THE QUEER ARCHIVE FESTIVAL 2022
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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.
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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.
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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 ​​
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