Infinite Genesis * AI Poetry workshops
ΛΑΛΑ welcomes our second residents, Aimée Lê and Marc Sutton, aka AiMARK. AiMARK are a nonbinary poetic system based in the US and UK. Their work seeks to transcend the limits of human and artificial memory, iterate new translations, and evolve queer forms of reproduction. Their project “Infinite Genesis” started in early 2022 in London […]
Aimée Lê, Aliki in Saigon
In 2016, Vietnamese American artist Aimée Lê premiered ‘Aliki in Saigon’, a multilingual non-fluent ‘translation’ of the songs of Greek 60s pop movie diva Aliki Vougiouklaki, which was later released as an EP by queer music label Fytini. https://fytini.bandcamp.com/album/aliki-in-saigon. Originally positing that Aliki’s work had been “big in Vietnam” as a spoof for a Greek audience, […]
I don’t care, body care=self care
Aaaah intestinal summer, there is a breeze on Derigny street. Bodies melting from the heat, oppression, dreams and grooming. A relaxed Saturday of care and self-care next to hot Victoria square. Hot, hot Victoria…! Hot creatures smothered in Athenian cement gather once more @ ΛΑΛΑ.For all you saltwater and freshwater mermaids, there will be clothes […]
Alvina Chamberland, bombshell & literary goddess, reads new work
Alvina Chamberland reads new literary work developed during her four-week ΛΑΛΑ residency. The work explores in a poetic and existential way the beauty and challenges of love between straight men and trans women. Alvina will also present a segment from her upcoming music theatre piece based on Swan Lake, in which the white swan is […]