Rebirthing Ourselves: A User’s Manual (+ Rebirth-day party!)
This event brings together participants to present performances and videos on the theme of rebirthing yourself after a period of change or trauma.
anastasia: rebirth
Lala’s new resident, Anastasia, has taken over Lala’s bedroom to create an installation depicting a process of rebirth triggered by the trauma of infertility.
Nela Fortunato – SOPA
LALA had the pleasure of welcoming a new resident from Buenos Aires, director Nela Fortunato, whose 2-week performance workshop culminated in a final public performance.
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
LALA and Dreamland present some of the early works by Cheryl Dunye for the first time in Athens, with the presence of the filmmaker herself!!!
H(E)AVENS
H(E)AVENS – A four-day festival on the role of private foundations in the field of culture ≡ Athens, 7-10 December 2023
Fallschirmseide
LALA presents the reading of the book Fallschirmseide/Μετάξι Αλεξίπτωτων (Parachute silk), which was published in both German and Greek in 2021 by Spector Books in Leipzig.
Nadir Sönmez – Research on LGBTI+ activism and arts in the Kurdish town of Diyarbakır
Nadir Sönmez encountered activists, journalists and artists in Diyarbakır to research LGBTI+ activism in the city.
Between Presence & Absence
Responding to the invitation of the curator of the exhibition “outraged by pleasure”, Nadja Argyropoulou, LALA presents an event-collage of spoken word, video and performance, based on memory/forgetting, fragments, archives and dreams, with an emphasis on queer trauma, personal loss and the outsider footnotes of history. The event is dedicated to the memory of activist and drag performer Zackie Oh and queer filmmaker and performer Jack Smith. It is also the culmination and final event of the first curatorial phase / first cycle in the story of LALA.
Indigenous AI: a conversation with Adina Popescu
Data is a tricky thing. It does not show us “reality”. It merely shows us what we are looking for. If we are looking for a certain pattern, we can train computer vision to identify said pattern.
Cabaret Tasséomancie with Khan of Finland and friends
Join Khan of Finland for a tasseographic Odyssey. Let him serenade and summon your fortune with a cup of coffee!