JUNE 20TH – JUNE 28TH
“What is Fear?” Virtual Exhibition & Short Film Festival
Featuring the works of: Marilena Aligizaki, Vasia Ampatzi, Paul Anagnostopoulos, Megan Arnold, Estefania Arriaza, Matthew Baren, Jorge Bascuñan, Guilherme Bergamini, Gaby Bila-Günther, Albert Bonay, KS Brewer, Dasha Che, Sandrine Deumier, Carolina Dutca, Santanu Dutta, Ahmet Rüstem Ekici, Aimilia Efthimiou [Artemisia Vulgaris], Ehab Aziz, Concha García de la Fuente, Theo Ilichenko, James Knott, Marika Kochiashvili, Petros Konnaris, Kupalua, Peter Max Lawrence, Lazare Lazarus, Fabio Le Fanu, Tigris Li, Alexandre Liberato, Simona Mancheva, Lilena Marinou, Despina Markaki, Marco Merenda & F.ART Kollektiv, Navot Miller, Louise Mutabazi, Arvin Ombika, Eric Peter, Miriam Poletti, Nat Portnoy, MAx Provenzano, James Leo Ramsey, Rû, Marija Sabanovic, SIKSA, Antonis Sideras & Joshua Evan, Hakan Sorar, Dimitris Tairis, Erik Thörnqvist, Tracing A City, Eleni Tomadaki, Angelos Tsarouchas, Marilou Vomvolou, Li Yilei, Walid, Ally Zlatar, Fran Ansalas, Charles Dudoignon-Valade, Junie Lau, Sungbin Byun, Guto Barra & Tatiana Issa, Mateo Vargas, Caterina Crescini, Aurélien Laplace, Daniel Daniel & Avigail Tlalim , Pedro Rudolphi, Margaret Wiss, Petra Brnardic, Szu-Wei Chen, Lucía Florez, Bengisu Şimşek & Sena Özaydın, Eva Balasi, Chloë Clarke, Miler Blasco, Kim Fino, Andrea Gudiño, Rosh Zeeba, Mehmetcan İncedal, Yiorgos Drossos, Manuel Marmier, Joan Galo, Maga Suescun & Laila Máliz
(Taking place on queerartsfestival.gr)
SATURDAY JUNE 20
ROSS MURRAY (GLAAD) | WORKSHOP | 5PM EEST
“Telling Your Story to Accelerate LGBTQ Acceptance”
Participants will learn how to reach and teach the movable middle about the LGBTQ community through your art, your audience, and your story. We’ll discuss how to tell your stories in traditional, online, and social media platforms. This workshop is informed by 30 years of media advocacy from GLAAD.
Led by Ross Murray – Senior Director, Media Institute (GLAAD)
(Taking place on TQAF’s Facebook via Zoom)
ANNA GOULA | LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE | 8PM EEST
Joy Kolaitis directs and Anna Goula performs a selection of songs and poems for TQAF. Both Joy Kolaitis and Anna Goula will perform with a piano, not in front of a ‘present’ audience, but in a music studio with cameras for a live-streamed show. “Let’s embrace the new attempts for sharing art and communication against isolation and loneliness.”
FRIDAY JUNE 26
MARCO MERENDA & F.ART KOLLEKTIV | PERFORMANCE | 8:50PM EEST
“EXORCISM – A Public Confessional”
(Taking place on Facebook LIVE and Instagram LIVE @f.artkollektiv)
SUNDAY JUNE 21
ESTEFANIA ARRIAZA | LECTURE
“Spontaneous Absence: The Politicisation of Landscapes”
(Will be posted on TQAF’s Facebook and Instagram)
AIMILIA EFTHIMIOU | WORKSHOP | 8PM EEST
“Fear Banishing Ritual”
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24
LADY GABI | PERFORMANCE | 8PM EEST
“I Am Not Your Muse”
(Taking place on Instagram @gabybilagunther)
ROUA BIDA | MUSIC PERFORMANCE | 9PM EEST
“Rap concert accompanied by stories relating to ‘What is Fear?'”
SATURDAY JUNE 27
AHMET RÜSTEM EKICI | WORKSHOP | 5PM EEST
“Introduction to Augmented Reality and the Artivive Application”
Join artist and writer Ahmet Rüstem Ekici to learn how to hack reality using AR. This Artivive workshop will teach you how to animate an image, using a video or a png file.
(Taking place on TQAF’s Instagram)
I BROKE THE VASE | MUSIC VIDEO
I Broke the Vase (Eva Matsigkou, Nefeli Sani) are a female duo that create musical performances.
“We make small rituals that are linked to our music, but also to our spiritual and bodily pursuits. We apply processes, such as deep listening, sound exploration, free improvisation, phonetic expression, speech, composition, site-specific projects and anything else that can contribute to the desired result, trying to overcome the barriers of censorship and musical and/or social stereotypes.”
(Will be posted on TQAF’s Instagram and Facebook)
MONDAY JUNE 22
KS BREWER | LECTURE
“Making Monsters: Western Constructions of the Female ‘Other’ Across Time and Place”
(Will be posted on TQAF’s Facebook and Instagram)
PETROS KONNARIS | PERFORMANCE | 8PM EEST
“The Only Thing That Matters Is How Much You Love”
THURSDAY JUNE 25
WALID | TALK | 6PM EEST
“Fear: Being an Artivist in Tunisia”
(Taking place on TQAF’s Facebook via Zoom)
THEO ILICHENKO | PERFORMANCE | 8:30PM EEST
“Snapshots on Queer Family-Making”
SUNDAY JUNE 28
ODY ICONS | LIVE CONCERT | 8PM EEST
“Responding to ‘What is Fear?’ with a selection of songs”