ROMANTSO LIVE

12 MAY 2022 - 21:00-22:00

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Α “faulty” boy in a -phobic and violent rural greek city. Blood from a punch in a video game  and blood off-screen. A boy who isn’t good at being a boy and has to change, has to be slave to other people’s desires. While he only wants to be a slave like Britney Spears in I’m a Slave 4 U; he wants to dance like her because it is fun. A typical Greek family which on the pretence of having the boy’s best interest at heart, has absolutely no idea what’s good for him. A boy that ends up beating up his teddy bears using a belt, pretending to be a dad who takes care of his kids. Past and present collide: a violent father who becomes daddy who becomes daddy issues. Pokemon and Sailor Moon as the grand narratives of childhood, as a mean to escape in a colourful world. And the hope for the metamorphosis, to become something else, something with wings, something away-from-here.

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Sam Albatros is a lecturer in psychology in London. they studied cognitive neuroscience in Paris (Paris-Sud XI), London (University College London) & Cambridge (University of Cambridge), as a scholar of the State Scholarships Foundation & the Leventis Foundation. they recently completed their doctoral thesis between London (University College London) & the United States (National Institute of Mental Health) funded by the Wellcome Trust. As Sam Albatros they have created multimedia performances & experimental short films screened in Greece, Cyprus, the UK and Berlin. in 2021 they received an award for their work in the visual arts sector by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation & Artworks. They have completed fully funded writing residences in Berlin (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin) and Leipzig (Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, HALLE 14, Edit). They are active in social media, they publish original & translated poems in video-poetry on YouTube (channel: Sam Albatros) & on the website they created queerpoets.com. in 2022, Crush, the iconic poetry book by Richard Siken will be translated to Greek by Sam Albatros (Polis publications). Faulty boy is their debut novel.
 

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