Performance
Alongside my film pursuits, I am strongly interested in queer performance art, both as a live happening and in relation to video documentation. Alongside my creative partner, Foivos Dousos, we have devised, as FYTA, and participated in over fifteen performances in Greece, Germany, UK and elsewhere. I am also a part-time tutor of performance art at the Metropolitan College in Athens.Cruella Tromokratisch
Drag alter-ego, multiple performances and venues, 2020-
A performance character visually inspired by drag enfant-terrible Leigh Bowery, as well as 80s kids cartoon Candy-Candy, Cruella became an outlet for some of my more intimate performative concerns. Member of the Tromokratisch drag family.ORFEAS2020
Opera, Greek National Opera, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19)
The original version of the film ORFEAS2021, was a live opera at the alternative stage of the GNO, but was cancelled, as the Covid-19 lockdown was put in place one day before its official premiere.Queer Approaches to Lena Platonos
Divised performance, Greek National Opera, 2018
In collaboration with the Greek National Opera, this was an evening dedicated to queer approaches to the work of pioneering composer and multimedia artist Lena Platonos, presenting a cabaret / variété with covers / dedications by performers, musicians and video artists of the Athenian queer scene.The Death of Queer
Impromptu happening, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, 2017
An impromptu performance about the limits of queer politics and the risk of assimilation of identity policies from art institutions and foundation, as well as the mainstreamisation of queer scene aesthetics.Documena TV-On-Demand
Online video series, 9 Episodes, 2017
Created as a response to the art fair documenta in Athens, this online “TV show” presents two hosts that surrender to their stream of thoughts regarding contemporary culture, art and public affairs with an intense focus on Greek matters.Queer Indigenous Catwalk
Public intervention, 2017
Staged next to the opening ceremony of documenta14, as a response to the latter’s problematic fetishisation of Hellenic and European ideals, as well as its referring to the relationship between queer and the indigenous in Paul B. Preciado’s public programme series.Quotedious
Installation and performance, University of Ljubljana, 2016
A live interaction with a video installation presenting me in various trivia moments, a space between Debordian spectacle and Wittgensteinian nonchalance, presented under the context of the performance philosophy conference “Repetitions”.Hellenic Awakening
Performance, Onassis Stegi, 2016
Bringing together language conspiracy theories, pseudo-scientific analyses, neonationalist rhetoric and institutional critique, this was FYTA’s most prickly performance, attacking at once the Onassis Institute in its own home, as well as the preconceptions of the very audience that was watching.n(EURO)logy
Performance/happening, Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, 2015
In this dangerous overidentification performance/situation, presented at Geneva’s Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain, FYTA dress up as reactionary doctors/cardinals paying respect to the beauty of western culture and warning about the foreign dangers against European values.Andriana Minou’s Epicycle
Performance/happening, KET, 2015
A staging of ‘Epicycle’ by Jani Christou by Christou-scholar, poet and composer Andriana Minou as part of the Sound Acts festival in Athens.Glüh/Birne
