THE QUEER ARCHIVE FESTIVAL 2022
Feeding The Queer Archive
Stiofan O'Ceallaigh
Qingyi Ren
Shia Conlon
Callum Leo Hughes
Unseenthat
Alina Gross
Kostis Kontogewrgos
THURSDAY 12/5 - 18:00 - 21:00
OPENING
FRIDAY 13/5 - 12:00 - 20:00
SATURDAY 14/5 - 12:00 - 20:00
SUNDAY 15/5 - 12:00 - 20:00
ROMANTSO
During the UK Covid-19 lockdowns the artist kept a daily visual diary in the form of digital collages or GIFs. HOMOPERSPECTIVES contains selected extracts from the visual diary. Each individual GIF reflects upon themes such as mental health, the virus, (be)longing, (in)visibility, (im)possibilities and the day-to-day.
Femme4Femme4ever
Rory Midhani
Antigoni Bunny Tsagkaropoulou h0tgir1bummrr
Eleni Bagaki
alienprincesshasgreasyhair
Theodora Savvalaridi
Vas Lazaridou
Artemisia Reppa
Sofia Rozaki
Rafael Medina
Spyros Rennt
THURSDAY 19/5 - 19:00 - 22:00
OPENING
FRIDAY 20/5 - 12:00 - 20:00
SATURDAY 21/5 - 12:00 - 20:00
SUNDAY 22/5 - 12:00 - 20:00
HAUS N ATHEN
This exhibition is about subverting toxic masculinity in the queer community through reinvigorating femme-ness and all of its powers. But what is femme-ness in a patriarchial world? The goal of the exhibition is to bring together work that highlights all kinds of femininity, especially the failing femmes, the femmes without abs, the fatties with bellies, the femmes that ruin their make up; the bimbos and faggot himbos.
Faulty Boy:
the performance
Sam Albatros
Holly Grace
THURSDAY 12/5 - 21:00 - 22:00
ROMANTSO
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.
Queer Vaginas Unite: From pleasure to Protection
Doreen Toutikian
Xenia Kalpaktsoglou
SATURDAY 21/5 - 18:00 - 21:00
HADOKEN CLUB
Omgyno and friends team up to give you a curated program of hands-on workshops, open discussions in an intimate setting, and a screening that aims to dispel shame about our vulvas.
La Drag Bouffe
A man to pet
Vasilis Kallidis
FRIDAY 20/5 - 21:00 - 00:00
LIGHTHOUSE ATHENS by Brown Hotels
Join us at Lighthouse Hotel restaurant for a performative 3 course meal especially prepared by chef Vassilis Kallidis for the occasion with ingredients sourced only from Omonoia square.
Performer A man to pet will be there to disturb the peace between your courses.
Translucent desires
Andreas Fux
Simone Kappeler
Stefan Thiel
Werner Widmer
17/5 - 22/5 - 24/7
OTTTO GALLERY WINDOW DISPLAY
'Translucent Desires’ plays with layers of light and darkness and juxtaposes the delicate aesthetics of tattoos, the illustrative beauty of gay cruising, the sensuality of translucent x-rays photographs and kinky marble.
Underground4Ukraine
"Never Not Fighting"
Anton Shebetko
Rebel Queers
Zhenya Tramvay
Bogdan Moroz
Kinder Limo
FRIDAY 13/5 - 18:00 - 21:00
OPENING
SATURDAY 14/5 - 11:00 - 18:00
MONDAY 16/5 - 11:00 - 18:00
TUESDAY 17/5 - 11:00 - 20:00
WEDNESDAY 18/5 - 11:00 - 18:00
THURSDAY 19/5 - 11:00 - 20:00
FRIDAY 20/5 - 11:00 - 20:00
SATURDAY 21/5 - 11:00 - 18:00
HYPER HYPO GALLERY
A solidarity and fundraising event, with artworks available to purchase from some of Ukraine’s foremost queer artists.
