journey of ΜΟΡΙΑΙΕΛΑΙΑΙ / Sacred Olives

Meg Shiffler would like to thank: 

I’m deeply indebted to Anna Pangalou for taking a risk, believing in the vision of this initiative, and executing a project with great care, vision, integrity and commitment. I’m also grateful to Jason Hanasik for his ongoing thought-partnership, friendship, artistic contributions, and introduction to Anna and other Athens-based artists. Also big thanks to Eric Rodenbeck for jumping in the map-making process with generosity, kindness, passion and creative-genius.

Cycladic Arts - an artist residency in the village of Aliki on the island of Paros, Greece that provided me with time and space to conduct research, write, vision, and build the initial framework of Cities of Glass. Special thanks to Dimitra Skandali, Nina Elder and Bradley Wester. 

Thank you to my partner Steve O’Neil and our son Sam O’Neil for their patience and support, as well as my understanding colleagues at Artist Space Trust. 


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