Athenian Horror(s) – Summer Edition
Prokne and Tyfoid invite you to an evening of queer horror readings. Our guests will read on: heatwaves, creatures from hell, tourists and gentrification (again), terrifying love affairs, ghosts, sea monsters, wars and climate crisis, the horror of ‘having fun’, queer doom, seasonal work / summer jobs / labour in general, public transportation, the horrors of greece and greekness, weddings and baptisms, couples’ holidays (Amorgos), gut-wrenching summertime, please come quickly so we can catch the sunset together. Some of the readings and performances will be in Greek and others in English.
✞✞✞ QUEERTAFIOS III ✞✞✞
Impromptu happening of religious worship and paganism. Occult films, exorcisms, third eye, mount-athos lo-fi, christian-communism, drag show, avant-garde, entrails, deposition, satanic, inter-activists, fog, purifying snake oils, libidinous, sandikai, incense, drones, carols, lent-core, candles, poetry, illuminati, diamanda, chaos magick
Athenian Horror(s)
Our guests will read on themes such as: urban legends, spooky institutions, gentrification as horror, post-apocalyptic scenarios, existential dread, queer horror, the devil and his friends, relationships, nightmares, ghost stories, goosebumps, haunted buildings, cults, creepy folx, dark rooms, re-appropriation of monsters, pandemics and biological hazards.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
¯\_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 […]
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 […]