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!
Jackals & Fireflies screening + Q&A with Eva H.D. and Charlie Kaufman
Current LALA resident Eva H.D. presents “Jackals & Fireflies”, a 20-minute city suite, a poetic cinematic essay, directed by Charlie Kaufman and written and performed by Eva herself. A woman wanders the streets of New York City, takes buses and trains, sits in bars and coffee shops, experiencing the city’s diverse neighborhoods, while thinking about […]
DAGLARA – Ciao Amore
LALA and the theriodonta kross DAGLARA invite you, for two nights only, at her first exposition of her pictorial world, and much more.
Oral histories: Iossif Vardakis
Beginning this season’s programme, we host the fifth in our series of oral history discussions. This time our guest is Iossif Vardakis, a filmmaker and activist based in Athens. Iossif has just completed the first Greek documentary on the LGBTI scene of the AKOE era and will confide to Fil Ieropoulos personal stories about suburban […]
Real/Fake/Drag/Meat – Sophia Efstathiou & Chicks on Speed
If drag exposes the performativity/artificiality of gender can plant-based meats produce new definitions of ‘realness’ when it comes to food? Learning from queer and feminist politics, Real/Fake/Drag/Meat messes with definitions of ‘natural’ and ‘fake’ while maintaining a playful attitude. LALA presents the artistic research collaboration between Chicks on Speed and the project MEATigation, led by […]
Aphorisms – A night with Alvina Chamberland
”Abstract at its best really just denotes digging beneath the surface. Just like experimental, at its best, is directly linked to the verb experiment, like in science, to look closer, to uncover, to rigorously investigate, to try to find out something entirely new..” The aphorism is a part of literature and theory that seems to […]
Ron Athey – short films at LALA
Legendary body performance artist Ron Athey in a unique evening at LALA will share with us a few short films from his archives. There will be a Q&A session afterward with Angel Torticollis