asfaBBQ 2019
13 Sep. - 20 Sep.
Athens School of Fine Arts
256, Peiraios str. Athens
FRIDAY 13 SEP 20:00 - 02:00
(Old Library)
The Athens Festival of Queer Performance presents a performance night, happening, series of video installations and party with DJs playing off-queer anthems!
Performances by:
ANOSIA
Grigoria Vryttia
Stemna
Prokne
April Sparks & Smaragda
(all night)
Video installations:
Metatheodosia “Semen”
Eggs’n’legs “Pater”
Prokne “Carmela’s Garden”r0 - "As we use(d) to be"
DJs
Filtig
Scheme Pink
Smaragda
SATURDAY 14 SEP 18:00 - 02:00
The e-zine SKRA-Punk presents two discussion panels on why do we still do DIY projects: magazines, political groups, artistic endeavours. Why do we struggle to organise and fund horizontal structures and what could those suggest in opposition to the age of the alt-right? The panels will be held in Greek.
Panel one (18:00 - 19:30) will be a discussion amongst SKRA-punk writers and the audience about the way SKRA-punk itself has operated since 2013. (auditorium De Chirico)
Panel two (20:00 - 21:30) will be joined by members from the magazines Smassing Culture, Κιουρί-at and Yusra. (auditorium De Chirico)
Party with SKRA-punk DJs (22:00 - 02:00) (Old Library)
SUNDAY 15 SEP 17:00 - 21:30
“Addressing and Undressing” the Social Contract*
Curated by FAC Research, held in both English and Greek
(Old Library)
17:00-18:00
Chosen Family Photo Booth
Family is one of the most oppressive institutions in our society connected with notions of the reproduction of the nation-state, heteronormativity, the lethal ideology racial purity, property, and capitalism. Yet, it is our primary model of togetherness. The chosen family photo-booth workshop invites you to explore other expressions of togetherness foreclosed by the normative, nuclear, reproductive family. Dress up or dress down and have your anti-family portrait taken!
18:00-19:30
Building Togetherness in our Movements
In this performative discussion the participants will draw on tools of feminist horizontal communication, politics of care, and consent based decision making in order to constitute an ephemeral community. We feel that care, love, tenderness, and respect is often missing from our movements and we internalise neoliberal qualities of antagonism and power. The performative discussion will urge reflection on how we communicate both in interpersonal and political contexts online and “in real life”.
19:30-20:00
Break
20:00-21:00
Building the Feminist S(h)elf
We invite you to a hands-on workshop to help us build the library that will be open to the public at the Feminist Autonomous Centre of the Research. What belongs on the Feminist s(h)elf? Tell us about what books you are dying to read but cannot afford to buy and which stories remain to be written. Delving into questions of what counts as knowledge and who has the right to produce and receive it we will deconstruct hegemonic ideas of the library and envision community-based alternatives.
21:00-21:30
Closing reflections
What the FAC was that all about?
* Our title is inspired by Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire, eds. C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon & Abbey Volcano. Oakland: AK Press, 2013.
MONDAY 16 SEP 19:00 - 22:00
"The text of appearances" workshop organised by Maria Glyka and Dimitris Rentoumis with the collaboration of studio 11 ASFA
(Old Library)
This event overlooks the distinctions between finalised work and research in process, image and text, spectator and creator and delineates a nonhierarchical curatorial approach. Moreover, the floor of the former library becomes a field of action where everyone is invited to move freely through a transforming continuity οf space while at the same time active participation of the visitors is encouraged. The former library will function as a living lab for diving into the research of the artists by engaging in collective reading, being vocal, moving around and the ability to contribute to the exhibition as a whole.
Schedule: The event will take place from 19:00 to 22:00 and will revolve around three main actions.
Εxhibition making // Join the process of building up the group show.
Group reading // Participate in the reading of texts by the participating artists commenting on a spectrum of subjects such as politics, identity or confessional poetry (with the addition of excerpts from the texts Europe and its Others by Boris Groys and The emancipated spectator by Jacques Rancière).
Floor plan // Rethink and designate with the students the exhibitional space by using manual and digital tools.
