Parakatyanova and SerGay Parakatyanov

Måndag Sep 30 at 18.00, Allhelgonakyrkan
Tisdag Oct 1 at 21.30, Konträr
From the underground drag scene of Athens we present Parakatyanova and SerGay Parakatyanov, superstars from our opening film Avant-Drag! and self proclaimed ambassadors of greek avant-garde trash. For Cinema Queer they have prepared two performances, one for the opening night September 30, and one for our Greek night on October 1st. This is how they present themselves:

Parakatyanova
”Hi everyone!! I’m Parakatyanova and I come from the beautiful mountains of Greece! I was summoned 4 years ago and my duty is to spread the campiness of Greek and orthodox tradition society to the world! By digging into traditional practices and by observing the strictly gendered rules of the Greek and Balkan society (modern and contemporary) I am able to crash test their limits through the magical process of drag! 

The result is a tacky and glamorous female creature from the villages of the Greek countryside who plays with the super fundamental values of nation and religion and tries to have fun with them. ”

 SerGay Parakatyanov
Hiiiii! I am Sergay Parakatianov and I’m born and raised in the Greek countryside, nurtured in the framework of patriotism, patriarchy and orthodoxy. Oppressed by the above, they gradually discover gender as a social construct and experiment with it, wear the symbols that have confined them, only to burn with them in the fire of vernacularism, and finally constitutes a vulgar creature with a traditional head and queer body in an incessant process of revision and self-creation.