Queer Aesthetics-Moodboards
Seven [7] shop windows were filled with Queer aesthetics, questions, thoughts and feelings as well as archive material about the LGBTQI community in socialist era Romania. Activists and artists from Ireland, Greece and Romania joined. The merchants of Ermoupolis, replaced Hermes the God of Commerce with Hermes the Scholar and actively supported the actions of the Eye’s Walk Digital festival towards an open society.
Queer Aesthetics-moodboards:
Εrmina Apostolaki // Artist & scenographer
Αggelina Voskopoulou // Digital artist
Thomas Diafas // Performer, poet, curator & founder of Thessaloniki Queer festival
Liliana Aretaiou // Artist
Κaterina Goti (aka Viscosity) // 3D artist
Andrew Duggan // Visual artist & curator
Florin Buhuceanu // Human rights Activist, founder of the museum of Queer History & Culture in Romania & president of Accept a non-governmental organization that advocates for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in Romania.
You can read here the text written by Florin Buhuceanu and presented publicly in the courtyard of the Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary.
Curator: Filia Milidaki
Moodboards design: Elisavet Papageorgiou
"HermAphrodite" is supporting and participating in the project "We Are Here and Everywhere in the Balkans", a research of history and culture of LGBTQ communities in the Balkans. The project is awarded by the Cultural Management Academy Funds 2019 & Goethe Institut, in collaboration with NGO ACCEPT / Romania.
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