Participants: Erifili, Stathis Chalkias, Evi Charalampopoulou, Christos Fousekis, Katerina Ioannou, Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Kleopatra Moursela, Kiriaki Osogia, Georgia Panagiotou, Catherine Pataka, Anna Samara, Savvas Tsimouris, Tania Varveri, Jimmy Efthimiou.
TUESDAY 17 SEP 18:00 - 22:00
18:00 - 19:00
(auditorium De Chirico)
Sub Rosa Space
presents a performative lecture by Macklin Kowal, an expanded curatorial text on the work of Lorene Bouboushian--the artist coming from New York, who will be in residence at Sub Rosa from 18 September to 1 October. The talk will address: queer perspectives on national trauma; differing configurations of whiteness and racial supremicism across national contexts; queer ethics of situadeness, responsibility, accountability in regard to the aforementioned.
19:00 - 22:00
(Old Library)
FTL Open studio
Faster than Light, a project initiated by Kentaro Kumanominaro and tt thomas, is invested in the authenticity of representation, identity, consciousness, and the excavation & resulting healing from trauma. Within the framework of ASFA BBQ 2019, the audience is invited to witness an intimately public & possibly participatory open studio practice from members of the Faster Than Light team. The open studio will be held in English.
WEDNESDAY 18 SEP 19:00 - 22:00
MEME presents the Bad Poetry Social Club
(Old Library)
The Bad Poetry Social Club is an art group founded in March 2019. Its members are six poets, two photographers, a musician and a graphic designer. They organize poetry readings, and poetry performances. At asfaBBQ, they organise the performance 'a city that's not killing me, is not my city’, in which they present their poetry performance work based on the most renowned love-hate relationship there has ever been. Athens versus Athenians. A fight we have lost a thousand times, a fight that leaves us bleeding on sidewalks while the sun rises. One we are never willing to give up. This city is tearing us apart. But when she lets us rest our broken bodies on one of her benches, and blows an unexpected breeze that takes all our pain away, that's when we remember that this city, has been our only friend, even if she was the one that broke our bones in the first place.
THURSDAY 19 SEP (19:00 - 23:00)
Aural Queeriosities / Ηχητικές Κουηροσύνες
curated by Φυτίνη
Athens-based queer music and arts label Fytini presents an evening dealing with the question of the social queerification of music. While modernist musicologists still talk about naive notions of music being a “universal language”, we open the question of the queerification of music history, addressing the subject of music production and their positionality, audiences/scenes, as well as the way in which music is made today.
19:30 - 20:00 (auditorium De Chirico)
Talk by Alkisti Efthimiou and Haris Stavrakakis
Gender issues on contemporary greek hip-hop
Presenting contemporary examples of greek language rap songs, they will discuss masculinities and femininites that are reproduced on the lyrics and the gender normativities that arepossibly established or destabilised.
Performances
20:00 - 22:00 (Old Library)
The event opens with Veronique Tromokratisch singing her platinum hit singles, accompanied by the rest of the Tromokratisch family! It is then followed by music performances by Athens-based DIY post-performance music project duos MaYo and Ζήμυ!
22:00 - 23:00 (Old Library)
Full “live” gig by FYTA, presenting for the first time their second LP FYTA THGANHTA “Fried Plants” in its totality, featuring many special surprises and guests April Sparks, Smaragda, Alexandros Drosos, Metatheodosia, Kangela Tromokratisch, MaYo, Mochi, Mitsa, The Tupperware Kids etc.
FRIDAY 20 SEP 18:00 - 22:00
18:00 - 19:30
Ethics of collaboration / ethics of participation
(auditorium De Chirico)
Discussion panel organised by Giorgos Papadopoulos
With the participation of Chaosmos, Communitism, Hyle [ΥΛΗ], Meme, State of Concept, Sub Rosa, TWIXTLab, more tbc
20:00 - 22:00
“Speak about Zackie” open mic evening
organised by Queer Ink
(Old Library)
In the anniversary of one year since the murder of performer and activist Zak Kostopoulos / Zackie Oh, Athens-based poetry label Queer Ink invites writers, poets, friends of Zak to speak about who Zak was and is, about loss, about trauma, about being queer in Athens and the world. There will be an initial list of speakers invited by Queer Ink to participate and it will then be followed by an open mic where everyone can share their thoughts and pain with the audience. All proceedings from the bar will go to the Justice For Zackie initiative to support the legal battles of Zak’s case. Texts will be mostly in Greek.
