“VIDEO GAMES” — MPATARIA poetry slam
You start with three lives and leave behind your home, fires, a country, dead people, a planet, a princess, genocides, good movies, factory explosions, bad relationships, your mother, your father, and you search for the Boss. Along the way, you learn, hide, attack, evolve, hit, collect items, level up, break boundaries, collaborate, compromise, transform, and change form. You have one life left and you are still fighting and moving forward, flying, jumping, running, and going for the next track, the next villain.
MPATARIA invites you to an evening of poetic electronic games. A need for virtual simulation of actions and emotions that starts with PVP coin-operated games, RPGs, and puzzle games on mobile phones, and ends with the relief of completion we need to endure the violence of reality and dream of victories and defeats at no cost. Our poems, like glitches in the system, send out SOS signals, asking for respawn, restart, retry, and become summons at KET, our “Last Hospitable Home” in Kypseli.
Save και Game on.
Program:
19:30 – doors
20:00 – start
23:00 – end
*Come early to enjoy drinks and discover books, zines, and publications from the MPATARIA community.
*There will be a donation box at the door for the event expenses.
*Poets T.B.A.
Poster: ZirlarΜordΩ
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A few words about MPATARIA:
MPATARIA is an effort to establish and collect micro-publishing ventures that do not belong to large organizations and structures.
It is a communication platform that embraces and promotes autonomous actions aimed at highlighting and recording DIY creations such as: zines, publications, pamphlets, poetry collections, comics, artworks, and handicrafts by queer individuals and other marginalized groups.
The logo of MPATARIA (the handmade potato battery) symbolizes the self-illuminating artistic energy that springs from personal research, whether successful or not. It presents the project as a constantly evolving experiment that is not based on the result, but on the creators’ need to share stories, traumas, and survival strategies.
A virtual label that brings together and hosts smaller projects without a permanent home and seeks, through zine fairs, performance events, poetry slams, readings, workshops, discussions, and art exhibitions, to transform and evolve with them into something universally greater.
MPATARIA is an initiative by artist Mochi Georgiou that was born out of the Queer Ink publishing project. Focusing on the DIY aesthetic of zine culture and poetry slams, MPATARIA proposes a new creative immediacy through which individuals express themselves and exchange information.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mpataria_
Email: info.mpataria@gmail.com