Wednesday 16 March 2016

Deep Trash: Greek Trash


Saturday 23 April 2016
DEEP TRASH: Greek Trash
at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
£6/7 (adv.) - £8/10 (door)
19:30-02:00 (last entry midnight)

‘Sing, O muse, of the rave of Greek Trash, son of Deep Trash,
that brought countless thrills upon the Londonians…’
                                                            - Homer, The Queeriad


Get the feathers out and roll in the wax… the long-awaited Deep Trash exhibition-cum-performance club night is back in 2016 with an event entirely dedicated to Hellenic cultures, myths and contemporary politics across art, videos, performance and music for your Zorba feet!

Bring your Herculean guns, sons, and catamite funs down to the Working Men’s Club. Greek Trash demands the rejoining of other halves, the taking of Olympus, and refugee solidarity across borders. GREEK TRASH is here to destabilise your holiday plans and bring you a sizzling taste of all things Greek under London’s grey skies.

Expect: Homophilosophy, subversive bouzoukia, the bubbly birthing of Aphrodite, camp Cavafy readings, a coming out as  an octopus’, contemporary Medusas, queer & fluo post-punk Easter actions, Herculean and Androgyne bodies, a ‘Greek Crisis Cunt Cinema’, and our VERY SPECIAL guest star from Athens: ANNA GOULA!


MUSIC: A Man To Pet (Host) / Panos Z (HOMO SUPERIOR)
An eclectic mix of queer artists and icons across the decades (from Dusty Springfield and Ramones to Peaches and Grimes), with a “let’s have a tzatziki” pop & disco finale! A selection of Greek tracks will make your night even more… OPA!

LIVE PERFORMANCES: 34es / A Man To Pet / Anna Goula (feat. PanicLab) / Antonis Sideras / Catherine Elsen / Fenia Kotsopoulou (feat. Apollvon S Delios) / Queens of the Underworld / Stephen Eyre / Zoe Czavda Redo


VIDEOS: Anna Maria Pinaka / Baxx Vladimir / Danai Avgeri + Marilena Gatsiou + Maria Mitsopoulou + Laura Eftychia Papachristo / Ernesto Sarezale / Evangelos Papadakis / Georges Jacotey / HeArt Attack Films / Ian Balzan Dorizas / Kassiani Kappelos / Mary Zygouri / Olympia Polymeni / Olga Guse

ARTWORKS: Christina Koutsolioutsou / FYTA / Ilias Klis / Myrto Makridou / Studio Prokopiou / Tal Navon / Thalia Galanopoulou / THAVMA


* Image © Anna Goula, 2016 / Design: Linnea Frank

Price Information
£6 (1st wave) / £7 (2nd wave)
£8 (door, before 10pm) / £10 (after 10pm)



General Information & Press
CUNTemporary
Arts | Feminism | Queer

Deep Trash

Venue Information
Bethnal Makridou / Studio Prokopiou / Tal Navon / Thalia Galanopoulou / THAVMA


* Image © Anna Goula, 2016 / Design: Linnea Frank

Price Information
£6 (1st wave) / £7 (2nd wave)
£8 (door, before 10pm) / £10 (after 10pm)



General Information & Press
CUNTemporary
Arts | Feminism | Queer

Deep Trash

Venue Information
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
42-44 Pollard Row, London, E2 6NB



DEEP TRASH MANIFESTO:

      Deep Trash is the only regular exhibition-cum-performance-club-night promoting queer and feminist arts from all disciplines taking place in London. 
      Deep Trash remains a fundraiser night for the activities of CUNTemporary and Archivio Queer Italia. Nevertheless, we ensure that artistic expenses are covered.
      Deep Trash launches a specific open call before each event for a fairer artistic participation and selection. The works and artists accepted will be consistent with the intersections of feminist-queer practice.
      Deep Trash adopts an inclusive political stance, with zero tolerance for discrimination of any sort.
      Deep Trash aims at showcasing the work of both emerging and established practitioners in order to create an intersectional, intergenerational and transcultural dialogue. 
      Deep Trash is especially committed to promoting performance art in order to encourage and strengthen research within current artistic discourses.
      Deep Trash provides a safe space where works of a difficult and challenging nature can be presented, documented, discussed, enjoyed and reviewed.
      Deep Trash understands sex as an inextricable part of what we do, who we are and where we come from. We support art and politics which are organized around sex. That is, the deprivatization of sex, the decriminalization of sex work, visible non-normative sexualities and non-binary gender identities, the end of sexual violence and the promotion of consensual sexual practices.
      Deep Trash insists that as artists and audiences, we need more safe and inclusive spaces where people can come together to create, share, experience, discuss, be affected, be flirted, stimulated, challenged and most importantly, EMPOWERED.