(Old Library)
The Athens Festival of Queer Performance presents a performance night, happening, series of video installations and party with DJs playing off-queer anthems!
Performances by:
ANOSIA
Grigoria Vryttia
Stemna
Prokne
April Sparks & Smaragda
(all night)
Video installations:
Metatheodosia “Semen”
Eggs’n’legs “Pater”
Prokne “Carmela’s Garden”r0 - "As we use(d) to be"
DJs
Filtig
Scheme Pink
Smaragda
SATURDAY 14 SEP 18:00 - 02:00
The e-zine SKRA-Punk presents two discussion panels on why do we still do DIY projects: magazines, political groups, artistic endeavours. Why do we struggle to organise and fund horizontal structures and what could those suggest in opposition to the age of the alt-right? The panels will be held in Greek.
Panel one (18:00 - 19:30) will be a discussion amongst SKRA-punk writers and the audience about the way SKRA-punk itself has operated since 2013. (auditorium De Chirico)
Panel two (20:00 - 21:30) will be joined by members from the magazines Smassing Culture, Κιουρί-at and Yusra. (auditorium De Chirico)
Party with SKRA-punk DJs (22:00 - 02:00) (Old Library)
SUNDAY 15 SEP 17:00 - 21:30
“Addressing and Undressing” the Social Contract*
Curated by FAC Research, held in both English and Greek
(Old Library)
17:00-18:00
Chosen Family Photo Booth
Family is one of the most oppressive institutions in our society connected with notions of the reproduction of the nation-state, heteronormativity, the lethal ideology racial purity, property, and capitalism. Yet, it is our primary model of togetherness. The chosen family photo-booth workshop invites you to explore other expressions of togetherness foreclosed by the normative, nuclear, reproductive family. Dress up or dress down and have your anti-family portrait taken!
18:00-19:30
Building Togetherness in our Movements
In this performative discussion the participants will draw on tools of feminist horizontal communication, politics of care, and consent based decision making in order to constitute an ephemeral community. We feel that care, love, tenderness, and respect is often missing from our movements and we internalise neoliberal qualities of antagonism and power. The performative discussion will urge reflection on how we communicate both in interpersonal and political contexts online and “in real life”.
19:30-20:00
Break
20:00-21:00
Building the Feminist S(h)elf
We invite you to a hands-on workshop to help us build the library that will be open to the public at the Feminist Autonomous Centre of the Research. What belongs on the Feminist s(h)elf? Tell us about what books you are dying to read but cannot afford to buy and which stories remain to be written. Delving into questions of what counts as knowledge and who has the right to produce and receive it we will deconstruct hegemonic ideas of the library and envision community-based alternatives.
21:00-21:30
Closing reflections
What the FAC was that all about?
* Our title is inspired by Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire, eds. C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, Deric Shannon & Abbey Volcano. Oakland: AK Press, 2013.
MONDAY 16 SEP 19:00 - 22:00
"The text of appearances" workshop organised by Maria Glyka and Dimitris Rentoumis with the collaboration of studio 11 ASFA
(Old Library)
This event overlooks the distinctions between finalised work and research in process, image and text, spectator and creator and delineates a nonhierarchical curatorial approach. Moreover, the floor of the former library becomes a field of action where everyone is invited to move freely through a transforming continuity οf space while at the same time active participation of the visitors is encouraged. The former library will function as a living lab for diving into the research of the artists by engaging in collective reading, being vocal, moving around and the ability to contribute to the exhibition as a whole.
Schedule: The event will take place from 19:00 to 22:00 and will revolve around three main actions.
Εxhibition making // Join the process of building up the group show.
Group reading // Participate in the reading of texts by the participating artists commenting on a spectrum of subjects such as politics, identity or confessional poetry (with the addition of excerpts from the texts Europe and its Others by Boris Groys and The emancipated spectator by Jacques Rancière).
Floor plan // Rethink and designate with the students the exhibitional space by using manual and digital tools.
Participants: Erifili, Stathis Chalkias, Evi Charalampopoulou, Christos Fousekis, Katerina Ioannou, Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Kleopatra Moursela, Kiriaki Osogia, Georgia Panagiotou, Catherine Pataka, Anna Samara, Savvas Tsimouris, Tania Varveri, Jimmy Efthimiou.