Kavla zine
Javier cerrada Konstantinos Tsolakis Danae Charalampidou Mochi
Jamie Edler
Rick Castro
@mana_raver
Lasse Långström
Goody Green
Alvina Chamberland
Lele
Alex la Cruz
Vassilis Gerasopoulos
John Nikolopoulos
Rory Midhani
Maria Petridis
Alexa Vachon
Eirini P
Alina Gross
Marlon Rueberg
Iacovos
Rafael Medina
FRIDAY 13/5 - 18:00 - 21:00
LAUNCH
DJ SET: ARIA DI VINE
HYPER HYPO
Artists, writers, poets and thinkers participate in a queer dialogue of aesthetics and words and ignite fresh and meaningful conversations around queer experience, art and culture.
WET 1&2
Bruce Labruce
Max Disgrace
Antonio Da Silva
Grundvold
Lily Lu
Nicky Miller
Kate Sinclaire
Evie Snax
Marit Östberg
FRIDAY 13/5 - 21:00 - 00:00
OPENING
DJ SET: hael_ky and Loo
Programme 1
FRIDAY 13/5 - 21:00 - 00:00
SUNDAY 14/5 - 21:00 - 00:00
Programme 2
SUNDAY 21/5 - 18:00 - 23:00
ROMANTSO
In collaboration with Athens Porn Film Festival this is a selection of the hottest short films around that push the boundaries between art, porn and beyond.
The Cockettes
+Sexual Distancing
+Monstera
Bill Weber
David Weissman
Dimitris Aspropoulos
Vera Chotzoglou
TUESDAY 17/5 - 21:00 - 23:00
ROMANTSO
As the psychedelic San Francisco of the ’60’s began evolving into the gay San Francisco of the ’70’s, The Cockettes, a flamboyant ensemble of hippies (gay men, women, and babies) decked themselves out in gender-bending drag and tons of glitter for a series of legendary midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in North Beach.
Karaoke Extravaganza
A man to pet
Nalyssa Green
Kristof
D'Arcy Foxx
SATURDAY 21/5 - 22:00 - LATE
ROMANTSO ROOF TOP
Our hostess A man to pet will cause chaos and mayhem while you will try to bring your inner diva out in the world.
Nalyssa Green and Kristof will grace us with their performances, singing the songs you would want them to sing and D’Arcy Foxx will play joyful tunes throughout the night, which you would definitely want to stay forever!
Dedicated to promoting the queer arts and culture as well as giving artists across the board a platform where they can showcase their work, the festival supports both Greek and international leading artists alongside the best emerging talent whose work touches upon queered or queer-responsive approaches to human experience.
Open and accessible to all, “The Queer Archive Festival” suggests a diverse programme that cuts across a wide range of disciplines and mediums and brings together artists, activists, curators, venues, artist-run spaces and spectators in a citywide celebration of the very best of queer arts and culture. Video installations, exhibitions, walks, workshops, master-classes, experiential art, performances and numerous other forms of contemporary media is part of the festival’s activity. Focused on highlighting talent, encouraging creativity and, promoting engaging and progressive contemporary art, which reflects modern queer culture, the festival ultimately aims at creating a bustling hub that praises diversity and supports social inclusivity.
The term “queer”, which still resists strict definition, is today used as an umbrella term for a wide range of genders and sexual identities that exceed and blur binary lines, opening up space and creating new, vibrant and inclusive landscapes. “Queer” often commonly linked to the LGBTQI+ culture, but can also be interpreted in a broader sense at the same time; for instance, in a transverse as well as resistant fashion to the norm and as a hybrid form.
The Queer Archive Festival is a celebration of all the things that bring us together as a community; a celebration of love and queer culture in all its forms. The queer experience is certainly a continuous struggle, yet our existence cannot be reduced to that, even though there are gains derived from this very struggle which makes our community resilient, robust and creative. The queer experience is gratifying and is to be relished to the utmost.
The festival is powered by the creative platform “The Queer Archive” with the support of Onassis Stegi.
Αφοσιωμένο στην προώθηση των queer τεχνών και της queer κουλτούρας, καθώς και στη δημιουργία μιας ανοιχτής πλατφόρμας για την παρουσίαση έργων που προέρχονται από ένα ευρύ καλλιτεχνικό φάσμα, το The Queer Archive Festival στηρίζει εγχώριους ή μη καλλιτέχνες, τόσο καταξιωμένους όσο και ανερχόμενους, τα έργα των οποίων θίγουν, αφορούν ή αφορμώνται από θέματα που απασχολούν την queer κοινότητα, προτείνοντας νέες προσεγγίσεις ανθρώπινης εμπειρίας.
