¯\_W*o*я*d*S_/¯ vol.2: Tender Buttons
We continue with the second part of our series of events/happenings, in which ΛΑΛΑ and friends explore multimedia uses of poetic language, such as spoken word, videopoetry, concrete and visual poetry, experimental song and opera, performance, digital cybertext and memes, typography, artists books, etc. In the second installment of the series, we will focus on […]
¯\_W*o*я*d*S_/¯ vol.1: Grapefruit (⦿ᴥ⦿)
In this new series of happenings, ΛΑΛΑ and friends explore multimedia uses of poetic language, such as spoken word, videopoetry, concrete and visual poetry, experimental song and opera, performance, digital cybertext and memes, typography, artists books, etc. In the first event of the series we will focus on and be influenced by Yoko Ono’s book […]
Kangela is Present.
The iconoclastic Kangela Tromokratisch as you have never seen her before. Kangela occupies all the spaces of LALA in an inward, obsessive durational perfomance, with the audience surrounding her at arm’s length. Alternating looks and poses, repetitive gestures, internal monologues, nightmarish soundscapes, in an experimental drag performance where the boundaries between performance and mere existence […]
Radical Drag Histories Pt.1
In this new series of screenings, ΛΑΛΑ and the Perverts Cine Club are looking at the history of radical, punk, freakish, abstract, terrorist drag. We start our investigation with a screening of the documentary The Cockettes, about the avant-garde anarchist drag troupe from San Francisco with the same name, operating between the late 60s and […]
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 […]