Fucklore: Bellringers
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We are pleased to invite you at The Social, where Krista Papista will be performing her latest work “Fucklore: Bellringers” together with stage performers Kanella Petropoulous and Jan Verwoert. The night will also include DJ sets by Korina Gallika and Kenichi Iwasa.
Fucklore: An anarchic attempt to re–image the poetics of Balkan, Greek and Middle-Eastern music & folklore – as well as a protest against tactics of oppression, discrimination and marginalization.
Fucklore is a shitshow of computerized punk music – an attempt to re-imagine and queer Greek, Middle Eastern and Balkan folklore.
Bio
Krista Papista is an artist/music producer born in Nicosia, based in Berlin. Papista’s work engages in developing and queering politically induced Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Balkan Pop and Euro Trash EDM. Her work has been presented in Boiler room, Pop Kultur, Creamcake, Hyperreality, Subbacultcha, with last years performances developing into a European & UK Tour. Papista explores how music, performance and reinvented versions of artefacts can act as subversive counterpoints to homogeneous, nationalist narratives and the creation of one’s spiritual universe.
Kanella Petropoulou is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin, Germany. Petropoulou specializes in the domains of photography, graphic design, video production, installation, and performance art. The creative pursuits in Petropoulou’s work are directed towards the examination and representation of my introspective musings and inquiries pertaining to the complexities of existence. Petropoulou’s artistic vision revolves around the exploration of the human psyche and the dichotomy between reality and fantasy, seeking to unveil novel perspectives on the banal and mundane.
Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor of Frieze Magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs. Verwoert teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam and the de Appel curatorial programme.