Ένα φεστιβάλ ανοιχτό και προσβάσιμο σε όλους, με ποικίλο πρόγραμμα πολυμεσικών εμπειριών, γίνεται σημείο συνάντησης για καλλιτέχνες, ακτιβιστές, επιμελητές, πολιτιστικούς χώρους και θεατές. Video εγκαταστάσεις, εκθέσεις, περίπατοι, workshops, masterclasses, διαδραστική τέχνη, performances και πολλά ακόμη σύγχρονα μέσα αποτελούν μέρος της δραστήριοτητας του. Υπογραμμίζοντας το ταλέντο, ενθαρρύνοντας τη δημιουργικότητα και στηρίζοντας προοδευτικές και ενδιαφέρουσες νέες προτάσεις στη σύγχρονη τέχνη, που αντικατοπτρίζουν την queer κουλτούρα του σήμερα, το The Queer Archive Festival φιλοδοξεί να δημιουργήσει ένα ζωηρό πυρήνα διαφορετικότητας και να ενισχύσει την κοινωνική αποδοχή και τη συμπερίληψη.
Ο όρος “queer”, ο οποίος μέχρι και σήμερα προβάλλει σθεναρή αντίσταση στον αυστηρό προσδιορισμό του, αποτελεί μια ευρεία διατύπωση, η οποία περιλαμβάνει ομάδες πληθυσμού με παρόμοια χαρακτηριστικά φύλου και σεξουαλικής ταυτότητας και συναφή βιώματα περιθωριοποίησης και κοινωνικού αποκλεισμού. Τόσο ο όρος, όσο και όλοι όσοι επιλέγουν να αυτοπροσδιορίζονται ως “queer” σήμερα, υπερβαίνουν και καθιστούν ασαφή τα όρια φύλου και σεξουαλικότητας που θέτουν οι κοινωνίες, κάνοντας χώρο και δημιουργώντας νέα, ενεργητικά και δραστήρια τοπία συλλογικής ύπαρξης. Ταυτόχρονα, o όρος μπορεί να λάβει και μία πιο ευρεία, υβριδική έννοια, συμπεριλαμβάνοντας οτιδήποτε αμφισβητεί, λοξοδρομεί και αντιστέκεται στη νόρμα.
Το The Queer Archive Festival είναι μία γιορτή όλων εκείνων που μας καθιστούν μία κοινότητα, μια γιορτή της queer κουλτούρας όπως αυτή εκφράζεται μέσα από κάθε μορφή τέχνης. Σαφώς η καθημερινότητα της queer κοινότητας χαρακτηρίζεται από διαρκή πάλη, όμως δεν περιορίζεται αποκλειστικά σε αυτό, ακόμα κι αν αυτή η πάλη αποδεικνύεται συχνά επωφελής, καθιστώντας την queer κοινότητα ανθεκτική, δυνατή και δημιουργική. Η queer ύπαρξη καθεαυτή είναι γεμάτη χαρά και αξίζει να την απολαμβάνουμε στο έπακρο.
To φεστιβάλ είναι μια πρωτοβουλία της πλατφόρμας The Queer Archive με την υποστήριξη της Στέγης του Ιδρύματος Ωνάση.
Creative director/Programmer: Konstantinos Menelaou
Curators: Vassilia Kaga, Konstantinos Menelaou, Alex King, Ivan March, Menelas, Doreen Toutikian, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Widmertheodoridis
Programme Assistant: Angeliki Kouroutzi
Production Manager: Angelos Paschalidis
Sponsorships: Helene Flodrops
Creative Design: Unseen That
Production Co-ordinator: Ilias Gkionis
Legal: Yiannis Papadopoulos
Kavla Fanzine Design: Yan Petris, A Project By
Kavla Fanzine Editors: Konstantinos Menelaou, Vassilia Kaga
Press: Danai Vardali
Poster photography: Kostis Fokas
Poster design: Yan Petris