TUESDAY 17 SEP 18:00 - 22:00
18:00 - 19:00
(auditorium De Chirico)
Sub Rosa Space
presents a performative lecture by Macklin Kowal, an expanded curatorial text on the work of Lorene Bouboushian--the artist coming from New York, who will be in residence at Sub Rosa from 18 September to 1 October. The talk will address: queer perspectives on national trauma; differing configurations of whiteness and racial supremicism across national contexts; queer ethics of situadeness, responsibility, accountability in regard to the aforementioned.
19:00 - 22:00
(Old Library)
FTL Open studio
Faster than Light, a project initiated by Kentaro Kumanominaro and tt thomas, is invested in the authenticity of representation, identity, consciousness, and the excavation & resulting healing from trauma. Within the framework of ASFA BBQ 2019, the audience is invited to witness an intimately public & possibly participatory open studio practice from members of the Faster Than Light team. The open studio will be held in English.
WEDNESDAY 18 SEP 19:00 - 22:00
MEME presents the Bad Poetry Social Club
(Old Library)
The Bad Poetry Social Club is an art group founded in March 2019. Its members are six poets, two photographers, a musician and a graphic designer. They organize poetry readings, and poetry performances. At asfaBBQ, they organise the performance 'a city that's not killing me, is not my city’, in which they present their poetry performance work based on the most renowned love-hate relationship there has ever been. Athens versus Athenians. A fight we have lost a thousand times, a fight that leaves us bleeding on sidewalks while the sun rises. One we are never willing to give up. This city is tearing us apart. But when she lets us rest our broken bodies on one of her benches, and blows an unexpected breeze that takes all our pain away, that's when we remember that this city, has been our only friend, even if she was the one that broke our bones in the first place.
THURSDAY 19 SEP (19:00 - 23:00)
Aural Queeriosities / Ηχητικές Κουηροσύνες
curated by Φυτίνη
Athens-based queer music and arts label Fytini presents an evening dealing with the question of the social queerification of music. While modernist musicologists still talk about naive notions of music being a “universal language”, we open the question of the queerification of music history, addressing the subject of music production and their positionality, audiences/scenes, as well as the way in which music is made today.
19:30 - 20:00 (auditorium De Chirico)
Talk by Alkisti Efthimiou and Haris Stavrakakis
Gender issues on contemporary greek hip-hop
Presenting contemporary examples of greek language rap songs, they will discuss masculinities and femininites that are reproduced on the lyrics and the gender normativities that arepossibly established or destabilised.
Performances
20:00 - 22:00 (Old Library)
The event opens with Veronique Tromokratisch singing her platinum hit singles, accompanied by the rest of the Tromokratisch family! It is then followed by music performances by Athens-based DIY post-performance music project duos MaYo and Ζήμυ!
22:00 - 23:00 (Old Library)
Full “live” gig by FYTA, presenting for the first time their second LP FYTA THGANHTA “Fried Plants” in its totality, featuring many special surprises and guests April Sparks, Smaragda, Alexandros Drosos, Metatheodosia, Kangela Tromokratisch, MaYo, Mochi, Mitsa, The Tupperware Kids etc.
FRIDAY 20 SEP 18:00 - 22:00
18:00 - 19:30
Ethics of collaboration / ethics of participation
(auditorium De Chirico)
Discussion panel organised by Giorgos Papadopoulos
With the participation of Chaosmos, Communitism, Hyle [ΥΛΗ], Meme, State of Concept, Sub Rosa, TWIXTLab, more tbc
20:00 - 22:00
“Speak about Zackie” open mic evening
organised by Queer Ink
(Old Library)
In the anniversary of one year since the murder of performer and activist Zak Kostopoulos / Zackie Oh, Athens-based poetry label Queer Ink invites writers, poets, friends of Zak to speak about who Zak was and is, about loss, about trauma, about being queer in Athens and the world. There will be an initial list of speakers invited by Queer Ink to participate and it will then be followed by an open mic where everyone can share their thoughts and pain with the audience. All proceedings from the bar will go to the Justice For Zackie initiative to support the legal battles of Zak’s case. Texts will be mostly in Greek.